The business stories
we are following.
Current developments involving Black founders, owners, leaders, investors and companies, reported with context rather than reduced to a headline.
Pinky Cole Hayes Built a Brand People Feel. Now Comes the Harder Rebuild
Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole Hayes turned cultural fluency into a nationally recognized restaurant brand. Its rise, restructuring and comeback offer founders a fuller lesson about attention, ownership and operating discipline.
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How Tabitha Brown Turned Trust Into an Enterprise
Donna’s Recipe, Target and a growing portfolio show what can happen when a creator treats audience trust as a business responsibility, not merely reach.
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Tope Awotona Built Calendly by Removing One Persistent Friction
Calendly’s path from one founder’s savings to a globally used platform shows how focus, product-led distribution and financial discipline can turn an ordinary frustration into an extraordinary company.
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David Steward’s Long Game at World Wide Technology
WWT’s rise from a small government contractor to a $20 billion global technology provider shows what capability, customer trust, ownership and institutional leadership can compound over decades.
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Fawn Weaver Built Uncle Nearest Into a Billion-Dollar Story. Now Ownership Is Being Tested
The rise of Uncle Nearest shows how historical stewardship, product quality and independent ownership can create an extraordinary company. Its receivership shows why capital, governance and control are inseparable from that mission.
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Janice Bryant Howroyd Built ActOne by Making Humanity an Operating System
A $1,500 beginning became a global workforce enterprise because Howroyd treated values, technology and talent as parts of the same business model.
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Denise Woodard Built Partake by Turning Exclusion Into a National Brand
Her daughter’s food-allergy diagnosis exposed a product gap. Building Partake required Woodard to master retail, capital and mission without losing sight of the families the company was created to serve.
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Marlon Nichols Invests in the Future Other People Have Not Learned to See
At MaC Venture Capital, cultural insight is not a substitute for financial discipline. It is a way to identify shifts in behavior, overlooked founders and investable markets before they become obvious.
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