 Hello everybody welcome. I know we've got a couple minutes left. I just want to jump on Real quick so that that way the YouTube notifications couldn't go out and Also, we can see who's out there in the world. So we'll be starting momentarily the broadcast today Looking forward to the conversation good conversation coming up if you are aware The SBA had a summit the other week and we're going to discuss that SBA summit Among some other things so what's up Xavier? Welcome. What's going on people? Let us know who you are where you're from what your industry is use this as your time to shine Let us know what you got going on out there in the world How's my mic? How's my sound? We sound a good Everything's good. I'll wait for some folks to jump on. Thank you. Kenny. Appreciate you Never mind. Love it. Love it. Love it Xavier is in the building again. 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Okay So today's topic actually, I want to discuss the SBA had this small business virtual summit How many people saw it and They announced that Jennifer Lopez was gonna be headlining this small business virtual summit So that's what we're talking about today is in fact they had this virtual summit it was a few weeks back and And so when I looked at it While I admire and I respect Jennifer Lopez That's great. I just didn't feel like she identified with most of us small businesses and our struggles and our journeys and I just wished and hope that the SBA would have brought different speakers on board and so when and seeing that and and looking back at You know the new SBA director Goose mon bringing Jennifer Lopez while I do respect that it was Hispanic heritage month. I just felt like we could have brought on some higher quality Speakers and people to actually serve and benefit those not just to really rah rah rah I think we've got enough rah rah rah going on out here And we need substantive things that we can actually do that are actionable that we can implement in our business If you feel different, let me know if you feel like, you know, you thought Jennifer Lopez was a good pick. Let me know That's just the way I feel about it. Again, I talked to hundreds of small business all the time and what they want or substance They don't want to be actually just aroused they want substance and funny thing is There's actually a word that they use in her biography Which I thought was really interesting I'm gonna drop it in here. What's up cousin? And they said that she's submitting history as a global icon and ultimate multi hyphenate. Does anybody know what that word means? hyphenate Does anybody know what that means multi hyphenate? I know we got some some SAT guys in here. Who's SAT people high SAT? Come on. I never got some SAT people in here. All right That word when they're describing Person I'm gonna pull up the definition Okay, that word actually Stands for a person especially celebrity with several professions or skills That's the definition Right a celebrity with several professions or skills not many people that I know that I teach or talk to are Multi hyphenates or celebrity status. We are small business owners that are Growing we have a technical skill and we are looking to develop that into a business Our employees and grow up our companies And so I just felt as though that that was they could have done a better job And while the SB does a lot of great things out there I just felt like they could have done a better job. And so what I decided was okay Let me share it would have been my picks if I was the person in charge run the SBA Who I would have felt like would have been more applicable because these people actually have Skill sets that translate into skill sets that we need to build our business to grow our business to sustain things like HR things like raising money and capital and so they started off essentially Given the same set of the toolbox that we had to work from and I think that most of us would actually Learn and be able to benefit from these Speakers as opposed to the ones they had on there and again, I know Jennifer Lopez I'm not really picking on her but she happened to be the person that they highlighted So that's why we brought her name up. There were some other speakers that they highlighted as well Which included mark Cuban But there's some other things that I think that a lot of us out here and I appreciate by the way I appreciate everyone for coming on today There's a lot of us out here and there's a lot of programs out here that can benefit and serve small businesses And we are not aware of them and I don't think that they get enough press. I don't think they get enough publicity but The folks at the highest levels the people at the highest levels of business Understand these programs. They understand how to leverage these programs and how to make them work So again, I appreciate the folks that came on today to learn and understand this because this is really important and vital to Not just you yourself as an individual but the small business community as a whole and I want folks to really To take time pay attention even if you've got a run Come back in and pick this up from where we left off because these are programs that Don't get a lot of publicity. They don't get a lot of press No one talks about them But the highest people at the highest levels are actually benefiting from the programs that the sba the sba puts out in sponsors So I want to talk about that today And that's really the basis of our conversation. So um The first person that I think would have served us a bit well in terms of a speaker for the sba week Let me see Okay, is a man from shobana yoga And I don't know how to pronounce his name. I don't want to get it wrong But this guy right here. Hamdi oolakaya Does anybody know who he is? Has anybody ever heard of this particular guy? I'm sure all of us eat shobani yogurt But as if if you don't know who he is Um, I do write I write a story about him if you start subscribe to my newsletter. You'll see I write a story about him and What he's did was he's the founder and creator of shobani yogurt And so we all probably know the shobani brand. We've seen a shobani brand out there But what you might not know Is how they actually got started and we talk about this and one of my actual Uh, one of my newsletters that goes out to my subscribers We talk about the guy from shobani yogurt and the reason why I think he'd be a great pick is because he actually started shobani yogurt using an sba loan And I think that so many people ask me Eric, how do I get started? Right? What types of programs out there? I would have loved to hear from him to discuss The sba loan that he got to buy the manufacturing facility to first start making shobani yogurt And what that process looked like and so he would have been one of my top picks as a speaker or the sba um So that's number one This guy right here peter till How many people know peter till? Let's welcome clarence. Welcome as welcome. Kenny. Welcome because our how many people know peter till. Let me switch to a bigger screen Anybody have heard peter till? no Yes, no okay So peter till is the founder of a company called palantir technologies Let me show you Palantir technologies all right So peter till is the founder of a company called palantir technologies. You've probably never heard of palantir technologies But if you do some research on palantir And you find out what they're doing they're actually they are How do I say this in a nice way? they do a lot of the spying on people for the government on the behalf of our us government And they do AI stuff, but really they're known for Uh, the people who are responsible for like tracking down say Osama bin Laden and doing that type of Grabbing that kind of data And it says modeling precision Um, and so they grab that kind of data and they pass that data along to our us government So that they can do things like track down terrorists and things like that that's sort But the reason why I say peter till and I bring his name up is because palantir technologies was actually created And funded by the us government. So the government one of the government's own programs Went on to put palantir technologies into business and so this particular program went on to put palantir into business and ultimately And I don't remember which agency it was but they were originally sponsored by the government And so what in you like to hear from an entrepreneur whose business was actually formulated out of The government itself and then went on to become a multi billion dollar business Let's go in and in fact you can look at it now and let's see if we can find Some people say what does palantir do See a public american software coming specialized in big data analytics Original clients were federal agencies of us ic They said since has experience customer base to serve state and local government as well as private companies But again, that wasn't its original customers and now palantir Has over 2,500 employees in our multi billion Company and again it was created and founded out of the government So these are the kind of people that i'm like what what These are the folks that I want to hear from because these these a lot of you out there listening Have that same ability but because We don't know we may not be aware of these programs and we're not aware of how they work or no one's teaching it to us We fall short oftentimes and because we run into capital and cash is king We have to then put our You know crazy wild ideas To