Maceo on Building Community Across the African Diaspora Through Crypto
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0:00AYou spent a lot of time in Africa. What have been some of the biggest things you learned from your time in Africa and your time here building a community?
0:08BUm, I would just say that it’s cool to think about what it means to be trying to build community at the level of the diaspora. Like, I never thought I would get to do that. I never thought I would get into crypto and think about how could crypto benefit Black people and then to meet Black people from all over the planet, to be the first person in my family me to go back to Africa, for crypto to be the reason, like, I feel like it just epitomizes how crypto brings people together. I don’t think people, people could ever imagine what that’s really like. It’s like an international movement.
0:08BAnd I think it’s, it’s really cool to be able to go there and get connected in that community, in that culture, and be able to represent and consider how this space can not accommodate but empower those people. Like, this space, most of these people are never going to go to Africa, right? So to get to go there and understand, like, who’s building what, who should succeed and why, you know, what their values should be what alignment looks like for actually building products out there with product-market fit. Like, to be the person that can go there and ask those questions and really get to know who are the builders that are thinking with people in mind there.
0:08BLike, I just feel really grateful to be like, to know who out there is aligned with me and the people I’m aligned with here. And I feel like it’s a powerful opportunity to be a bridge in a lot of ways because I’m really someone that I think is committed to connecting people that are, you know, out to make a difference in the world. I guess that’ll be my answer to the question, huh? It’s a pretty good question.
