Thank you.
I do want to address the issue of biases, because that is true. A lot of the comments that I was hearing from my colleagues on the call were resonating with me, because we hear this as well.
The women entrepreneurs and founders go and prepare and do the work, and they have a profitable business, and then when they meet with investors, everybody at the capital table is a man. Women are not represented. It just perpetuates the cycle of biases in the investment decisions.
When you look at some of the efforts that we're making as an association, you'll see that they are to precisely tilt the balance at the decision-making table so that women are not just represented and are not just at the table but have power in making decisions, in having that investment allocation and in understanding the struggles of women entrepreneurs and are meeting women where they are. That's why some of our efforts actually seek to reduce those biases in the investment decisions, because biases are an issue. I think you will hear from the investor community as much as from the entrepreneurs that access to capital and making that pitch are challenges, for sure.
