Disruption, Reinvention, and Reimagining Silicon Valley with Arlan Hamilton

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Arlan Hamilton built a venture capital fund from the ground up, while homeless and living off of food stamps. Now she’s on the cover of Fast Company Magazine - and she has invested millions in startups run by people of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ community.

Through pursuing her curiosity and passion, Arlan’s found a way to create a living and a life for herself and work on a really tough problem: reconfiguring the ways that money and funding flow through these underrepresented and underserved populations.

In this episode we also cover:

Persistence forever pays. No matter how many no's Arlan received, she shares the driving force behind her determination.
We are all privileged in some way. Arlan has a beautiful perspective in how we can all share in that privilege without diminishing our own.
We can all give ourselves strength and support by surrounding yourself people who are positive and motivational - even if that's virtually through the internet.
We discuss some of Arlan’s routines and her particularly interesting habit of writing her own future headlines.
and lots more….

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	My guest today went from living on food stamps five years ago to now having built a company with over 30 employees across four states, two countries.
0:17.4	And as a venture capitalist has now invested millions in startups for underrepresented populations,
0:24.2	including women, people of color, and LGBTQ.
0:28.2	My guest today is the one and only Arlen Hamilton.
0:32.9	I was first introduced to Arlen's story from Fast Company magazine, if you could believe it,
0:39.7	where I saw her photograph on the cover. I read the story and was completely blown away,
0:46.9	had to track her down, introduce herself or introduce myself to her rather, and see if I
0:52.2	could get her on the show. Such an amazing story, again, from food stamps
0:57.1	to being able to invest millions, not just for her own health and wellness and taking care of
1:03.7	her business needs and her vision, but to now be able to invest millions of dollars in startups
1:09.1	across underrepresented populations. It's such an
1:11.7	inspiring, empowering story. And to figure out how she actually made that happen in a relatively
1:18.9	short arc, again, five years from food stamps to investing in more than 100 startups. How did she
1:26.6	do this? You might ask? Very good question. She started off selling
1:30.8	t-shirts. She started off as a booking agent representing bands, including punk bands in Norway.
1:41.1	She was a production coordinator, a tour manager. She basically taught herself all of
1:46.9	these things with no formal education in any of them. One of the many things that I love about
1:55.0	Arlen's story is she achieved all of these things from following her own curiosity.
2:04.8	You know, there's so much information out there.
2:06.6	This podcast, 100,000 of others, all of the health, self books in the world.
2:11.3	But the reality is, is those are just resources.
2:14.8	Those are references.
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