Change Maker: Arlan Hamilton, Founder, on How Being Underestimated Can be a Superpower

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin

Money News Network

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week’s change maker Arlan Hamilton is a venture capitalist investor. She’s the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, which invests in underestimated founders, including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ folx. She talks with Nicole about hating the “Homeless to Harvard” headlines written about her early on in her career… until she started embracing the label, and skyrocketed to success.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, are you ready for some money rehab?
0:05.0	Wall Street has been completely upended by an unlikely player. Game stop.
0:09.0	That's a good one.
0:10.0	Dean and should I have a 401k because you don't do it?
0:12.0	No, I know.
0:14.0	What's that?
0:15.0	I think the whole world revolves around you on your money.
0:17.0	What a dozen stuff.
0:19.0	Charge for wasting our time.
0:23.0	I will take a check.
0:25.0	Look at all these people.
0:27.0	You recognize her from anchoring on CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg.
0:31.0	The only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.
0:35.0	The cold lap in.
0:37.0	As you know, every Friday we talk with a public figure making change in every sense of the word.
0:43.0	And along the way has been Anne or might still be in money rehab.
0:47.0	So today I'm talking with Arlen Hamilton.
0:50.0	Arlen is the founder of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm that aims to minimize funding disparities in the world.
0:56.0	And disparities in tech by investing in high potential founders who are people of color, women, and or LGBTQ.
1:03.0	Arlen built this fund from the ground up while also experiencing homelessness herself.
1:09.0	She is an incredible entrepreneur.
1:12.0	She is an incredible human.
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