The New Builders with Elizabeth MacBride
Elizabeth MacBride sits down with Brigit and Don to discuss her upcoming book, The New Builders, along with the declining growth of startups in the US, how women and people of color are cut off from sources of capital, and steps to solve this problem, Shark Tank’s influence on the conception of obtaining capital, developing markets in the middle of the US, fighting for social issues as an entrepreneur, and what can be done to help the new builders of the world.
Episode 27 of the Line of Sight Podcast podcast, hosted by Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, titled "The New Builders with Elizabeth MacBride" was published on May 3, 2021 and runs 39 minutes.
May 3, 2021 ·39m · Line of Sight Podcast
Summary
Elizabeth MacBride sits down with Brigit and Don to discuss her upcoming book, The New Builders, along with the declining growth of startups in the US, how women and people of color are cut off from sources of capital, and steps to solve this problem, Shark Tank’s influence on the conception of obtaining capital, developing markets in the middle of the US, fighting for social issues as an entrepreneur, and what can be done to help the new builders of the world.
Episode Description
Elizabeth MacBride is an award-winning journalist and an entrepreneur with deep expertise in finance, technology and international business. She has talked her way into Gaza for a story, reported on business in refugee camps and written stories about entrepreneurs everywhere from Northern Idaho to Helena, Arkansas, to Cambodia. She is the co-author of The New Builders and founder of Times of Entrepreneurship, a weekly web publication covering entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, launched in Feb. 2020, with support from the Kauffman Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.
Elizabeth has written or edited for Quartz, Forbes Magazine, Atlantic.com, Stanford GSB, CNBC, HBR.com, BBC Capital, Advertising Age, Newsweek and many others. Her stories have been viewed by millions of people worldwide and translated into languages including Arabic, Turkish and Armenian. Her recent work includes a viral story: “Why Venture Capital Doesn’t Build What We Really Need,” for MIT Tech Review; an award-winning feature on the lack of diversity among investment advisors for Investment News, the most efficient form of aid for Syrian refugees for Quartz, and a feature for CNBC on one of the few successful economic development projects in Bethlehem, led by Greek businessman, Samer Khoury.
Elizabeth's work for corporate and startup clients includes thought leadership with Andy Rachleff, co-founder of Benchmark Capital and Wealthfront, as well as a number of internationally known Stanford professors in management and finance, including Huggy Rao and Benham Tabrizi. She edited two books on investing for Charley Ellis, founder of Greenwich Associates, and the author of the classic Winning the Loser's Game.
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