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Speaker 3: So you said that ninety five percent of the customers
Speaker 3: of the world are outside of America. And obviously we
Speaker 3: met you in Ghana, and you know, obviously you were
Speaker 3: on uh Obama Obama's team and now you're you're with
Speaker 3: the chain of commerce, so you have a good perspective
Speaker 3: of businesses, black businesses in America. Right, what do you
Speaker 3: think are some of the issues that let's talk about
Speaker 3: black businesses specifically when it comes to black business because
Speaker 3: I have a theory that a lot of black businesses
Speaker 3: just start they start the wrong type of business, right,
Speaker 3: They're not scalable. They're not designed to reach our international audience.
Speaker 3: They're more like mom and pop local situations where you
Speaker 3: just become an employee of your of just yourself, and
Speaker 3: that's difficult to scale. So looking at it from you know,
Speaker 3: your view, what are some of the things that black
Speaker 3: businesses are doing wrong? And how can they improve to
Speaker 3: compete in this global economy that way in now you
Speaker 3: know you're right, I mean.
Speaker 4: I mean the raality is most black owned businesses are small,
Speaker 4: I mean, one, two, three employees.
Speaker 2: They're in services, professional services, and in that nature.
Speaker 4: You know, I think I think part of the problem
Speaker 4: is that we've not been exposed to some of this knowledge,
Speaker 4: and it is that exposure I think that is extremely important.
Speaker 4: I mean again, I mean, you think about the international
Speaker 4: marketplace where ninety five cent consumers are Nobody ever taught
Speaker 4: me how to think about exporting an international trade. I
Speaker 4: mean it was when I after the day after the
Speaker 4: inauguration of Present Obama and I was going the architects
Speaker 4: of his first campaign. We didn't have a commerce secretary,
Speaker 4: and I was asked to go hold down the fort
Speaker 4: at the United States Department of Commerce. And probably within
Speaker 4: three four months, the International Department approached me as the
Speaker 4: highest ranking official at the Department of Commerce and says,
Speaker 4: you know, because you're the highest ranking political appointee from
Speaker 4: President Obama, you're going to have to lead this trade
Speaker 4: mission to India. Hell I never really been much out
Speaker 4: of the United States and Colinilla out in Bahamas and
Speaker 4: plays like that, So that was my really first experience
Speaker 4: and understanding and going to Mumbai and Shannai and New
Speaker 4: Delhi and places like that and understanding even you know,
Speaker 4: the idea of been exposed to trade and business in
Speaker 4: another country.
Speaker 2: And since then I've been totally immersed in it.
Speaker 4: But my point is saying that one of the barriers
Speaker 4: or one of the ways, we just have to.
Speaker 2: Rethink how we do business.
Speaker 4: That means how we start businesses, follow the money follow
Speaker 4: the opportunities. And again I think, you know, foreign and
Speaker 4: exporting is a unique and new but valuable opportunity. It
Speaker 4: must be to our growth strategy. And you know, and
Speaker 4: this is you know, one of the issues I got
Speaker 4: oftentimes with with with leaders. I mean, you know, whether
Speaker 4: it's I mean you all, I've heard you all talk
Speaker 4: about our political leaders.
Speaker 2: I mean, folks don't come.
Speaker 4: To our churches and communities talking about China and Indian
Speaker 4: trade and exporting.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: And we have to change that and demand the conversation
Speaker 4: that brings more dialogue and knowledge and assets and resources
Speaker 4: from all of these federal agencies. Good friend of mine,
Speaker 4: Rita Joe Lewis, is the very black woman chair of
Speaker 4: the Export Import Bait.
Speaker 2: Most people in America don't even know what that is.
Speaker 4: And so one of the goals that I have is
Speaker 4: like bridging this knowledge gap with the information that exists
Speaker 4: in getting that information to our black owned enterprise across
Speaker 4: the country. It's just a knowledge gap as well, because
Speaker 4: we know we don't have a lack of businesses, but
Speaker 4: we do have a lack of high growth businesses that
Speaker 4: are competing in these industries that are not only shaping
Speaker 4: and changing America, but shaping and changing the world.
