The Pomp Podcast - #955 George Taylor On Teaching Entrepreneurship To Gang Members

Episode Date: May 11, 2022

George Taylor is the Co-Founder & CEO of TRU Colors, a company with a new business model of attempting to solve gang violence in Wilmington, North Carolina by hiring gang members in an attempt to ...reform them. In this conversation, we discuss George's business, the tactics of hiring the gang members, the opportunities he presents to the new employees, why he is taking on this mission, and what are some the tangible results of this new business model. ======================= Brave Wallet is the first secure crypto wallet built natively in a web3 crypto browser. No extension required. Store, manage, and grow your portfolio, get NFT & multi-chain support, and more.    Download the Brave privacy browser at brave.com/Pomp, and click the wallet icon to get started. ======================= The Pomp Podcast is powered by BetOnline.ag, the world's largest sports betting, casino, poker and horse racing website that accepts cryptocurrency for wagering.   BetOnline.ag gives you the ability to use Bitcoin and more than a dozen altcoins to make deposits and withdraw your winnings. There are no crypto transaction fees, and processing is instantaneous and secure.   Visit https://promotions.betonline.ag/pomp and use PROMO CODE: POMP100 to receive a 100% matching bonus on any crypto deposit.   BetOnline.ag is available in nearly every country around the world, making it the top global gaming destination for crypto users. =======================

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Starting point is 00:00:00 what's up everyone this is anthony pompliano most of you know me as pomp you're listening to the pomp podcast simply the best podcast out there now let's kick this thing off george taylor is the founder and ceo of true colors which is a very interesting brand new business that is going ahead and trying to solve gang violence in wilmington north carolina in this conversation we talk about george's business we talk about why he's doing this how the business works what the results are so far, and why they want to scale this nationally. I really enjoyed this conversation with George, and I hope you guys enjoy it as well. Before we get into this episode, though, I first want to talk about our sponsors. This episode is brought to you by FTX US.
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Starting point is 00:03:03 and double your deposit with our exclusive podcast promo code POMP100. Go check them out at betonline.ag. Anthony Pompliano runs Pomp Investments. All views of him and the guests on his podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Pomp Investments. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Pomp or his guests as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of his personal opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only. George, how are you? Here's where I think that we should start is you live in the Wilmington, North Carolina area, and this is what, maybe five years ago, six years ago when you started the True Colors Project? Yeah, we got
Starting point is 00:03:49 together, yeah, like six years ago, almost today, frankly, yeah, is when this whole sort of idea sparked. All right. And so you've been a successful serial entrepreneur. You've built multiple companies, but while living in Wilmington, uh, I didn't know this. You actually were the first person to tell me about this. Uh, there's been a growing gang problem and eventually the gang issue spilled over. And there was one specific, I think, shooting that really caught your attention, uh, and the attention of many other people. So maybe let's start with kind of like what the problem was six years ago, uh, with gangs in Wilmington that we can talk about how you're solving this problem in a very unique way. Yeah, I was, so I went six years ago, I was working,
Starting point is 00:04:31 at a software company that we found at Untappd. If any of you guys are beer drinkers out there, you might know Untappd. And just a handful of blocks from my office, there was a 16-year-old who was killed in a drive-by. And man, I didn't even know at that time, Anthony, that we had gangs in our city. That was sort of how oblivious I was. I was sort of, you know, hands down and head down working on my software company. But when it happened, it pissed me off. And I wanted to understand what was driving the violence. And so I reached out to the D.A. who I knew. I was like, hey, man, I want to meet whoever top gangster and because this is bullshit and, you know, I want to understand. And he connected me up with the gang task force who
Starting point is 00:05:15 hooked me up with three guys that they said had status on the streets. And that's sort of how I got involved in this. And, you know, I spent the next sort of three years hanging out with gangs trying to understand what was going on is nuts as that sounds. So as you're doing this, like, first of all, it takes a very unique individual to say, hey, there was a shooting. I want to go meet the people who potentially are involved in this situation. So when you get connected to a couple of these individuals who are involved in the gangs in Wilmington, like what was your general maybe perception or like what were you expecting? Do you expect you're just going to go and like kind of knock it off? I mean, so first of all, I mean, startups are pretty gangster
Starting point is 00:05:52 anyway. Right. So if you're in startups, you're sort of used to this sort of stuff. You're in a gang yeah i mean come on and it's an aggressive culture and we got to get shit done um but no i mean so i had no idea what to expect uh at all but uh you know what i found and i guess frankly i went into it thinking that if you're in gangs then your primary role in life is to you know sell drugs and hurt people every now and then again because you watch the media that's what you think right but man what i figured out and found out over the next handful of years was that that's just not true, that the majority of gang members are not doing anything illegal. And by the way, I'm not talking just about our city here in eastern North Carolina. I'm talking about
