Underestimated
The Underestimated Podcast highlights the stories of underestimated Entrepreneurs. If you‘re a founder, entrepreneur, or investor this podcast is for you! We tell the stories about how founders build their businesses, challenges they’ve overcome, and the victories they’ve experienced. Every entrepreneur has their success secrets as well as the moments they want to quit - we cover it all in the Underestimated Podcast.
Episodes
Do you need to have a background in tech to breakthrough into the industry? What type of mindset must you have to be an innovator? X-Factor Capital is joined by Will Drewery, founder, investor, and former vice president of supply chain of Astra to discuss the inner workings of some of the biggest developments in technology.
About Will Drewery:
Will is an early-stage venture founder, tech investor, supply chain enthusiast, and ex...
Would you be nervous to pitch your company in front of Serena Williams? How should entrepreneurs approach meetings with investors? X-Factor Capital is joined by Barbara Jones, Founder and CEO of Lillii RNB Inc, a leading IT consulting firm that helps Fortune 500 companies and government agencies with technology. In this episode, she details the importance of participating in seed rounds and shares how she is fulfilling her dreams. ...
Is angel investing a safer investment than the stock market? Previously, only the wealthy and well connected had access to institutionally backed high growth investments. Now, Black and Brown people are accessing opportunities to expand their portfolios. X-Factor Capital is joined by the founder of Urban Capital Network, Lenny Saizan. Learn about how UCN is creating access to opportunities across the investment ecosystem.
About U...
What does it take for an entrepreneur to make it on the show Shark Tank? What are the hurdles new business owners must leap in order to reach their full potential? X-Factor Capital is joined by Brandon Andrews, one of the casting directors for NBC’s Shark Tank. In this podcast, Brandon shares his insight into how entrepreneurs can scale their businesses and successfully pitch to investors. About Brandon Andrews:
Brandon is an ent...
Is entrepreneurship a method for generating social and economic equity?
Starting a business is hard. Growing one takes even more courage, expertise, and creativity. X-factor Capital is joined by the CEO of DivInc, an accelerator program solely focused on equity as the currency of exchange that creates opportunities for business owners in underserved communities. Learn about the importance of a startup ecosystem for underrepresented...
The Art of Data // A Data-Driven Approach to Workplace Inclusion
Is leveraging intersectionality finally breaking discrimination barriers within the workplace, or are underrepresented communities fighting recurring battles of inequities year over year and being led to entrepreneurship to own the trajectory of their pathway to leadership?
X-factor Capital and our special guest, the CEO of The Mentor Method, explore how the art of d...
Episode nine with Karen Cahn of IFundWomen! Karen’s community supports over 130,000 women entrepreneurs who have raised collectively over $100M and created over 30,000 jobs. This episode we dive into the specifics of how crowdfunding works and why Karen's platform is so successful at helping founders raise money to build their businesses.
Crowdfunding is a great resource especially for founders who don’t have a network a friends an...
How does a kid from small town Louisiana become a startup founder and featured in Forbes and in Times Square NYC?
Dennis Cail, CEO & Founder of Zirtue, the peer lending app, shares his story from a small town, to the US Navy, to banking and then to launching the world first peer to peer lending platform that can automate the public backing process to the lender.
Dennis has become a friend of the X-Factor team and shares some of h...
In this episode, we speak with the co-founder of TXV Partners Marcus Stroud. Marcus shares his background as an athlete and how that helps him in the competitive world of venture capital. The stories he shares from his Princeton days to those of being the son of an NFL football player are inspiring!
Marcus says “adversity is an advantage” and that you have to look deeper to see how the challenges you’ve been through have prepared y...
Episode 6 is a special one! We have both founders of X-Factor Capital, Rodell Razor & Jeremiah Captain.
We discuss how & why we started X-Factor Capital. We talk about how activism inspired organized action with real solutions. We also dive into the critical characteristics of a great founder/entrepreneur.
As former athletes we even weigh in on the controversial topic of amateur athletes being paid for their Name, Image, & Lik...
This episode we interview CEO & Founder of Ford Sports Performance (FSP) Tracy Ford. Tracy & X-Factor Capital CEO Rodell Razor are childhood friends and co-founded FSP back in 2012. Tracy shares how his experience training the worlds best & hardest-working athletes can be translated into how you can be successful in life.
Tracy has spent his entire career serving his clients with passion. He attributes the success of his world-r...
Entrepreneurship is about taking the losses, learning the lessons, and living to tell about them. Jaebadiah Gardner shares some of his most intimate experiences in his 13 years of building his real estate firm. As a respected developer, broker, and property manager in the greater Seattle area, he's seen a lot in the real estate industry from different angles. If you love great storytelling and real talk, then this episode showcases...
This episode we interview Toby Egbuna CEO and Co-Founder of Chezie. Chezie is a SaaS platform that aims to create inclusive work environments for people from underrepresented groups. As first-generation Nigerian immigrates Toby and his sister Dumebie cofounded Chezie from their own experiences of not feeling welcomed at work.
“Chezie is an all-in-one solution designed to help you build impactful employee resource groups. We help ...
US Navy Veteran Viola Carmona is building a huge business around homeownership for first-time homebuyers! She went to market originally to provide leads to larger mortgage companies. She saw an opportunity to serve an underserved community and do it using cutting-edge technology. She has taken a marketing company into a tech startup! Amazing how she uses being underestimated (woman, veteran, Black/Latina, LGBTQ, & solo founder) as ...
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