Nitin Pachisia @immigreating, co-founder and GP of Unshackled Ventures @UnshackledVC, talks about the underrated synergy of immigrant founder teams and why frugality generates ingenuity.

Links:

HBR: “Why Immigrants Are More Likely to Become Entrepreneurs”, “Why Diverse Teams are Smarter”

Axios: “Venture capital slowly seeps outside of Silicon Valley”

Pine Park Health

Unshackled team: Manan Mehta, Samala, Alexis Maciel, E’mani Davis

Unshackled Pitch link / Nitin’s calendar

Unshackled: The most common reasons we pass on companies

SHACK15 + SHACK15 CONVERSATIONS podcast

Transcript available here.

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Irwin Loud, co-founder of Chicago-based Muller and Munroe, fund of private equity funds, talks about the recent progress of directing capital to minority and women general partners.

Cambridge Associates: Sector Specialists Outperform by nearly 5%

Cambridge Associates: Sector Specialists Outperformance

Cambridge Associates: Diverse Manager Investing

Irwin's LinkedIn

Transcript available here.

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Sonia Nagar @ssahney, of The Community Fund @theCommunityVC, talks about why community-driven companies can be bigger, faster, and more cost efficient to grow.  

Links:

Pritzker Group Venture Capital @PritzkerVC

Dame @dameproducts / Alexandra Fine @afinehuman / Dame Labs

Flybridge @flybridge / Jesse Middleton @srcasm 

Ganas Ventures / Lolita Taub @lolitataub

Listen Ventures @listendotco

Sonia's Linked In

Transcript available here.

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Links:

Thrive Global / Abby Levy

MIT: “Successful entrepreneurs are middle-aged, not young.”

The number of Americans ages 65 and older will more than double over the next 40 years

The Caregiving Crisis

Alan's LinkedIn

Transcript available here.

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Marlon Nichols @MarlonCNichols, founding managing partner of MaC Venture Capital @MaCVentureCap, talks about how more diverse private investment leadership can bring us closer to equity in our near future. Let's make the 2020s the Inclusive Decade.

Links:

NVCA: VC Human Capital Survey, 2021

BLCK VC , #BLCKVC

Kauffman Fellows Program

@PaulJudge / @TopeAwotona / @RubenHarris / @DaveSalant / @SongeLaRon

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Our host sits down with Brian Cohen from the New York Angels to discuss Pinterest, one of his category leading companies.

Our host sits down with Mark Achler at Math Ventures to talk about his category leading company, Aprevita.

Our Host sits down with Brad Harrison at Scout Ventures to talk about his category leading company, Bespoke Post

Our Host sits down with Joshua Siegel from Rubicon Venture Capital