Starting point is 00:06:34 across the state and then across the country. You know, I've been fortunate enough over the past years to meet the number ones in most of the gangs in America and, you know, whether it's in Chicago or L.A. or India or Atlanta or wherever it might be. And what I learned is that, you know, gangs were originally started to lift communities, not to tear them down, and that most gangs have written, believe it or not, written key values and mission vision statements. I mean, legit, right? And nowhere in it does it talk about guns and drugs. In fact, just the opposite. It talks about community and brotherhood and loyalty and knowledge and growth and all this sort of thing. In fact, there's one of them, one of the groups has a 67-page book called the, you know, called
Starting point is 00:07:16 blueprint that if you read it you'd want to join and so you know the big question is okay so if that's true like if that's what gangs are trying to be about or were originally trying to be what the hell went wrong right and you know the answer the sort of epiphany i came to a handful of years back was that the real drivers of violence on the street are not it's not gangs it's lack of economic opportunity and societal exclusion you know you take a group of people you carve them off and you put them into say a housing project and they don't see a way out and they don't see a future then you know people do what they have to do to put food on the table and it really is like that and that was sort of the spark that generated the idea that eventually became true
Starting point is 00:07:59 colors was which is a sort of gang inclusive economic opportunity so when you think about this the the idea of true colors essentially to create a brewery and a beer and a brand that brings together multiple gangs to work in unison to create this business. And one of the things that, uh, just strikes me is, um, getting people to work together, uh, is all about economic incentives and capitalism tends to have a really great way of driving economic incentives and kind of, you could see the outcome with those incentives. And so is it fair to say that true colors was simply, Hey, you have one path where you guys can continue to fight with each other and kind of do all these things for economic opportunity. Or there's a second path where
Starting point is 00:08:45 actually by working together, you're going to be able to create that same economic opportunity, maybe even bigger economic opportunity. And so you really were just the driving force of bringing these people together, showing them a second path. And then they've taken it from there and have really kind of driven this brand and the product to the heights that you guys have achieved. I mean, absolutely. It's like in the beginning, it was very transactional. You know, I'm going to pay you this uh and in return we're going to come together and we're going to do that um and it was freaky i mean the first the don't get me wrong like in the very beginning way back there when we're trying to figure out how this worked you know it was sketchy because i'm bringing in
Starting point is 00:09:21 gang leaders who had not gotten along for a long period of time and you know that first meeting was nuts you know people are people are speaking very loudly and um yeah and they were and they were all convinced i was the cops and it took a while for that to sort of subside as well but in the end um absolutely like they came together they realized that they had the same dreams that every that the other person had you know they both they all have kids they have you know girlfriends they have all these things that they want to achieve nobody wants to well with rare exception anyway almost nobody wants to to to sell drugs and and do things that hurt people like they just don't but you know when there's not another opportunity people do what they have to do to
Starting point is 00:10:01 move forward yeah and so when you start to think about the actual body of work that these individuals they're doing. Most of them have never worked at a brewery. They've never built any sort of company at the size and scale of what your aspiration is. Walk me through, how do you take somebody who's in a gang, who doesn't actually run a business, has no experience doing so to now you're part of the True Colors team and you're a productive member of what we're trying to accomplish? Great, great question. So it's not like a normal company. If we're going to go out and hire someone today for marketing, I'm looking for marketing experience and cultural fit and that person generally sort of slides into the position fairly easily uh with us you know
Starting point is 00:10:39 there's there's skills like definitely street skills transfer into legitimate business skills so if you're good at sales marketing collections right all this stuff counting money uh it it transfers into the into the company fairly well however there's this the guys coming in off the streets they've never worked in an environment like this certainly maybe they've had a job flipping a burger for 20 hours a week they also come in with what we call limiting beliefs man i can't be successful in life and they begin to believe this i can't be successful in life because i don't know i grew up in the wrong zip code went to the wrong school have the wrong great skin color the world's against me like and not that there aren't bits of truth to that but
Starting point is 00:11:18 if you become that guy you're a victim right you can't move forward so we have a five-month onboarding program uh and it starts with what we call uh disrupt you which is two months of effectively boot camp. And you come in, we hire you at a local wage job, give you health insurance, and you're in this group with this group of people in a two month sort of onboarding situation where the goals, the goal, there's three primary goals. One is to remove all those limiting beliefs and get you to understand you can be amazing. And it's a lot easier today than it used to be, because I've got 65 guys out here now that have already been through it and are kicking ass, Right. In the beginning, it was a little more challenging. Secondly, though, basic like life skills, because if you don't have your personal life reasonably well together, it's really hard to grow fast.
