54 - Earl "Butch" Graves, Jr., Black Enterprise CEO: An American Brand In A New Generation
Fortt Knox25 Nov 2017

54 - Earl "Butch" Graves, Jr., Black Enterprise CEO: An American Brand In A New Generation

Growing up in the black community in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. in the ‘70s and ‘80s, there were a few things you'd take for granted: We learned Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing, also known as the Negro National Anthem, in school. We learned there was practically nothing George Washington Carver couldn’t do with a soybean. And a middle class black family was likely to have at least four magazines in the house: Ebony and Jet, of course. And if they were a little fancy, Essence and Black Enterprise. These days, magazines aren’t what they used to be. Like many digital publishers, Black Enterprise is undergoing a reinvention, becoming less a publication and more a live events business. Back in October I interviewed Intel's CEO at a Black Enterprise tech event outside San Francisco – an event that showcased the brand's push to evolve beyond the printed page. Earl Graves, Jr. -- he's known as "Butch" -- is the son of the founder of Black Enterprise. Now he's the CEO. I sat down with him to talk about how the brand was born, how it's trying to evolve in a digital world, and what the future looks like for minority entrepreneurs.


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51 - Aaron Levie, Box CEO: A College Dropout Builds a Billion-Dollar Cloud

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When he was 14 years old growing up in West Philadelphia, Troy Carter started promoting parties at a neighbor's house and charging for entry. He did the DJing himself to save money.  Today he's one of...

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49 - Rachel Carlson, Guild Education CEO: A Startup Betting on Human Intelligence

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48 - Chamath Palihapitiya, Social Capital CEO: The Beauty of a Calculated Risk

Chamath Palihapitiya is one of the most sought-after investors in Silicon Valley. It's because he has a knack for figuring out how things work. At Facebook, he led the team that studied our online beh...

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47 - Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Publishing founder: Tech's Explainer-In-Chief Tackles the Future

47 - Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Publishing founder: Tech's Explainer-In-Chief Tackles the Future

Tim O'Reilly had never come in contact with a computer until after college, when a friend asked him to help write a technical manual.   It's quite a turn, then, that he has become a promethean figure ...

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46 - Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO: Hit Refresh with the Power of Empathy

46 - Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO: Hit Refresh with the Power of Empathy

Satya Nadella is the third CEO of Microsoft. He's also a husband and a father of special-needs kids. He's an immigrant. And he's pretty close to doing something that, until he took the job just over t...

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45 - Louis Hernandez, Jr., Avid CEO: The Storyteller's Dilemma

45 - Louis Hernandez, Jr., Avid CEO: The Storyteller's Dilemma

Louis Hernandez Jr. is the CEO of Avid Technology, a company that makes tools for editing video and audio, and writing music.  Avid is facing hard times as rival Adobe grows stronger with Premiere and...

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44 - Rachel Drori, Daily Harvest founder & CEO: Never An Easy Time to Do A Hard Thing

44 - Rachel Drori, Daily Harvest founder & CEO: Never An Easy Time to Do A Hard Thing

Rachel Drori comes from from a long line of entrepreneurs – her immigrant grandparents started a business when they got to the United States. Even more unique: Her mother started a business too, so sh...

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