the back burner because they're under finance and we don't have anyone to actually support us. Does that make sense? Is any like if anybody likes what i'm saying like can you say something comment give me some feedback on here? Make me feel i'm like talking to the air Make sure you hit the thumbs up hit the like button. I know i'm a little dark in the background Looks like my lighting is kind of off today, but um if you like what we're talking about let me know Hit the thumbs up. Let me know who's out here. I see Marie I see canny a s clarence Um ty and again, I know this isn't like how to register in sam or how to get your done But I think this is super important and i'm and again, I want to talk to The folks out there because ours is nope. You don't like it. I want to talk to the folks out there Who want to go to a higher level mindset? And so those are people i'm looking for this isn't for everyone out here This is for the people that actually are looking to really Go beyond the traditional All right, you know how to get a business we talk about that stuff so much content before that I want to talk about things that you've probably never heard of and that everyone is not going to tell you because Everyone basically doesn't really know this stuff. So they can't tell you things that they don't know But I want to look for the people who wants their minds to elevate it. And so that way We can go ahead and share So my man see what ty says just came in with missed the topic The topic is today is 10 business owners that I believe should have been featured in the sba small business week so again, uh, the sba had a small business summit and while it was Okay It to me they really Missed the opportunity to to share with small businesses People that were really making a difference in impacting the Not only the government But also came from the same places that we came from that they originally were funded by the government They received government assistance to help them. They received sba loans. Those are the programs that we all Want to know how to do and I think that showcasing Jennifer Lopez and a multi hyphenite Whatever that means, uh, which is a celebrity professional celebrity has professional skills Uh, so the word celebrity doesn't really identify with the majority of the people watching in my audience So why then that rather than show people that were entrepreneurs? And again, I'm talking about entrepreneurs that specifically Benefitted from government programs. I'm not just picking random entrepreneurs because like they had Damon dash on there because I want people who actually service the u.s government And also were recipients of government funds to build their businesses because that's what I think people need to hear in order to help grow our base of small businesses and so for me I just think that they missed the boat And this is i'm sharing what I thought who I thought would be a better pick to or companies that I feel like would be better To showcase for sba week So let's uh, so I went over the first one was The guy from shulbani yogurt. We talked about peter till from pallenture technologies and then Someone that we probably all know And again, I'm picking the people that again the highlighted areas that folks know Uh, and then I think they should have really to me personally. I think they should have brought on um space x and elan must and I really think that they should have showcase them Hold on I really think that bringing someone on from space x uh, or tesla would have been I've done us a lot of service because watch If you don't know the story if you've never read the book on elan must He took he was one of the the paypal mafia And as one of the founding members of paypal, what's going on welcome welcome as one of the founding members of paypal And if you've never heard of paypal mafia, let me Take you back a couple steps I love People this So if you've never heard of paypal mafia, let me just first let's start there and educate some folks Out here what the paypal mafia is the paypal mafia is the group of guys who were Owners executives and co-founders of paypal That they went on to found multiple billions of dollars in companies Elan must went on to found tesla and space x you got read hoffman found linkedin Jeremy went to find yelp. Uh, this guy three of them went on for youtube And then you got peter till a pal in tear Um, kiva yelp slide genie and square and so that's the paypal mafia If you notice, I picked elan must and peter till because why both of them That came out of paypal that was bought out. I think elan cashed out like 180 million He put that back into businesses peter till who if you've heard about him in the news if you look at the news he actually For something that's not so great. He set up the meeting between trump and um, mark sukeberg to talk about less regulations, but that's not the conversation today But nevertheless, they were able to Take and leverage the government Both elan and peter till to build their next multi billion dollar businesses. And so for me I'm very interested in hearing What that looked like even if it's again not the owner Maybe it's an executive or someone from the company that tells us, you know, what they did and how they did it So going back to the story of elan must and spacex They actually were on the brink of bankruptcy and some people say The government actually bailed them out from going bankruptcy by giving them Huge contracts with the government to start flying rockets and sending satellites to space And so that story alone It shows you the power of what the you know If you've got a government back contract and the united states government behind you of what is possible and what you can do And so that's why I picked my for my first three People I picked really high-profile individuals that we can all associate with probably we didn't know their stories, but You can associate with them. Um, so now i'm going to get in some folks some other people that you may not know of Um, that's actually probably smaller in scale But you know the companies you just don't know what they do and how it impacts government contracting So let's let's talk here. I'm going to show you something Before we do that, let me educate some people out here On a couple of the government programs that exist that you may have never heard about There's a program out here and it's called sbic Anybody heard sbic Anybody heard sbic? Anyone i'm going to wait i'm going to leave this up for a little bit Anyone heard sbic? by the way, make sure That you give us a like share this information Thanks, philip. Appreciate you Thanks, mj. Appreciate you anybody heard sbic sbic sbic Nope, tonia says no Anyone no, that's what I figured no No, can't he know all right Read what it says on the screen sbic as a licensed private equity fund manager The sba will lend you low-cost government back capital to invest in us small businesses You gotta see that Are you reading that? So the next group of people i'm going to talk about They're coming off this list right here The sbic program Right It's the us sba's financial assistance program small business investment company privately owned and managed investment funds That's licensed regulated by sba They use their capital plus funds borrowed with the sba guarantee to make equity and debt investments and qualifying small businesses And they go on they go on They talk about it By the way Let's talk about sbic's must invest in No more than 40 percent of employees overseas less than 20 million of tangible net worth less than six million of after-tax income Anybody here meets those criteria You've got less than 19 million dollars net worth and less than six and a half million of after-tax net income average over previous two years Probably all of us Probably all of us Now check this out This is this is why this is why This is why i'm here because Hold on i'm going to show you guys something I'm going to come back to the big screen What's fascinating to me? Right, what's fascinating to me is that Everyone here who's been a government contract you read and submit these proposals anybody submit big proposals Anybody submit these huge proposals for government? Anybody? um, it's 180 page rfqs rfqs Anybody Yeah, kenny says yep Anybody i want to talk to all the people who submit these huge rfqs rfqs Who's had to respond and the government and it's two it's two freaking binders of stuff anybody out here ever submitted one of those before yes Yes, yes anybody identified me even if you submitted a response that was 20 pages or 15 pages It you know No, okay Clarence hasn't been bidding yet So most of the time when you're responding unless it's just a request for quote and you've got to respond with a written proposal Right, those are they can be volumes hundreds of pages um, even when I do my source of sought notices response sometimes they're eight pages 10 pages um 12 pages at most check this out So here on the sbic pre-screen process You're going to submit an executive summary. It's roughly three to five pages long and should include a narrative of an attract record section three to five pages That's it three to five pages that's it now Let me show you why The sbic is one of the coolest things that they got going on and while we cannot particularly qualify for s to be to do this Uh, we can work with entities that receive these funds. They can Actually help to support and build up our businesses So that's that's what we're going to talk about in a little bit is The