If you look at the made-up “Black in Tech” scene, it’s a huge embarrassment that has no basis in the reality of the global tech landscape. A bunch of social-media-orientated Black folks got together and they made up rules about what determines success such as getting funding, getting press and attention, and standing next to a popular White person in tech. They made all these rules up and started writing content trying to project these factors as the measure of Black in tech success and some of yall believed that nonsense.

There is only one fundamental rule in the tech landscape – create value at scale. You create a solution for a target audience that will compel them to pay for your solution to extract the value you offer, that’s it and that’s all. But if you look at the Black in tech landscape, they are looking to proxy through the system of White Privilege like Silicon Valley to prop them up through affirmative-action funding and their business model does not create value at scale. So they sit there and are funded by White Privilege systems begging them for money or sponsored by these White Privilege in exchange for being a token Black at the mercy and service of others, not their own interests.

You should know better and look exactly at what they are doing. You see them doing nothing but writing propaganda and trying to argue this point or trying to rationalize and talk up a whole bunch of stuff. But you know South Korea, India, and China turned into a global economic powerhouse in less than 25 years when these places started as 3rd world impoverished nations and surpassed Black folks in America. You know these Blacks in tech do not have the type of business that scales and competes directly with other global firms around the world. But most importantly, you know these same Black in tech are targeting you and trying to gaslight you Black people with this propaganda because they cannot stand on any global stage with that BS they trying to impress you with.

This was that “get the bag” mentality that Morgan DeBaun was selling at Blavity AfroTech that they kept as a mantra. I guess that the “get the bag” mantra means to get the money and go live your life like that is the end game. Let me explain something that most Black people with money will advise – getting money is unexciting, unfulfilling, and cause more problems than solutions. All getting money do is get you access but then you realize those rich Europeans will treat you just like they treat Oprah Winfrey when Oprah goes shopping in Paris and Geneva. All you do is what these rich Africans in London be doing – buy expensive cars and homes but they don’t got real rich friends and all they do is drive around by themselves and realize they miss the folks back home and are bored and unfulfilled.

See the problem is you do not have a culture to support wealth like the emirs in the Middle East or the aristocrats in Europe, just someone who “got the bag” which means nothing – no power, just a rich consumer because you have nothing but a pile of money, you don’t have people or respect. Because you know the brothas and sistas are just waiting for your punk behind to be caught slipping, tie you up in your own home – that’s all brothas and sistas been thinking about you and the money you got. Think twice about the end game of chasing money and where that will really get you in life. Because that non-fulfilled money destroys Black families more than anything, ask around.

Being a token sellout chasing money never had a good outcome – getting the money but failing to get the power and respect because everybody knows that person sold their soul to get the bag. Always stay true to yourself and stay true to the value you create and stay true to the target audience that will pay for what you have to offer. If you look at my situation, I’m in total control of my journey, I know my product and own it, I know my target audience all over the world – I plan to go to Dubai in a few months because the opportunity is calling in that region to set up a hub. I don’t have money problems or need to beg for money and I got real respect in this game – I got folks moving to America to work with me and we setting up hub offices around the world to recruit real talent that believes in our model and what we do. These Black in tech phonies keep their mouth shut when they are around me and I want to make sure they don’t know anything about me or my moves.

There is only one way to be a Black tech entrepreneur in 2022 – you have to deliver value and you need global scale where folks in Asia, Middle East, Latin America, Europe want your product and services. All this made-up Black identity nonsense is just running from the reality of the global landscape. The VC and investor community said they are cutting off any startup or existing portfolio that is not producing realized profits by the end of the year. I’m going to sit back, eat popcorn and start laughing at all these Black in tech clowns that chased funding and touted valuations, I’m going to call them out and laugh hard at them while I stayed true to myself and my journey and my money is good and no one going to tell me what the hell I need to do with my business.

Stay true to yourself from day one, you get the money right, then you get the power right and the respect right. That’s the only way forward. Only broke clowns who got insecurity issues talk about big numbers and getting the bag.