Do you know what I love about the tech industry? It’s an industry where people try to act like they special, establish their own clique/status quo, and makeup rules to determine success only to get outdone up and compromised by some 15-year East European living in a poor village. When I started my first Internet business in 1996, I was paying a teenage dude 6-figures to code CGI/Perl scripts for my e-commerce clients because no one else has the talent in that area. In other words, revolution and talent and creative destruction come from unexpected places, not dogma.

I have watched some Black clowns who are trying to create a niche in the global technology landscape as some “Black in Tech” and bragging about being Venture Capitalists or bragging about being funded by Venture Capitalists or they created a mobile app and other stuff. The top of mind is Blavity AfroTech but it’s more roachy characters trying to ride the “Black in Tech” wave. Noticed what I stated in the original sentence “global technology landscape” and we got Black folks trying to established themselves as being important in this tech industry based on their own made-up criteria of Black identity.

The real world does not work like that in tech and let me give some talking points because I’m the real one in this game. Trust me, they know who Ed Dunn is and they lurk like roaches and flies on the wall and they stay quiet. You’ll see a fool open their mouth once in a while but they’ll get put in their place ASAP, they know to shut up around Ed Dunn and the real original one in this game. Let me explain what the problems are with the Black in tech nonsense:

Cannot Afford Top Tech Talent.  

To be competitive in the tech space, you need elite tech talent and you have to afford to pay them. Black in tech are broke clowns looking for the cheapest HBCU tech talent to BS around and not offer lucrative stock options or bonus pay or a competitive salary – typical Black-owned firm BS work environment just like a Black radio station or Black ad agency. I can get elite tech talent to work for me because people know who I am around this world within the real industry – not these goofy clowns lurking and talking in social media comment sections.

I read graduates' dissertation papers just like Apple and Alphabet and Microsoft CEO and reach out to them – Tristan Walker goofy lame-ass don’t do stuff like that. That’s an important point – Tristan Walker brags about himself too much and he doesn’t have talent; no real tech talent going to work for a self-promoting fool like Tristan Walker when tech talent can write their own ticket anywhere in this world like Wall Street, Silicon Valley or Shenzhen offering top dollars.

So that already limits Tristan Walker mediocre behind from ever making any kind of moves because he cannot hire top talent nor Mr. Walker got the chops to garner the interest of one. I can afford top talent because of my skills because if I offer stock options, they coming to talk to Ed, trust that because they know I’m taking it there.

No Continuous Improvement.

This is the biggest and obvious giveaway. Look at how fast entrepreneurs in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Lithuania, Ukraine, Singapore blew up in the past 5-7 years with literally little to nothing in funding but were in hot ecosystems. Now, look at those Black in tech clowns getting VC funding several years ago and look at how lame they still are today in 2021.

The reason why Black in tech has not progressed is you do not see continuous improvement in practice. Continuous improvement is a 4–6-week cycle and we seeing Tristan Walker 4-6 years later still using White media to promote a narrative about his lame ass. Look at the rest of the Blavity AfroTech including Blavity itself, still on an outdated Buzzfeed-style clickbait content model focusing on delayed ad revenue to pay their bills, relying on social media platforms for likes and clickthrough.

I have a true Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery workflow in place and we build at least 20 new features/fixes a day, constantly improving our product. I have a true Agile process from backlogging and prioritizing to getting feedback on what we can do better after each sprint.

Black in tech do not do this – if they have done this, we would have seen visible growth and improvement from Black in tech but we don’t – all we see is some lame one-time releases and spending more time trying to be profiled in garbage TechCrunch or Black Enterprise Magazine.

Not Operating on a Global-Scale.

As a tech company in the 21st century, you have to be engineered as global first, meaning you need your application/platform to quickly accommodate global growth. This means new languages, new global cultures such as date/time format and move your platforms to co-locations around the world which are known as “edge” engineering, close to global locations.

Black in tech relies on catering to a monolithic English-only Black identity persona and that’s where we know they going nowhere special – only 200 million market and a few Africans and Afro-Europeans at best as their critical mass market. Notice Ed Dunn and Dream and Hustle talk and act Blacker than any of them being from the West Side of Chicago – notice I got people from all over the world following my platforms – go check the receipts.

All of our platforms are designed for global scale and to enter markets around the world quickly and designed furthermore for Black folks to quickly engage in business with folks around the world quickly. The Black in Tech folks just trying to present themselves around other Black folks. They want to buy a Rolls Royce Phantom and drive it around in a Black neighborhood – that’s their weak-ass mindset that has nothing to do with building a 21st-century global empire. They want to talk about billionaires but cater only to Black folks because, in reality, they limited in just want to impress the Black folks around them and cannot scale to the global economy.

Black in Tech Cannot Scale

Those three factors I just mentioned are why Ed Dunn never worried about any of those clowns at Blavity AfroTech or these Black VC clowns for a second. I saw immediately the things I just mentioned – they cannot afford top tech talent; they don’t have a continuous improvement set up and they don’t operate at a global scale. I knew they were weak when they showed up on day one. I don’t care how much money they are receiving; they are going nowhere special if they don’t have those three things I just mentioned above.

Black in Tech Running Headline Numbers Clickbait

There is a media strategy called “Headline Numbers” and you see this used often in Business Insider and CNBC as a clickbait strategy. Blavity and Black Enterprise also copy this “headline numbers” media strategy because they obviously cannot do real journalism.

The headline number would say “single mother received $1.7 billion valuations in VC funding” and the headline goal is to impress you with the "$1.7 billion" number in the headline. A lot of weak-minded people like to read these headline numbers and think somebody is doing good or better than other people. I mean, how many times we seen headlines of rappers signed to a label deal but end up not owning the cars in the music videos and don’t even own their masters and still obligated to put out 3 more albums? Black folks love to fake headline numbers but they ain’t fooling real cats like Ed Dunn who don’t even pay attention to Black in Tech chasing headline numbers.

Real Black in Tech Hustle, They Don't Grovel

See, here is the deal and let me wrap this up. Ed Dunn personally is so talented and awesome; he buys laptops and business equipment from pawn shops for dimes on a dollar to do the same work. Ed Dunn works out of the cloud and cheap hosting plans to move data and secure data at rest. And Ed Dunn built a global-class business on the cheap coming from the West Side of Chicago.

The best way a Chicago West Side brotha can show out on these Black in Tech clowns bragging headline numbers is to show everyone how I out-hustled, out-scaled, out-recruited their basic asses with little to no money. My strategy is simple - rely on what the elders on the West Side of Chicago taught me on how to make a way when there is little to work with and make the use of what little you got around you right now. That’s why I buy pawn shop computers to program Kafka and Python against, homey.

The time is near Ed Dunn is about to make these fake Black in Tech clowns look like the goddamn lame-ass fools they actually are thinking they can go somewhere in the global tech landscape with a made-up Black identity trope. They bragging about receiving millions in funding while Ed Dunn outdid them with pawnshop stuff - go tell them what I said on the Blavity AfroTech circles.