Ep. 162 Aaron Samuels is Founder and Managing Partner of Collide Capital a $66M fund, so far, which is the first VC fund simultaneously backed by Amazon, Alphabet, and Twitter. He’s also co-founder and served as COO at Blavity, the largest global Black Media company for Millennials and Gen-Z, and AfroTech, the largest Black Tech conference in the world.
He began his career as a spoken word artist before working at Bain & Co. as a strategy consultant and TeleSign as a Product Manager.
On this episode, Aaron speaks with AfroTech’s Will Lucas about the paths to becoming a VC, his $66 million fund, and the current legal landscape for investing in underrepresented founders.
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