Rosalind Brewer of Walgreens Boots Alliance and Thasunda Brown Duckett of TIAA are two Black women who are running Fortune 500 businesses for the first time simultaneously.
The survey includes only CEOs who have served at least two full fiscal years at their companies, in order to avoid the distortions of big sign-on bonuses
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Peter Pham says investors need to stop talking about backing female-founded companies and start writing checks.
In 2020, companies with all-female founder teams nabbed only 2.4% of all venture capital invested.
Pham says it s not that hard. One-third of founders backed by his VC firm, Science, are women.
Peter Pham is known as a gifted hype man for talking up startups he s invested in when they need to raise funding.
He s used to doing it on the dance floor at conferences and over dinner. But in the last year, Pham, a founding partner of VC firm Science, has more often shared upcoming deals with his network of investors over email.