Ayinde Alakoye is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of his third live broadcast radio streaming venture, nedl the AI-powered search engine for live audio broadcast. He is a TechCrunch contributor, an Executive Board Member of the Applications Development Alliance, and was a recipient of the 50th Anniversary March on Washington Emancipation of Capital Award with Mark Cuban and Congressman John Lewis.

Ayinde served as a speech contributor and message advisor to Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election campaign. A decade prior, he began his media career at the #1 revenue-generating radio station in the country, WTOP, before setting sales records for Clear Channel at KFI AM 640 (the #1 rated Radio Station in the United States) and CBS (Howard Stern), respectively. Ayinde started Thumb Radio with his business partner to stream every radio station on the planet to your cell phone in 2003. That technology later evolved into a partnership with his former employer, Clear Channel, which became the first iteration of the iheartradio app.

What you will learn from this episode:

• How the Nedl app is revolutionizing the airwaves
• How Black investors are creating opportunities for Black founders
• How the Google Black Founders Fund helped came with just-in-time support for nedl.
• Investors do not always know how to spot a good thing so don't be discouraged when they don't.

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