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Some people were upset by our recent viral “Black Girl Magic at Google” post.
So after careful consideration we decided... to do it again
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Black employees at Google make $20K less on average than their white coworkers, a leaked spreadsheet obtained by the Insider reveals.
The data also show Black Googlers make less in bonuses and equity than their white colleagues.
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No Black Influencers Make it Onto Tiktok’s Highest Earners List Despite Their Huge Following
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Grammy-nominated artist Bryson Tiller plans to take break from music to focus on video game design.
"I just want to take a hiatus because my No. 1 passion is video games. I'm a designer in my spare time. I've been designing a game for the past three years."
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Airbnb has announced Google’s Senior VP of Research, Tech and Society, James Manyika, is joining its Board of Directors to help the platform leverage AI.
The Zimbabwean-born AI expert was also recently named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in AI
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“take care of yourself. There are no prizes for pulling all-nighters and running yourself into the ground working 80 hours a week, no one’s going to hand you a trophy for that. ”
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“I created a whole new LinkedIn account with the same credentials but with a stock photo of a white guy. Seven out of the ten applications I applied to responded back. That’s when I realized how biased things can really be. ”
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Congrats to Malik Majette for securing a Software Engineering role at Google a month before graduation 🙌🏾
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.@lyft investor @chamillionaire talking post IPO, about why his sole focus isn’t just personal wealth.
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The Power Of Tech: Afrobeats Artist Davido Raises $600K Using Social Media For Orphanages Across Nigeria
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“A black woman in tech who has raised over $1 million for her company is considered a unicorn.” buff.ly/2OOLutz
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Google Fired A Black Leading AI Scientist But Now She’s Founded Her Own Firm And Got Millions In Funding
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If your a Black founder or techie working on a company, side project, book, script etc let us know under this tweet so we can amplify it! 🙌🏾
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“So I created a whole new LinkedIn account with the same credentials but with a stock photo of a white guy. Seven out of the ten applications I applied to responded back. That’s when I realized how biased things can really be. ” buff.ly/2JSmRZu
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We decided to create a seperate page for remote jobs on POCIT to help anyone currently looking for work during these rocky times!
Roles across: Engineering, Content, Customer Success, Sales....
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“Electricity and Internet access were the major challenges I faced when I was learning how to code. There were days when I had to write my code on a piece of paper and wait till there was power to compile them.”
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POCIT Weekly
⚡ Netflix gives $25M to help dismantle racism in housing
⚡ Meghan Markle makes a startup investment
⚡ Visa commits $4.8M to women and Black-owned initiatives
⚡ A coalition of CEOs: we'll hire 1M Black Americans over 10 years
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“What companies need to focus on is retainment. You can hire all of the people of color you want to meet your diversity quotas, but I promise you that if your company’s culture doesn’t change, you will see them leave through a revolving door.” buff.ly/2MoO0Fb
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If you're a POC working on anything, whether it be a side project, app or startup, tweet us today for an amplification RT!
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.@Pharrell implores people to outsmart the algorithms in their newsfeed and phones. Is it futile? 🤔
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"Black-owned @Calendly ranks as the 97th fastest-growing company in North America."
via: @PRNewswire
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"....I’m going to say- take care of yourself. There are no prizes for pulling all-nighters and running yourself into the ground working 80 hours a week, no one’s going to hand you a trophy for that.” @operaqueenie
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"The composition of the venture capital industry is widely monolithic and collectively lacks the cultural lens, lived experiences and general appetite to unlock value in markets that are not predominantly driven by straight white male consumers."
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American Express’ CEO, Kenneth Chenault is the First African American on Facebooks all white Board of Directors. ✊🏾 👏🏽👏🏽
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UK Black tech founders to watch.
"A long overdue article on the immense black entrepreneurial talent in the UK tech scene"
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NEW POCIT 👩🏾💻🙋🏾♀️
"In honor of October being Black History Month in the UK, we highlight ten influential Black British women who code and break down barriers."
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50 years after Dr Willie Hobbs Moore became the first Black woman to earn a PhD in physics, @IBJIYONGI has announced the launch of the Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography 🔥
Here's what you need to know.
