"Relentless & Resilient: How This Entrepreneur is Transforming the Tech Industry" with Courtne Smith, Founder & CEO of NewNew
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We are back for Season 3 and we are SO excited! We are kicking it off with an amazing entrepreneur, Courtne Smith, founder and CEO of NewNew, a social decision-making app that lets you vote to control the outcome of other people’s lives.  Prior to NewNew, Courtne spent over a decade on Grammy-award winning artist Drake's management team where she handled his business endeavors and special projects. She is a born entrepreneur with a flair for fashion and innovation and attributes her success to her relentless and resilient spirit. Alongside her business partner, Filip Diarra, Smith has founded a hair-extension line called Tharen, a giveaway game app called Suprize. Her latest innovation, NewNew, has been backed by huge investors like Will Smith, Andreessen Horowitz and more. Courtne is also one of less than 20 Black female founders in tech to have built an eight-figure, venture backed company. She is a true WOCstar!  Join us as we get real real with Courtne about everything from raising those first dollars as WOC in Tech to what has led to her continued success in all of her endeavors. Listen now!