Yes, you can be an entrepreneur too | Saamra Mekuria-Grillo

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🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Who gets to be an entrepreneur? Saamra Mekuria-Grillo says the image we most commonly see — a guy in a hoodie — is a limiting representation of entrepreneurial success. She highlights the importance of young Black people seeing entrepreneurship as a possibility for themselves and explains the key to making the field more inclusive.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily,
0:10.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:17.0	If you closed your eyes and imagined an entrepreneur, who would you see?
0:22.0	Today's speaker saw young white guys and hoodies,
0:25.0	or people like Elon Musk, who don't look like her.
0:28.0	Somra Bakuria Grillo had to learn how to believe that she too could be a business woman.
0:34.4	The social entrepreneur shares the work she's doing to demystify
0:38.1	entrepreneurship for black young people, why it's important,
0:42.0	and how to make pathways to business far more inclusive.
0:46.0	After a short break, these days we're surrounded by photo editing programs.
0:52.1	Have you ever wondered what something or
0:54.0	someone actually looks like under all the manipulation? It's me, Elise, and this
0:58.8	October I'm giving a TED Talk in Atlanta about finding true beauty in a sea of artificial images. I'm so
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1:18.0	And now our TED Talk of the day.
1:21.0	My name is Somra, and I'm an entrepreneur, but I didn't become an
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