Why Ultra-Wealthy Giving Lags Behind Ambition
Many companies that survive their first year have something working quietly in the background: an early check from a parent or a well-off friend. My guest today leads an organization for founders who never had that check..
Shawna Young is the CEO of Camelback Ventures, a New Orleans accelerator that puts fifty thousand dollars, and a community, behind early-stage founders whom traditional capital routinely overlooks. A chemist by training and a former science teacher, she thinks hard about who gets seen, who gets funded, and why the gap between the two is so wide.
And sometimes, the best way to understand who gets overlooked is to look at who had the idea first.
It’s Shawna Young, CEO of Camelback Ventures, on The Business of Giving.
