Mellody Hobson: Investing when everyone else panics | Rapid Response
About Mellody
- Co-CEO of Ariel Investments, first Black-owned U.S. asset manager
- Chairs Starbucks board; former chair of DreamWorks
- Board member at JPMorgan Chase
- Launched Project Level to invest in women's sports
- TED speaker and author of bestselling children's money book
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When markets drop and chaos hits, Mellody Hobson is determined to be brave. The co-CEO of Ariel Investments and former chair of Starbucks and DreamWorks joins Rapid Response to make the case that volatility isn’t something to survive but to exploit. She shares the financial lessons she lives by, including a surprising admonition against making choices based on money, and why she sees women’s sports as the investment opportunity of a generation. Plus, why math has no opinion, and how that changes everything.
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