organizations that are receiving funds from the government that can then take this capital and redeploy it back into small businesses Like ourselves and that's what we're going to get into the next seven people on the list Um Let's bring it up and put it back on the big screen So a minimum capital requirement statutory minimum is five million dollars um And then it goes into some licensing and things like that tells you where to submit it blah blah blah And then let's go over to this next page Because I think this is super super critical for folks. I'm going to put on the big screen Uh, and no because ours not international sba. That's no small. That's not international sba It stands for small business Where is it at? Where's the title small business investment corporation Small business investment here we go small business investment company is an sbic So it's the sbic program but Let's let's let's let's just read this in fact It says the sbic is one of the largest funds of funds in the united states and can invest up to four billion annually It issues debt to venture capitalists private equity funds and other vehicles that invest in america small but scaling businesses Over the last five years. They've chatted more than 21 billion of capital to 6 000 companies spanning a variety of industries Now now that you know this information Wouldn't don't you want to hear from these people? Like okay, let me ask you guys this now that you know Right. I'm gonna drop this in here All right now that you know this Don't you want to hear from the people that do this kind of stuff? Like how many people out there watching there's 50 people out there watching how many people here want to hear from folks that Get this government money To then invest this phone. Okay, don't you want to know who they are what their names are? We should you be talking to where to go like To me I think that I really value and respect Everyone's time and I and I want to say because of the game they've got p-tax spdcs mbda's all of these people out here That are already teaching the basic stuff and including myself Right. So we have a lot of stuff on the basics. So getting back to my man's question Do you have videos on the basic content? Absolutely. We do we've got we have a whole On our channel On my channel, we have a whole playlist on getting started. So like I'll just go ahead and answer my man question real quick like literally on my channel We have an entire playlist on how to get started So we already cover that stuff in places and it's not that I want to talk about but it's just if you get if you do Research you'll find it and we have it already covered Let me just pull up on the screen so a man can see real quick but Like here we already have on our channel all these playlists Of where to start So we've got that covered but When the government the SBA particular has a program that is one of the largest funds of funds in united states Those are the people that I want to talk to and guess what we're going to do I'm going to show you some of the people that are on that list that would surprise you like you probably don't even know Hold on Ooh, I didn't bring here. I don't have it here We're going to show you some of the folks that are on that list that I think those are the people that I would have rather seen to come on And show us how do we get this money? Like how my people say how do you get to the back? Right? Anybody want to know how to get to the back? How to get to the back somebody drop that in there how to get to the back? That's what we that's what we want to do because that's that's That to me is Tam what's going on welcome Tam today we're showing people how to get to the back Essentially the SBA has got these programs out there that is helping and benefiting folks but We just don't know about them and so I want to kind of showcase and highlight some of these programs that Are not calling being shared amongst folks Out here and I want you to know who they are and what they do so that you Right, you can go out and start entertaining some of these people. So this is the nature of the program now Let's look at this list and let me give you a little history on the program All right put up on a big screen SBIC program Launched in 1985 has deployed more than 67 billion of capital made more than 166 thousand investments in small businesses License more than 2100 funds Look at who's on that list Look at who's on that list apple FedEx Intel tesla Costco Whole Foods Staples Amgen If all these people on that list, why are we not talking about them? If all these people are on this list All the people that are household names. Why is no one talking about this? Why is no one telling you guys this stuff? How can we think that all these people made on their own that they Bet bootstraps they came up from the ground up, you know, how come nobody's telling you this Why is it that we have this program that is sponsored by the u.s. Federal government? That's the sba and our tax dollars and we're making billionaires more billions and they're not telling nobody That this should not be a secret. I should not be the first one educating y'all on this I shouldn't be the one to have to do this None of this stuff is new This has been happened 1958 and no one talked about ask your p-tech about this and see if they tell you Ask spdc. You see if they'll tell you ask mbday. See if they'll tell you Make sure y'all give me a like on this video, please Now How do the program work? Listen, this program is i'm telling you this gangster this look This is this is some real like Look us small business administration office of investment and innovation So now How does the program work? What are they doing? Check this out? Check this out. I'm gonna show y'all. I'm gonna show y'all make sure to give me a thumbs up Make sure to give me a thumbs up if you like him what you're hearing If you like what you're hearing if you look you telling me if you You'll if your person Is talking to you about you still about sam registration This ain't sam registration day. Sorry This is not sam registration day. This is again This is where the billionaires play. That's why there's only a few people watching That's why we don't have 75 people watching because this is the level where the billionaires are playing at so i'm just Again, you could I don't care if you take this information and share with whoever you want to because People don't even know they don't understand this. They don't know how to do it They don't even know the stuff exists. So make sure you hit like button on youtube hit like button. All right, listen The u.s. Government sbic, right? The investors put up a dollar Right sb puts up two dollars and now they got three dollars to invest Come on man Come on man They put up one sb puts up two now. They got three Come who don't like that math And y'all think that they give me on somebody's stimulus package y'all think they give me all something about a stimulus and about ppp uh-uh These people really know What's happening and the folks that understand this and if you can figure this thing out You can put yourself up for a lot of success in the future If you can figure this thing out, you can set yourself up for a lot of success Trust me This is not this is only known to the highest of the highest of the highest This is like luminati type stuff. So if you want to talk about luminati Luminati might be fake, but this stuff is real But it's the same on the same parallel because why people not sharing this is like inside stuff that folks are not sharing with you And you're not gonna know to look for it because you don't even know what it is So how would you even know to type that in because you don't even know what it is to even go look for? And so why is it they have these programs where they're putting their matching two to one funding To invest in small businesses and no small business don't know about this So let's go ahead. Let me let me zoom in and read up on it Access fund qualification generally provides up to dollars of government guaranteed debt for every dollar private capital Up to a maximum of 150 million dollars Y'all see that 150 million now And it's again this goes into the process of what it is and you remember the beginning I told you it was two to three pages Now look average time of application Anybody out here? Okay anybody out here apply it for women own certificate hub zone A&A dbe mbe anybody out here apply it for a certification program Hub zone service disabled anything I want to see it show hands Thank you as they got this but they want to bring J. Lo because they know that y'all want to be entertained and not educated That's why they bring out J. Lo because people like entertainment. They want a celebrity on here Dancing and booty shaking and instead of going out here and educating people while they go out here and get the bag That's why y'all follow me because I'm telling you the facts I'm preferring you with hard evidence and information anybody got a certification How long did it take drop in the chat? How long did your certification take to get approved? How many people a day hub zone hub service disabled women on how long did it take? How much paper was it somebody dropped in the chat? mbe tommy battle how long did it take you to do that? How long did it take to get certified how long did it take to get approved? Somebody tell me how long did it take you how many weeks two weeks? Okay All right two weeks to get approved Who else hub zone a day anybody got disapproved