Starting point is 00:12:06 So for us, that's housing, transportation, relationships, money. You get that shit together, then you can begin to grow fast. And then lastly, you've got to understand that this guy you've been fighting with maybe for years is not the asshole you thought he was. and you've got to overcome all of that. And so you might imagine like that first week can be nuts because there's all this like angst and trauma, frankly, and grief, like all this stuff that people have been through has got to come out and got to come out quickly. We have two months basically to get it out. So, you know, it's loud and it's a little crazy in the beginning, but by the end, as they get towards the end, it's amazing the transformation that happens during that two-month period. People start getting along, people start working together.
Starting point is 00:12:45 and um and at the very end you make it through and about 80 of the group usually makes it through i would say and by the way the ones who don't it isn't because they didn't think nuts usually it's that they were late to something if you're one second late to anything in the first uh 60 days um you're bounced and so is that just like a discipline thing is that like a seriousness thing like why are the rules uh somewhat akin to maybe like the way the military would work or you know the most strict uh kind of environments like why do you think that's such a important part of the ethos and the culture of what you're building you know everyone has to have both sides have to have skin in the game and that is there like that's your air commitment is we're going to deliver
Starting point is 00:13:24 this curriculum we're going to deliver these experiences we're going to deliver this opportunity in return you need to take it seriously you need to show up on time that's that is the one requirement the rest of it you know it is what it is but uh that is the one requirement and you know in the beginning people used to like oh he's got to be full of he doesn't really mean that and so people would test in the early classes and you know someone would get bounced by the way you can reapply in 90 days and some of our best guys have been through twice maybe three times actually i don't know um but certainly it happens but at the end if you make it out then if you make it through and you graduate then we have our initiation in true colors which is you
Starting point is 00:14:01 have to jump out of an airplane which scares the out of people but that's the whole point like throughout this whole thing there's all these experiences to kind of like reset people's minds to understand they can be amazing and we learned from uh we've learned from tony robbins actually was one that taught us this is you want to you want to sort of rewire someone's mind quickly put them in a situation that's really challenging maybe scary even better and help them overcome it and they do and all of a sudden boom like they have a whole new view of life and so when their feet hit the ground from jumping out of the plane they then become an intern they get a five thousand $1,000 raise, and they have to earn their way onto a team. So they might be sales, marketing,
Starting point is 00:14:38 HR, beer, canning, or brewing, or whatever it might be that they have wanted to become part of. They have 90 days to earn their way on the team. When they do that, once they do, then their salary and title goes to whatever position they were pursuing, and they get an equity position too. We use stock options just like we did in the software company. So everyone here that's been here five months or more has some sort of an equity play in the organization. So when you think about this, another piece of it that I find fascinating is you guys raised about $18 million for True Colors. What was the pitch to investors? How'd you raise the money? And then what are you guys doing with that amount of capital? And the reason why I think
Starting point is 00:15:13 it's so important is this isn't a small business, like, oh, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. You've got 65 people out there. You've got $18 million raised. This is a big business, potentially, if you guys are able to execute. Yeah. I mean, we're trying to build a national brand quickly based on peace and unity and this sort of thing. And so a lot of the capital was used just to get our facility built. I mean, it's crazy. I come from the software bit in the software world.
