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Blacc Sam Speaks on The $100K "NIPSEY HUSSLE BUSINESS GRANT" Pitch Competition: "He Would Love This" · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: Sam My brother, man, it's you know, it's been a
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  Speaker 3: great relationship from meeting you in the hotel two years
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  Speaker 3: ago now and we did that legendary episode and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've just been in communication ever since. You know, you've
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  Speaker 3: taken us to Ethiopian restaurants and teaching us how to
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  Speaker 3: eat with our hands. So first and foremost, Man, I
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  Speaker 3: appreciate the brotherhood. I appreciate, you know, just being around
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  Speaker 3: you guys. Man, you guys are super solid and just
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  Speaker 3: real old school principles. I really like the whole, the
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  Speaker 3: whole entire team, Man, So first and foremost, thank you
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  Speaker 3: for always you know, working with us and you know,
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  Speaker 3: just just being solid with us.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 5: I greatly appreciate it, Man.
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  Speaker 6: You know likewise, Man, I really appreciate you guys. Appreciate
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  Speaker 6: just everything Man that you guys do. You know, as
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  Speaker 6: a fan of what you guys do, Man, definitely you know,
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  Speaker 6: aligned with what Hustle believed in. And you know just
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  Speaker 6: from from watching Man, you know, just proud and appreciative Man.
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  Speaker 6: And then also just all the opportunities and you know,
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  Speaker 6: the way you involve us and just even this with
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  Speaker 6: you know, involved a Hustle and definitely preach it to
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  Speaker 6: the whole team and the family.
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  Speaker 5: So I appreciate it. So I want to make a
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  Speaker 5: special announcement.
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  Speaker 3: And so this year for Investmvest, we're going to have
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  Speaker 3: marathon there and they're going to be having a pop up.
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  Speaker 3: So get your merch. I got to re up on
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  Speaker 3: my merch too. They're gonna have exclusive merch. They're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be in the vendor marketplace. It's going to be that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be one of the craziest activations I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: and invest fast history. But you know, when talking to
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  Speaker 3: Sammy was like, you know, let's let's do something like,
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  Speaker 3: really do something impactful. So we were just thinking, like,
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  Speaker 3: what what can we do impactful outside of just having
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  Speaker 3: them there setting up shop, you know, selling merch and
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  Speaker 3: you know, a panel. But it's like, okay, now we
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  Speaker 3: can do a panel, but what what can we do
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  Speaker 3: even more impactful? So it is my honor to announce
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  Speaker 3: the Nipsey Hustle Business Grant Pitch Competition.
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  Speaker 7: So we are going that's let that agreed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred thousand dollars. One hundred thousand dollars will
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  Speaker 3: be rewarded to an entrepreneur. I'll talk about you know,
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  Speaker 3: the instructions later, but one hundred thousand dollars will be
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  Speaker 3: rewarded to an entrepreneur. And what we're going to do
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  Speaker 3: is we're going to have a social media campaign. So
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  Speaker 3: you have to be an invest fst ticket holder. You
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  Speaker 3: make an Instagram video explaining your business and while one
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars can help you, you tag invest Festival,
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  Speaker 3: Marathon clothing and earn your leisure. You complete the form
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  Speaker 3: that's on invest fst website investfest dot com pitch competition
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  Speaker 3: and from there, over the next thirty eight thirty to
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  Speaker 3: forty five days. We're going to pick one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty participants, right one hundred. One hundred will be pre
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  Speaker 3: selected from the social media campaign, and then we're going
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  Speaker 3: to do fifty walking. So even if you're not selected,
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  Speaker 3: you still have opportunity if you have an invest Fest ticket.
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  Speaker 5: First come, first serve on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: So Friday is gonna be like American Idol, and we
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  Speaker 3: won't be judging it, so don't try to bribe me.
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  Speaker 3: But we're gonna have judges. We're gonna have a hundred,
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna have one hundred and fish. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty participants on Friday, August twenty third.
