His First Startup Failed. Then He Raised the Biggest Series A Ever by a Black Founder

Failed once, funded twice. Dakotah Rice on Harper's $47M Series A, the brokers who said no, and why the next great startup won't be SaaS.Harper is an AI-native commercial brokerage that's served 5,000+ businesses across 35 states in just 13 months. Earlier this year, Dakotah raised $47M led by Emergence Capital: the largest publicly disclosed Series A ever by a Black founder.In just 14 minutes, Dakotah covers: why selling AI software to brokers failed (and why that was the unlock). The cofounder bond forged in a failed first company. His enormous ambition and the path to IPO.Most podcasts run an hour or more. This is 18 Minutes or Less.