"Being a successful founder is having an unshakeable resilience and relentlessness": Interview with HomeHeros founder and CEO Kenny Alegbe
Summary
Think of it like a home manager – taking care of all the household tasks and admin nobody really enjoys, leaving more time for the things that really matter. I come from a legal and finance background and, like a lot of young people of my generation, I studied hard and found myself in the corporate world working at a bank, in asset management and most recently at a hedge fund. This entrepreneurial journey stemmed from a personal experience of a property transaction that I found painful, time consuming and clumsy to navigate. Understanding, recognising and dealing with the challenges of being a BAME founder and using it to build positive momentum is the way to move forward and initiate change. Black entrepreneurs need to challenge the system, the role of Venture Capitalists is to back winners and as is human nature we pattern match.