Black Entrepreneur Blueprint: 96 - John Barfield - Starting From Scratch

BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BLUEPRINT

Jay Jones

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🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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"Starting From Scratch"

John Barfield is an extraordinary man who rose from meager beginnings to owning a two-billion-dollar company named the Bartech Group. Join us as Mr. Barfield discusses his rise as the son of an Alabama sharecropper, to the owner of a successful cleaning business, and the birth of the Bartech Group. A must listen for all entrepreneurs.

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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 business
0:41.4	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.
0:59.6	Thank you. Black Entrepreneur Blueprint. Welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint, episode number 96.
1:05.0	I'm your host Jay Jones, and today we have another great show installed for you.
1:09.8	Today we're going to be listening to an excerpt from an interview with Mr. John Barfield.
1:16.3	And for those of you who don't know who John Barfield is, he's the owner of a company called Bartek Group,
1:22.7	which is a staffing and management consulting group, which has over $2 billion in revenue.
1:31.5	Now, that's great, but check this out.
1:34.7	John Barfield is 89 years old.
1:37.5	He's the son of an Alabama sharecropper, and he started his first business back in the 1950s.
1:45.6	Okay, we talk about as black entrepreneurs the struggles that we have.
1:51.0	You know, now just imagine the struggles that he had back in the 50s.
1:54.8	He has a dynamic story.
1:56.9	He's based out of the Detroit, Michigan area, greater Detroit area, and he has a phenomenal
2:02.8	life story of not just entrepreneurship, but about of giving back.
2:08.6	So I'm just going to read a little bit about John Barfield before we get into the
2:13.1	interview, and then after the interview, we're going to close it out, talk about some of the things that he spoke about in the interview.
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