for a day anybody got disapproved for hub zone? Tell me Who else? I want to hear anybody a few weeks Okay a few weeks sdov. All right cool Um, anybody heard these stories about being rejected for a day not much and not long. I think we could too. Okay All right cool. So um, these people who get to get up to a maximum Of 150 million dollars right Their cycle time for approval from submitting application Is four to six weeks Four y'all see that at the top anybody see that four to six weeks for a hundred and fifty million dollars four to six weeks for a hundred and fifty million dollars And they got jaylo and they brought jaylo Come on, man I'm sorry. Listen That thing that thing was steaming hot if this thing blow it. I mean my ball was Like boiling over my blood when I saw that that the insult that I felt The the betrayal that all of these people All of these companies the people the ones that we look up to we admire and we respect No one is telling us that they're being funded on the back side by the government No one telling all that man No one is telling you that they're telling you that these people are smart and they're geniuses and they did it with their own Stuff and they had their own money and their own investors and it's all crap These people are getting government money They get an sba money and ain't nobody telling you and it's not being broadcast and guess what that's the fault of The people who actually administer this stuff because they are the ones giving these programs out And they know about these programs and they're not telling people And why is it why is it p-tax and spdc's and why they're not telling all this stuff because they don't even know it So I don't even blame them because they don't know no better So they don't they don't make enough money to even learn this because they they shut off at night They're not at home at seven o'clock at night watching this stuff So they can't they don't know what to tell you but the sba knows this stuff because they've given it out And they're improving these people in four to six weeks for two to one loans Who don't want a two to one loan? I would love it Okay, if I give you a hundred thousand you're gonna give me three or two hundred thousand top of my hundred Who won't do that all day if I give you a million give me two more million. I'm gonna have three No, we're not talking about SPACs. We're talking about sbic Sbic is what we're talking about cam here. Let me go back to the top We're talking about the sbic program No, not a SPAC a SPAC is not government back. This is government back This is a government program by the sba This is a US base small business administration program. Here's the call sbic program It's on the sbas website applied to be an sbic a licensed private equity fund manager sb will lend you Low-cost government back capital to invest in small businesses Let's go back to the slide Programs been around this SPACs just started tam. They just started SPACs now. This program's been around since 1958 1958 look at the names on the list who all participated household names Whole foods whole foods got bought up by amazon by jeff bezos Oh jaylo. No jaylo was on the so jaylo tam she was on the Where's yeah, I think I deleted it. She was on the small business national small business week conference and The reason why we're talking today is because I felt like it was such a An insult to bring jaylo on to speak at the national small business conference When we have all of these entrepreneurs that need funding they need capital They want to know how to grow their businesses and jaylo jaylo is a As the definition even in their own biography a multi hyphenate Which is a person especially celebrity with several professions or skills And that does not resonate with the people that I know that I talk to that I teach so I want to jump into people that I wanted to see that I thought that the sba missed out an opportunity to feature On small business week those are the people that I'm wanting to see tam come on And so what I decided to do is say hey, these are the 10 business owners Or company people that I would like to see Featured on a sba national event stage because they're the ones that are actually utilizing the programs Utilizing sba loans getting sba dollars being funded by them In one form or another and have built up these multi Billion-dollar businesses, but they're not telling us how to do these programs So again 28 people watching make sure to give us a thumbs up on this and let's jump into this is actually a Directory that all of us can use to find these sb. I see organizations now I went through and I pulled out my own list of companies that I want to talk to and so Naturally I'm going back to this slide presentation For me for me any of these companies on this list would have been a great fit, right? Does that make sense? Anybody who's on this list intel fedex pandora am jim staples whole foods casco tesla apple any of them would have been a great second runner up Or to come on and talk about how they leverage this particular program I don't care about apple How do they leverage this particular program and how do they help grow their businesses? That's who I want to talk to and that's what I want to know So any one of these would be a great runner up to Ilan and by the way tam if you're just coming on the first three people I thought we should discuss If I were hosting a small business week would be peter till from palantir technologies the founder from shabani yogurt and Someone from tesla or spacex because they both were safe from a break of bankruptcy because of u.s. government contracts so Yeah, tam that'd be listen So interesting enough tam Essentially creating a private equity fund and creating a hedge fund are great ideas and I've also considered that The issue is that the requirements to get into this program You have to have two people that have 10 years of experience in order to do so But don't worry. Let's that's besides the point. We'll talk about that later So let's get into some of the other folks that I would have liked to have seen that's on my list and starting with Let's I like this multi half a night thing on here. So this is the directory Brookside capital partners So Brookside capital partners they come up actually on this list of the sbic entities So we've got here Brookside capital partners if we go into the directory we can look them up with their honest list And they're investing and so Brookside capital partners I would love to hear from them because they are receiving government funds And these are the current companies and entities that they're investing in And so I would love to find out how do I or tam or Xavier? How do one of us becomes one of their portfolio companies? What are they looking for? What's the criteria? And so they have manufacturing distribution healthcare. They've got logistics marine supply smart source upsell So for me personally, I would have loved to hear how do I become one of the companies In order to be funded using this government program So Brookside capital partners is another entity that I would have absolutely loved to hear from Because definitely for me They're receiving these funds and I see entities in place and I know that there's a lot of smart Small businesses out here that are probably tackling some of these same industries And so teaching us how that we can even if we're not ready today How do we ramp up our business? How do we scale up our business and grow it to be able to receive funding and investment from Brookside capital partners? Since they are receiving two to one government dollars I think it'd be great if they told us what was the requirement in order to qualify So Brookside capital partners is one of them American Express Venture team how many people know that American Express has a venture team? Probably not a lot of folks out here. Probably a lot of y'all have American Express like I do cards, but American Express actually has a venture team And it's right here. It's called American Express Ventures Back I'll drop the I'll drop it in the chat All right, so American Express Adventures actually receives SBA dollars now American Express is another billion dollar company Leveraging the SBA they are trading Their stock is in portfolio. It's probably a NASDAQ and they're uh, you know fortune 500 company But they're still getting SBA dollars to to help support the American Express Ventures So I would have loved if I could talk to anyone on this list from American Express Ventures Because why they are also investing their capital and deploying it for small businesses And here's their portfolio of companies that they're investing in but again Saying that they actually are funded in part by the government. They're getting two to one dollars Look, they funded instacart Melio So I would love for someone to come on from American Express Adventures on the SBA strike toast Right and talk to us truly. Oh about How to uh small businesses in the future How do we become part of this portfolio? What are they looking for? What's their criteria anybody else out there? Greet me Is there anybody like am I just talking gibberish out here? Is anybody else agree me? Does this make sense? Like you know, I like this. You don't like it. I see 32 people watching hit the thumbs up if you like the content I mean, you know, you tell me again, I don't want to keep going if you think this is boring stuff I'm pretty excited. I'm pretty stoked myself because Like I said, this is stuff that they