E18: Dakotah Rice: The Journey from Wall Street to Fintech Founder

Dakotah Rice is the founder of Poolit, a platform allowing users to invest in top private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds with no minimums. Before becoming a full-time founder, Dakotah worked for some of the most prestigious firms on Wall Street: Goldman Sachs (trading GS), Coatue and The Carlyle Group. Learning directly from global investment companies with billions under management, he provided a wide range of financial services for his clients with a key purpose to invest wisely and create value over time.

With years of experience in the financial industry under his belt, Dakotah left his job to start @thepoolit. Backed by the co-founders of Carlyle and Coatue, Dakotah is laser focused on his mission of making the financial system inclusive for all.

In this episode, we talk about

1. The impact that working on Wall Street had on Dakota career & him becoming a founder
2. How he managed to get into such a competitive industry & rise up the ranks so quickly
3. How he made the leap from working in finance to starting his own company
4. How to overcome fear and doubt in you career