I Just Learned My Former Business Partner Exposed Himself as a Low Life Thief (Story Time)

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I've come to learn over the past two days from several sources that my former business partner has slowly destroyed his reputation within the Boston business ecosystem. In 2017, I founded a management consultancy firm with this individual whom I met through a panel on funding and equity initiatives for Black startups. He spoke passionately and eloquently on this topic and came across as a credible person to explore ideas with. We decided to merge our two businesses into one.
Without going into unnecessary details, he ended up exposing himself as entirely inadequate, unliked, distrustful, and incompetent on applied business principles. He was an impostor with the gift to articulate and sell his lies with the lure of funding businesses with capital from an NYC-based Black business fund.
He graduated from Harvard University, and this negro looks precisely like Don Lemon, having come from the Martha's Vineyard Black bourgeoisie class. He tries his best to fit in and relate but telegraphs his inauthenticity from a mile away. He would constantly share his distaste for Black culture and women with me. After growing tired of him, a third partner and I left the business through a legal battle. I have been lying low for the last few years, slowly rebuilding and rebranding.

Well, in the time passed, he has managed to fuck over several organizations, businesses, mentees, and his marital life. His WHITE wife has left him, and he recently stole several thousand in cash from a bank account and a business vehicle listed under his mentee's name, who also happened to be his business partner. He contacted IG to claim her original business page as a fake and had it shut down while he secretly put up his own under a similar name to steal her clientele. He convinced her to start a transportation business together while she put up all the capital but gave him access to the banking accounts with his name on the documentation.Mentors are forbidden to engage in any business dealings outside of that relationship. The town is abuzz with talk about his thievery, and I am sitting here taking it all in with a wide grin on my face.

Watching him unfold brings me joy.
Meanwhile, my business has grown, and my reputation well respected.
 
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Some people spend more energy in trying to get over than it would take to do business legit. I know a brother in my town like that. I tried to support his small black business but he beat me out of freaking $40. That's when hit me that every brother aint a brother. I know it's $40 but that shit fucked with me for a few weeks. I was making about 50k back then but I was still pissed. Karma finally caught up with that dude. Wife left him and took the house and kids and he is still struggling.
 
Yep.
Sadly, I was stupid enough to let him lure me me with the promise of money.
Saw through the veil and left.

Hey man, a smooth talking hustler will hustle many. Add in the educational background and that opens doors to hustle many more people who are unsuspecting.

Just be happy that you saw through it when you did because it could’ve always been worse.
 
Yep.
Sadly, I was stupid enough to let him lure me me with the promise of money.
Saw through the veil and left.
What do you mean Willie's gone!

One of the most famous lines from the late great Sidney Poitier's A Raisin in the Sun

It is absolutely appalling that we have to worry about black people like this who take money from poor people only to enrich themselves because of sheer greediness

I've got a great business idea that would help the black community, but I worry about people like this as I attempt to figure out how the hell I'm going to get the funding for such an ambitious and unselfish business model

I love when people like this are shown for who they are , but the issue always is the number of victims they leave in their wake, many of whom could not afford to lose what this crook has taken from them
 
What do you mean Willie's gone!

One of the most famous lines from the late great Sidney Poitier's A Raisin in the Sun

It is absolutely appalling that we have to worry about black people like this who take money from poor people only to enrich themselves because of sheer greediness

I've got a great business idea that would help the black community, but I worry about people like this as I attempt to figure out how the hell I'm going to get the funding for such an ambitious and unselfish business model

I love when people like this are shown for who they are , but the issue always is the number of victims they leave in their wake, many of whom could not afford to lose what this crook has taken from them


Don't sleep on the power of social crowdfunding and credit cycling.
It's combining equity and debt in a unique way to cover the necessary seed cost of launching big w/o surrendering equity.
 
Some people spend more energy in trying to get over than it would take to do business legit. I know a brother in my town like that. I tried to support his small black business but he beat me out of freaking $40. That's when hit me that every brother aint a brother. I know it's $40 but that shit fucked with me for a few weeks. I was making about 50k back then but I was still pissed. Karma finally caught up with that dude. Wife left him and took the house and kids and he is still struggling.

The principle always outweigh the monetary loss.
I feel ya, fam.
 
Bruh, you gotta eat that. You made the decision to do business with that nigga. So that's on you.

I feel that once we reach a certain level of maturity, we should be able to spot a wolf in sheep's clothing. Can't let the allure of money and unchecked ambition fuck with your critical thinking and instincts.

I'm sure you learned from it. But it's no different than being able to spot a bum bitch.
 
