Ellevest's founder thinks business opportunities are may come from loose connections more often than close friends

Ellevest founder Sallie Krawcheck says business opportunities are more likely to come from loose connections than close friends

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00:00for whom it's their first visit to a Fortune next-gen conference, these could

00:06well be the two most important days of the year because I'll tell you for me

00:12having I was actually the thank you you're welcome she did not pay me to say

00:16this but I was actually you remember you and I were the first conference

00:20together I know and in 1999 back a while ago but when I look at my funders whether

00:27it is Melody Hobson who's the CEO of Ariel Capital president president of

00:33Ariel she and I actually had the first discussion about Ellevest two years ago

00:38at the first fortune next-gen conference in San Francisco Karen

00:41Feinerman who's another of our funders met at a fortune most powerful women's

00:46conference probably three years ago Teresa Gao who's an investor she and I

00:51met at a fortune most powerful women's conference I mean it really is one after

00:56the other these connections that we make whether it's here at other places

01:00as they say because it's true your next business opportunity is much more likely

01:07to come from a loose connection than from a good friend of yours or from

01:10someone you're in business with because you've got different interests you know

01:14different things these connections are enormously powerful have been for me