Our business everyday is to make money for people. And I take it as seriously as doctors who are trying to cure cancer, because by giving people financial freedom, we allow them to do great things in their lives - from retire to send their kids to college, to buy their first house, to fund a business that they might want to start.
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Mellody Hobson
Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
United States · b. 1969
Business and finance
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Joined Ariel Investments in 1991 and became its president in 2000 and co-chief executive in 2019. She has chaired the boards of DreamWorks Animation and Starbucks.
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We cannot afford to be color blind. We have to be color brave. We have to be willing, as teachers and parents and entrepreneurs and scientists, we have to be willing to have proactive conversations about race with honesty and understanding and courage, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the smart thing to do, because our businesses and our products and our science, our research, all of that will be better with greater diversity.
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