Black In America Series Says Race Matters In Silicon Valley
I don’t usually watch the Black In America series, but I will tonight because one of the entrepreneurs in The New Promised Land- Silicon Valley episode is Angela Benton, a dynamic woman from the East Coast who used to pay me to write for one of her websites a little over a year ago. As Benton points out early in the show, “for whatever reason, African-Americans tend to be consumers of technology and not really creators of technology.” She is looking to change that with NewMeAccelerator, an immersive residential tech startup accelerator that focuses on helping minority business onwers navigate the vagaries of launching a technology startup.
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