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Empowering the Underdog and Making Dreams into Reality with Armond Davis (EP 8)
- 2023/08/02
- 再生時間： 52 分
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Guest Bio:Armond is the founder and Managing Partner of The Paragon Group, a private equity and venture capital firm, which invests primarily in pre-seed and seed stage businesses with ethnically diverse or female founders. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Florida A&M University with an MBA in Finance in 2002. In 2019, Davis received his second Master’s degree when he obtained an MS in Commercial Real Estate Investment from Georgia State University. Davis is heavily involved in community leadership in Metro Atlanta. He is an alum of the United Way’s Volunteer Involvement Program as well as the leadership programs of the Urban Land Institute and the Atlanta Regional Commission. He has served on the Board of Directors of the 100 Black Men of Atlanta, the largest and most influential Black mentoring organization in the city.Follow Armond on LinkedInArmond's Website: https://www.armonddavis.com/The Paragon Group: https://www.paragoninvestmentfund.com/ Follow Adventureous on social media!YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5lX5kd6h2T1e4J818ljNElOpW84hwjFLLinkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/genevievelemarchal/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/genevievelemarchal/ Transcript:(00:00) Hi adventurers we're back this episode I am thrilled to introduce you to Armond Davis of the Paragon group he has an incredible story to share he has amazing expertise to share with you and I cannot wait to dive into his amazing wisdom but before we get started I'd love to tell you a little bit about family family(00:24) helps you take control of your fertility Journey couples are waiting longer to start families nowadays and that brings a lot of challenges with it so with family gone are the days of trying for months until you can visit your OB-GYN about fertility challenges only to be sent straight to invasive and expensive(00:42) IVF treatments that often aren't necessary surprisingly so family offers you the opportunity to access fertility treatments through Telehealth at home labs and customized protocols at home and get prescriptions and all the things that you might need before you go to IVF so we can take control women can treat(01:01) critical hormonal imbalances ovulation challenges that they often aren't even aware is impacting their fertility putting the power back into the hands of the couple so Adventures podcast listeners can use the code adventurous make sure you check the spelling for a hundred dollars off your family fertility program you can find the link(01:21) to learn more about family and get this offer it will be in the show notes or on our website at adventurous cast.com so all right Armond you're here yay I'm so happy to be here I love the conversations that we have had offline looking forward to having another great one here today likewise yes we met(01:42) through the Sutton Capital little Community which is very yes I've met some great people there so far so I'm excited to meet more so share a little about yourself our mom has a very interesting background because he like all these C's didn't come into VC but quote unquote typical way I don't even think there is a typical way but so(02:01) share a little bit about where you came from tell us about your journey and what inspired you to become not just a venture capital investor but the type of person who is a venture capital investor that you are that's a that I have never had the question phrased that way well yeah it makes you know it makes(02:22) you think about it from a different perspective but you know as you said nobody comes to venture to the traditional way there's just a handful of people who actually came out of business school worked at a big BC fire did deals on behalf of that firm and then just left and raised the fund and started doing their own firm a lot of us(02:43) come from different places so I'm no different I was born and raised in St Louis and loved my family and left my childhood growing up I went down to Florida a University for to get both my undergrad and my MBA in finance and then after that moved to Atlanta I worked for Goldman Sachs for a while I(03:05) worked at SunTrust Bank for a while as well which is now truest but around 2005 or so I started to really think about what I wanted to do for myself and so it was that was really the in Patterson meeting in the beginning of a really long journey so my first instinct was what I wanted to do was start a hedge(03:32) funds was 2005 2006 I was getting really into technical analysis and I saw this huge Head and Shoulders top forming and I said you know what I really should I should leave and I should start hedge fund and I should short the market and a moment of true and really a moment of doubt I really thought to myself at the time(03:55) you know I was 27 years old nobody's going to give 27 year old black man that doesn't have an Ivy League education 20 million dollars so if you can short the market and all coming off one of ...