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Lila Negrete

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  • In the United States, White families on average have 13 times the wealth of Black families and six times that of Hispanic families.1 Founders who are less connected to wealthy communities tend to know fewer people who are willing to use their financial and social capital for support. Underrepresented founders are disproportionately developing relationships from cold outreach, rather than a warm introduction, which is much less likely to work. They also tend to be less exposed to entrepreneurial, educational, and investor networks, which bring resources that can help their companies grow. They …
    Underrepresented start-up founders | McKinsey
  • A few problems with authority or someone in charge.
    Natal Chart Report
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding