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Cheryl Contee

CEO, The Impact Seat Foundation · 1 appearance on the record.

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Cheryl Contee is a tech entrepreneur and investor who founded the digital agency Do Big Things and co-founded Attentive.ly. She is also the author of Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success.

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Everything Cheryl Contee said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
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
Insight
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
Disclosure
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

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Appearances (1)

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How I Built Resilience: Cheryl Contee of Do Big Things Oct 29, 2020 12m
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