Building a Media Empire for the Black Millennial with Morgan DeBaun of Blavity

Today’s guest is Morgan DeBaun, Founder and CEO of Blavity, the leading media company for Black culture and millennials. This conversation is jam-packed with Morgan’s top learnings building Blavity and her valuable advice for female founders around topics like growth hacks to reach your first million users, using your emotions as a motivator, managing the added weight female founders carry in the public sphere, building your early team, switching your mindset from founder to CEO, and much more. Morgan shares her thoughts on the pandemic’s impact on the future of media, what it will take to bring lasting racial change to the industry, and her vision for Blavity’s future.

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