don't teach in school and it's stuff that they still don't teach you at conferences and events So you got to get it here. I'm going to put it down and by the way Next week we're going to talk about other entities that are receiving grant funding from the SBA That you can go after as well because they've been funded with grants from the SBA And they're supposed to be helping people that look like you and I and I don't know who they help it But we're going to make sure that they helping us because we're going to show up And we're going to be in front of them and then we're going to meet the criteria So that way, right? They can't say we don't exist. So I want to help all of you out there Be able to do that. So let's talk about this. Uh, america express ventures That was on my list looks like capital partners Hold on Let's pull up my max man McClarty capital partners Give us a thumbs up 33 people watching. Give me a thumbs up All right, let's go with McClarty capital partners. They actually changed their name and I read this the other day To a permanent group Oh, sorry. I'm not sharing. Okay. It's small Thank you, Evelyn Right, they should share the information why if if if you are taking money from taxpayers To build your organization to build your multi-billion dollar business You should be sharing with us. What do we need to do to qualify? What's the criteria? Like That's just for me. That's facts. Like if they're what wow so Yes, they're large as hell And you're like, how do they qualify to even get money from the government? Because they have this other program in the back door That no one is talking to us about and so we don't know that they're getting money from the government because again They dangle like this other stuff in front of us while they're doing this other stuff behind their back And that seems to be the common theme and so for me I'm always telling folks like I I'm I'm so Unimpressed oftentimes by leadership because they're failing in my opinion to tell us about all The things that they have going on right not just about the stuff They want us to know tell us about all the portfolio of things because to they're insulting your intelligence How do they not know if tammy or a s or evelin or gibber? It's going to be the next uh tesla the next space x invent the next satellite the next station How do they not know that? So for me we're while we're complaining about not having enough small businesses to support our industrial complex Not having the best technologies We're also shooting ourselves in the foot because we're limiting The information to a select group of people that are already at the top of the food chain And we're not giving it to the people that really have uh are on the cusp cut beating edge of technology and inventions Saturday night. I was at an event Here in south florida with one of my best friends when we're talking about nfts So where do you think nfts and that technology and how it's going to help transform the government's going to come from? It's not coming from none of the big guys It's coming from a small guy a little guy someone who's a techie who knows about nfts But they're afraid to go to the government because they don't know that any of this stuff exists And so they think and they got a self funded but they're all money up Barre money from france family fools go to their girlfriend rob the piggy bank go to aunt janine And get money when the government got all this money that they're giving away to people to do this stuff So now that guy or girl is hesitant or reluctant because they got student loans We know the student loan debts in the trillions of dollars. They got student loans in their back They're having to work at a job. They don't like but and sit back on their invention When all this money is out here to explore to be able to do that and build those things And that's what I don't understand. Why they're not telling us because To me they're working backwards And they're working in silos keeping the information to a select group of people that only They don't even interview with us because why they're hiding behind their names and their brands and our new york offices and our palato offices And really the innovators the creators and stuff. We don't always make it up through To through to them because they got they're blocking us with some secretary or whoever and now We are left to our own intuition our own Devices to try to figure out how to make our nft invention work our ai invention work people have been doing ai since the 80s So it's no different cryptocurrency. They the big banks did not invent cryptocurrency They didn't invent multiple tokens that don't come out of banks that got billions of trillions of dollars because they're not innovative The innovation is coming out of small business And that's what i'm showing you and that's why I said that they missed the boat and their opportunity to really highlight and showcase Entities that are funded by the government Funded by the sba programs that we know tax payer dollars tax payer dollars The sba does not have money They're funded by tax payer dollars those people should be coming on here and telling us About these programs and how to work and how to qualify for them and how do we become the next? Brookshire capital investor. Let's get to the back So again, these are the people that I think that we should be interviewing. We should be talking to Um, look at this company here for the firm in it group This is what you have to qualify to get investment 10 to 30 million 300 million revenue 3 million and 30 million abedah 5 million and 30 million whole sizes All right, so they're seeking investment in these kind of companies with these revenues Um, and so again, at least they put it on here. They're based in look Rockefeller Plaza, New York They got look they got offices in Miami Nashville, Arkansas, california All right, I want to hear from somebody here talk to me from an it group Come on our show and talk to us about how do we become a partner? How do we invent a technology ps dental? Citrus Profit tools for trucking logistics technologies piston rings global bakeries wastewater specialties Rock dental stat health con data tech 24 How do we become right affiliate with one of these guys? How do we work with one of these companies? How do we? Um, how do we become the next? Profit tools trucking. How do we become the next LG technologies? That's who I want to talk to that's what I want to know about right And so those are the people that I want to hear from Now there's a couple more companies and I'm and because again, I didn't want them this to be all night thing Make sure by the way. Hey, give us a thumbs up. Give us a thumbs up. Please. Please. Please 39 people watching Give us a thumbs up. Again. I'm not teaching Standard round of the mill content like most people that you find on youtube and on all these social platforms. I'm really Really trying to help people elevate their thinking elevate their minds elevate their Because there's options out here, right? There's options for us There's other things out here that we can do to grow our businesses to build our businesses and More options that you know about right because most of the people that watch my content come from the other side of the Track as you all already know and so we have limited options and we have limited knowledge And so for me my job here is to give you all the knowledge and all the information So then you can know all the options even if you can't do a through z You know a 3z exists and when you are presented with a situation or a scenario or a company or entity or somebody to partner with You now have this in your arsenal and your tool belt to be able to say hey guys You know what? I was watching this video by this crazy guy eric and he talked about this program sbic And you know what they're actually investing in companies just like what we talked about so Um and it's not fair that you're nervous about debt jj That's not fair that you shouldn't be nervous about that because they have programs like this And yes, tam quantum computing is perfect. And so there are people Because when I was at university of florida and if you ever were in any of the college Of engineering at any university across the world you work with some the most brilliant minds out there And so now those people are probably working on quantum computing But that entrepreneur doesn't know about this program because they are working on quantum computing solutions And so they need their friends like tam like kwazir They need their friends like raheem and philip to be able to tell them about these programs To show them how they work and then to be able to apply for companies to get The money to be able to build out their quantum computing solution And that's the idea and like my man kate said 37 people Please hit the thumbs up button because I can't see who's hitting the thumbs up button out here So I want people to have this information I don't care if you don't do nothing with it. At least you know and what they say about gi joe No one's half the battle. So look, you know now what I say when you know better, you could do better And I want to inform everyone out there because I want you to have this information One of the other things I want to finish up with there's a couple of companies I could go with the spic But there's another program out there that I really would like to see That they that they show us about and it's it's entity right here Florida first capital finance