In a lot of industries, it is easier for the voice women and POC to get lost in all the noise. Therefore, we must make sure to never allow our voices and ideas to be suppressed. When you start your own company, they’ll be people around you who want to put their input into certain things, they’ll be others in your industry category who want to inflict their ideas and positions on you because they believe they know more. You must know the difference between those encouraging, supporting and mentoring you from those overstepping boundaries & forcing their opinions on you.
As a part of our series about “Why We Need More Women Founders”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Bintou Camara.
Bintou Camara is originally from The Gambia, a country in West Africa. She moved to New York at a young age due to health complications & the…