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  Speaker 3: That's gonna be able to pitch for a minute or
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  Speaker 3: two minutes, and then that's gonna be narrowed down to
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  Speaker 3: four to the judge is gonna pick their top four
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  Speaker 3: and then on Saturday, we will be on stage myself, Troy,
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  Speaker 3: Sam JP Adam, and we will listen to the top
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  Speaker 3: four chosen from the judges. You gotta have a visual
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  Speaker 3: presentation and from there we will pick the winner, which
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  Speaker 3: will be the winner of the Nipsey Hustle. Business Grant
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  Speaker 3: Pitch competition. You will receive one hundred thousand dollars. We
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  Speaker 3: gotta think our friends at Microsoft. This is sponsored by
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  Speaker 3: Marathon ey L and Microsoft, and I really feel like
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  Speaker 3: this is gonna change somebody's life. So Seim, I just
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  Speaker 3: want to I just want to let you speak because obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whenever we involve Bro's name, you know it
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  Speaker 3: has to come through the family and has to get
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  Speaker 3: the blessings. So I know you know you obviously no
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  Speaker 3: Nick better than anybody, right, So it's like you you
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  Speaker 3: share a story with me about how he used to
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  Speaker 3: always give game to entrepreneurs and you'd be like, yo,
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  Speaker 3: you're given too much, but he like nah. So it's like, know,
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  Speaker 3: this is something that I know would be near and
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  Speaker 3: dear to his heart right as far as helping the
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  Speaker 3: next generation of entrepreneurs, helping somebody start their business. So
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  Speaker 3: can you just speak about what this would mean to
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  Speaker 3: to Nip?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Man is an honor And just like you said, Bro,
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  Speaker 6: that's what hustle was about. Like I told you, it's
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  Speaker 6: you know, anytime hustle seeing anybody young or the ambition
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  Speaker 6: to to to go for it and do something, especially
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  Speaker 6: with entrepreneurship.
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  Speaker 8: He he thrived off of that.
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  Speaker 6: He would stop what he was doing, he would share
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  Speaker 6: stories with them, he would give him give them his
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  Speaker 6: plans on things that you know, we hadn't even put,
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  Speaker 6: hadn't even finished. So a lot of time, like you say,
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  Speaker 6: we would be like hold on, bro on, like nah, man, man,
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  Speaker 6: my shit got to inspire.
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  Speaker 8: My ship is here that you know, it's bigger. I like,
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  Speaker 8: you know, motivating.
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  Speaker 6: So he would tap back into and the best thing
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  Speaker 6: he would love to see is, you know, people accomplishing things.
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  Speaker 6: It was like that was his high seeing seeing people
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  Speaker 6: do things and accomplished things. So you know that just
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  Speaker 6: made him smile and he always went out out of
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  Speaker 6: his way to help. So definitely, this is this would
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  Speaker 6: be something he would be just proud of and happy.
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  Speaker 6: So you know, it's a line one hundred percent with
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  Speaker 6: his beliefs and you know, one hundred thousand two to
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  Speaker 6: somebody to start their business. Man. That's that's that's that's
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  Speaker 6: that's wonderful man. So definitely appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's super substantial. Man.
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  Speaker 1: When you were talking, it just made me think of
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  Speaker 1: grinding all my life, like that's in my head that's
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  Speaker 1: playing on. I had for all the people that are
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  Speaker 1: going to enter the pitch competition, like, what are some
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  Speaker 1: of the qualities that you look to see in an entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I like seeing somebody that's just you know,
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  Speaker 6: especially coming from from the bottom man just twenty four
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  Speaker 6: to seven, understanding that, uh the you know, your success
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  Speaker 6: is going to be measured on how much work you
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  Speaker 6: put in, and really somebody that's willing to take it
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  Speaker 6: to the next level and just stay down. I think
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  Speaker 6: for us, you know, anytime we speak to anybody, anytime hustle,
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  Speaker 6: we speak to anybody, it's like, man, just keep going,
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  Speaker 6: and you know it's it's the marathon mentality, Like it's
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  Speaker 6: not gonna happen quick. Just keep going in a brick
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  Speaker 6: a day. That's what he will always tell everybody, and
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  Speaker 6: I think that resonates. So for me, I just like
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  Speaker 6: to see somebody that's that's been going at it and
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  Speaker 6: what we call them like snipers, somebody that's on it
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  Speaker 6: up early, you know, going in late, just motivated, dedicated,
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  Speaker 6: pushing everything else to the side with you know, with
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  Speaker 6: with their eyes on one on the goal and success.
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  Speaker 7: You talked about old school principles for the entrepreneurs, What
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  Speaker 7: are like three principles that you guys operate by that
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  Speaker 7: you want to see more businesses operate with and also
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  Speaker 7: like for for growing their brand? What are three tips
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  Speaker 7: you can give them in twenty twenty four to help
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  Speaker 7: them elevate to get to the next level.
