From Homeless to the 1%: Advice from a Venture Capitalist

Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner and Founder of Backstage Capital, knows what it's like to start a business in the face of extreme adversity. Before she founded her venture capital fund five years ago, she was living on food stamps and sleeping in airports. She's focused on investing in underrepresented entrepreneurs - women, people of color, and LGBTQ founders - and is finding inventive ways to support the companies in her portfolio during the coronavirus.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Homeless to the 1%: Advice from a Venture Capitalist is an episode from Boss Files with Poppy Harlow by CNN.

This episode is 33:05 long.

This episode was published on Apr 30, 2020.

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