The positive economic impact of investing in startups with female founders with fellow investor Shannon Grant
Who\xa0is\xa0Shannon Grant?\xa0\xa0
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Shannon Grant is an investor, community builder and startup advisor. She leads knowledge programs for the best and brightest minds in tech to facilitate high-level knowledge transfer and create powerful experiences for time-strapped leaders.\xa0\xa0
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In 2014 she developed the Salon Series events at\xa0MKThink\xa0focusing on the future of education, and she helped build a membership organization of over 80 mission-driven CEOs with The Tugboat Group. She has coached founders to create original talks for CEO summits, hosted Jeffersonian dinners for awesome engineers and connected tech founders with the people or information they need to grow.\xa0\xa0
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To support this vision, she started Deus Capital to invest in companies with\xa0billion-dollar\xa0market opportunities that have at least one female founder.\xa0\xa0
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Her social impact work includes converting a liquor store into a children's writing center in the heart of San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood with 826 Valencia and building a new model for charity with Mama Hope.\xa0
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Show Highlights\xa0
- Shannon shares her journey through venture capital into angel investing.\xa0\xa0
- We\xa0talk about\xa0our\xa0shared interest in getting more women to invest and invest in female founders including the statistics around this.\xa0\xa0
- We\xa0discuss the importance of getting girls to see what is possible by exposing them to investing, startups,\xa0entrepreneurship, and technology.\xa0\xa0\xa0
- We talk about this being an economic opportunity and the importance of encouraging men to join us in investing in women and encouraging more exemplar men in this awakening.\xa0\xa0
- If Shannon could wave a magic wand and change something in this world, she would encourage people to speak; your voice is needed.\xa0\xa0\xa0
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Terri\u2019s Key Takeaway\xa0
Investing in women will create trillions of dollars in economic opportunity.\xa0 It is not a\xa0zero sum\xa0game.\xa0\xa0
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References in the Podcast\xa0
- MKThink:\xa0\xa0http://www.mkthink.com/\xa0
- Tugboat:\xa0\xa0http://www.thetugboatgroup.com/\xa0
- Robyn Fisher:\xa0\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynsuegoldman/\xa0
- Smitten Ice Cream:\xa0https://www.smittenicecream.com/\xa0
- StitchFix:\xa0https://www.stitchfix.com/\xa0
- Katrina Lake:\xa0\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmlake/\xa0
- Learn Capital:\xa0\xa0http://learncapital.com/\xa0
- Accenture Ventures:\xa0https://www.accenture.com/us-en/innovation-architecture-accenture-ventures\xa0
- First Round Capital Study:\xa0http://10years.firstround.com/\xa0
- Darya\xa0Shaked:\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/darya-henig-shaked-361539a9/\xa0
- Wonder Ventures:\xa0https://www.wonderventures.com/\xa0
- Dear Madam President:\xa0\xa0https://www.dearmadampresidentbook.com/\xa0
- Brazen Global:\xa0https:\xa0https://brazenglobal.com/\xa0
- Jennifer\xa0Ehlen:\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferehlen/\xa0
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Contact\xa0
Shannon can be reached\xa0via LinkedIn at\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-grant-6164139/.\xa0\xa0\xa0
You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:\u202f https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.\u202f\xa0
Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.\xa0
To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife\xa0and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.\xa0