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  Speaker 6: I think just just consistency and just understanding that you know,
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  Speaker 6: you know in business you're gonna learn, so you have
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  Speaker 6: to be willing to take you know, the ups and
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  Speaker 6: the downs, and just keep going and just keep reinvesting
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  Speaker 6: most importantly, reinvest in the business. You know, keep reinvesting, reinvesting,
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  Speaker 6: reinvesting and learning, and I think I think everything will
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  Speaker 6: be okay. Just once again, stay at it, don't give up,
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  Speaker 6: and just stay focused and also hold yourself accountable, hold
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  Speaker 6: yourself to a to a to a high standard because
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  Speaker 6: you know that that that that's what it really depends on.
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  Speaker 8: It depends on your motivation and your consistency.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Sam Man, once again, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Man. I know we extended conversation at a vest fest,
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  Speaker 3: so I don't want to keep you too long, but
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  Speaker 3: once again, I just want to thank you guys for
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  Speaker 3: coming and you know a just being in the Vendom
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  Speaker 3: marketplace because that was the original conversation. I was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 3: we need you in the Vendom marketplace because I just
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  Speaker 3: thought that would be really dope to have Marathon as
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  Speaker 3: a representation in the vendor marketplace. I saw, I saw
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  Speaker 3: a complex can So we're gonna we're gonna try to
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  Speaker 3: get the brink trump if we can. We're gonna try
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  Speaker 3: to get the brinksho no pressure, no pressure, pressure, but
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  Speaker 3: over the culture needs it for sure. But over and
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  Speaker 3: everything just came organically, like you know, we even having
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  Speaker 3: Lauren there. That came separate. So I think it's just
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  Speaker 3: really dope to have that. You know, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: it's just all in alignment. And you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: just me and you guys, the whole entire team.
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  Speaker 7: Man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I really felt like, you know, you guys
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  Speaker 3: are just really really genuine good people. And so the
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  Speaker 3: last thing I would like you to say is, I
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  Speaker 3: know the Marathon store is coming soon and everybody has
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  Speaker 3: been waiting, So can you give the people an update
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  Speaker 3: on what they should expect when they can expect it
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  Speaker 3: For the physical location of the Marathon store, Yeah, one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent.
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  Speaker 6: We're looking to by the end of this year. It's
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  Speaker 6: still under construction. It's almost finished right now. We've got
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  Speaker 6: the rooftop open on the Mailroads location, but it should
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  Speaker 6: be a big announcement, hopefully a big grand opening and
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  Speaker 6: finally get the retail space back open.
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  Speaker 3: And then also Neighborhood NIT Foundation. An't thing you want
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  Speaker 3: to say about that. I know you got that location
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  Speaker 3: that's on Crenshaw and Slawson, So what's the deal with that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, No, one hundred percent. We've been twenty four to
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  Speaker 8: seven remoleeling it.
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  Speaker 6: We build a studio in there, we're gonna bring back
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  Speaker 6: the Vector ninety and just that's gonna be Neighborhood NIT Foundation.
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  Speaker 6: You know, that's the mecca, man, That's that's where everything happened.
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  Speaker 6: That's that that that that's Hustle's vision. So for us
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  Speaker 6: in the family Man, when we were just thinking about it,
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  Speaker 6: it was a no brainer. That's that needs to be
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  Speaker 6: the location for the Neighborhood NIP Foundation.
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  Speaker 8: And same thing.
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  Speaker 6: Top of the year, we've been going all at it
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  Speaker 6: and it's almost ready, so that'll be you know, one
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  Speaker 6: of the grand openers, man that we really anticipating.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate you, my brother man. Thank you, see you soon.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred thousand dollars, Nipsey, hustle, business grant, pitch competition,
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  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, all that in Best Fest. We want
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  Speaker 3: to thank Microsoft, we want to thank the marathon. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm interested to see with these entrepreneurs. I want to
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  Speaker 3: see how I want to see how hungry people really are, man,
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  Speaker 3: because it's like, you know, for me personally, one hundred
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars, just starting a business like I would have been,
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  Speaker 3: I would have already made the video, would already makes
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  Speaker 3: like what I'm saying. So I want to I want
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  Speaker 3: to see how how hungry these entrepreneurs are. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: really also very excited to see, you know, the level
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  Speaker 3: of excellence from businesses. I know there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people with great ideas, especially like in technology. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: that there's a lot of people with different maybe even
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  Speaker 3: artificial intelligence and different dope ideas that they got crazy vision,
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  Speaker 3: but they just need a little bit of money just
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  Speaker 3: to kind of get them off the ground. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: actually very excited to see this play out. And once again,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for taking time out your day.
