Hi, it's me. Sophia Amruzzo, founder and CEO of Girl Boss, and this is Girl Boss

Radio, the show for and about ambitious women, exploring the wins, losses, and insights learned,

the very windy road to success.

On today's show we're talking with Morgan de Bonn, CEO and founder of Blavity.

Morgan headed to Silicon Valley fresh out of college at Washington University in St.

Louis, where she worked her way up the ladder into it as a product manager working with a team of mostly male engineers.

But things changed in 2014 for Morgan, when at just 24 years old, she decided to launch Blavitti, a media site for young black millennials.

Things began, as with a lot of new media companies, with a small newsletter.

But in a few short years, Blavitti has grown to be the largest media startup and lifestyle brand for Black millennials and Jen's years.

And in fact, under her leadership, Blavitti has successfully acquired two companies, raised over $9 million in venture funding, and reaches

millions of readers each day.

And on top of that, Morgan is also the brains behind some incredible summits like Afro Tech, which just so happens to be the largest

tech conference in Silicon Valley for African American startup founders, designers, engineers,

and operators.

But achieving all of this was not easy,

and that's why Morgan made some strategic but difficult choices

along the way to make sure she could make her mark

as an entrepreneur.

Here's a little of what she shared on our episode.

I was at a meeting with a bank who was looking

to be a sponsor for Afrotech, and I had a junior associate with me at the meeting because I was teaching him and so I was like

let's go, like let's go close this deal, you know the client walks in the room and they just

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