Inner Sphere

Pierre Laguerre is the founder of Fleeting and an entrepreneur in transportation logistics who has over 17 years of experience in the field. In this episode, Pierre joins us to talk about his journey as an entrepreneur and his insights on investing in the trucking industry.

Chris Boyd is the Co-founder and CEO of Drink Monday, a company that is bringing delightful, alcohol-free adult beverages to consumers globally.

Join us in this episode to learn how Lil Bucks has managed to quadruple their revenue from 2019 to 2020 while providing healthier grain options in the US and supporting sustainable farming.

Can blockchain help us reinvent the way we build communities? Today, we welcome Adi Sideman, co-founder and CEO of Props Project, and he’s determined to prove that it can.

Our guest for this episode is a long-time investor in emerging and frontier markets. He has identified some exciting, “untapped” opportunities for investment, and today, he’s going to share his insights with us.

For a really long time, the decision for which games will get made was heavily centralized. In the traditional model, this decision was the privilege of small groups of executives working for giant companies. However, the popularisation of crowdfunding has significantly changed the narrative.

Can ice cream be good for you? Carli Blum set out to answer that very question, and in the process, created Sunscoop, a brand of vegan ice cream on a mission to provide people with frozen treats that are both delicious and make you feel good.

There’s been a lot of hype surrounding cryptocurrency recently, but many people still find this market difficult to access.

You have the power to invest in the future you believe in. Here at Republic, we are committed to bringing profit back to the people and we want you to join this revolution. We'll be taking you behind the scenes to meet the team, the founders, and the investors in our community, who share their insights on the future of investing and the work they do to make wealth generation accessible to everyone.

Listen to hear about Arlan's experience with investing in underestimated founders. 

Arlan Hamilton is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Started from scratch in 2015, Backstage has now raised more than $12 million and invested in more than 150 startup companies led by underestimated founders. In 2018, they launched a four-city accelerator program in Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, and London.

Arlan is also the author of, It's About Damn Time, an inspirational and tactical business book for budding entrepreneurs and aspiring investors. She hosts the popular podcast, Your First Million, and has been featured on CNN, PBS, and others, and in 2019 became the first Black woman to have an entirely devoted episode of Emily Chang's Bloomberg 1.0.

In October 2018, Arlan was featured on the cover of Fast Company magazine as the first Black woman non-celebrity to do so (following Oprah, Serena, and Beyonce).

In 2019, Arlan and her mother, Mrs. Earline Butler-Sims, announced their new scholarship program, which kicked off with Oxford University's first-ever undergraduate scholarship for a Black student, as well as a commitment to fund a full-ride scholarship for a Psychology student at Mrs. Sims' alma mater, HBCU Dillard University.