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