#CiteBlackWomen #BlackandSTEM
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If your a black founder or techie working on a company, side project, book, script etc let us know under this tweet so we can amplify it! 🙌🏾
#BlackHistoryMonth
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The Black Female Duo That’s Taking Mentoring To Another Level: Black Girls In Tech UK Founders Tell-All
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Shepherd is the “world’s first Bible app that recommends verses based on your needs.”
And it's Black-owned. Meet founder @bysamuelwood 🙌🏾
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“I created a whole new LinkedIn account with the same credentials but with a stock photo of a white guy. Seven out of the ten applications I applied to responded back. That’s when I realized how biased things can really be...”
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Yohanes Kidane, 22, has been missing since August 14 after moving to San Jose to start a role as a software engineer at Netflix.
He was last seen entering a black Toyota Camry with an Uber sticker on 28 N 4th St. San Jose wearing grey sweatpants, a black hoodie & shoes.
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"11 Amazing Nigerians Who Work at Twitter HQ, San Francisco"
A quick run down of some of Naija's finest working at @Twitter's headquarters in the Valley. 🇳🇬
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“As a woman, a Millennial and a minority working in the tech industry, it should come as no surprise that I am part of a demographic highly susceptible to imposter syndrome.”
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Yes, a Black woman developed the tech behind caller ID 🙌🏾
Dr Shirley Ann Jackson's scientific breakthroughs contributed to the development of the fax machine, touch-tone phone, fiber optic cells, solar cells, caller ID and much more!
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“take care of yourself. There are no prizes for pulling all-nighters and running yourself into the ground working 80 hours a week, no one’s going to hand you a trophy for that...”
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Are you keeping your eye on the job market?
cc: @TayOnTech
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A conversation with Arlan Hamilton @ArlanWasHere
"So if people look at Backstage Capital and say oh I want to do that. Great. That’s why I’m doing this. I want there to be competition. I want there to be dozens of us."
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Seven Black Women Whose Companies Were Successfully Acquired
“A black woman in tech who has raised over $1 million for her company is considered a unicorn. Those whose companies have been acquired are even rarer.”
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Blocked someone but can't remember why?
@blockpartyapp_, founded by @triketora, now lets users record WHY they blocked someone, giving them more control over their online experience 🙌🏾
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“We compensate Googlers based on what they do, not who they are," a Google spokesperson said, adding that the spreadsheet included "old, self-reported data that has not been verified and is not an accurate representation of compensation” across the workforce.
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" if you ask me, venturing outside your comfort zone is such a meaningless concept.. For women in fields where they’re laughably underrepresented, just being present in the first place is already stepping outside your comfort zone”
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TESCREAL stands for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.
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If you're a POC in tech working on anything, whether it be a side project, app or startup, blog post, tweet us today for an amplification RT!
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"Meet these amazing coders, their tech journey and how they learned to code without breaking the bank!"
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The POCIT Weekly ⚡
🙋🏾 Netflix hires @badassboz as CMO!
🤑 Amazon acquires startup led by Black female CEO @aicha2evans for $1.2B
💰 Netflix is moving $100 million into Black-owned banks!
✊🏾 Black run VC firm @lightshipcap is raising $50m!
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If you enter “Black woman with Bantu knots" into Canva's text-to-image tool, it may tell you that the results are "unsafe."
Worse still, searching the phrase on Canva may also generate images of ropes and nooses...
So, what is going on?
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“Pay them fairly. If you paid the last guys that did a project for you $5,000, then don’t pay that Black woman $1,200. Even if she lowballs herself, have the integrity to pay her the market rate.”
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“Black women founders are less likely to have access to the funding and resources... In spite of those odds, these seven women have traversed the acquisition waters and come out on top. Celebrate them by sharing their stories:”
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Tech founder Joseph Riquelme pays off his parents mortgage from the proceeds of his app. Who’s cutting onions in here 😭
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"So much of the world was designed without considering marginalized communities. What does the world look like when it’s built by a team of Black and brown folks who are invested in each other’s well-being and joy?"
by: @najjmahal of @ethelsclub
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“Pay them fairly. If you paid the last guys that did a project for you $5,000, then don’t pay that Black woman $1,200. Even if she lowballs herself, have the integrity to pay her the market rate.”
