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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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How to Be a Successful Venture Capitalist

I'm probably pretty high on the risk-taking scale, which is probably very low in the scale of normal people. But I have a higher risk tolerance than most. And I enjoy that little bit of the unknown that kind of comes with. So it's venture capital. Where you're taking risk every day. Well, it was extremely helpful. For anyone who can work at an accounting firm, it really teaches you how to understand a business for the bottom up. The more consistency there are, the less likely you're gonna run into that.

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