They use their power and influence to explore ways of rewriting the rules that exclude people of color from accessing the necessary capital to scale their businesses and build wealth. As part of our research around the role of business ownership in providing wealth-building opportunities for Black and brown people, The B&B have helped us shed light on the fact that the barriers in access to capital and investor networks for founders of color are tightly connected to the lack of representation of Black and brown people at capital decision-making level.