Henri Pierre-Jacques

Founder @HarlemCapital tweeting about life lessons & VC 🇭🇹 ⛪️🤵🏽

[Henri Pierre-Jacques @hpierrejacques]

Let me re-introduce myself.

My name is Henri Pierre-Jacques and I am co-founder of @HarlemCapital, a fund backing the next generation of winners.

My mission is to build rooms that didn't exist before. Not more seats at someone else's table, entire rooms.

I was fortunate to have mentors who looked like me early in my career. That visibility changed what I believed was possible. Many never get that opportunity.

You can't be what you can't see so I share my story in case someone else needs to see it.

What room are you building?

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When your son sleeps for 13.5 hours

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Had a friend visiting just ask me if I ever get bored in Miami?

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I’ve been doing a ton for my wellness but there is no bigger impact than sleeping before midnight. It changes my energy and productivity so much.

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@CopeConnects Yea saw those but not traditional tech imo as biotech and media. Still a at too few even if include all IPOs

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Just realized that there have only been two Black tech founders who started a company and took it public. Alex Karp of Palantir (2020) and Robert Reffkin of Compass (2021). Others were brought in as CEO or started non tech companies like BET. These both being in the last 6 years and only 2 so how big the gap still is. I'm pumped though to change who wins.

Lmk if I missed anyone

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@oviosu @sophiafeelstoo

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@KahlilGarmon

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@advertisingdiva Tope didnt IPO

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@JohnHenryStyle He's as Black as Bezos is Latino lol But he's half Black so including for accuracy

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@diranoteg He’s mixed but no one knows like we didn’t know Bezos was Latino until he married a Latina and moved back to Miami 😂

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Stop doing ordinary things if you want to be ExtraOrdinary.

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@HarlemCapital 66/ What Is Your Right To Win?

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🧵 I’m doing a thread a week on various topics. This will be a thread of threads over time in chronological order that I keep adding to

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@HarlemCapital 65/ You No Longer Need To Be An Industry Expert

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Claude being down has become a recurring problem. The lead they built seem like they would run away with it ahead of the IPO, but GPT has regained ground. GPT dropped below 50% market share so unclear if they will catch up with users, but the product is certainly catching up

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A message to fathers of faith, this one hit me yesterday on Fathers Day.

The best thing we can give our children is being a faithful witnesses and telling Gods story.

For many homes the woman is the spiritual leader. That was the case in my house and I don’t remember my dad praying with or for me. But we don’t need scripture, spirituality or certain prayers to be faith leaders.

Being imperfect doesn’t impact the love of our children. We are not called to be perfect, we are called to be righteous.

Many of us fathers think we don’t have the tools to be the faith leaders but we do.

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@philshungry Same to you king

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Happy Fathers Day to all the dads.

As a father I now understand and appreciate my dad even more.

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Haiti lost but watching them for the first time was an incredible experience. There’s something different about World Cup pride with your people. Highly recommend attending a game if you can and your team is playing, it’s special

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Today was a vibe, Knicks in 5 🔥

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Ran into one of our interns from 8 years ago. We caught for for hours and it’s truly amazing to see the journey of people you got to manage. You go from a boss to peers to friends. This is the beauty of people management for me