Edith Cooper
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@Edithwcooper
Co-founder of @withmedley, Board Director of @amazon and @pepsico. Learning new things every day.
We're hiring a Growth Marketer and a Full Stack Engineer to join the team at @theampcommunity We’re on a mission to get 1,000,000 diverse-owned small businesses financed. Join us and help us build stronger, smarter local economies, driven by entrepreneurship. Read more 👇
Excited to share the news that @withmedley has raised our $3.7m seed round led by @conniechan and @anneleeskates of @a16z - an important milestone in our journey to create more inclusive opportunities for personal and professional growth. techcrunch.com/2021/10/07/med… 1/8
Excited to share the news that @withmedley has raised our $3.7m seed round led by @conniechan and @anneleeskates of @a16z - an important milestone in our journey to create more inclusive opportunities for personal and professional growth. techcrunch.com/2021/10/07/med… 1/8
"What put my life on a different trajectory was that someone intervened to give me an opportunity to close that opportunity gap," says @Merck CEO Ken Frazier. "We're not asking people to give everybody handouts but we need to acknowledge that there are huge opportunity gaps."
Usually I can talk *a lot*. But right now I’m struggling a bit with what to say. I couldn’t watch the video this time. The descriptions were enough to make me feel sick. Unlike so many, I am lucky enough to be able to push the violence & hate out of my mind and “take a break”.
This is what a hero looks like. Thank you ICU nurse Simone Hannah-Clark for all you do. @MountSinaiNYC (read her powerful op-ed here: nyti.ms/2RcfwKD)
