“I never started out wanting to win 23 Grand Slams. I wanted to win the US Open, and then I made that scalable,” joked Serena Williams, managing partner of investment firm Serena Ventures, at SXSW.
Typically, panels made up of venture capitalists focus on profits and returns on investment. But with tennis legend Serena Williams as Reckitt Catalyst’s entrepreneur-in-residence, the conversation centered on how funding tech startups could drive tangible community impact.
Another panelist included Mika…

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