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00:00Today on Forbes, Forbes 50 over 50, meet the women winning life's second half.

00:08When Miriam Rivera was born in 1964 to a pair of Puerto Rican migrant farmers in Dunkirk,

00:13New York, women in the United States could not get a credit card or mortgage without

00:18a male cosigner.

00:20Although the Civil Rights Act was signed that year, which prohibits discrimination on the

00:25basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, Wall Street was still three years

00:30away from seeing its first female member of the New York Stock Exchange.

00:36Sixty years later, Rivera is thriving as the co-founder and CEO of Ulu Ventures, a Palo

00:42Alto-based venture capital firm with $400 million in assets under management and a portfolio

00:48that includes 10 current or recently exited unicorns.

00:53Rivera says that her personal journey, from a free lunch kid learning English from watching

00:57Sesame Street to Silicon Valley power broker, is reflected in her investing philosophy.

01:04Rivera says, quote,

01:05I'm really looking for those long shots because in a power law distributed world, it's really

01:10the few that will generate a lot of profitability.

01:14Rivera is one of the 200 all-new members of our fourth annual 50 over 50 list, published

01:21just last week.

01:22The list is a collection of women who, like Rivera, have careers that are hitting powerful

01:27peaks during life's second half.

01:30Produced in partnership with MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski and her Know Your Value initiative,

01:35the 50 over 50 highlights women doing their most innovative, impactful work at age 50,

01:4160, 70, and beyond.

01:44The list is divided into four broad categories, impact, innovation, investment, and lifestyle.

01:51Within each are dozens of subsectors, including architecture, fintech, food, even robotics.

01:58Peggy Johnson, the 62-year-old CEO of Agility Robotics, an Oregon-based startup that has

02:04raised $180 million in venture financing, has forged a unique over 50 career.

02:11She was Satya Nadella's first hire when he took over Microsoft in 2014 and became known

02:16as the company's, quote, chief dealmaker after she led the company's $26 billion acquisition

02:22of LinkedIn two years later.

02:25From 2020 until last year, she ran augmented reality company Magic Leap.

02:30Her new outfit, Agility Robotics, makes humanoid robots, which are easier to integrate into

02:36existing workplaces.

02:38This summer, Agility deployed its first robot with GXO Logistics, a spinoff of supply chain

02:43giant XPO, to handle repetitive tasks like moving products onto conveyors.

02:50Like Rivera, Johnson points to her upbringing as a key to her success.

02:55She's the second youngest in a family of 15 kids.

02:58She says, quote,

02:59It was hard anyway to get a word in edgewise, as you might imagine, and so I became a listener,

03:04and that has been one of the areas that I was able to leverage in my management roles

03:08over the years and then my CEO roles.

03:12Dawn Staley, who headlines this year's 50 over 50 impact category for her work on and

03:18off the basketball court, first made a name for herself as a point guard at the University

03:23of Virginia and then professionally for a string of WNBA teams, including the Charlotte

03:28Sting and the Houston Comets.

03:31She's in the Hall of Fame, as in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, not just

03:35the WNBA Hall of Fame, though she's in that too.

03:39And for a while, she couldn't imagine leaving her playing days behind.

03:43Now at 54 years old, she has realized that her record of excellence as a player is helping

03:48her teach the next generation of basketball talent.

03:51Staley has become one of the most successful coaches in the NCAA, having guided the University

03:56of South Carolina Gamecocks to three national championships since she took over as head

04:01coach in 2008.

04:03The most recent title, which she notched in April, capped a 38-0 perfect season.

04:10Another listee this year, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who is 51 years old, says, quote,

04:17The reason why I think this is extraordinary is because when I was young, I always wanted

04:21to be in that 30 under 30.

04:22I never was.

04:24And I thought, oh, my chance to be in one of those cool things has passed.

04:28But look at me now.

04:29I'm 50 over 50.

04:31It's fantastic.

04:34For full coverage, and to see our whole 50 over 50 list, again just published last week,

04:39check out Maggie McGrath's piece on Forbes.com.

04:44This is Kieran Meadows from Forbes.

04:46Thanks for tuning in.

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