In3Talks #19 - In3DC Talking Tech and the Intersection with Financial Services Industry and Venture Capital

In3Talks

This will be a two part episode with a guest Denise Saunders COO/CFO Inclusive Innovation Incubator and Clearly Innovative Inc. We are also discussing a new venture Community Innovation Initiative which is focused on FinTech and FinEducation in Black and under resourced communities

• 1:05 - Denise Saunders Intro how she got in to financial world, including being an investment banker
• 3:10 - Talking about how investment banking work translates to work she is doing today with entrepreneurs + her experience in management consulting
• 4:20 - How did you get involved with Clearly Innovative and In3DC
• 5:17 - Importance of Denise in In3DC and Clearly Innovative growth, know you numbers to make it all work
• 8:20 - Denise’s Thoughts on venture capital in underserved and underrepresented community - the value of social capital / the network makes it all happen
• 11:20 - Aaron’s Thoughts on venture capital in underserved and underrepresented community - the value of social capital / the network makes it all happen - what’s a small business and what is a scalable business
• 13:10 - My thoughts on Venture Capital Industry - creating the pipeline versus leveraging experienced intelligent people to make lateral moves into the industry
• 15:40 - Denise talking about it from her perspective from working on Wall Street and seeing the associates working there way through the system
• 17:30 - Being a VC / Accredited Investor what are the requirements and is that another constraint for People of Color, thoughts on Crowdfunding
• 19:40 - Community Innovation Initiative - Tech Education with focus on Financial Literacy to mirror what we are doing with #TheFutureIsWrittenInCode, but in Financial Industry, making careers on Wall Street
• 22:00 - Denise discussing her feelings of “Imposter Syndrome” when she started her internship on Wall Street with her peers from Stanford and Harvard
• 23:15 - Why are will still count the “First”, we need this to be more normalized in Finance and Technology as the two main pillars of the future. Why a heavy push in Tech, but Finance industry still has a legacy of racism and inequality
• 26:30 - Blacks have had to create their own businesses on Wall Street to reach executive level and have impact

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