Greed is out — Resilience & Collective Empowerment are in

My mother had a saying: “you don’t see us on our knees.” This is a Lakota value my mom learned growing up in South Dakota and passed down to me. What it means is that we identify what people need, and we try to meet their needs before they ask. We look out for each other. We don’t exploit other’s weaknesses for our self-gain. I’ve brought these values of kinship and generosity to my work with <a href="https://bit.ly/SkodenV" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Skoden Ventures</a>, and I’m troubled when I look at the current culture of venture financing, which seems to be driven mostly by greed and narcissism instead of mutual prosperity and compassion. <a href="https://medium.com/@skodenventures/greed-it-is-out-resilience-collective-empowerment-are-in-205eef0f9ebc">Read More</a>