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Goldman Sachs Exchanges

From Crisis to Confidence: How Women Entrepreneurs Fared During the Pandemic

Goldman Sachs Exchanges

Goldman Sachs

Business

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How did women entrepreneurs fare during the pandemic? Goldman Sachs’ Asahi Pompey, Global Head of Corporate Engagement, and Candice Tse, U.S. Head of Market Strategy in Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Strategic Advisory Solutions team, discuss the findings from a new report on this topic in Exchanges at Goldman Sachs.

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0:00.0

This is Exchanges at Goldman Sachs and I'm Allison Nathan a senior strategist in Goldman Sachs research.

0:13.7

In this week's episode, we'll be looking at how women entrepreneurs fared and reposition themselves

0:19.0

during the pandemic.

0:20.4

To do that, I'm joined by Asahi Pompeii, Global Head of Corporate Engagement, and Candice Day from our asset management division who just published new research on this topic.

0:29.0

And later on in the program, we'll be speaking with Manchefeja, an entrepreneur from South Africa who share her experiences during COVID

0:36.4

and how she transformed her business as a result.

0:38.8

Asahi and Candace, welcome to the program.

0:41.2

Thanks so much.

0:42.0

Great to be here.

0:43.0

Thank you.

0:44.0

Asahi, let's start with you.

0:45.0

This new study which was just released today looks at the experiences of women entrepreneurs who are

0:51.7

alumni of the firm's 10,000 small businesses and

0:55.4

10,000 women programs. How did the idea of the study first come about?

0:59.3

First of all, Allison, I want to say thanks for having me. It is fantastic to be in conversation in person with you and Candace,

1:06.3

who's been a terrific coach and mentor to our 10,000 small businesses

1:09.9

graduates.

1:10.8

So in terms of how the idea for the study came about, we realized that we were uniquely positioned.

1:16.0

We'd worked with women entrepreneurs for over a decade, and we had an opportunity to really hear their voices, to hear their experiences, to understand any trends, any

1:25.3

lesson learned from the pandemic, any strategies that they had employed.

1:30.6

And now to level set for folks that are listening, we launched our 10,000 small businesses program over a decade ago,

1:36.0

dedicated to women entrepreneurs now in the US, in France, and the UK.

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