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“It is my firm belief that because Black women have had to make do with far less for centuries, equipping them with early-stage capital that is on par with their white male counterparts has the potential to lead to outsized returns.” [@ArlanWasHere]
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This Techie Made $166,000 In A Year With An Online UX Design Academy After Being Fired – Here’s How
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“A black woman in tech who has raised over $1 million for her company is considered a unicorn. Those whose companies have been acquired are even rarer.”
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Shout out to all my black folk making the products we use daily, behind the scenes. Wish we could feature you all 💙
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“So with no team, no previous startup experience but a tremendous vision, I decided to embark on this journey ”
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“Every year around 0.2% of business funding goes to Black women so last year when Joycelyn and I set out to raise $450k whilst I had a very visible baby bump, we knew we’d have a serious fight on our hands…”
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“Don’t make fundraising your business model. You need to learn how to grow a customer base and make money from them. That’s number one.” @operaqueenie
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“Ten years ago you could probably count on one hand the number of angel investors, let alone funds run by people of color” @AndysHVC
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Meet Madona Wambua, An Alabama-Based Android Engineer III:”No Sisters Left Behind”
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NEW POCIT EPISODE.
Featuring Omayeli Arenyeka, Software Engineer at Linkedin.
"Work on side projects. They don’t have big or even useful. Every time you think “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” write it down." @YellzHeard
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“I’m now at a point in my career where my skill set is sought after by many tech companies. That is amazing to me; I have leveled up.”
via @wogrammer
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"What advice and tips do you have for young people who want to enter tech?" [@Everette] buff.ly/1TkwHVE
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“I applied to Spotify years earlier and got rejected. I say that to remind us that we think we have to have our dream job straight out of college, but sometimes, it takes a few more steps.”
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How I Went From Mopping Floors To Becoming A Software Developer
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“Tech Bae is for everyone. But it’s for black girls first. Black women are a marginalized group whose needs, considerations, preferences, and opinions in society have historically been last. ”
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NEW POCIT ALERT!
"When it comes to learning to code, you should avoid restricting yourself to a timeline, which will put unnecessary pressure on you. My advice is to take time to understand the fundamentals of programming..."
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.@iddris_sandu doing his AR thing with @NipseyHussle’s marathon clothing line 🙌🏾🏁
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“So I created a whole new LinkedIn account with the same credentials but with a stock photo of a white guy. Seven out of the ten applications I applied to responded back. That’s when I realized how biased things can really be...”
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.@BerniceKing & @AshleyBellR have joined forces to make homeownership more accessible through their fintech platform @readylifetweets,.
Aspiring homeowners can pay their rent on time and qualify for a mortgage - without credit score requirements
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New episode of POCIT featuring Sheena Allen @whoisSheena, the founder of @GoCapWay a mobile app that serves the underbanked and unbanked.
"Don’t get me wrong we are a for-profit company, our goal is to make money, but to do so without robbing people.."
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A bonus episode of #Techish: An interview with the amazing Arlan Hamilton [@ArlanWasHere]. We talk ....
💰 Her new fund for black women founders
🏃🏿♀️ Running a venture studio.
👩🏿💻 Her own comeup
🎬 Plus who would play her in her life story :D
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“To overcome racial biases in these technologies, we need a shift in assumptions about what kinds of language are considered “healthy.”
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“Don’t make fundraising your business model. You need to learn how to grow a customer base and make money from them. That’s number one.” @operaqueenie
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"We captured almost every US-based, Black startup founder that has raised venture capital. We expect to look back on this list in a couple of years and be in awe at how much larger it has gotten."
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"Jay-Z and Will Smith invest $165M in a tech startup to help low-Income residents become homeowners..." @revolttv
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Black-owned Squire, a startup selling software to barbershops, triples valuation to $250M.
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“A black woman in tech who has raised over $1 million for her company is considered a unicorn. ”
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After seeing this tweet we asked people how they personally console.log on our IG. Personal favourite “Miley What’s Good” 😂
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“What companies and institutions fail to realize is that people of color do not want to assimilate. What we bring with us is our culture, our individuality, our sense of style — everything that makes us us. What we want is respect” buff.ly/2MoO0Fb
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Meet 10 Inspirational Black British Women Who Code buff.ly/3dG6T5f
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“I’m a black trans woman and a successful web developer, project manager, and activist.” @lynncyrin
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