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CIE Lecture Series - Ross Baird

Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 4:15 – 5:30 PM EDT
https://urichmond.zoom.us/j/81547619289
CIE Lecture Series - Ross Baird

Ross Baird, author of The Innovation Blind Spot, and co-founder of Village Capital whose mission is to reinvent the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future, in a future where business builds equity and long-term prosperity.

Baird is an entrepreneur and investor who is best known for finding, developing, and investing in entrepreneurs in places and industries where most people aren’t looking. He founded Village Capital in 2009 and has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs in over fifty countries since then. He has visited over a hundred cities worldwide by train, plane, and bus to find new entrepreneurs and help people supporting them, and he and Village Capital have partnered with over twenty Fortune 500 companies to help large institutions uncover new innovations. Before joining Village Capital, Ross worked for a venture capital firm and was on the founding team of four different startups.

Ross and his work have been featured by more than fifty media outlets including the New York Times, Bloomberg Business Week, Inc., and FastCompany. He has also lectured in entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia since 2012. He has a MPhil from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a BA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Truman Scholar and a Jefferson Scholar.

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