Starting point is 00:15:37 You know, Anthony, you and I could start a software company this afternoon for a hundred grand if we wanted to. Beer is not like that. We have a 58,000 square foot building that we bought and then completely redid. You know, we've got a lot of equipment that's expensive. It's a large brewery. We can brew about 1.6 million cases of beer a year here.
Starting point is 00:15:57 And so it's built to scale. But as far as raising money, I put in a fair amount. A lot of private investors also who believed in the company and believed in the mission and cared a lot about what we were trying to do on the mission side, put some money in. And then we were really fortunate. We've got some good corporate equity investors. We've got Molson Coors as a minority position in the company.
Starting point is 00:16:21 believe it or not pnc bank uh took a position in the company which was wonderful um so we've just been fortunate throughout all of that that people get them like they get the mission and they understand like the the majority of of america's hell the majority of the world's social problems i think certainly in america it's economically based at the core of it and so this idea that entrepreneurship uh and capitalism can solve uh a a problem like uh like street violence they got it and in the end you know we had our i would say our first sort of full year where we were fully engaged on the streets uh and in the mission uh would have been last year started like the middle-ish to end of 2020 and then through last year and uh arab city just released the statistics
Starting point is 00:17:08 about six weeks ago on violent crime and uh in downtown areas where we work here in wilmington And it was down 43 percent. And there ain't anybody in there but our team making that happen. So, you know, it works. I challenge anyone to show me a city last year that had violent crime down 43 percent. Most of them are up. So when you start to think about this, are you mixing people who are in gangs or previously in gangs with what many folks would think of as like normal folks that you would go try to hire? So there's gang members and non-gang members, and part of it is like integrating them, or is it 100% just people who are in or were in gangs? So we've got about 80 employees, I'd say roughly 60-ish or so are gang, the rest are what we call civilian. And while not required, everyone here is in the gang and stays in the gang. And the way in the way that that works for us, because if you believe if you believe that economic lack of economic opportunity is driving the problems on the streets, I can't hire every gang member in the city.
Starting point is 00:18:13 There's too many. And so what we have to do is hire. We get leadership. We get middle managers. We get guys who are very active out there on the streets and that's who we hire. And then they use their influence within their organizations to begin to lift them. And so the idea is like it sounds nuts and, you know, somewhat ironic that the the maybe our best potential to stop street violence is with is to join the gangs and work with them to lift them and show them better leadership and help support them so that they can influence their organization. But it works. I mean, clearly, like I said, 43 percent reduction. That's nuts, right? So when you think about this, it's obvious that it's working. There are still some incidents where there's violence, there's murders in the city, etc. How do you think about kind of the aspirational goal? Could you get to 100% reduction and there's no violence? Is it, hey, if we get to 50% reduction, that's success? How do you measure what success looks like? And then also, how do you think about the ongoing challenge of not just getting to a point and then you've reached the finish line, but continuing to keep violence down? Great question. So, you know, 43% is not 100%. So, yeah, people get hurt. And that is one of the challenges.
Starting point is 00:19:26 We've our team has saved dozens and dozens of lives that I know, but nevertheless, some people get hurt. And that's that's a really hard part of this. And, you know, from a success standpoint, I don't consider 43 percent successful. I think I mean, I'm proud of what our team has been able to do, but it's not successful because somebody people got hurt last year. Right. And 50 percent is not either until you get to 100. it's like how do you say success like it's where it's it's not like a software company where we have buggy software that we can correct right these are people's lives but what we know and the way i look at success is sometimes i mean these impacts startups these impact companies are so much harder than traditional ones i've worked in anyway on so many varieties level and
Starting point is 00:20:12 varieties of variety of levels and you'll get like there are times where like man i can't i don't know i can deal with this anymore because you know there's just so many pressures coming in from the outside frankly um but all you're going to do is like look around here and i got because i got 60 guys that prior to true colors were a threat to our community didn't get along didn't even have them they know each other and today i got all these guys working together side by side they're raising families they're going on vacation with their kids i mean they're buying houses like that that's to me that is success and then out on the street you know numbers like we're putting that we're able to accomplish are better, but it's still really tough. You know, our goal,
Starting point is 00:20:51 though, is to take this model, like we're trying to develop this blueprint and move it out into other areas across the United States. And we're being recruited by a number of cities to put in something like True Colors. But the idea is, what I hope is that other entrepreneurs see this model and how effective it is. And it doesn't have to be beer. It doesn't have to be True Colors. I mean, if you're a particular entrepreneur and you have the ability to do something like this, the idea is that it is entrepreneurship and capitalism that solves this problem. Good jobs change people's perspectives. It gives them hope for the future and they begin to behave differently. Yeah. And when you start to think about that, is the idea that you'll take true