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  Speaker 5: Brother. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 8: Man. Once again, Man appreciate you.
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  Speaker 6: Guys, appreciate the opportunity and definitely man, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: No appreciate it. My brother, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Peace flags all in the chat.
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  Speaker 5: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: That's a fact, honorable. When you were talking about one
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that, right, Like when we talk about private
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  Speaker 1: equity adventure capital not coming to our community, like one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand, somebody who's starting a business thinking about life
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  Speaker 1: about right, like.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about red im thinking about earlier. What would
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  Speaker 2: we look like it with.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred thousand. It's just it's bigger than a stimulus, man,
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  Speaker 1: It's that important. And I told you this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the most impactful. Yeah, we've been saying it.
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  Speaker 1: We've been saying it. So that's how we're kicking it off.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just say something because it's like, you know, man,
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  Speaker 3: you know sometimes in life, you you meet people that
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  Speaker 3: you you feel like you already knew them, but you didn't,
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  Speaker 3: you never met them before, right, And that's how I
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  Speaker 3: feel with Sam and the whole team. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: Sam very malmanned reserve doesn't really speak too much, but
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  Speaker 3: I understand that he's a Pisces.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he's just March one, a March one.
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  Speaker 2: He left that part out.
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  Speaker 3: Early, so saying, you know, man, I look at it like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they don't really do too much, right, that's obvious,
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  Speaker 3: Like as far as so it's like, you know too.
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  Speaker 5: And trust us with with the legacy.
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  Speaker 3: That means something and that's something that we don't We
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  Speaker 3: don't take for granted doing the interview that they entrusted us.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't never interurgy like that before. They entrusted us
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  Speaker 3: with that right now would investvests that they're entrusting us
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  Speaker 3: with this. So I say that to say, you guys
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  Speaker 3: take this serious, right, you guys take this serious because
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  Speaker 3: it's like one hundred thousand dollars is one thing, but
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  Speaker 3: what's bigger than that is that when whoever wins this
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars, you're carrying on.
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  Speaker 5: The legacy of Nipsey Hustle.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So yeah, you're gonna get one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: and that's great, six figures. There's no strings attached, but
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  Speaker 3: you you have Nipsey Hustle. Like they took nip from us,
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  Speaker 3: but he's still with us, right, and he's still living
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  Speaker 3: and the marathon still continues. So the person that wins
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  Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars that energy that he inspired me,
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  Speaker 3: he inspired Troy, he inspired millions of people. That's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a direct correlation transfer over to you. That's
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  Speaker 3: a deposit that's bigger than one hundred thousand dollars, right,
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  Speaker 3: So be mindful of that.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So once again, just just to RecA app we will
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  Speaker 3: be doing the Nipsey Hustle Business Grant Pitch Competition one
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars at this year's invest Fest. To enter
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  Speaker 3: to win, you must be an invest Fest ticket holder.
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  Speaker 3: General mission doesn't matter. Invest Fest ticket holder. You must
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  Speaker 3: create an Instagram video right explaining your business and how
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  Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars can help your business. Tag in
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  Speaker 3: the video tag invest Festival, tag marathon clothing, and tag
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  Speaker 3: earn your Leisure. You also must complete a form, an
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  Speaker 3: entry form which is on investfest dot com, invest Fest
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  Speaker 3: dot com slash Pitch Competition. Complete the form right, because
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  Speaker 3: we want to make sure you actually this is a
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  Speaker 3: real thing. We're actually really don't it's not just no
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  Speaker 3: random thing. We will choose one hundred pre selected people.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I want to make this very clear, because these pitch
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  Speaker 3: competitions people get very wow. One hundred people that make
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  Speaker 3: Instagram videos and that fill out the form and that
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  Speaker 3: have tickets will be chosen before investments. We will notify
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  Speaker 3: you via email. You will be notified you, you will
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  Speaker 3: have instructions on what to do. On August twenty third,
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: those hundred people will audition, and then another fifty walk ins.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: The fifty walk ins even if you don't make the
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: one hundred pre selected, if you have an invest Fest
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: ticket and you filled out the form, first come, first serve, right,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: first fifty. This is the first fifty people that come
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: will be granted access to auditions. So that would be
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: what time should they get there?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: And what day?
