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Demetrius Gray: The onus is on VCs to fund Black founders
“I just don't have tons of confidence in VC. Like, they have a track record, and their track record speaks for itself. Nobody, it's not a secret, and so the onus is really on them to improve. You know, it's not on me to try to convince a VC that a Black founder…”
Demetrius Gray: Use accelerators for enterprise customer acquisition, not fundraising
“Part of our internal strategy is using accelerators to get to customers.”
Demetrius Gray recruited weekend hackathon teams for free engineering labor
“So Jermaine and I would go, and then you'd recruit to the team, and so you got Free labor for the weekend. Then if everybody on the team had done what they were supposed to do, you won. You know. And so, we started winning.”
Demetrius Gray predicts WeatherCheck will become a billion-dollar company
“That also means that I own more of the company than most founders ever do, and I think that's beneficial in the context of, like, look, we will become a billion-dollar company, and the byproduct is that I'm gonna be super rich, and Jermaine's gonna be super ri…”