Starting point is 00:21:29 colors and you'll build out breweries around the United States kind of in the full vision of this, and then you can go city by city and do it? Is it something where you continue to take people from Wilmington, train them, and then go move them to other places? How do you think about rolling this out on a broader scale? We do want to put breweries in other cities across the country as we begin to continue to expand. However, to scale quicker and more broadly, the educational component that we talked about, we're looking to put into other cities and then have people that graduate could go to work for any company. We tested that before COVID. We had people that had gone through our True Colors Disrupt You program and then gone to work for
Starting point is 00:22:11 other companies, which was amazing on a whole variety of levels. I mean, aside from allowing us to hire more people and have more influence, it also allowed our community to go in and meet some of these guys or work side by side. And, you know, they're like, oh, my gosh, you won't believe I'm working next to this guy's an active blood gang member. Not what I would thought. The guy's amazing. And then that person tells another person tells another person and the whole community's perspective begins to change. So when you start to think about this, is it fair to say that True Colors could not only train people to come work there, but in some way you're doing entrepreneurship training. And like, is there a world where, you know, Silicon Valley became
Starting point is 00:22:52 what it was, one, because people came to build stuff, two, there was risk capital, but three is you went and you worked at a company, you learned how it worked, and then you left and you started your own company and there was more capital to kind of invest into it. And so have you seen, Or do you anticipate people will actually leave True Colors and go start their own businesses in the community, et cetera, and you kind of have this like multiplier effect? We haven't seen anyone leave and start their own business, but we have seen people leave to take other jobs that suited them, especially if they had to move, like if their girlfriend was moving to another city. Because of the work that they did here and because of their resume from here, they were hired by a marketing firm or a sales firm or whatever it might be, right? And so we have absolutely seen that. We haven't had anyone leave and start their own business yet.
Starting point is 00:23:34 But, you know, there's no reason why that shouldn't happen, especially, you know, our goal is that everybody has got stock options. Our goal is to eventually get to a place where we would exit just like any other software company we've done in the past. And at that point, you know, everyone here has an equity position that's worth a significant amount of money. Some will decide to stay and continue. Some will, I think, probably decide to go and do something on their own. Yeah. What's been the most fun or fulfilling part for you in this entire journey? I mean, that's easy. Just looking, the most fulfilling thing for sure is just looking at the folks and knowing where they were when we first met and the challenges they were going
Starting point is 00:24:15 through. And Anthony, people like you and I don't really understand what it's like to grow up in some of these neighborhoods. I certainly didn't before I was introduced to the True Colors team at others and seeing their lives today and seeing them so here's a good example we had we had a halloween party last year and we i love we've done it every year but it's it's it's the most amazing thing in the world because all the kids come all you know all the moms come all the guys are there and everybody's smiling everybody's dressed in these ridiculous outfits and i'm looking around i'm thinking well he's blood he's crip he's gd he's bd and on and on and on you know he's a leader in this gang and here he is dressed in this absurd costume with his children smiling
Starting point is 00:24:58 and laughing having a great time like that just didn't happen before and so i mean as i said there are days where i'm like are you fucking kidding me i gotta do this again and you just want to like you can't take some of the things that begin to happen because of the pressures but all you gotta do is look at that and it's like all worth it it's very easy and so when you start to think about this um one of the pieces that uh i see people talking about uh in the chat but also uh i think just naturally comes to mind is like how can people help is it just go buy the beer are there other things that they can do to raise awareness or kind of help you in in this mission i mean follow us support us you know if uh you know if you're interested we're always raising capital
Starting point is 00:25:36 so that's one way buy our beer um yeah just engage with us frankly you know and i would I would challenge everyone to do that because if you begin to engage with some of our team members online, which often ends up in a Zoom call or something like that, they'll blow you away. I mean, it is amazing. No one is what you'll expect it to be, and you'll be surprised and inspired and hopefully energized to go and do something similar to True Colors. Yeah. And when you start to think about the local community, what's your message, I think, to folks in that community in terms of either one, how they can help you or, you know, how you think about the impact that you've had there? um i mean locally it's like so when you're in involved in involved in something like true colors or probably any impact business i guess which is the only one i've been part of you know we're dealing with race and poverty and violence and these are very very emotional topics that
Starting point is 00:26:34 people are very passionate about and so you know within our community we have a lot we have a handful of people who um you know would like us to do things differently um and so that you know that's you know our message to them always is come in and see because often people just don't fully understand what's going on in true colors uh there's a lot you know because of all the passion around it there's a lot of rumors and frankly the media doesn't help the media has long ago learned not just in our uh city but across the country that if you can cause some uh consternation and anger people then you get a lot of clicks but um the large large large majority of our town has city has been amazing. I mean, we get such good support and, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:14 that's all the way across the board from politicians to business leaders. You know, we have events here frequently from the chamber of commerce to businesses here that come because they want to bring their folks to see what's going on at True Colors. They invite us out to speak. We get invited to all sorts of conferences. And by the way, if anyone's got one, I'm telling you, our guys will blow you away on what's possible in the world.