corporation That's a done And floor first finance capital corporation they use these someone mentioned real estate earlier. I heard you don't worry I didn't forget you This entity floater first capital finance corporation They are touting themselves as the america's number one sba 504 Business lender and so 504 business lender Let's talk about let's look into that what that is and what they're about Here it is Business who qualifies for sba 504 financing me eligible for multiples sba second mortgages Up to five million dollars per 504 and this is green project But again, it's also really financing for property Which includes inventory I mean equipment and buildings And so let's go into the first mortgages 504 project. There's no maximum sizes Qualified borrowers can what project conceding 20 million can still obtain 90% financing Okay, I'm going to stop right there There's no limit on the amount of your first mortgage of a 504 project And therefore no maximum project size in many cases qualified borrowers with projects exceeding million dollars can still obtain up to 90% financing This entity floater first capital finance corporation Is the number one lender sba 504 small business lender Why are they not on the freaking national summit week talk to us about these programs? Why are they not on any of the conferences? I don't see their names on any conferences on any events. Does anybody it Look, maybe you've heard about the program. I've heard about them. I don't know how to do them. How do I maximize them? How do I execute them? What do I have to do to qualify? What I that's what I want to know florida's first finite first capital finance corporation Talk to my people. Look at this Okay, this is the green loan program that we don't want about the green. We want to talk about the regular program Look what they finance commercial real estate machinery equipment commercial debt Let's go to commercial real estate Here you are commercial real estate Up to 90% financing. Let me make it bigger Excuse me Let me make it bigger. I want to make this big on the screen. I want y'all to see this Benefits of a 504 commercial real estate loan Sba by the way, this is a sba program sba five today. We're only talking about sba programs, right? remember the Remember the beginning of this was we were discussing the sba national summit and I want to talk about 10 Business owners and companies entities that I feel like we should have had in the summit that we missed the opportunity But again, we can do better, right? We can do better And that's why we're making this content because the sb has the power to bring these people on because they're being funded By the sba. So they have that power. They have that ability. Let's talk about it 504 commercial real estate loan up to 90 financing at below market fixed interest rates No future interest rate fluctuation. Oh my gee. Are you kidding me? Are you freaking kidding me right now? They got something this good and they not telling y'all about it Low down payment concerns valuable working capital 10 20 25 year amortization terms available Associated fees and soft costs can be financed in the loan minimizing out-of-pocket costs Loan amounts up to 5 million aggregate sba eligibility on standard and public policy 504 projects up to 500 million involving small manufacturing factors no limit on total sba dollars available 500 million per 504 energy efficient programs not exceeding 16 half million total projects 125 000 to 20 million plus I want everyone Please please please please um Take notes pay attention This is going to spark through creative juices in your mind When you go back today write down 10 ideas of how you can maximize these programs write down 10 ideas Send them to me. I want to know I want I want to have a reason to go talk to these people Give me a reason to go talk to these folks Right. Tell bring me your idea bring me your nerdy friend your introverted friend your your genius friend Bring me his idea quantum. What did you say to him quantum computing? Right, let's figure out how to put this thing together and let's take away their excuses Let's take away excuses. I'm a big fan of taking away people's excuses It's very easy to for anyone to call bs Right because why they say oh, well, you didn't apply you didn't ask for it. So of course I want these people. I want to bring them on our show Eligible use of proceeds. Let's look at that. Let's make sure we we're we want to be compliant, right? Hey acquisition of land and construction of a new building Acquisition of land in existing building remodeled convert expand and renovate existing building lease or improvement purchase of improvements including grading street improvements utilities parking lots landscaping purchase of office furniture fixtures equipment Associated fees and soft costs And also and they also listen. They even lend you money to repay repay the points fees and interest. Come on, man Come on, man come on, man listen Does anybody else want to see for florida's first capital finance corporation? Appear at an sba conference or sb advances anybody else anybody else I don't want to see them show up Anybody else if you if you're tired of being insulted by them teaching you about capability statements And about registering as sam if you're tired of being insulted with the foolishness Okay And you want real information real content that can change your life change your future change your trajectory permanently and definitely Then let me know show me tell me tell me that's what you want I want to know because I think that the sba is thinking that all you guys want to know is How do you get dbe certified? How do you get a day certified? How do you get hubs on certified? Look, I don't care because if they're gonna give me a loan to go buy a freaking a building If they're gonna give me a loan to buy some land If they're gonna give me a loan to remodel my building You wonder why and how that people got these buildings, right? You wonder why people got class A office space You thought they did on their own you really thought that they oh they parents as doctors they parents as lawyers they rich No, these people got sba money. They just didn't tell you They just didn't tell you and they're not telling you They're hiding this information They hide in it. They keep giving me all smoking mirrors with that hold on You want to know the website? Which website you want to know? Talk to me Which one you want to know Xaver? And again, I'm not listen. I love the sba Okay, uh, by the way Listen, let's just let let's go ahead. Let me let me show y'all something hold on Let me show you something I just want y'all to show Because That's what I do So Let me take my man Xavier off real quick. Hold on Xavier. All right. So here. All right Government contract matchmaker october 15th eight to five Elizabeth Warren is going to speak But as you can see also on the speaker's list, I'll let you boy eric coffee cup kind giant. So again I love the sba. I support them. I'm actually speaking at their events However, again, what we're talking about is I think they could have done a better job They missed the boat and so wow, they do a lot of great things like a lot of great programs I think that what's happening is they are They're really it's like, you know how you when you were in school and your teacher You were like some of y'all or some of us were like the smart kids and we're like, look You don't have to talk down to me because I already know Right, like I know this stuff like so I think that a lot of times they believe or they're on an impression That we don't need this information And that's not true. Like we want we want we want all the information We want everything. I want I want that and this Right, so, you know, we they I think a lot of times the sba is thinking that like maybe You're not ready for this information. Maybe like you're not at that stage where You need to know about this kind of stuff, but I disagree with them, right? I I I really strongly and believe that again, like like Jerome said, okay And my man wants to put up By land in North Carolina state and house military equipment, right? That would have been a great thing to do So we could have helped combat this pandemic, right when we were short on supplies and PPE Like that would have been perfect if they had gave my man Jerome Some money to buy land in North Carolina because I'm sure he bought in a place where it was affordable made sense And then you could have then turn them out and then help the government store that equipment So we're going to have people like him thinking about creative innovative ways And not only that we have a lot of people on here that are ex-military. So you already know Um, really as an ex-military person, you know kind of what the government's doing what they're working on and also How to maneuver and so who better Than you to be able to say look, I think this makes sense because when I was in When I was in fort bragg when I was in camp me We had a shortage of this we had a shortage of that We had a like we our our unit needed these items and we never had these items And guess what bowing and all in clowns ain't giving it to you So to me I would rather and like they said talk to the lower level people And find out okay, you were the military you serve this branch of government. Where were the deficiencies? What were the areas where we could improve as government personnel give you the money and let you Take and develop out that capacity to support the troops