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Leaving a $250 Million Fund: Ollen Douglass Speaks Out about being a Black Man in Venture Capital, the Power of Diversity to Drive Returns

Billion Dollar Moves™ with Sarah Chen-Spellings | Global Venture Capital

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The Motley Fool's Decision to Focus on Retail

The Motley Fool, there is a retail brand. They've had a lot of success for a lot of years focusing on that. We were having a little bit different of an experience in the venture fund but at the end of the day, the company has to do what they think is best for the overall corporation. Sometimes those decisions that are in the best interest overall corporation are really painful for some small corners of that corporation. And in this case, the venture fund was one small corner and this was devastating for us.

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