Starting point is 00:27:37 We've spoken at conferences as small as a few hundred to as large as several thousand people. And I don't think they've ever left and not gotten a standing ovation. But, you know, in general, you know, we're fortunate. Our community has been very supportive of what we're doing, both financially and, you know, just getting behind us
Starting point is 00:27:55 and encouraging us to continue on. There's people asking, is there any plans for this to become a movie? They said this is definitely on the way to kind of international prominence. we you know man we we had uh a streamer we there's this whole idea around a docuseries uh and i was like okay that sounds maybe okay i don't know and so last year we had for two months i think it is we had cameras in here and at the time man i was worried that uh i was worried that the gangs
Starting point is 00:28:26 weren't going to open up and give them any content well man the gang members were incredibly open and told them all the stuff and took them into their community so it was the business side i was like You're not coming to my fucking meeting. And so it became very awkward. And, um, I, I don't really know how to do it. Uh, just because, I mean, imagine if you had cameras in your meeting, I don't, I don't know about you, but I don't want to be like Jersey shore or something. We just were like, no, this isn't working. So if we could figure a way to do it and didn't have to have cameras all in what we're doing, it's hard, right? Imagine if everything you did was on camera. Well, for two hours a day, it is, but on the outside of those two hours,
Starting point is 00:29:04 it'd be weird. It'd be weird. And then there are times where you want to say, you know, if that fucking, there are business relationships at a time become challenging and I might say something ugly in a conference room, which doesn't mean I don't love that person, but at the moment I'm kind of pissed and I don't really need that on, uh, on TV. Yeah. I think that's a fair way to, uh, to view the world. Uh, where can we send people to, uh, to find you on the internet or find out more about True Colors? If you go to truecolors.co, there's no M on the end, T-R-U, colors.co, there's also no E. And by the way, True, to help you remember that, True stands for truth, responsibility, and unity, which are the core values of the company. And
Starting point is 00:29:44 that's why there's no E on it. Got it. And then are you on the internet anywhere? Like if somebody wants to get in contact with you, what's the best way to do it? Hit me up on LinkedIn. I mean, look for george taylor uh true colors uh would love to connect all right george listen i think i speak for everyone that uh the work you're doing is absolutely incredible uh and the numbers speak for themselves not only in terms of the uh the individuals you've hired trained and uh are employing today but also the reduction in uh crime and and i think that uh this is a story that hopefully more and more people will uh learn about over time uh and see that you know in some unique way capitalism and economic opportunity ends up solving problems that uh other forms uh struggle
Starting point is 00:30:23 to uh to solve it's pretty cool to see this yeah thanks anthony i really appreciate you having me on cheers all right sounds good george talk soon see you bye thanks so much for listening to today's episode i really hope you guys enjoyed this one make sure you're subscribed on apple spotify or your favorite podcast player and if you're looking to try to transition to get a new job in the Bitcoin or crypto industry, we've got you covered. Head over to palmscryptocourse.com. We've developed a curriculum with the top teams across the industry. It's a three-week intensive training program with over 50 events packed into that three-week time period. Go to palmscryptocourse.com to learn more, and I'll meet you guys for the next episode.

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