to support the mission That's what I'm about and I think that that's what a lot of people are about. They just don't know how to do it So again, I want to put this in the hands of my people because I want my people to come back to me and come back and say Hey, look Eric. This is what I'm thinking about. This is what I'm doing. So let's like my man. Right. Let's bring it to fruition Um Xavier says Jerome was right. There's a source of software military personnel vehicles and camp was doing right now Absolutely guys. This is this is out here and we have the capabilities of being able to to Not only uh monetize these things but take it and materialize ideas concepts Businesses that can support the government support the troops support the mission And have the government finance us and all we have to do is execute deliver perform And that's why I said that they missed out on a great opportunity to really highlight and showcase these things because these are They're incredible incredible incredible programs that are really Not being showcased highlighted and to me Enough and here's another one hunting the national bank And and this will be the last one we're going to wrap up today hunting national bank. They actually Hold on Let me pull it up Let it last on my list Um Oh, hold on. There there it was Here it is huntington national bank the number one sba lender So again hunting the national bank. They got it right They are they're at huntington. We believe when small but succeed we all win That's why we've been number one sba lender in our region for the past 12 years. So again listen national sba national sales director paula cook bring paula on here, uh, toning Let's look bring them on here and let's talk to them about hunting in the national bank and why it works and how we The little guys can benefit from leveraging hunting to a national bank. So many people out here. We're suffering from predatory lending I've been a victim of predatory lending before we're suffering from People who are attempting to give us High interest rate loans People are attempting to give us bat mortgages So all of these things that small businesses are suffering from These are the things that you the sba is has programs in place to combat those items But they're just they're not putting enough emphasis or not sharing it enough in my opinion and my book When they have like a national stage in a national platform I don't think there should be an sba conference that goes by where they don't talk about money finance and lending Because they're they're doing it for the big guys And if you're just coming on and you miss what we talked about we start off with this program It's called sbic program And it is the largest fund of fund programs in the united states Investing in the four billion annually and it's the whole thing is backed by the u.s. small business administration And they continue since 1958. They've awarded more than deployed one of 67 billion in capital And including the largest largest companies in the world intel apple You name it. They've got government funds. And so for me I want to know how do we a small business get to the back questions comments I'm gonna we're gonna wrap up here in a couple minutes. I you know, that's basically the gist of what I talked about today Um, and so for me, I just really want to see How they can increase the opportunities for all of us out here and that's my job and that's what I want to know So listen, let's let's talk anybody else All right, North Carolina native here, jayvon howard says Raheem says hell. Yeah That's right. Let's make it happen. Absolutely Anything that I miss anything that I cover anything that we need to go over before we sign out today Congratulations. Thank you. Gilbert. I appreciate it Thank you rb appreciate it No problem anything else any questions before we sign off today um, again, I just wanted to share that because I I It really bothered me and it does I really took offense because I just felt like they actually insulted everyone's intelligence. By the way, uh, we are We're having Thursday transportation trucking people. We're having we're doing we're going live thursday I'm bringing on some transportation students who've been crushing it So That is this thursday coming up This thursday I'm gonna drop the link right now All right, we're talking about where all the transportation contracts That's this thursday coming up Make sure to join us this thursday same time. We're going live with some of my students We're gonna pick some of my students that do transportation and logistics contracts So make sure to share it with your friends make sure to give me a thumbs up as you know The social media guys they only work and they spread content. They feel people want to see Even though we've got great information sometimes if you don't You don't say you like it and you don't click the button Then they're not going to spread it because they think it's terrible information So I could be doing all of this in vain Which I hope not because I do appreciate even the 38 or 40 people that were on tonight I appreciate each and every one of you. So again I definitely want to continue sharing My man remains as their active suppress information. They want you to know social media Waste your life being sheep leader slaughter instead of creating multi-generational wealth Raheem. I could not agree I think they are actively suppressing information because It's it's really a shame and it does it to me. It doesn't even matter which administration it is It doesn't matter who's in office who's in power Everyone has an opportunity to make this right and everyone has an opportunity these programs didn't just happen yesterday They weren't created yesterday They were created and the people who who they wanted to benefit from them have been benefiting from them have been recipients of them and unfortunately As more and more of the people that they don't want to have this information starts to have it they're going to have to figure out ways to change and restructure these programs because I'm going to continue sharing and spreading it and figuring out what do we need to do to qualify because I do believe That once we learn what we need to do to qualify We can start becoming eligible to qualify ourselves for these exact same programs and I don't know any of you out here I don't know anybody out here that's listening to me who Cannot figure out right projects 125 000 to 20 million I don't know anyone out here who can't use 125 000 to 20 million dollars If there's somebody out here who don't need that money Please stand up and raise your head I will make sure to put you on front page right now because you can't use an extra 125 000 to 20 million dollars Loan to fund a real estate transaction. Come on, man Come on Don't don't even don't don't don't do it Don't tell me that don't tell me that you can't use that money, man Come on. Don't tell me you can't use that All right, john conduct crawler from one of your older videos. Good job, john Actually, one of our students brian's his name. He picked up some lanes with Crowley So I know Crowley definitely will entertain the idea. So But he actually one of our students picked up He watched that same video with Crowley and picked up some contracts from them But who can't use a 20 million dollar loan who can't use 10 million dollar loan Who doesn't know a building a piece of land that they can't buy right now if they had 10 million dollars and make a sound investment Who doesn't know that right? Look, no matter what state you're in the city you're in there are there's and there's buildings There's building investments around you land Apartments and stuff that you can buy that makes sense that you could use that money to to finance and including Including hold on. Let me go back to this. Look Not only did they give you the money for your down payment. Not only did they give you my Favorable loans they give you the fees and a soft cost So you don't even have to finance the fees and the soft cost that's throwing into your loan on top of it and then and then Look, you can even if you screwed up and you messed up the money They'll give you another loan to cover what look look what it says Uh, hold on associate fees repayment of points fees and interest So they are making this super easy for people even when they they're not the smartest and the brightest tools in the shed They're still allowing people to go back in and get more loans to keep this going until the thing turns around and it makes sense So they're allowing you to basically invest the money hold the money Until the market basically readjust itself And then you can turn around and sell it for a profit and then pay back the government And it's a win-win and you look like a genius and the whole time the sba fighters the damn thing. I'm sorry Look, if it's this easy, I want my people to know about it If it's two or three painters, I want my folks to know about it That's what I want people to know So hey listen guys, thank you so much. Make sure please please please give it a thumbs up Share it with a friend family or fool. Look just share the content because as you know All the things that I've been doing the benefits I've been receiving the blessings all of the things I can truly truly truly Accredited that for my network and growing my network and which is and tremendously growing my network So again, if you sit back and you hold information and you don't share it with somebody You don't know, you know people are