Natalie White

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612 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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Made It Out · Being a Queer Female Founder w/ Natalie White · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

So now it's COVID.

It's still just team of one.

And I had $25,000 from my HSBC investment banking internship that I did.

When COVID happened, I was COVID senior.

So we had a housing of $8,000 reimbursement that BC gave.

Hell yeah.

Okay.

My parents said, you can put that into your business.

Amazing.

So I used that money to pay our freelance designer.

I used it to pay for the sample molds along with the first samples and the lasts.

By May of 2021...

we were ready to launch a presale campaign.

And on funding, I had pitched 200 accelerators.

Every single one said no.

So I quickly realized, like, I'm not getting funding because they all said if this were really a business, Nike would have been doing this.

And if women's basketball, you guys, you have to remember what women's basketball looked like.

It's impossible.

Honestly, it's so crazy to think about it now, but like no one believed in us or very few.

I shouldn't say that because one person did take a bet on us and we'll get there.

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