Ep 49: The Community Fund’s Lolita Taub on investing in community-driven companies

<p>Lolita Taub has always been about community, from her upbringing in South Central LA to now at The Community Fund, which is a venture capital fund that invests in community-driven companies, “connecting people to people and resources to achieve results.”&nbsp;</p><br><p>By day, Lolita is the Corporate Development VP at Catalyte, but on breaks or weekends, she is an operator-investor, looking for those unicorns of the future. She believes these companies will “have customers that identify as members where members have a space to create value for each other, and then start this marketing sales flywheel.”</p><br><p>Listen for Lolita’s ideas of the expensive side of building a customer base and how “only good things can come out of” involving customers into building a company, such as lifetime value, retention, sales leads, and talent acquisition, among other benefits.</p><br><p>Also, don’t miss Lolita and David discussing <a href="https://www.notion.so/Startup-Investor-Matching-Tool-96826ae3549a434e952f6b266a8b9e0f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the startup investor matching tool</a> that began last year right on Twitter, and how COVID has changed how we build relationships.</p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>