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Anousheh Ansari, CEO of XPRIZE Foundation
Category: Business
Duration: 01:06:41
Publish Date: 2020-12-01 09:30:00
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About this episode

A guiding principle of this show is to bring authenticity and transparency to the entrepreneurial journey. This includes highlighting the challenges that female founders have to overcome to build their enterprises--challenges male founders don’t have to deal with. I’ve also tried to get an equal amount of female and male guests, which hasn’t proved easy. This week’s guest Anousheh Ansari helped me understand why.

Anousheh is the CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation. Prior to her being named CEO, though, she was the co-founder of an IoT technology firm, the first private female space explorer, the first astronaut of Iranian descent, and the first Muslim woman in space. Anousheh understands deeply the systemic biases female founders must endure to bring their vision to the market.

After our conversation, I had a deeper understanding of the unstated biases that female founders have to navigate as well as how those biases have curbed the ambitions of those female founders. It is so critical for us to elevate that story, so turn into this discussion on the biases that have to cleansed across generations.

In this episode, you'll hear.

  • Anousheh’s perspective as an immigrant entrepreneur.
  • How she went from working at MCI to founding a technology startup with her husband.
  • Her internal wrestling with her direction and purpose.
  • Her exit strategy success and how that was viewed by her family.
  • What XPRIZE is and why it exists.
  • What she is doing to help solve the problem of female-founded companies being underfunded.
  • How we can get a greater influx of female-founded companies.
  • Where female founders can go to find funds from people who look at it differently than male founders.

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XPRIZE’s Website: http://www.xprize.org

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