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JB Brathwaite February 11, 2020
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2 The Next Level Tuesday Reginald F. Lewis, the first African American owner of a billion-dollar company

 
What does Baltimore Maryland, Virginia State University, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Philippines, Civil Rights leader Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Parks Sausage, McCall Pattern Co, Jesse Jackson, Beatrice Foods and All-Star Code have in common?
 
They all helped take the legacy of Reginald Lewis, the first African American owner of a billion-dollar company 2 the next level of success.
 
Here are some steps Reginal Lewis took to obtain the right to purchase a billion-dollar company. 

  1. Reginald F. Lewis was born on December 7, 1942, in Baltimore, Maryland

  2. Lewis graduated from Virginia State University.

  3. Lewis was a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity Inc.

  4. Lewis attended a summer program at Harvard Law funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and excelled to such an extent that at the end of the program, he was invited to attend the law school, the only person in the school’s 148-year history to be admitted before applying.

  5. Lewis marries Loida Nicholas in her native country, The Philippines.

  6. Lewis is counsel to the New York-based Commission for Racial Justice and works on the Wilmington Ten case, in which Civil Rights leader Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr. and nine others were wrongfully convicted of arson and conspiracy in 1971.

  7. In 1972 Reginal Lewis’ first attempt at the acquisition of Parks Sausage company ended in failure.

  8. Lewis establishes the TLC Group, L.P. in 1983 and works on acquiring McCall Pattern Company. In February 1984 he assumed chairmanship of McCall Pattern Company.

  9. In 1984, Lewis held a fundraiser for Jesse Jackson’s presidential candidacy at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.

  10. In 1987, Lewis won the right to buy Beatrice International Foods for just under $1 billion. It was the largest offshore leveraged buyout ever by an American company at that time. Reginal Lewis became the first African American to purchase a billion-dollar company. 

  11. Reginald Lewis’ daughter Christina Lewis Halpern, created a nonprofit, All Star Code, that trains black and brown boys to code during the summer. Founded in 2013 AllStar Code’s model was inspired by Reginald F. Lewis’ career which was spring-boarded by a 1965 summer program at Harvard Law School.
 
Read the full story at The Root
 
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JB Brathwaite February 4, 2020
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2 The Next Level Tuesday WhatsApp

 

What does Kiev, Ukraine, Food stamps, Cancer, San Jose State University, Ernst & Young, Yahoo, South America, Ultimate Frisbee, Facebook, Apple App Store, RentACoder.com, Apple push notifications, instant messaging, Mark Zuckerberg and the North County Social Services office have in common?


They all help take WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum,  2 the next level of success and a 19 billion dollar acquisition from Facebook.

Here are some of the steps Jan Koum took to get acquired by Facebook. 
 
  1. Jan Koum came to this country with his mom from Kiev, Ukraine

  2. Jan’s mom at one time on public assistance and had to apply for food stamps to help feed them. 

  3. When Jan’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, they lived off her disability allowance.

  4. Jan enrolled at San Jose State University and moonlighted at Ernst & Young as a security tester.

  5. In 1997, Jan found himself sitting across a desk from his soon to be co-founder Brian Acton, Yahoo employee 44, to inspect the company’s advertising system.

  6. In September 2007 Jan and Brian finally left Yahoo and took a year to decompress, traveling around South America and playing ultimate frisbee.

  7. Jan and Brian applied, and failed, to work at Facebook. They were part of the Facebook reject club.

  8. In January 2009, Jan bought an iPhone and realized that the seven-month-old App Store was about to spawn a whole new industry of apps.

  9. Jan needed an iPhone developer to help him with his new status update app, so he hired Igor Solomennikov, a developer in Russia that his friend Alex Fishman, found on RentACoder.com.

  10. Jan was about to give up on his status app when help came from Apple after it launched push notifications in June 2009, letting developers ping users when they weren’t using an app.

  11. Jan’s app went from just status updates to become an instant messaging platform that sent text messages worldwide for free. WhatsApp’s user base had swelled to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50.

  12. After being courted by Twitter and Google, Jan decided to go with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and signed the 19 billion dollar acquisition deal on the door of the North County Social Services office where Jan’s dearly departed mother brought him to get her food stamps.
 
Read the full story at Forbes.com 
 
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JB Brathwaite January 28, 2020
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2 The Next Level Tuesday Ring.com

 
What does a garage, 20th Century Fox, Shark Tank, Upfront Ventures, a domain-name squatter, Shaquille O’Neal, Richard Branson, and the LAPD all have in common?
 
They all helped take Jamie Siminoff’s company, Ring.com 2 the next level of success and a billion-dollar acquisition from Amazon.com
 
Here are some of the steps Jamie Siminoff took to get acquired by Amazon.com 
 
  1. Jamie started his company out of his garage.
  2. Jamies’ wife, who at the time worked for 20th Century Fox gave him the idea when she could not get ahold of him in the back of the garage because he could not hear the front doorbell. 
  3. Jamie failed at getting funding from Shark Tank but the exposure got him a million dollars in sales.
  4. Upfront Ventures investor, Hamet Watt, suggested he rename the company Ring because it signified both a doorbell tone and a ring of security around a customer’s home.
  5. Jamie Purchased Ring.com from a domain-name squatter for 1 million dollars
  6. Shaquille O’Neal agreed to become the spokesperson for Ring.com in exchange for equity in the company.
  7. Billionaire Richard Branson invested in Ring after a visitor to his private island spoke remotely with a delivery person back home.
  8. The LAPD did a proof of concept study. Ring gave away 40 doorbells in Wilshire Park, a middle-class L.A. neighborhood plagued by home burglaries. Though the devices covered only 10% of the area’s homes, burglaries fell by 55% within six months, according to the LAPD, mostly by discouraging robbers who strike when they believe no one is home.
Read the full story at Forbes.com 
 
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