By CNNMoney Staff @CNNMoney June 5, 2015: 3:08 PM ET
Tristan Walker
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Walker, 30 launched Walker and Company Brands, a health and beauty startup geared toward people of color. He also co-founded nonprofit CODE2040, which pairs black and Latino engineering students with summer internships in Silicon Valley.
Best advice:
It came from Tyler Perry.
He told me that the trials you go through as an entrepreneur and the blessings you receive are the exact same things. Those trials are lessons you can learn from, and those learnings are blessings. That advice has stuck with me for quite some time.
