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Speaker 1: Your mission was to help black entrepreneurs, black creatives, you know,

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Speaker 1: black musicians, whatever, whatever type of creative. You are a

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Speaker 1: black entrepreneurs as well at Black at And one of

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Speaker 1: the conversations we have earlier is how do you protect

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Speaker 1: who this community is for? Because the point of you know,

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Speaker 1: cryptos like anybody effectively can get in. You can have

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Speaker 1: the allow lists, you know, but that resale could potentially

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Speaker 1: be to anybody. So how do you protect the community

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Speaker 1: this mission ultimately or is that even like a fair

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Speaker 1: question you know to be asking? So it's it's a

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Speaker 1: fair question. I mean like if you're saying a community

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Speaker 1: is for a certain type of person, then you would

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Speaker 1: assume and and that is like the shared vision, then

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Speaker 1: you would assume that that is what you're getting when

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Speaker 1: you buy this community. So I think it's a fair question,

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Speaker 1: and it's a question that I've gotten before. UM And

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Speaker 1: you know, there's not to be honest, like to be

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Speaker 1: frank and transparent, there's not this technological way for us

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Speaker 1: to figure out, UM, how to protect that right. There's

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Speaker 1: a terms of service, there are UM rules that you're

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Speaker 1: expected to follow before joining this joining our group chat,

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Speaker 1: but that's really other than like self governance. That's really

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Speaker 1: all that we can do to make sure that we

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Speaker 1: are protecting that space. We are very very alert though,

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Speaker 1: and very much looking at our members and the new members.

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Speaker 1: But a couple of things that we're seeing, uh is

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Speaker 1: that So every UM large conference, I would say, or

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Speaker 1: not even not even large, but there are different conferences.

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Speaker 1: Were black at Travels and UM either we have experiences

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Speaker 1: or we create content such as, um, you know, a

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Speaker 1: day of panels and maybe a closing party or whatever

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Speaker 1: it is that we're doing at that conference. Uh So

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Speaker 1: at Black Tech League and Aren't Bossil and south By

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Speaker 1: Southwest and Consensus, we created these group chats for black

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Speaker 1: folks that were traveling to these different conferences. And it's

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Speaker 1: specifically for black that is why it's black at So

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Speaker 1: a lot of people think I'm saying like black hat

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Speaker 1: are black, app it is black and at sign um

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Speaker 1: meaning we are black at south By Southwest or black

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Speaker 1: at Fossil. And so there's one time recently where we

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Speaker 1: were at Black Tech Week and there's somebody in there

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Speaker 1: and we were we were all like, I don't know, y'all,

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Speaker 1: I am not bored, and so we had to like

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Speaker 1: we just we went in, asked some questions and then

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Speaker 1: we decided like, this is not UM a person that

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Speaker 1: will be a part of our community, and so we

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Speaker 1: let them know and and uh they were kicked out.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we are vigilant UM and we're definitely

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Speaker 1: making sure that we are checking to make sure that

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Speaker 1: this is a space for black folks. UM. The other

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Speaker 1: thing that we're doing for people that want to support

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Speaker 1: black AT without them being black themselves is we are

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Speaker 1: partnering with different communities to UM purchase a black at

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Speaker 1: token and then allow them to give them to their

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Speaker 1: community members. We've had a couple of communities UM do

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Speaker 1: that and we're hoping to partner with more. UM. We

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Speaker 1: think that's one of the best ways of getting your

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Speaker 1: giving your community OUTPHA is giving them a place where

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Speaker 1: they can not only be a part of whatever community

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Speaker 1: that you created UM that our partner has created, but

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Speaker 1: also a way for them to get further into Web three.

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Speaker 1: Right that only increases the value of their of their

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Speaker 1: token UM by allowing them to be part of other

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Speaker 1: Web three communities UM. And then we're also having we

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Speaker 1: have sponsor token, so we have some sponsors that have said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I got some black folks. If I'm

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Speaker 1: not black, but I got some black folks in my

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Speaker 1: network that I think would be great for this, And

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Speaker 1: so they bought tokens and then gifted them to others.

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of how we're we're maneuvering, but everybody

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Speaker 1: knows this is like a black black black space, this

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Speaker 1: black tech. Green Money shared this podcast with the Be

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Speaker 1: Your Closest Too,