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Successful African-American Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Feels 'Like A Black Unicorn' – #592

  1. Successful African-American Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Feels 'Like A Black Unicorn' - #592 Devin Thorpe 22:56

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Originally from inner-city Baltimore, Maryland, successful tech entrepreneur Clarence Wooten, 46, got into tech and computers through video games as a kid. He played on the old Atari, ColecoVision and Commodore platforms.

From those modest beginnings, a career blossomed. As a youth, Wooten looked up to people like Bill Gates and Reginald Lewis as role models. Lewis, the richest African American in the 1980s was born and raised in Baltimore. He died in 1993 after taking control of and subsequently growing Beatrice—the first African American-owned billion-dollar company. The power of role models would stay with Wooten throughout his career.

Still in Baltimore in the late 90s, Wooten founded ImageCafe, a startup that provided website templates for Small Businesses, something like what Wix and Squarespace do today.

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