At the Howard Family Bookstore, I ran into Antonice J. Strickland, founder of Nice’s Tea House. She carried me through her origin story in a plain way: entrepreneur to entrepreneur; when we are not performing for investors.
By the time I attended my first major ecosystem event in Detroitβafter living in the city for about a monthβit was late winter edging into early spring.
Detroit is a useful contradiction because it was not a peripheral city trying to become relevant. It was relevantβtechnologically, industrially, and culturallyβat a scale that reshaped the global imagination of production.
I was casually scrolling on Twitter [now X], and I came across a tweet, expressing shock at the fact that there are no Apple Stores on the African continent.