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Aaron Samuels
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Founder and Managing Partner of Collide Capital. Co-founder and former COO of Blavity and AfroTech. Began as a spoken word artist, then Bain & Co. strategy consultant and TeleSign product manager. Founder of the Takeoff Institute. Stanford GSB MBA (Arbuckle Leadership Fellow); Washington University in St. Louis, magna cum laude. Cave Canem fellow and author of two poetry collections.
AARON SAMUELS: We probably sent a thousand cold emails that nobody responded to. People see the shots you took that went in — they don't always see the ones that were wild misses.
EP 11The Firm That Bets on CollisionsWatch →
Co-founder of Collide Capital; interviewed on campus pipelines and founder heuristics.
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