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being black and ambitious is such a lonely path
timilehin
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timilehin
@strictlytmi
New York, NY
Joined October 2015
- i really wish more black people had the financial safety net to start a startup
- any black founders interested in a $500K check that requires moving to ny for a bit?
- my #1 goal in life is to give my future children the most insane nepotism boost ever seen by man
- lord this year pls deliver my ppl (african tech founders) from the spirit of building fintech startups
- any black founders wanna pitch to a group of 50 early stage vcs & angels next month?
- ppl don’t talk enough ab the hard part of being ambitious. working non-stop, always being tired, missing out on a lot of special moments, losing friends because ur too busy, and then on top of all that wondering if you'll ever reach ur goals
- sorry but $5K is actually a joke. i’ve spent the past two years raising donations from banks in the US so ik what their budgets can be like they should’ve added an extra zeroGoldman Sachs donates $5000 to Tunde Onakoya’s fundraiser ow.ly/X5us105q1M7
- VCs love telling black founders to get more traction and then backing white founders “in stealth” w no customers or product
- any black founders interested in a $70K equity free investment in their startup? like/comment for more info in ur dms
- the only way to survive being ambitious is to be resilient tbh bc u will obsessively insert urself in situations that have very low odds of success as if someone cursed u to pursue disappointment smh
- lord give me the confidence of a white male founder applying to YC w no product or revenue
