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Welcome to the team, Carly Harris . 🎉Carlisha joins 2150 as Chief of Staff and Portfolio and Partnerships Director, part...
09/24/2026

Welcome to the team, Carly Harris . 🎉

Carlisha joins 2150 as Chief of Staff and Portfolio and Partnerships Director, part time, while continuing as Catalyze Birmingham Specialist at Prosper.

Demand. Supply. Plant. Scale. 🏆Tonight in DC we honor three leaders who live it.Johnathan Burns · The Burns Brothers, In...
09/18/2026

Demand. Supply. Plant. Scale. 🏆

Tonight in DC we honor three leaders who live it.

Johnathan Burns · The Burns Brothers, Inc.
Greg Jones · HBCU Cares
John O. Hudson, III · Entergy

Tech. Talent. Culture. Congratulations.

Link in bio.

Honoring the innovators shaping what’s next.2150 CICG proudly recognizes John Burns, Managing Partner of The Burns Broth...
09/16/2026

Honoring the innovators shaping what’s next.

2150 CICG proudly recognizes John Burns, Managing Partner of The Burns Brothers, Inc., as an HBCU Innovation Excellence honoree at Tech, Talent & Culture.

Friday, September 18, 2026 at KATA in Washington, DC, held in conjunction with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference.

One honoree spotlighted daily through Friday.

Honoring the innovators shaping what’s next.2150 CICG proudly recognizes Greg Jones, Founder of HBCU C.A.R.E.S., as an H...
09/15/2026

Honoring the innovators shaping what’s next.

2150 CICG proudly recognizes Greg Jones, Founder of HBCU C.A.R.E.S., as an HBCU Innovation Excellence honoree at Tech, Talent & Culture.

Friday, September 18, 2026 at KATA in Washington, DC, held in conjunction with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference.

One honoree spotlighted daily through Friday.

Nothing is built without builders. 🛠Today we honor the workers whose hands, hours, and persistence built this economy, a...
09/07/2026

Nothing is built without builders. 🛠

Today we honor the workers whose hands, hours, and persistence built this economy, and the ones still building what comes next.

Happy Labor Day.
#2150

Twenty logos on a slide can hide a business that hasn't proven anything. ⚠️A pilot is not a product. A pilot means an in...
09/01/2026

Twenty logos on a slide can hide a business that hasn't proven anything. ⚠️

A pilot is not a product. A pilot means an institution was curious enough to try. That's real, and it's worth something. But a pilot with no budget line, no internal owner, and no defined success metric is a favor. Not a customer.

Investors know the difference. Learn to say it out loud before they ask you. 🎯

Three questions before you sign one 👇

1️⃣ Whose budget is this coming out of?
2️⃣ Who inside loses if this fails?
3️⃣ What number decides this worked?

Founders lose credibility by inflating pilot numbers, not by having small ones.

Precision reads as competence. Swipe. 📌

Applications close soon. Link in bio.

"The National HBCU Innovation Ecosystem" isn't a tagline. It's an address. 📍2150 CICG operates out of Miles College in B...
08/26/2026

"The National HBCU Innovation Ecosystem" isn't a tagline. It's an address. 📍

2150 CICG operates out of Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama.

It's where .ai .ai launched one of its first academic partnerships. It's where the students staffing our iLABs come from. It's where the room in every one of these photos actually is.

A lot of organizations say they're built on HBCU ground. We're standing on it. 🏛️

Your first three hires aren't people. 🤖Most founders point AI at work somebody already handles well. That saves an hour ...
08/25/2026

Your first three hires aren't people. 🤖

Most founders point AI at work somebody already handles well. That saves an hour and creates a supervision problem.

The real win is the work that never got done at all. The follow-ups nobody sent. The notes nobody wrote up. The reporting that lives in somebody's head and dies there.

You're not replacing anyone. You're hiring for roles you could never afford. 💡

Where it pays off first 👇

1️⃣ The follow-up you never send
2️⃣ Turning conversations into records
3️⃣ First-draft anything

Swipe for three things to keep in human hands — the ones that'll cost you if you get this wrong. 📌

The rule: automate the draft, never the judgment.

Cohort applications are open. Link in bio.

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