Show Notes
Episode 12 is NOT one to miss! Arlan Hamilton stopped by to share more about her new book called "It's About Damn Time: How to turn being underestimated into your greatest advantage". Listen in to hear her advice on how to shield against 'hustle porn' and how she's thinking about self-reinvention these days. She even breaks down "the seed doesn't see the petal" gem from her mother!
Arlan Hamilton built a venture capital fund from the ground up, while homeless. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a fund that is dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT.
Started from scratch in 2015, Backstage has now raised more than $10 million and invested in more than 130 startup companies led by underestimated founders. In 2018 Arlan co-founded Backstage Studio which launched four accelerator programs for underestimated founders in Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and London. Arlan was featured on the cover of Fast Company magazine in October 2018 as the first Black woman non-celebrity to do so, and her new book "It's About Damn Time" comes out on Penguin Random House's business imprint Currency on May 5, 2020.
Arlan's #TNWIDTakeaway: "Work smarter, not harder. No one is taking score. And if they are taking score, they have too much time on their hands and they are not doing what they should be doing."
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