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the former 43rd treasurer or the 43rd
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church
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of the united states rosie rios and the
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president president biden's former
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senior political advisor movella they
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have teamed up with other colleagues for
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a new show
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called unicorn hunters i talked to them
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about how they hope this show will
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create access to wealth
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among diversities rosie and mo thank you
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so much for joining us back here in
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washington d.c
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a city where neither one of you are
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strangers
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i have to imagine did you meet here
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before you started unicorn hunters
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yes we we did meet we actually i i
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jokingly say i saw rosie rios across a
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room
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and forged my way through the crowd
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ellen and said i'm gonna meet that
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lady i knew she was special and she was
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amazing so we've been friends for
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now over a decade thank you moan hello
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ellen thank you for having us yes it was
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definitely love at first sight
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mo and i made a joke the other day you
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know i think mostly move over benefit
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we're now the new mosey so there you go
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yes he's a great friend well now you are
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together again reunited on unicorn
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hunters
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why was this project something that you
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both felt very passionate to be part of
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well this was you know moe's brainchild
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and when he when he called me to ask me
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if i wanted to
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be a panelist on the show of course i i
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couldn't say no for all the right
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reasons so unicorn hunters
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is a reality series that allows uh
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pre-ipo opportunity investments and and
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for me this
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was kind of coming full circle because
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it really started from an access to
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capital conference
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that we hosted in treasury in 2011 that
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led to the task force that eventually
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made the recommendation to the congress
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to
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to pass the jobs act of 2012 and
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subsequently the crowdfunding provisions
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from the sec allowed a show like unicorn
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hunters to come together
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wow yeah and you know ellen for me it
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was um
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frankly kind of a continuation of a
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whole career
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of fighting for equality and inclusion
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when i
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came to the realization uh that it was
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like a slap in my face when i realized
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that
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women minorities many of our communities
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that are marginalized and
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disenfranchised
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didn't have access to wealth creation or
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access to the investment
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ecosystem this was a no-brainer for me
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it was like that final thing i wanted to
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do on my journey
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to try to create access for folks all
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over the world that
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today are intimidated by the investment
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process
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i'm glad you guys brought up the
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investing culture because you typically
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think of maybe
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one group who knows what they're doing
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in that area is that something you are
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definitely trying to break
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through unicorn i've been breaking
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stereotypes just like rosie has
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i think all of our careers ellen and so
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yes for me personally yes i think the
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show is all about
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uh breaking down those walls those
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barriers if you will
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that have kept the average human being
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out of the investment ecosystem
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and part of its intimidation part of its
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fear part of it's a lack of knowledge
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part of it is a lack of access and so
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we're so proud
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at unicorn hunters honestly that we
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provide all of those things
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during our show there are little
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education boxes
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on the screen throughout each episode
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defining terminology right that
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otherwise would have probably made me go
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oh i don't know what that means i'm not
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going there
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so we're really proud about all of that
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yeah
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what what are some of those biggest
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obstacles especially in the lgbtq plus
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side that we have to cross in order to
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make sure we do
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have that equality i guess technically
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today is the last day of pride month and
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and i'm not a big fan of
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months every day should be pride day
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every day should be women's history
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month and so you know i i want to
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make this world so that we're not a
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novelty
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we're a norm you know just to kind of
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take the point a little further
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you know as i mentioned you know when it
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comes to women the numbers don't
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lie so just you've probably seen the
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numbers you know last year there was
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about 150 billion dollars
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that was allocated in the vc world and
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of that only
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2.2 percent went to female founders
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but the sadder part is that it was 2.6
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the year prior so we're heading in the
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wrong direction so
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in my opinion you have to be very
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deliberate and intentional right so it's
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called awareness and action
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are being conscious and conscientious
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and this is where unicorn hunters comes
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into play
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and i will add ellen that that
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percentage is abysmal
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obviously and the the numbers for
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lgbtq plus the numbers for latinos those
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numbers for asian americans african
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americans and so on
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are even worse so it is a
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very horrific picture and that unicorn
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hunters we believe we're a
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step in the right direction and a part
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of the solution
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mo and rosie also told me they have been
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renewed for season two so you need to go
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now to unicornhunters.com
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to see those episodes of season one
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before season two starts
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