Amanda Knox

And how understanding deal flow, understanding...

uh how to uh support particularly black founders um that have amazing tech companies but cannot get the funding because black women get less than 0.1 percent of venture funding for their companies um and then black businesses black women i think it's one to two percent in small business loans so there's a struggle there but there's opportunities to to invest and i think

that is an opportunity for us as a people to engage more in that industry.

I love that.

Speaking of Black women founders, the One Million Black Women Initiative with Goldman Sachs.

That was phenomenal.

One billion dollars.

Yes, yes.

How?

Like, how did you pull that off?

So let me be very clear.

Margaret Anandu, because I'm going to say a whole lot of people's names on this podcast because I think that's what I believe in doing.

Margaret Anandu, amazing investor, leader, had been at Goldman Sachs, I think, for like 20 years.

And she came up with this idea inside of Goldman Sachs.

how to really take investment dollars and bring and pool a billion dollars for direct investment that has direct impact that can be tied to impact to black women.

And so she had been

Goldman Sachs had already developed this program and my work with that program was helping to launch it along with my good friend and partner Joshua Dubois and Michelle Dubois at Values Partnerships.

Our firms came together to help launch it and what was important to

to Margaret and to Goldman Sachs and the leaders, um, there, um, and still leaders that are still there, like, um, uh, sister Asahi there, um, was that this was something that was done with black women.

Uh, and so we, uh, had the, the, the privilege to work with them to help guide the launch of that, to help guide how we, um,