You Can't Rake a Venture Fund as a Black Man in Silicon Valley

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Ralph: I watched a bunch of these young um aspiring vc's raise on publicly right yeah you didn't raise publicly no you should probably i thought about it but for a whole bunch of reasons well it's kind of scary because people don't do it. If you have no track record and you want to raise so like this guy mack of the seat, he raised his whatever ten million dollars in one year. He just saw me doing five meetings a day for a year and raising mywhatever ten million dollars as a black man in silicon valley. It's not that it's easy but that's possible you find your people who believe that correct you and then they believe in you and

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