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So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

1370: Raising Venture Capital as a Minority with Kathryn Finney, Author of Build the D*mn Thing

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Entrepreneur and investor Kathryn Finney joins to share lessons and take-aways from her new book Build the D*mn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business if You're Not a Rich White Guy. Want more articles and videos by Farnoosh? Check out www.cnet.com/somoney. Subscribe to her weekly So Money newsletter for the latest updates and advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:58.4

Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? Sorry, you're in the wrong place.

1:04.0

Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. Welcome to So Money.

1:10.8

When you are part of a marginalised community, whether you're a woman, whether you're an immigrant,

1:17.2

whether you're poor, whether you're a racial minority, the challenges can seem overwhelming.

1:25.1

It can just seem like everything is against you. And I'm here to say that the universe does not

1:31.6

want you to lose. People may want you to lose, right? People may put these sort of structures,

1:37.4

but the universe does not want you to lose. Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farnoos Turabi.

1:43.7

Our guest today has been called the Fairy Godmother of Tech Startups. Catherine Finney joins us.

1:51.2

She is a serial entrepreneur and the new author of the book Build the Dam thing. How to start a

1:58.0

successful business if you're not a rich white guy. In the book, Catherine offers a hard one,

2:04.0

battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur that the establishment has left out. A little bit

2:08.8

more about Catherine. She's the managing partner of Genius Guild, a $20 million venture fund

2:13.6

and studio that invests in black founders. She's also the founder and past CEO of Digital Undivided,

2:20.6

a groundbreaking social enterprise focusing on creating a world where women own their work.

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