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Techish is back with another episode! Hosts Abadesi and Michael break down:

• Rising unemployment among Black men (0:30)
• Man sues “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook group (5:33)
• Nobody is really your friend at work (13:55)
• What your job says about your personality (25:07)

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Extra Reading:   

•  The unemployment rate of Black men rose in January, underscoring continued inequality in labor market [CNBC]
• Hiring managers pass over ‘names associated with Black people’ in their rush to review resumes, according to study of all 50 U.S. states [Fortune]
• Black Women Face Worse Job Outcomes In White-Dominated Work Environments, Study Reveals [POCIT] 

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Techish is back with another episode! Hosts Abadesi and Michael break down:

• Apple Vision Pro (0:40)
• Meta’s stock is booming (3:38)
• Adam Neumann wants to buy back WeWork (7:30)
• Is Taylor Swift a psyop? (11:15)
• Grammy wins and blaccents (14:55)
• Mr & Mrs Smith reboot (18:25)

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Extra Reading:   
Adam Neumann Raised More In One Round Than All Black Founders Raised This Quarter [POCIT]
 

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Techish is back with another episode! Hosts Abadesi and Michael break down:

• PwC boss tells Gen Z to return to office in age of AI (0:29)
• Career success vs soft life (6:00)
• Dating icks and short kings (12:35)
• Haggling your bills and subscription costs (20:35)
• Who wins when Black founders sell their companies? (24:50)

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Extra Reading:   

• Gen Z employees who want to succeed in the age of AI should come to the office more, accounting giant U.K. boss says [Fortune]
• Beatrice Dixon’s The Honey Pot Co. Secures Monumental $380M Investment [POCIT]
• This Isn't The Brand I Started: Why I'm Saying Goodbye To Afrocenchix After 15 Years [Black Ballad]

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This episode is sponsored by Intuit: https://intuit.com/pocit

 

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Techish is back with another episode! Hosts Abadesi and Michael unpack:

• Are tech layoffs targeting BIPOC? (0:40)
• Twitter functioning despite mass layoffs (4:44)
• Tech workers leaving the industry for… farming?! (9:50)
• TikToks go silent as Universal Music Group pulls its music (13:40)

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Extra Reading:   

• Fans React to Removal of UMG Artists From TikTok: ‘Were We Silent or Silenced?’ [Rolling Stone]
•  'I’m Singaporean': TikTok CEO grilled by US senator repeatedly about ties with China – video [The Guardian] 

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Welcome back! This week, Techish hosts Abadesi and Michael break down:

• DEI founders jumping ship amid culture war (0:10)
• Male founders start “girls only” club after discovering sexism (8:15)
• P Diddy, Russell Brand, and why we don’t listen to women (14:50)
• The courage to be disliked (23:34)
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Extra Reading:   
Why have five men started a “girls only” club in New York City? [Women’s Agenda]

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Techish is back for a brand new season! To kick off 2024, hosts Abadesi and Michael break down:

• Layoffs in the age of TikTok and remote work (0.00)
• Is Google’s reign finally over?  (6:10)
• “DEI must DIE”: Elon Musk’s culture war  (13:43)
• Bill Ackman’s dry snitching backfires, wife accused of plagiarism (17:29)
• Crypto, wealth managers, and investing your assets (24:21)

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The episode is sponsored by Intuit:  https://intuit.com/pocit


Extra Reading: 
Viral TikTok Video Of Cloudflare Employee Is A Lesson On How To Not Fire Workers (Forbes)
Stocks Climb to Record, Lifted by Big Tech and Rate Cut Hopes (New York Times)

Books:
YOU’RE NOT BROKE YOU’RE PRE-RICH…
Unshakeable - [Finance book recommended by Michael]


 

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Techish is back with a founders’ special! Hosts Abadesi and Michael break down:

• Investing in yourself with a $20K masterclass (1:08)
• Surviving 2023 as a Black founder (15:10)
• Race vs gender equity progress in the workplace (23:00)
• Getting ghosted by job applicants during the bull market (27:00)
• Leveraging pretty privilege to close deals (29:58)
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Extra Reading:
• Odey Asset Management to shut after sexual misconduct allegations against founder
• Black Founders Face Funding Decline With Just 0.13% Of VC This Q3
• Has 2023 Been A Brutal Year For Black Founders?
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Techish is back with a brand new episode! Hosts Abadesi & Michael break down:

• The founder who scammed Google and Facebook out of $100M (0:50)
• Nvidia’s co-founder regrets building a company from scratch (3:05)
• Will Ozempic’s popularity hurt food and fitness companies? (12:05)
• Has wedding culture gotten out of control? (21:55)
• ChatGPT’s new features and why it’s so hard to build a sustainable AI business (27:55)

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Extra Reading:

• He Tried to Bilk Google and Facebook Out of $100 Million With Fake Invoices
•  Nvidia cofounder Jensen Huang says ‘nobody in their right mind’ would start a company, and he’d opt out if he could go back in time
• 55, unemployed and faking normal: One woman's story of barely scraping by [video]

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Techish is back with a brand-new episode! This week, hosts Michael & Abadesi recap the Techish live show before diving into:

• RIP ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry
• WeWork going bankrupt: the winners and the losers
• Keith Lee’s Atlanta restaurant reviews wreak havoc online
• Has influencer culture ruined customer service?

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Further reading: 

• The True Story Behind WeCrashed
• Keith Lee's TikTok Food Reviews Had Atlanta's Restaurant Scene in Shambles. What Happened?

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• POCIT
• POCIT Weekly Newsletter
• POCIT Job Board

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• Hustle Crew - Inclusion Training
• Hustle Crew Academy
• Dream Big Hustle Hard

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Techish is back with a throwback episode about careers! Abadesi and Michael break down:-

- Mixing business and friends (00:25)
- Oversharing on social media (06:57)
- Risk-averse careers (11:37)

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