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Nicole Small

Nicole Small

Executive

Aug 5, 2026

20:48
Can you talk about like the origin story and sort of what happened there?
20:54
Yeah.
20:54
I mean, the quick story is I'd gotten kind of a dose of like what it was like to be an entrepreneur and start something by working with you guys and getting really passionate about startup life and getting passionate about like finding a business and something you could get really excited about.
21:08
And we had been those entrepreneurs in residence for a short period of time.
21:10
But in that time, like Erin said, like learning to review business plans, write them, think about what made a successful business, how do you scale an idea, all those things.
21:20
I moved back to Dallas, did some work for a local venture fund for a little while, and then ran into somebody who was chairman of the board of what was then the Museum of Natural History here in Dallas, who I had worked for when I'd been at McKinsey.
21:33
They had been a client of mine because I was the youngest, cheapest employee of the firm at the time.
24:27
So you then were poached from the museum and talk about where you landed and what you're doing there.

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