In this episode we have a very special guest Sergio Marrero, Managing Partner of Rebel One Ventures, he is a serial entrepreneur, founder, investor, TEDx speaker, and coach who graduated from the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He previously worked at PepsiCo, Teach For America, and the Deloitte Consulting Strategy Operations group. While in graduate school he conducted his thesis on venture studios and accelerating impact innovation at the intersection of business and government. He set up operations for two funds each raising $100M, produces a VC and CEO LiveStream Series called RBL1 Live and is Managing Director of Rebel One - a double bottom line investing fund and investor network accelerating rebels innovating for a better world. We have a very real and candid conversation around his view of VC funding for both investors and founders of color, why he believes there’s a lack of diversity and low percentages of access to funding for POC founders, and how his VC funding online programs are helping change those numbers. He gives us some of his book recommendations to get 1% better and he shares the advice he would give a younger Sergio Marrero if he could go back to the future.