Arlan Hamilton (right) has helped build a community in venture that lifts up underrepresented groups. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for REVOLT)
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Arlan Hamilton has more than one way to measure her success. The founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital and founder of startup recruitment platform Runner has made a name for herself in venture capital through winning numerous awards and working herself out of poverty. But the only way Hamilton chooses to acknowledge her accomplishments is how they have allowed her to have a positive impact on others in her community. “I still get messages everyday where people are saying something I did three years ago helped them do ‘this,’ or even further back,” Hamilton tells For(bes) the Culture. “That’s the only metric that I can still feel. Money doesn’t make a…