Hello, ETL fans. My name is Chuck Easley, Associate Professor at Stanford University,

and I'm here to continue our special ETL miniseries that is capping off a truly unique year.

2020 has defied all our expectations. From the challenges posed by the pandemic,

to the murders of black Americans like George Floyd and Brianna Taylor, our personal and professional lives have been disrupted.

But the entrepreneurs and innovators who visited ETL this year also brought us weekly lessons on how to find agency and act positively in times of crisis and uncertainty.

Today, I'm sharing my key takeaway from our 2020 ETL talks. If entrepreneurs take away one

lesson from this year, it's that we all have a unique responsibility and an opportunity

to create more diverse, inclusive, and equitable startups, and an ecosystem

for tech and entrepreneurship that is diverse and inclusive. Nothing exemplifies this more than what

Rodney Sampson from Ohub said at ETL in November of 2020. In this clip, let's have a listen

to how he approached anti-racist entrepreneurship.

So I want to encourage you to be a different type of entrepreneur and to really think about

everything through an anti-racist lens, a lens of racial equity.

Nothing in America that has been achieved as it relates to the emancipation of child

slaves, to demolition of Jim Crow, to unfair housing, unjust

education, and now access to economic opportunity has been done in this country without

white allies.

And those of us who live long enough, you know,

I'm part of the Fubu tribe too, for us by us.

I grew up in Black Atlanta.

Everything I saw that was inspiration to me growing up in Atlanta

was black.

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