The first Hack-A-Thon was not until
another two months, so I still had
never done a Hack-a-thon before.
All I knew was, I want to have a thousand
Of them in the first 5 years. and then be
able to help a billion people in the next
25.
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-"I'm good, man, I'm good. Like life is--"
"--Life feels like it's getting back
on track right now."
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I would say things are definitely hectic
on my end. Trying to uh, keep my head my
head above water. But you know,
But you know, I'm
And sharing another great entreprantl story
Yeah man, this thing just hit me
out of nowhere.
plenty of fluids and much rest.
Today's episode, we're going to be talking
to...
he just brings a lot of creative minds
together.
the good work he's doing there.
So, you know,
Yeah, and you know
Such as google, coca cola, ford
You know, a lot of great companies and he
actually, uh, shares some of different
some of these anecdotes about how
just a variety of different topics
Um, it's basically like
The ways of making your process scalable.
where it saves you time and money
Yeah, yeah
That's something that Joey's been, uh,
passionate about.
Hit subscribe right now. Not later, but
right now. You're starting to sound like an
I love it, I love it.
Let's get into the show, bro.
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The first time, uh
We had some technical difficulties
Not a problem.
I'm happy to have you on the show.
McDonalds did a spotlight on you for Black
History Month
The community assembly
You're doing your thing
Just helping people find a way to carve
out a path
When I was living in Atlanta Georgia
Where it's focused on
There's just a lot of gems
But before, before we do that
What is that one Hip Hop song that gets
you hyped up for that
It changes man. You know,
what I'm saying?
So, uh, recently
It's not a recent song, I'd say
That's been my kick
So, you know let's get right into it,
you know,
Black History Month was last month.
That was definitely
because you have two different companies
that you're currently working on
which one did you start working on first?
Okay, well
What were the
Yeah, so, as I kinda alluded to
After I graduated and did it full time.
Yada, Yada, Yada.
Long story shirt: in the process of
How to raise money, so on and so forth
How to be better by using these philosophies
Trying to like, I realize
I didn't know what I was going to do
Eventually I landed on
people in underserved areas all around
the country.
All this amazing stuff that was free.
Cause I read so much.
And I needed a better way to distribute
the content that I was reading all the
A lot of like
Was there a common thing that they kept
asking
The major thing was funding
That wasn't my wheelhouse.
Or take care of the same expenses
so again, you're going to raise money
to spend
If you're going to spend it on something
Well, I'll I'll tell you
So, at the same time I was putting this
Facebook group together.
Honestly, they let me do the events
and then they're like
Why don't you just do these events for us?
Yada Yada Yada
Free alcohol, free food, free admission,
free celebrity dj.
And that's the first time the group had
And I saw all the
Across multiple generations
Wow. What if we used this type of
environment to raise money for the
You kind of take their talent
So that was really one of my first
My ability to pull together really
talented people.
You just provided a clear
but, I mean, but from that
what I was actually trying to pitch.
Finding out what people really care about
I learned a lot.
and applying them in a non-tech way.
But, yeah, it's proved to be real
successful
Aw, man.
To make a long story short
they often say, some people believe in God
Was calling to use this facebook group
for good, right?
figure out how I'm gonna help out
Cause I got a great opportunity.
It wasn't until October
That would bring more people of color
into the ecosystem.
One of which was for
And so at that point.
But I had this idea
it's a great way to
I did it. The first one was on March
It wasn't like a throw down the
My first thought was
Then my second thought was
I took it as a challenge and
Why should they get involved
What happens there that makes
If I do like a hashtag of myself
I would put
So when you come to our stuff
More like a house party.
20 or 30 people there.
Good up tempo music.
It's just not people of color.
To help out people who need it the most
Very talented people with a very fun
Yeah, that definitely sounds like a
I was just gonna say
If you think back to college or high
school or something like that.
You bs, you wait
Just imagine you never even talk
You might have
And then you gotta present it in front
of every
You throw people together for 2 days
maybe 3 days
That sounded like
I drink a lot of energy drinks
It was fun, though.
We have weekend
We have demo days
It's all
When did you start knowing that you could
How did you identify
We first started
Our thesis
It's just that whole ecosystem of change
Change was going unmade
Instead of creating new non-profits.
It was just one day
Anybody would even come out.
More work needed to be done, outside of
just the
Okay, so maybe we'll do
And then we give everyone the teams
So that's the one that we had at google
This team still did not
The events are cool, great energy.
And so now, to make a long story short
Coming up with an innovative idea
Ideas or solutions
The second event is
Then volunteer marketers
They come up with
About a month after that
So, basically within the span of six months.
Build a product.
Hype around it
Move it better
Right there that's
Even the business motto.
Is it the final presentation
pitching their ideas
I mean, yeah...you have some investors
So a lot of investors don't really know
Yeah, yeah. It's a tough deal.
And we're learning , we're learning still.
Just pitching it was definitely
In that, we start to have
Have you seen that sort of support from
I'll be interested to see
Yeah, people are still figuring out
People our generation