Bonin Bough became a C-level executive at a Fortune 50 company by age 36 and was hand-picked by LeBron James to host CNBC's "Cleveland Hustles," where he evaluated entrepreneurs on-air, giving him an unusual combination of senior corporate experience and public pressure-testing skills that most venture investors lack. At Lockstep Ventures, he co-founded the firm specifically to close the racial wealth gap through a four-pillar framework targeting education reform, criminal justice reform, healthcare outcomes, and financial literacy, while being comfortable backing businesses that aim for strong 20-25x returns rather than only hunting for 100x unicorn outcomes.