Bay Area small business grit and ingenuity on display at diverse founders celebration


Ask a small business owner what drove them to go out on their own instead of seek employment or advancement at their current gig and you might hear a range of answers, but probably none as amusing — or as brutally honest — as Emily Winston’s.

“I was just not a very good employee, to be honest,” Winston told a panel of diverse founders and a crowd of 100-plus at a recent event celebrating San Francisco Business Times diverse business owners List makers who are actively contributing to the…

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