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: The day is August twenty third, which is a Friday.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure what time the doors open up yet.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: We'll be talking about this, but.
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: Hey, I was get there thirty o'clock in the morning.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: What times did you get that for Thursday night? Since
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: of seven o'clock in the morning a.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Waiting line for tickets?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, your business, the functional aspect of your business, if
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: it's relying on a stimulus, that's how important it is
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: you get there before that.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you this, three people will be chosen
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: from the hundred. So out of the hundred people that's
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: pre selected, three people will be chosen. One person will
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: be selected from the walkings. So don't think that if
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: it's just a walking, you're just gonna wait. Out of
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: those fifty people that are walkings, we will have one
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: person selected from the walkings. How bad you want it
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: will determine how early you get there. I can't tell
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: you what time to get there. I don't know. There
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: might be everybody might wake up late that day. You
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: might be able just to walk in at nine o'clock.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Who knows, be a huge mistake.
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: That also says the part who really wants it and
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: who doesn't. And like you said, I would have shot
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: the video already. If you got a working product or
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: working service, it would be great to have them tag
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: them to and say, hey, they've been helping me the
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: entire time, Like if you were doing like what Edwin
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: has been doing the last three or four years, facts
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: supporting events before you need to help, can we talk
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: about that before you need to help.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I put it on my post yesterday too.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: A lot of times, some of you may not have
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: gotten your blessing because when you got the opportunity, you
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: were not lower to the opportunity that you got.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Take full advantage.
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: Be there early. If you have an amazing business, be
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: there early. Have helped already, if you've supported any of
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: us and may help you a little bit, Get there early.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Don't come in twelve fifteen. That's to me.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, no, no, I can't do nothing.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Got no number facts.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: So that's the deal, ladies and gentlemen. That is the deal.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: And if you're a vendor, if you're a vendor, then
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: you qualify as an invest Fest ticket holder also so
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: you can participate if you're a vendor. So look, man,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: you know how we respond to hey is love because
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: love always wins, right, So you know, when thinking about
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: invest Fest twenty four, we wanted to see how we
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: can be as impactful as possible.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: This is just the first.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Initiative that were rolling out. By the way, this is
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: just but this is this is something that means a lot.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: That's why we wanted to go this out.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: First.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Thank you to Adam, thank you to JP, thank you
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: to Sam, thank you to Lauren, thank you to everybody
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: in Hustle's family, thank you to rock Nation, thank you
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: to the whole team. Man, those guys are amazing. So
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: if you if you got love for Nip Hustle, if
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: you got love for Marathon, the first thing you should
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: do is just be at investments to actually go to
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: the pop up shot pop up shots gonna.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Go crazy to see them. No, you got to see
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: them in person.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: We can't stress that enough. You're not going to see.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: This their first pop up in Atlanta in ten years.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: They told me so.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: To be able to actually get the drop, see them,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: talk to the bros, take pictures. Like I said, I
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: hope we get that Brink truck.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: And get some game from them at the be there early.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: And if we're gonna be honest, they were on that
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: crypto wave in the black community before anybody else was
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: plenty of videos years ago.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I remember watching twenty seventeen in the Netherlands in a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: coffee shop talking.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Crypto before people were so yeah, and you know, saying,
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: he not.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: He don't want me to say this, obviously, because he's
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: just a very male manned and a very humble person.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: But Sam top five realists people alive from realist people alive.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Five you got five of that.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying it's top two.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe not, maybe not.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I mean like we we We've been there for a
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: lot of these conversations.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I've seen it in.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: Person, realist people alive. When I say real I mean
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: a real person exactly.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Like you know what I mean, Like don't across the
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: board in the day and age, but everybody wants to
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: gossip and show you out, really speak about themselves and
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: talk about other people. Never it's like ghost face killer,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Like don't speak, don't show their face, don't stay behind
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: the scenes, put other people in like positions. I'm good,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Like I don't need to be on camera. You know
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, do good business, keep his word. That's
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: for the whole team. The last thing I say about
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: this is, you know, it's just unfortunate because we never
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: got a chance to meet Nip. But everything happens for
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: a reason. And you know it's one thing that we
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: developed relationships with every single person close to him, everybody, right,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: but now this is just a different level of reverence.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: And and like I said, we can only do this
