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Accessibility as an Advantage in Venture Capital: Why Creating Value for Everyone in the Community Wins

This is going to be BIG.

Opening up our circle to create and scale genuine engagement for people outside of typical venture networks is how we do business—and we’re getting exceptional deal flow because of that. But diversity isn’t any kind of criteria for us—it’s a function of trying to create value for the whole ecosystem--not just those you back.

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Moving Fast, Breaking Things, and the Support of Disruption

This is going to be BIG.

Even if they were, startup employees usually don't hold more than 10% of the company's overall stock and less than 10% of the company's employees were black at the time of the IPO. And investors? Sure, that means exponentially opening up the flow of deals and going through a ton of deal flow.

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