Meet The HIBT Fellows: Katie Mitchell & Celena Gill

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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As a part of the 2021 How I Built This Summit (At Home) we have selected 10 Fellows, and we'd like to introduce you to them over the next couple weeks. In this episode: Katie Mitchell and her mother Katherine opened a book shop in Atlanta called Good Books, that centers Black authors and brings books into the community. And in Washington, D.C., Celena Gill and her three sons, Collin, Ryan, and Austin, started the home fragrance and candle company, Frères Branchiaux.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	Hey, everyone.
0:12.0	So as a lot of you know, every year during normal years we do how I built this summit, an
0:18.6	in-real life gathering that we've been doing in San Francisco.
0:22.3	This year we're going entirely virtual, but every year we've done the summit we've invited
0:27.2	a group of entrepreneurs to become how I built this fellows.
0:30.7	These are dreamers and builders that may be in all different stages of their businesses
0:35.8	and are looking to make connections or get mentorship or take their ideas to the next
0:41.1	level.
0:42.7	This year we picked 10 fellows and we're holding a pitch competition where the winner will
0:48.1	get a $50,000 check from us, a grant.
0:52.7	So over the next two weeks we'll be getting to know them a little better.
0:56.4	One of the things I find really interesting is when people start a business with someone
1:00.8	in their family, it might be a spouse or a sibling, but no matter the relation they have
1:05.7	a story that goes beyond a typical co-founder relationship.
1:10.8	Both of the fellows we're going to hear from today started their company with family.
1:14.8	First Katie Mitchell who started the business Good Books in Atlanta with her mom Catherine.
1:20.7	Together they're building a community that centers on Black literature through monthly
1:25.0	book clubs, author spotlights and pop-up events.
1:29.3	And while they just started the business in the spring of 2019, Katie's love of books
1:35.0	started long before that.
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