It's About Damn Time

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It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage
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Author Arlan Hamilton
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
Publisher Penguin Random House
Publication date
2020
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN 978-0-593-13641-6

It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage is a 2020 American book written by Arlan Hamilton with Rachel L. Nelson. It's About Damn Time is "an empowering guide to finding your voice, working your way into any room you want to be in, and achieving your own dreams". [1]

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Overview

Arlan Hamilton is an investor and the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital. In 2015, Hamilton founded Backstage Capital, a fund that invests in underestimated founders: women, people of color, and members of the LGBT community. [2] To date, Backstage Capital has invested in more than 180 startups. [2]

The book's title refers to Hamilton's 2018 launch of a $36 million fund earmarked for companies founded by Black women. "They like to call it a diversity fund," Hamilton said, announcing the fund at the United State of Women Summit. "I call it the about damn time fund." [3]

Release

It's About Damn Time was first published in the United States by Penguin Random House in hardcover and e-book formats on May 5, 2020. An audiobook release narrated by Hamilton herself was released simultaneously. [4]

Reception

It's About Damn Time was named one of the 10 Best Business Books of The Year by Fortune . [5]

References

  1. "It's About Damn Time by Arlan Hamilton, Rachel L. Nelson: 9780593442708 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  2. 1 2 "Front page". Backstage Capital. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
  3. Clarke, Caroline (2020-05-01). "About Damn Time! Arlan Hamilton's New Book is Filled with Crisis Advice". Black Enterprise. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  4. Hamilton, Arlan (2020). It's about damn time : how to turn being underestimated into your greatest advantage. Rachel L. Nelson. New York. ISBN   978-0-593-13641-6. OCLC   1140374394.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. "The 10 best business books of 2020". Fortune. Retrieved 2022-02-19.

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