Whitey Ford
08-06-2019, 03:31 AM
Atlanta’s black tech founders are changing entrepreneurship in America. Can they avoid Silicon Valley’s mistakes?
“Atlanta is just so black, like blackity-black,” says Iris Nevins, a 26-year-old software engineer for Mailchimp, the email-marketing platform. In February, she left the company’s Oakland, California, offices to join its Atlanta headquarters. “And I love that.”
Is it really a wonder, then, that technologists of color looking to launch or join an exciting new company would consider Atlanta—where trap music and Martin Luther King Jr. were born; Spelman and Morehouse colleges rise; a mayor named Keisha presides; Black Panther was produced and filmed; and more than half the population looks like you—a modern-day Wakanda? How long it can remain that way is another question.
Wakanda actually is real!
https://mailchimp.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwyqTqBRAyEiwA8K_4O0R1IYoecShBEi0_gj8 XL4KyXYXREZ53V0rVESYaZ-odwNwo0a9QXRoCREoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
https://www.fastcompany.com/90378268/atlantas-black-tech-founders-are-changing-entrepreneurship-in-america-can-they-avoid-silicon-valleys-mistakes?partner=feedburner&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feedburner+fastcompany&utm_content=feedburner
“Atlanta is just so black, like blackity-black,” says Iris Nevins, a 26-year-old software engineer for Mailchimp, the email-marketing platform. In February, she left the company’s Oakland, California, offices to join its Atlanta headquarters. “And I love that.”
Is it really a wonder, then, that technologists of color looking to launch or join an exciting new company would consider Atlanta—where trap music and Martin Luther King Jr. were born; Spelman and Morehouse colleges rise; a mayor named Keisha presides; Black Panther was produced and filmed; and more than half the population looks like you—a modern-day Wakanda? How long it can remain that way is another question.
Wakanda actually is real!
https://mailchimp.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwyqTqBRAyEiwA8K_4O0R1IYoecShBEi0_gj8 XL4KyXYXREZ53V0rVESYaZ-odwNwo0a9QXRoCREoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
https://www.fastcompany.com/90378268/atlantas-black-tech-founders-are-changing-entrepreneurship-in-america-can-they-avoid-silicon-valleys-mistakes?partner=feedburner&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feedburner+fastcompany&utm_content=feedburner