Jessica O. Matthews

Jessica O. Matthews is a Nigerian-American inventor, Founder, CEO and venture capitalist. She is the co-founder of Uncharted, which made Soccket, a soccer ball that can be used as a portable power generator. Matthews attended Harvard College and graduated from Harvard Business School.

Quotes

• Luck is laboring under correct knowledge
• The trick to thinking big is to think small. Especially when you don’t really know where something’s going to go. We assume we have to have a plan fully baked out before we can launch something—but that’s not how life works.
• Maybe it’s actually good for the world to see that we’re not just magical. We’re actually just incredibly pragmatic, hard-working people. I want us to stop being so safe.
• The world is not a fixed porcelain structure. It is clay. And that’s it. There’s always a way to create something that works for you.
• Enough Black women need to fall. I want us to stop being so safe. Let us look not so magical. We’re not going to move forward exponentially until we start taking some risks.
• I use business, not as an end, but as a tool to have an impact. I treat God as my biggest investor.
• Make money, do well, drive things forward. But as a person can you look yourself in the mirror? Are you creating a better world for people?

Jessica O. Matthews said in Take Your Shot episode 2

• I have the ability to not see the world as it is but to see the world as it should be. That’s something that would not have happened not only if I wasn’t just Nigerian American, but if I wasn’t a woman of color.

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