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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Andre Powell and the Black-Owned Rideshare App, Goldsainte

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by entrepreneur and CEO of the rideshare company Goldsainte Andre Powell to discuss policymakers' effects on small businesses (6:06), the founding and creation of Goldsainte (7:11), and what differentiates the rideshare platform from others (11:05) Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Andre Powell Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And welcome to another episode of Bukari Tell us podcast.

0:17.0

Happy New Year to all my listeners.

0:19.0

I hope everybody is starting their New Year's off right with their New Year's resolutions. I can honestly say that I've been

0:24.2

grinding. I'm doing whole 30, which makes me more tired and more angry and hungry. But I'm supposed

0:32.0

to be dropping these pounds, cleaning off the weight and all that stuff before my physical next month.

0:35.5

But that's a whole other story. Make sure fellas, you're getting your physical. On this show, sometimes we like to highlight

0:39.7

entrepreneurs who are doing great things, people you ain't really heard of, put the opportunities

0:43.8

I get into your orbit as well. So today we have one of those stories, a brother that I appreciate,

0:49.8

who's just a little north of me, but he's still in South Carolina. That is what Indian land is called,

0:54.6

although he refers to himself as being in Charlotte. That's a whole nother story. But none other than

0:59.1

Andre Powell, who has the founder of a company called Gold Saint. Did I pronounce it right?

1:05.5

You did pronounce it correct. What's going on, brother? How are you? I'm excellent, man. I'm

1:09.7

excellent. Thanks for having me on the show.

1:11.7

Really appreciate the opportunity to sit on and chat with you.

1:14.1

Yeah, the reason I had to ask is because this brother got real fancy with the way that he pronounced, or, excuse me, spelled saint.

1:20.5

So I ain't know. In Denmark, we spell Gold Saint, G-O-L-D-S-A-I-N-T. But here we have G-O-L-D-S-A-I-N-T-E, a little, little froncts on the end of it.

1:33.4

Tell me what the name come from.

1:35.6

Let me take the backstory about that.

1:37.3

So when we launched Goldsaint, we hired a media and branding company out of Denver, Colorado, right?

1:45.0

So, you know, throughout the process, they do the brand foundation, the visual identity, the imaging, right?

1:50.0

And one of the things that they did was create the name.

1:52.0

And so, you know, there's this long process.

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