Believe it or not, a time once existed when investors couldn’t look up the movement of any financial instruments without knowing only the first initial of the company name or ticker. As recently as the early 2000s, the majority of people still turned to the daily newspaper’s finance section to quickly scan PepsiCo’s (PEP) stock price on the Nasdaq.
With a family of brands and a culture of breaking down silos to enable career growth across segments, EchoStar has a track record of leaders who rose from individual contributors to have long, dynamic tenures.
The Boulder-based VC company is pledging to build relationships to invest in more black founders, and help the startups it invests in increase diversity in their boardrooms.
The startups will pitch their products, all aimed at increasing financial access to underserved communities, to investors in a demo day on October 8.
