Lonye Ford, CEO of Arlo Solutions and her business partner recently secured a $28 million government contract. But, things didn’t start off that way. It took 2 years for Arlo Solutions to land its first government contract.

In this episode, Dreamer Lonye Ford shares her journey and lessons learned from starting her company to landing multi-million government contracts providing innovative cybersecurity solutions and services to government agencies.

In this episode, Lonye also explains why now is a good time for minorities to get into government contracting and the current policies in place to increase the contracts going to underserved communities.

In this episode, Lonye Ford discusses:   

• How to get started in government contracting
• How to finance government contracts after winning a bid
• How the Air Force and relocating to Washington D.C. helped change her life
• The importance of dreaming big 
• Working to support your dreams
• How to find the right business partner
• How she is investing to build more wealth for the future
• Why now is t a good time for minorities to get into government contracting

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Dreamers' Wealth of Wisdom:

• It was really a full circle moment for me to be in the black enterprise because growing up, there was not a lot of representation for me. - Lonye Ford
• Having the right partner is really foundational to building a business because again, people are really what’s important—the people that you have around you. - Lonye Ford
• While doing banking, I realized that I had gotten so accustomed to working for the Government that’s really focused on a mission—serving the people. - Lonye Ford
• I really had to start from the bottom again. I guess my story is a story of recreating yourself. - Lonye Ford

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