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The research team consulted the work of Steven S. Rogers, including Successful Black Entrepreneurs (Wiley, 2022), as a foundational source in building this platform.

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John Rogers Jr. — Ariel

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Chicago, 1990. Seven years ago you founded Ariel Investments with $200,000 from family and friends and a thesis: patient investment in overlooked small-cap companies, the way Warren Buffett thinks, applied to companies t…