Wayne Swanson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And we don't want to talk about percentages and you're offended by somebody who's like, man, how about I give you 5%?
Like 5%, I need 100%.
No, you don't need 100%.
That ain't real.
That's the movies.
This ain't Nino Brown.
Look at what Nas do with Ring.
Yeah.
It's a percent.
But then the thing I had to learn about, I'm an investor as well.
The thing I had to learn about investing was,
was you gotta walk away unless they need some help.
Walk away, let them do, you paid them this money.
Just let them do their shit.
Let them do their shit.
And then let them know when you're ready or if you see some maturation, like some of them there's like a eight, 10 year maturation before you can get something.
I always turn it back in.
And the benefit for me is now my product is going into a grocery store that we, I only wanna put my stuff in a black owned store.
It's just not enough product, one.
and two that's part of my story i'm raised by black entrepreneurs and i am i am um particular about where my stuff goes right as you should be yeah absolutely and then you found success in it so you know it's not even a thing about whether it can or can't be done it's being done it's being done you're doing it and i want to make sure i make this i found success because uh