The Green Power Of Women-Led Startups: A Conversation With Sarah Dusek Of Enygma Ventures
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5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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At the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York City, founder and investor Sarah Dusek shares with Seth Cohen, Chief Impact Officer of Forbes, how the focusing on sustainability and investing in women founders fuel innovation and transform communities.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Seth Cohen, and I'm the chief impact officer of Forbes and the founder of the Forbes Impact Lab. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm here at NASDAQ Market Site today where I'm joined by Sarah Ducek, the founder of Under Canvas, a leading brand in sustainable luxury glamping. |
| 0:16.0 | She's also the founder and general partner of Enigma Ventures and an advocate for women around the world, |
| 0:23.1 | and particularly in Africa. |
| 0:26.9 | Sarah, thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:29.1 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:30.4 | So I want to start with you right now. |
| 0:33.5 | When you co-founded under Canvas, this very eco-sensible tourism slash adventure company what was behind that what was your vision for this because I think that that's your why so tell me your why my my why was creating access to the outdoors my My husband and I, when we got married almost 20 years ago now, |
| 0:59.0 | he was a huge outdoors guy and I was not, |
| 1:03.0 | but we both were passionate about the outdoors and passionate about being out in nature, |
| 1:08.0 | except he wanted to rough it and I did not. |
| 1:11.6 | And so our solution to that problem was to reimagine the African Safari experience |
| 1:16.6 | to enable other people like me who maybe want to enjoy the outdoors but don't want to camp |
| 1:23.6 | and don't want to have a rough time being out in nature. So you obviously hit a market that had an appetite for this because you scaled it to over |
| 1:33.2 | a hundred million dollar company. |
| 1:36.3 | Reimagining a safari, reimagining travel, that's a really big vision. |
| 1:41.2 | Did it ever feel too audacious for you? |
| 1:43.8 | Of course. Yeah, it absolutely felt audacious. But at the same time, when you have big, |
| 1:50.0 | crazy and magical dreams, the way you make those happen is just one step at a time. And you take |
| 1:57.0 | one tiny step and you try one tiny idea and you see what happens after that as you take step by step by step. |
| 2:05.6 | So that makes sense to me, but what I kind of realized reading your book was that you note that there's a difference in gender from the way people kind of make that vision, that having that bigger vision maybe is |
| 2:20.0 | less common among women entrepreneurs and founders than men. Why is that? I don't know why that is, |
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