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LeVar Burton

Founder and Principal, LeVar Burton Entertainment. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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He played Kunta Kinte in Roots, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and hosted the PBS series Reading Rainbow. As an entrepreneur and advocate, he co-founded LeVar Burton Kids to expand digital children's literature and authored The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm.

What they said2 Shows1

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

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Not checkable as stated

Burton: Silicon Valley VCs gave the Reading Rainbow app 'no love'

“We got no love from Silicon Valley. I mean, no love.”

LeVar Burton Nov 30, 2021 ▶ 2:25 The case for bootstrapping (with Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut)

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Supported

Burton: Seth MacFarlane gave $1M to Reading Rainbow's $6.4M Kickstarter

“At the end, we got a million, we got a cool million from Seth MacFarlane, which was amazing. Seth refers to his childhood as having chain-smoked books, right? I love that image, you know, of a child Seth just chain-smoking books. But it was mostly small donati…”

LeVar Burton Nov 30, 2021 ▶ 3:37 The case for bootstrapping (with Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut)

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER	Founder and Principal, LeVar Burton Entertainment	1	2	100% 1/1	full record on Masters of Scale →