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Arlan Hamilton

  • Founder, Backstage Capital and Contributor, Freelance
Los Angeles
As seen in: Apple Podcasts, Medium, Forbes, Mashable, Mashable Middle East, Stanford University, Fast Company, Inc., Substack, Flipboard and
Proud founder of @Backstage_Cap💯 + @HireRunner💜🏃🏾‍♀️, Author IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME, Host YOUR FIRST MILLION, @QueerGermanGirl’s WIFEY😍@generalhospital fan📺
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Your First Million

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By Arlan Hamilton, Rachel Nelson, Rachel Rodgers, Pinky Cole
| Audible Blog
One of the few Black women to break into the boy's club of Silicon Valley offers her secrets for how anyone can build a legacy of wealth and impact. Having lived nearly her entire life below the poverty line before going on to attain wealth and success as an entrepreneur and investor, Arlan Hamilton knows that money is power—but not for the reasons most people believe. Money is power, she says, because it provides us with: to pursue our passions, take risks, and change our situation in life.
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10 books that center and celebrate the Black LGBTQ+ experience

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By Maiysha Kai, Arlan Hamilton, Rachel Nelson
| TheGrio Verified
It’s the final weekend of Pride Month — widely recognized as Pride Weekend in many major cities. Have you curled up with book from a Black queer writer yet? If you’re an avid reader or member of #BookTok, hopefully you are well-acquainted with a number of LGBTQ+ authors and narratives, and reading them year-round. But if you haven’t yet indulged, Pride Month is a great time to start.
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Why are underrepresented founders still not getting venture capital funding?

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By Arlan Hamilton
| Mashable Middle East Verified
For 10 years now I’ve been telling people, "I came for the cake, not the crumbs." I’ve been beating this drum and shouting this out ever since I first read about the abysmal amount of funding being allocated to founders who are anything other than the traditional founder – white, male, well educated, and often already financially well off. I started my investment fund, Backstage Capital, specifically to invest in those founders who were underestimated by venture capitalists.
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