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Friday, October 28 • 10:00am - 10:50am
It's About Damn Time

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In 2015, Arlan Hamilton was on food stamps and sleeping on the floor of the San Francisco airport, with nothing but an old laptop and a dream of breaking into the venture capital business. She couldn’t understand why people starting companies all looked the same (White and male), and she wanted the chance to invest in the ideas and people who didn’t conform to this image of how a founder is supposed to look. Hamilton had no contacts or network in Silicon Valley, no background in finance—not even a college degree. What she did have was fierce determination and the will to succeed. Hear her story and perspective on being underrepresented.
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Dennis Schultz

Executive Director, Blacks In Technology Foundation

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Arlan Hamilton

Founder, Managing Partner, Backstage Capital
Arlan Hamilton is an investor and the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital. In May 2020, Hamilton released her first book from Penguin Random House entitled It’s About Damn Time, which is based on her personal journey into entrepreneurship and venture capital.In 2015... Read More →

Friday October 28, 2022 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Coronado Ballroom L & K
  Entrepreneurship