Eventually, it all comes together when you expand your horizon to focus on the big picture of your empire goals. That is what happened with the Manufactured Solution, all these years it took months before we are officially launching we manifest our namesake and didn’t realize we were going in this direction. Our process is actually the name of our firm – we manufacture solutions.

Our platforms from Stony|Ellis to View the Vista to Merchant and the Flow look deceptively simple – you just enter data in a few fields to establish your digital enterprise, your story campaign, or your merchant product service system.  But that is not where the magic begins – it is when we take your information to the marketplace, learn from your operation and others, and quickly machine-learn against real-world data points to optimize your enterprise. The best comparison is robo-advisors for your retirement or investment portfolio where they ask you a few questions and then bots begin to work on your behalf using known strategies and techniques to work in your best interest.

I have shown more than enough online here at Dream and Hustle and elsewhere that we are real and there is no hype. This is why you don’t see me out there at conferences or running my mouth in public talking about what we going to release because I didn’t want to be seen as some charlatan pushing a wild idea. Instead, I worked with my global team diligently and we just put in that work and kept true to the game to deliver a product, a service that will create value for our customers.

The nice thing about our infrastructure is the creation of an extensive global network hub system designed for massive scalability and growth. We have media servers set up at data centers around the world to create edge servers near the markets we want to serve. It will be easy for us to flip on South Africa, flip on Germany or flip on South Korea as our market and demand growth happens globally.  We can scale up and scale down API servers, message queues, and parallel processing. All of this was in the original vision of creating a global-scale enterprise firm that I can invoice all around the world and accept multiple currencies, including crypto.  We got this enabled and this is the exciting part.

What was bittersweet was my original intent was this solution was meant to empower the Black community I grew up in and saw the challenges and roadblocks and gatekeepers trying to hold us back. This whole solution was designed to make it easy to ramp up digital-first businesses in high-density urban communities to create a new economic paradigm. I traveled the world, extensively in Japan to learn more about how to bring back good patterns and practices and most of our solutions are based in Japan. I was excited about the possibilities to transform Black life as we know it and to bring these solutions home, to my community and other Black communities.

But the Black community acted shitty and disrespectful towards me – they over there following charlatans making a mockery of the real hard work and personal investment I was putting in. Then I got Black people coming up to me smiling in my face then wanting to bring up some nonsense about they know someone doing what I’m doing – notice they always have a third-party strawman but cannot speak on their own capabilities. They want to act dumb and stupid – they avoided this blog, and they avoided my message to act like they not seeing or knowing what I was doing. When they are confronted, they say this is all theory despite I have been a real certified and recognized professional in my field for almost 25 years.

You and I know Black folks standing over there waiting for some mainstream recognition of Ed Dunn then they come running over here talking about some “Hey Ed!” stuff – Nah, they can go somewhere because this is all bittersweet. Wasn’t there while I was grinding and instead, they acted funny. Meanwhile, rich Asians, rich Indians, rich Arabs, rich Latinos, and other groups came to me genuinely and told me they were excited about what I’m working on. I’m sitting here looking at my own people, broke and gaslighting me as if they are on par with the new money global emerging population coming up in the world, withholding praise when I got good people around the world supporting what I was doing. Something had to change.  

I’m sitting here with a global team, I’m realizing we got a major market opportunity in Southeast Asia and Latin America metropolitan areas. I got peers and friends all over the world who worked with me in tech and who said what I’m doing is cool. I had to sit there and realize I’m chasing this racial identity goal in an idealistic fashion but the reality is my people are disrespecting and being dismissive of a brotha or trying to hold back hoping they can knock me down or gaslight me to self-doubt. But there was an obvious belief that kept me going.

I truly believed our solution will create value and improve lives and livelihoods. I knew my customer base was entrepreneurs all around the world, that’s who I want as a customer. I knew my talent and capabilities and knew how to make it happen and make it happen fast. I simply believed in myself and saw who my customers really are and am happy these are going to the people I’m creating value for.

In addition, I want to add this – I want to thank all the Asian women who came into my life and supported my business. In a future article, I’m going to share a letter from one of my Asian girlfriends who supported and encouraged my business and told me she was happy for me and excited about my venture. I never got that kind of love and support from my own sistas.  I’m not going to ignore or be politically correct around folks who didn’t support what I was doing over these ladies who came into my life and personally supported what I have done and showed it. Translating for me in Asia and so on. She going to get all the credit and the credit is deserved.

This journey wasn’t about just work, it was about realizing something I was never taught how to grow. See, I grew up like most of you where folks raised me to focus on so-called family, so-called same friends I grew up with, and the so-called same hood where I’m from. But what I really discovered in life is that you are actually supposed to go out in this world, meet new people, see new places, experience new things and leave the past behind and keep growing forward.

I’m excited about the possibility of moving our firm to Dubai and the people I met in Dubai were awesome. I’m excited about going back to Tokyo and helping cultivate the crypto and NFT space there with other entrepreneurs.  I’m meeting a lot of new people, going to see new things and new possibilities are just coming up with our platform to create new lines of businesses to pursue more profit opportunities. I’m also happy to reach out to the Early Adopters with a dedicated newsletter this week to get them on board our platform and start manufacturing solutions.

Everything is real, no more delays and we got it out there. Time to roll.