asking for future partners and investors Well, send them this video send them this link send them this information And that person may eventually want to become an investor with you or partner because why you are showing them the information They may not have the time to go learn and figure out how to do it But they may have the actual ability to execute deliver and perform But they want you to go out and actually Bring the information to them. So listen be a blessing to someone else Share with them this information and content because you don't know who actually is one person away Connected to someone can actually benefit from this and when you share that information Now you're looking like the smart guy in the group who actually is doing the research and taking the time And by the way, you are spending Your monday night learning this right? So you are investing your time and energy into it So again, go back and get the rewards from it. Don't let this be a waste opportunity Don't let this be a wasted video. Don't let this this sit back and you not have a bunch of ideas I think the best Thing that I have someone said to me. Hold on. I'm going to go back to her comment Let me pull it back up on the screen Where is it at? A man gibber says, where's the catch? Gibber said, where's the catch? There ain't no catch gibber Hold on Where is it at? Raheem says at least we could put some things together I've got 25 25 pages ideas. I can't find it Um Where's that comment? Oh, okay Here it is. Yes. I gotta reconsider what I'm really doing in my life right now And I think that goes for all of us. I think that it's very well said comment because uh, What's happening is Because we don't know this stuff exists. How can you know what's all possible? Right you all come from different backgrounds walks of life experiences Family members I interviewed one of my podcast guests today who said that her family was one of the first black millionaires in new york Right and then they went on to lose it and she didn't grow up that way But she went on to build her business uh successful business and one of the things that she said to me And this is a I mean this is like I'm gonna go to my other screen and pull it up It was fascinating. She said to me today. She said eric, you know She said I actually learned About government contracting she learned about government contracting Um by asking people in her neighborhood Uh what they did and so she said she saw people that had that you know success look on them You know the people had a successful look right success, you know, they have that that that That look about themselves, right? So she said she was asking people who had that successful look On them. What is it that they did? And they said government contracting and so she said herself I gotta figure out this government contracting thing and so fast forward, right? Today I asked her in my podcast. I said so now do you have that successful look about you? And so she started laughing and yeah If anybody is curious, uh, this is the company that we actually interviewed We're gonna be coming out with her podcast soon enough. Uh, they're called kusai And they actually do training Uh, they do like they do a whole bunch of training. We've got 200 plus courses that they teach But they service government agencies primarily federal agencies training Global leaders around the world and so they are A wonderful company doing great work helping support our government a lot of they do Different types of training about cultural diversity and things like that leadership skills For government c-suite employees. So, uh, great company, but yeah, she was on our podcast today that we interviewed and, um, It's fascinating, but all this stuff is fascinating to me and I love learning about it And, uh, there's some other things that really I learned about in fact, I'm gonna Do I have the book behind me? Hold on Yes, I do All right If you are curious If you're curious This book Why should white guys have all the fun how reginaldo louis created a billion dollar business empire? So reginaldo louis won a flat first People to create a billion dollar business of black african-american man. Um, and so what's interesting about this book That I learned right Right in line with these programs about the sba He was an attorney that The sba created a program To partner with minority businesses and he was an attorney That actually was helping minority businesses partner with large corporations because of a sba program And this book it's a long read He then Learned about these programs And how to buy businesses because he was consulting small guys on partner with large organizations He then leveraged his knowledge of buying companies that he learned by doing the sba programs to then Start buying businesses and he built a billion dollar empire Same thing What do they say if you want to hide the information hide in the book This site that I gave you today, I didn't make them up. They're all publicly available on the sba website I reference sba websites But if you don't know what you're looking for and that's what I talk about my books, right? So one of the first things that I say in my book Right here is This is a small read Simple book. That's why it's like 10 bucks. But the first thing that I say in a book, right is If you don't know Where to go look for and what to google It's no good to you and and I really Believe that because how would you know to google these programs? Right, how would you know to google these programs? I'll put this book back up Why so what guys have all the fun? How would you know to google these programs if you didn't know they existed? Who's going to tell you that? Right, who's going to tell you that? so this book actually takes a look into Some of the original programs and it's funny because they talk about the different magazines And some of the other people That's to start at some of the large black organizations They were actually Founded because of the sba programs and government programs that where they had to The white corporations had to partner with minority businesses And or to get funding to build their businesses. So they partnered with us because they were forced to so I just I kind of wanted to share that with folks out there because This is the information that I plan to continue sharing with people and I hope that is a benefit to some folks and I hope that you also share it as well So thank you so much for coming out today. I appreciate it again sbic's And we hope that At some point that some of this content that we're sharing and information will make an impact and a difference we actually Have more than two dozen students that have done over a million dollars in sales Through our courses guvcar 1.0 and 2.0 courses Over a two dozen students that did million dollars in sales And so we're going to be featuring some of our students this upcoming month Given the fact that it's our last month For our courses 2.0 course So we're going to be featuring some of our students And sharing with you their stories their experiences because again I want to get the information in as many hands as possible So that many people that have the ability or who have the foresight And have that that kind of twisted mind like steve jobs talks about right? We want we want we want the crazies. We want the crazies We want the the c students that didn't like formal school and formal education Who have a creative mind and creative abilities? I want those people I want to encourage them to to fulfill their dreams and to make this stuff a reality And the fact that I know about all these programs that they exist is even Another notch that I want to add to your to your belt because why you don't have to struggle to make your idea become a reality You don't have to go through Uh and and like they said you don't have to get venture capital funding You don't have to get this is funding is coming from the government Right. This is being supported by the government. So this would be low-cost cheap funding And if you screw up you get a pass you don't get to go to jail because you screwed up and trying to build the next You know space x the next rocket ship you get a free pass One of the first companies that I ever raised money for was a software development company And guess what? I raised three hundred thousand dollars for that business It didn't work out and you know what the guys told me the investors come back to us with another idea That's the way it's supposed to be because that's that's what we're That's what we're actually looking to do with this government space. That's my brother called me. Hold on Hey I got the car. I'm on youtube live. So say hi All right, yep. Yeah, I got the car. You said my brother. All right. All right. Be easy So, um, that's the way it's supposed to be and I think that again, um, putting this into the hands of the people Who can do some of this information is super important and I want that for you guys and I want you to do it I don't want you to hold this information to yourself Share it share it share it share it share it because someone's going to come along the line and say hey wit Listen, I know what to do. I I got someone. I got a friend of mine a buddy of mine He made this invention and I think we can use some of these programs to help Again, if you've got something that you're working on you want to share with me that's Relate to this topic. Send me an email eric at gopkins giants.com Otherwise have a wonderful night and I'll see you on thursday