Speaker 5: You spoke about the exposure piece that I think that's
Speaker 5: vitally important, right, and the education comes with that, right
Speaker 5: when you go to doo place here is you get
Speaker 5: to learn new things. So you spoke about India and China,
Speaker 5: but we met you in Africa. So what are your
Speaker 5: thoughts around the rising economies there, the workforce, the opportunities.
Speaker 5: Right when we're talking about import export, we're talking about
Speaker 5: business development. What are your thoughts around Africa and maybe
Speaker 5: specifically in Ghana.
Speaker 4: Listen, I think Africa, you know, is the new economy
Speaker 4: of the world. You know, we have a whole US
Speaker 4: Africa Business Center at the US Chamber Comrace that strategically
Speaker 4: focuses on countries across the content of Africa. And you know,
Speaker 4: whether it's Ghana or Rwanda or other parts of Africa,
Speaker 4: it's just rich with an opportunity.
Speaker 2: I mean, you mentioned workforce.
Speaker 4: I think one of the most fascinating things that that
Speaker 4: we need to recognize as the average age across the
Speaker 4: continent is only nineteen years of age. And when you
Speaker 4: think about the aging workforce in America, the workforce is shrinking,
Speaker 4: is becoming younger, the workforce in other countries around the
Speaker 4: world is shrink shrinking. We have to think about Africa
Speaker 4: and these young people as being the future of work
Speaker 4: across the continent, but around the world. So I do
Speaker 4: think Africa is just rich with opportunity, and you're right,
Speaker 4: even in Ghana. I mean, I spent a lot of
Speaker 4: time meeting with some of the local entrepreneurs there and and.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the things I've learned is again
Speaker 2: it's not a.
Speaker 4: Lack of innovators and entrepreneurs, but it's capital and a small.
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Speaker 4: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security, of
Speaker 4: capital that we can get into the hands of some
Speaker 4: of those young innovators and entrepreneurs in Ghana and just invaluable.
Speaker 4: So we're working on that part and that whole constructor
Speaker 4: ecosystem that I talked around talked about and getting more
Speaker 4: a black owned business and connected the corporate supply chain
Speaker 4: that actually extends across to the Aspera And that is
Speaker 4: one of my priority as well. How can we get
Speaker 4: those entrepreneurs in the continent doing business across to the Aspera.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I think Africa is the future. I
Speaker 4: really believe that, and the data is clear, and I
Speaker 4: think we have to lean in on America policy, but
Speaker 4: as well as drive more American investment into Africa and
Speaker 4: understand for us as entrepreneurs what the opportunity is to
Speaker 4: export from Africa could mean to the United States and
Speaker 4: across the world.
Speaker 6: If someone's inspired tonight watching you, what would be like
Speaker 6: the five best businesses to build in god or on
Speaker 6: the content of Africa for this year, in this decade.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think it's just everything man.
Speaker 4: You know, obviously the number one if you look at again,
Speaker 4: we're investment and that's one of the measures that I
Speaker 4: look at from the United States and other countries.
Speaker 2: Energy. It's just cute.
Speaker 4: Africa has such a tremendous need for energy. I mean,
Speaker 4: you guys have been across the content. I imagine it's
Speaker 4: not uncommon for you to lose power, you know, at
Speaker 4: night or this, and you cannot have business without sources
Speaker 4: of energy. So I think in energy, whether that's in
Speaker 4: solar or other types of energy, is just wide open.
