Black Entrepreneur Talks About His Journey To Silicon Valley

Black Entrepreneur Talks About His Journey To Silicon Valley

Chris Bennett is the CEO and co-founder of Central.ly, a co-founder of Black Founders, and a member of the NewMe Accelerator. He will be blogging about his experiences in Silicon Valley for the next month to share what he is learning out in the Wild Wild West.

From a very young age I witnessed my parents strive to create their businesses so they could work for themselves. My father badly wanted to stop dragging others luggage up and down Miami International Airport as a Skycap; and my mom wanted out of the corporate job that left her unhappy and unfulfilled. They went on to succesfully open a local grocery store and a tax preparation business respectively. Witnessing my parents quit their jobs multiple times and become the masters of their financial destinies has only made being an entrepreneur more alluring and manageable for me.

Read more about Chris and Central.ly on NewsOne…

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