Little could be done for children with duchin muscular dystrophy until the gene responsible

for the disease was known.

Hear about the possibilities geneticists are now exploring on the latest episode of Targeting

the Toughest Diseases, a new podcast by Bloomberg Media Studios and Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest.

Her name is Soraya Dorabi.

She is a venture capital and impact investor who has an absolutely fascinating background

working for first with the New York Times social media group.

Then with a startup that eventually gets purchased by Open Table and then becoming a venture

investor that focuses on women and people of color led startups, which is not merely

a way to quote unquote, do good, but it's a broad area that is wildly underserved by the

venture community and therefore is very inefficient.

Meaning there's a lot of upside in this.

You can both do well and do good by investing in these areas.

I found this to be absolutely fascinating and I think you will also, if you're at all

interested in entrepreneurship, social media, startups, deal flow, how funds identify who

they want to invest in, what it's like to actually experience an exit as an entrepreneur.

I think you'll find this to be quite fascinating.

With no further ado, my conversation with TMV's Soraya Dorabi.

This is Master's in Business with Barry Reynolds on Bloomberg Radio.

My special guest this week is Soraya Darabi.

She is the co-founder and general partner of TMV, a venture capital firm that has had

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