Speaker 4: I think in infrastructure, it's another area that's just rich
Speaker 4: with opportunity. I mean, you don't have to travel too far,
Speaker 4: you know, from ocraa Ghana or another rule parts to
Speaker 4: know that you know the roads and bridges and how
Speaker 4: we think of infrastructure, to include the technology infrastructure, it's
Speaker 4: just why open for investment and opportunities. Another area that
Speaker 4: you know, I think sometimes we sleep on is kind
Speaker 4: of demystifying the products that we can export from Africa,
Speaker 4: not only in terms of aron, minerals and all of
Speaker 4: those kinds of things, but what about clothing. And I
Speaker 4: mean I've been working with the system from Africa on
Speaker 4: Horche butler exports and it's just all kinds of products
Speaker 4: like that. I laugh and I laugh at myself because
Speaker 4: I got fascinated with this certain brand of cookie that's
Speaker 4: made in Africa that's more healthy than perhaps a lot
Speaker 4: of cookies, and I have a cookie addiction. But imagine
Speaker 4: that we can get a product like that in corporate
Speaker 4: supply chains. I don't know, you know, you know it's
Speaker 4: not uncommon. Obviously, when you're flying on an airplane, you'll
Speaker 4: always get that little bisc off cookie. I'm trying to
Speaker 4: disrupt that, and you can get just small things like
Speaker 4: that that we just don't think about the products that
Speaker 4: we can import from the continent of Africa and Ghana
Speaker 4: in particular, because that's where you know, we all met.
Speaker 2: I just think it's rich. Did you have to rethink?
Speaker 4: And then the last thing I want to say about Africa,
Speaker 4: and you know, we have a whole road show called
Speaker 4: Advancing with Africa. Some of this is about demystifying and
Speaker 4: debunking our perception of Africa. And so we have a
Speaker 4: whole effort to try to demystify and debunk a lot
Speaker 4: of perceptions that we have about the continent. But you've
Speaker 4: been there, I mean you sold firsthand. I mean, Africa
Speaker 4: just rich with economic opportunity.
Speaker 2: And we're going to lean in on it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just I want to add to that too. I
Speaker 3: just feel like, because that's a common question, I feel
Speaker 3: like the best thing that people can do is go
Speaker 3: to any country. Well, like let's say Ghana. Go to
Speaker 3: Ghana just as a tourist and just make ops. I
Speaker 3: was just there, just making observation that you said, the infrastructure.
Speaker 3: That's one of the things that I noticed a lot
Speaker 3: of times. Most people will look at something that's like, oh,
Speaker 3: this the road is bad. But an entrepreneur, I look
Speaker 3: at it like that's an opportunity to start paving roads right,
Speaker 3: or like they don't really have sidewalks, Okay, that's an
Speaker 3: opportunity for sidewalks. There's one thing that I noticed that
Speaker 3: I don't want to speak about publicly because I actually
Speaker 3: have an idea about this, but I just got to
Speaker 3: figure out. But I say that to say I think
Speaker 3: that everybody should go if you're interested, because that's the
Speaker 3: question I get, like what business should I start? What
Speaker 3: business should I start? We met that, We met somebody
Speaker 3: that was telling us about a gentleman that started a
Speaker 3: porter potty business and made billions of dollars off of
Speaker 3: porter partties because there was no porter partties in Ghana
Speaker 3: at that time. And then all the construction sites, you
Speaker 3: know you need porta potties. Who's thinking about that right?
Speaker 2: Like this hard?
Speaker 3: It would be hard for somebody to tell you go
Speaker 3: to Africa and start a porta potty business. But if
Speaker 3: you're if you're in the business and you go there
Speaker 3: and you realize that there's no porter partties, that you
Speaker 3: might say, oh, this is a business that's worth starting.
Speaker 3: But there's so many I think things that are needed,
Speaker 3: right that is really up to you to kind of
Speaker 3: figure out what you're passionate about, what you have knowledge about,
Speaker 3: what you have relationships about. But the best way, like
Speaker 3: you said, just to demystify the situation is to actually
Speaker 3: get on the ground, talk to the locals, take a
Speaker 3: trip ride, see what's going on, be observant, and then you,
Speaker 3: as an intelligent person, can kind of make your own decision.
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