This is devastating. I met Leila Janah for all of 5 minutes once and I was blown away by her. It stuck in my mind because of how accomplished and beautiful she was yet so genuine and sincere. Such a rare kind of person. What a loss. techcrunch.com/2020/01/24/sam…

Now that hip-hop is no longer seen as a threat, the way it was when I was growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, it’s become the default ambiance in the kinds of high-end spaces that include few Black people." bit.ly/2O3E0nD

How do we make Silicon Valley more inclusive? Maybe the answer is to start somewhere else. I’m excited to announce #GETCities, a new initiative to develop inclusive tech hubs in three U.S. cities over the next five years. m-gat.es/2GHhPjn

Well. I’ll never work for Uber after sharing this. But, yeah agreed.

Amazing initiative by Melinda French Gates to develop and inclusive Chicago tech hub

And here’s what has me both sad and mad. After saying how great the company was he said and I quote verbatim. “We just invested in another black female founder last year, so I don’t think we’ll do another deal until later this year- when are you raising.” I was shocked.

This really isn’t a joke

I went to an obscure hearing today in the Danish Parliament. It blew my mind, not because of the substance, but because the US Congress has totally warped my view of hearings. And I’m just dorky enough to do a thread about it. 1

Mike Bloomberg getting 22% support among black Democrats in Qs latest national poll, just behind Biden's 27%, is a phenomenon the progressive commentary class is entirely incapable of comprehending.

A lot of hot takes on Credit Karma today. I'll add my own: Ken, our CEO, went from living on food stamps and listening to family argue about money to building a $7B company over 13 years. Grit and building products to solve real problems pays off.

I’ve actually been looking into Realme as an affordable android device alongside my IPhone. This looks impressive.

The Post Office was always embattled in the South because it was one of the few places where black people could get jobs that were well-paying. Many whites resented it because it was a way out of blacks working in service to them for little pay.

Dr. Oz is a danger to public health. There's no other way to put it.

LIBERATE SOME TESTS AND PPE.

Zoom has reached 300M daily users. It doesn’t take much imagination to see them reach 1B users, and changing how the world communicates forever.

Until you know how to get customers, every second you spend on your product is wasted time. And that’s the fundamental truth of entrepreneurship that most new startups and their founders don’t understand.

Myka Stauffer and her husband James adopted a boy from China and exploited him for Youtube clout. But when he got older they found him a new “forever home” like a puppy that outgrew its welcome and not an actual human being. White people must stop treating us like their own dogs.