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. External links