When I was in high school, my dad brought home a copy of Black Enterprise’s annual list of the largest black businesses. I was mesmerized. I decided immediately that I would be an entrepreneur like them. I wanted to create my own company, where I could make the rules and race would not be a factor. What the teenage me didn’t know was that the path I set myself on would set me up for a confrontation with the overwhelmingly white world of venture capital. In 2020, there are far too many obstacles to realizing the dreams of aspiring African-American entrepreneurs.
