73: The Ins and Outs of Venture Capital w/ Marlon Nichols

<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Name:</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Marlon Nichols</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Current Title:</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Managing Partner,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">MaC Venture Capital</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>About Marlon:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">Marlon Nichols is a founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital (formerly known as Cross Culture Ventures), which finds the entrepreneurs who are building the future for the rest of America. He's a former Kauffman Fellow and Investment Director at Intel Capital, with an extensive background in technology, private equity, media, and entertainment. Marlon's unique eye for global trends and shifts in consumer behavior has helped him capture many high-potential investments, which include Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Thrive Market, Fair, LISNR, Mayvenn, Blavity, Pipe, Wonderschool, and other companies that reflect overlooked markets.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; color: #000000;">He serves on the board of directors for Ajua, Blavity, Finesse, Kauffman Fellows Program, LISNR, Ryff, Sote and Wonderschool. Marlon is the recipient of MVMT50's SXSW 2018 Innovator of the Year award, a 2018 nominee of the ADCOLOR in Tech award, Digital Diversity's Innovation & Inclusion Change Agent award, was named Pitchbook's 25 Black Founders and VCs to Watch in 2018 and 2019, was a TechWeek 100 winner and was named one of Silicon Republic's 26 VC professionals spearheading change. He's been featured on TechCrunch, Fortune, Blavity, and NBC, and is adjunct faculty in entrepreneurship and venture capital at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>DURING THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSSED:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style=