Cheryl Contee

Everything Cheryl Contee said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Contee: The tech sector is generally welcoming of strong technical talent

“But I personally have found the tech sector to overall be relatively welcoming, especially if you have, you know, really strong technical skills, which are needed right now.”

Cheryl Contee Oct 29, 2020 ▶ 10:17 How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things

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Contee: Startups led by women, minorities, and rural founders are undervalued

“Doubling down on investing in small businesses, especially from women, especially from minorities, especially from rural areas in innovative startups that are rising up because those are the businesses right now that are undervalued and are going to overperfor…”

Cheryl Contee Oct 29, 2020 ▶ 18:32 How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things

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Contee faced VC discrimination despite running another multi-million dollar agency

“As an all female team with a black female co-founder, it wasn't easy. To get funding. We had to work really hard, and I experienced, you know, some real discrimination despite, you know, running at the same time, you know, another digital agency that had pulle…”

Cheryl Contee Oct 29, 2020 ▶ 3:38 How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things

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Contee: Diverse founders pitching white male investors must rely heavily on data

“At least what worked for me was data, data, data, data, right, and showing, look, you might not get this totally, this isn't a problem that I'm solving for you, wealthy, white, male investor, but there's a lot of people for whom this is an issue, and here's ho…”

Cheryl Contee Oct 29, 2020 ▶ 6:47 How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things

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Contee: Almost every fund I know is leaning into funding POC founders

“Almost every fund that I know is really looking at, you know, how can we lean in on funding people of color?”

Cheryl Contee Oct 29, 2020 ▶ 15:21 How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things

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Contee: Do Big Things likely to work on vaccine misinformation campaign

“We're likely to start working on a campaign targeted at misinformation around vaccines.”

Cheryl Contee Oct 29, 2020 ▶ 1:41 How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things

The other half of the tape: Cheryl Contee's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 1 episode across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Guy Raz 2

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Cheryl's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER	CEO, The Impact Seat Foundation	1	6	—	full record on How I Built This →