I've come to learn over the past two days from several sources that my former business partner has slowly destroyed his reputation within the Boston business ecosystem. In 2017, I founded a management consultancy firm with this individual whom I met through a panel on funding and equity initiatives for Black startups. He spoke passionately and eloquently on this topic and came across as a credible person to explore ideas with. We decided to merge our two businesses into one.
Without going into unnecessary details, he ended up exposing himself as entirely inadequate, unliked, distrustful, and incompetent on applied business principles. He was an impostor with the gift to articulate and sell his lies with the lure of funding businesses with capital from an NYC-based Black business fund.
He graduated from Harvard University, and this negro looks precisely like Don Lemon, having come from the Martha's Vineyard Black bourgeoisie class. He tries his best to fit in and relate but telegraphs his inauthenticity from a mile away. He would constantly share his distaste for Black culture and women with me. After growing tired of him, a third partner and I left the business through a legal battle. I have been lying low for the last few years, slowly rebuilding and rebranding.

Well, in the time passed, he has managed to fuck over several organizations, businesses, mentees, and his marital life. His WHITE wife has left him, and he recently stole several thousand in cash from a bank account and a business vehicle listed under his mentee's name, who also happened to be his business partner. He contacted IG to claim her original business page as a fake and had it shut down while he secretly put up his own under a similar name to steal her clientele. He convinced her to start a transportation business together while she put up all the capital but gave him access to the banking accounts with his name on the documentation.Mentors are forbidden to engage in any business dealings outside of that relationship. The town is abuzz with talk about his thievery, and I am sitting here taking it all in with a wide grin on my face.

Watching him unfold brings me joy.
Meanwhile, my business has grown, and my reputation well respected.

COLIN WANTS YOU TO READ THIS

Not to dilute your story at all but I have a story worse than yours.

I met this brother in court. He represented my adversary in a divorce. I kicked his ass. I mean worse than normal. But I liked his gumption. I thought that if I trained him I could turn him into a decent attorney.

Cat was from Boston. Very good law school. Military guy. I convinced him to join my law firm. I opened a second location. I told him to keep his clients but help some of my young associates.

Now I have locations in Harlem and Bronx and 4 attorneys working for me. Blowing up right?

That dude stopped showing up. We went to Martha’s Vineyard together with our girls. I even bought that cat a pair of blue suede Ferragamos.

After a few months the girls in the Bronx office we’re like he hasn’t been here in awhile. Whichever location I was not at my employees were not working. Some employees started signing up clients keeping the money, etc.

anyway I found out months later that dude was on trial for all kinds of fraud. Embezzlement , etc. Dude got 6 years in prison after a trial.

That was a horrible time. He’s out now. Living in Boston again. Got a nice condo in some bay.

Yeah, I can find anybody in the US, their neighbors, and family. I run a lot more background checks on new people now if there is any way they can fuck me over.
 
Bruh, you gotta eat that. You made the decision to do business with that nigga. So that's on you.

I feel that once we reach a certain level of maturity, we should be able to spot a wolf in sheep's clothing. Can't let the allure of money and unchecked ambition fuck with your critical thinking and instincts.

I'm sure you learned from it. But it's no different than being able to spot a bum bitch.

You're correct.
I never hide behind that shame.
I learned, moved on, and have kept myself from repeating.
 
COLIN WANTS YOU TO READ THIS

Not to dilute your story at all but I have a story worse than yours.

I met this brother in court. He represented my adversary in a divorce. I kicked his ass. I mean worse than normal. But I liked his gumption. I thought that if I trained him I could turn him into a decent attorney.

Cat was from Boston. Very good law school. Military guy. I convinced him to join my law firm. I opened a second location. I told him to keep his clients but help some of my young associates.

Now I have locations in Harlem and Bronx and 4 attorneys working for me. Blowing up right?

That dude stopped showing up. We went to Martha’s Vineyard together with our girls. I even bought that cat a pair of blue suede Ferragamos.

After a few months the girls in the Bronx office we’re like he hasn’t been here in awhile. Whichever location I was not at my employees were not working. Some employees started signing up clients keeping the money, etc.

anyway I found out months later that dude was on trial for all kinds of fraud. Embezzlement , etc. Dude got 6 years in prison after a trial.

That was a horrible time. He’s out now. Living in Boston again. Got a nice condo in some bay.

Yeah, I can find anybody in the US, their neighbors, and family. I run a lot more background checks on new people now if there is any way they can fuck me over.
Damn...

Boston seems to have a lot swindlers and professional impostors across industries who operate under the veil of representing something they're not (or incapable of). Perhaps it's due to the prevalent high levels of academic and financial achievements around these parts. A graduate degree doesn't even get you into the door like it used to.
As for the fellow you tried mentoring, he will soon realize the opportunity wasted when the walls completely collapse around him (if they haven't already). There are those you can't help no matter how many chances you give them or resources you equip them with; loyalty and integrity are invaluable character traits.
 
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