From the archive · June 13, 2014

Successful Entrepreneurs Are Fundamentally The Best Person In The World To Solve a Problem

Originally published June 13, 2014 on the earlier WordPress version of this blog. Restored from the Internet Archive with the content unchanged. Some outbound links may no longer resolve.

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When I reflect back on the entrepreneurs I was inspired by they all had one unique quality about them, they were fundamentally the best people in the world to solve those problems and had a unique authenticity. – Tristan Walker

Great segment in a recent fireside chat at Southland: 2014 hosted by Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily. She interviews Tristan Walker to cover racism in tech and other great insights about his personal experience growing up in NYC to boarding schools and working on Wall Street, Twitter, and Foursquare.

For some more background about Tristan Walker (his personal site and twitter) and his startup Walker and Company, often cited as the ‘Proctor and Gamble for People of Color’.

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