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: with the blessings of his family. Right, So for for
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: you guys watching, don't try to throw Nip's name on something, right,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: and you never met the family, you never don't.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: That's disrespectful.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: We would never throw somebody's name on something if we
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: don't actually have a relationship, if it wasn't actually powered,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: if it wasn't supported by person's family. So that's just
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: for business ethics, one on one, right, But man, this
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: is just this is dope for me personally. I know
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Troy feel the same way and everybody, but I can
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: only speak for me, like, this is dope for me
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: being such a fan of everything that Nips stood for
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and his business acumen and his music and you know, matter.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: A person for I hear there's a part of it
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that still feels a little bit bittersweet. But yeah, it's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: like he's not here, but like I said, that he
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: lives to us in the work that we're doing and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: obviously what the marathon continues, which is the slogan.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: So that makes it dope, man.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, but a lot of what you just spoke
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: about is the relationships, like relationship building.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: We're talking about two years.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Dave Gross, shout out to Steve Carlins,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: like a bunch of people who have said the same thing. Look,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: he would have loved what y'all doing. We love what
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you're doing. Let's figure something out. And so again, we
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: can't say how much relationships mean to us, but this
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: is a perfect example of just staying with integrity and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: leading with value, right, Like, this wouldn't work if we
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: weren't doing the work in our community that we were.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: So shout to him, Shout out the neighborhood and neb Foundation.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: That's going to be incredible. Shout out to the launch
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: of the marathon. I saw on Melrose. Well, you know
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you could probably see it. You're probably gonna see us there.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: But yeah, let's keep this thing.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Going krinshaw and slaughting. That's where it all started. Yeah,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: and I can't wait for that.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: To open up. That that Neighborhood NIP Foundation. Man, that's
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: gonna be.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Back to ninety as well, amazing experience. Yea, all right,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: marathon continues. Fact back to regularly scheduled programming.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: And well, he was.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: About to be one of the biggest real estate developers.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, billion dollars practice seemen and what if our
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: investments have become strategic about to make my partners look
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: like geniuses and they're crazy.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: It's crazy to say, but at the time when he passed,
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Nipsey was probably ranked higher in entrepreneurship than Sam Altman was.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: And Sam went on to do chagy bet and open
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: the eye what he was thinking about other people were
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: not talking about eight nine years ago.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: It's like I always say, what's the difference between Kanye
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: West and Elon Musk?
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Did it pretty much the same person? One has different experiences,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: one has just a career path, one has a different upbringing.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: So one person is the richest, second richest person in
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: the world. Other person's a billionaire two or six hundred million.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: But what you're exposed to right Also, if he was
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: raised Dave Gross is a perfect example this. Dave Gross
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: is the person that actually introduced us to everybody. Dave,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: wherever you are in the world right now, shout out
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: to you. I haven't spoken to him a long time.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: But so Dave Gross is an interesting story because he's
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: from South central LA. He's from the neighborhood, right, But
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: he moved out. His parents moved him out to Texas
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: when he was a kid, and it changed his life.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: His brother stayed in the neighborhood, and unfortunately they took
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: a path of a traditional you know that what you
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: would think would happen in that neighborhood. He went to
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Texas and he went to Ivy League school and then
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: he had a twenty year career on Walsh Street and
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: got mentored by Don Peebles, became a real estate investor,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: slash developer, very prestigious career. Then he came back and
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: he's connected with Nip because when he came back to
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: La he was he kept hearing about the kid Nipsey
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Hustle from his neighborhood and he's like, I want to
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: meet this kid. And he connected with his brother who
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: are it was in the same fraternity of Nip and
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: and they introduced him and and then he started mentoring
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Nip on business. I say that to say, what if
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Nip would have been raised in Orange County, in not
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: south central LA he could have potentially started the next
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: billion dollar unicorn because he already had the mindset, had
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: the work ethic, had the personality right. But it's like,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: unfortunately a lot of times the circumstances that we come
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: up in that dictates our career path and dictates our life.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: So it's just interesting, man. Yeah, man, it's very interesting.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: We got a shout out to who's Davis intrograwing that
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: by somebody that is equally as intergra in that. And
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I was the captain of when we got to do
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the episode. Shout to Cobby Copy Supreme, Shout out the Bah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Shout the pack, shout to j Stone. Just real solid dudes.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Every time we go out there, we make sure we
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: tap in with them. Just make sure that they're good
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and we got it. Well, they'll probably be here.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: We got j J.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: We got to make sure that the whole team is there.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Man, long lived nipsey hustle.
• 27:37
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• 27:39
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