Black Entrepreneur Blueprint 342 - Freddie Figgers - Abandoned Next To A Dumpster At Birth To Owning Americas Only Black Telecom Company
BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BLUEPRINT
Jay Jones
4.8 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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"Abandoned Next To A Dumpster At Birth To Owning America's Only Black Telecom Company"
Join Jay on today's Black Entrepreneur Blueprint podcast episode # 342 where he talks with the founder of Figgers Wireless Mr. Freddie Figgers. Freddie discusses his amazing entrepreneurial journey from being abandoned at birth to building a 60 million dollar telecom business. Visit www.Figgers.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint Show. |
| 0:21.4 | I am your host, Jay Jones. |
| 0:24.4 | Black Entrepreneur Blueprint was created specifically to educate and inspire black entrepreneurs to launch, build, and grow successful businesses. |
| 0:35.6 | Join us as we help build an economic power base in the black community by promoting |
| 0:40.7 | business ownership. |
| 0:42.8 | If you are currently an entrepreneur or want to be an entrepreneur, we invite you to join |
| 0:48.6 | us every week here at Black Entrepreneur Blueprint. |
| 1:05.9 | Welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint, episode number 342. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm your host Jay Jones, and today we have another outstanding and informative show installed for you. |
| 1:11.5 | Today we're going to be talking to the 31 year old founder of Figures Communications, |
| 1:16.9 | Mr. Freddie Figures. Now, Freddie has an amazing story by being abandoned by his birth |
| 1:23.5 | mother and being adopted at two days old by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Figures, |
| 1:29.4 | and at a young age of 15, got his first contract to program computers. |
| 1:36.2 | Now, subsequent to that, Freddie has built the only black-owned cell phone company in the |
| 1:41.7 | United States valued at over $60 million. Now before we get to today's |
| 1:47.5 | interview, I just want to share a few things with the B.EB family. First and foremost, I want to welcome |
| 1:52.0 | all first time listeners to Black Entrepreneur Blueprint. Welcome to the BEB family. And please stick |
| 1:57.9 | around until the end of today's broadcast and I'm going to share all my social |
| 2:01.7 | media contact information and my resource links such as the link to my new book a new black |
| 2:07.0 | wall street circulating the black dollar worldwide by building successful e-commerce businesses |
| 2:12.5 | and two platforms I've created to help circulate dollars in the worldwide black economy |
| 2:17.3 | be smart buy black dot com and hire black free two platforms I've created to help circulate dollars in the worldwide black economy, |
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