Whitney Griffith

Avid Learner. Tech Enthusiast. Social Entrepreneur. Pan African Investor. Product of Trinidad and Tobago and Howard University.

[Whitney Griffith @impactwhit]

Shine, shine, shine, shine
Shine on all of them
Shine on all of them
My umi said to shine your light
So shine on all of them

We in the land of milk and honey
But ain't nothing sweet, these demons hungry
They go bananas for the money
But not me, I'm no circus monkey

@TobeNwigwe

[Whitney Griffith @impactwhit]

CS/EE students at UWI Cave Hill and UWI STA — want to land a Microsoft internship?

Apply now for TIPs 2025, a 12-week program to prep for tech interviews at top companies.

Deadline: May 18, 2025

https://t.co/HKqImrmTsI
#TIPs #CaribbeanTech #ImpactWhit #UWI #Microsoft

[Clint Fiore 🦬 DM for Biz Deals @ClintFiore]

This is about to sound too good to be true but:

- I need a group of 10 businesses (1-20M rev) to bring to market simultaneously with the Grand Opening of our Dealonomy platform next month.

- If you own a profitable company you want to sell, we will sell it to our Buyer network and charge you 0% commission.

- We'll value your company up front and tell you the price range it will sell for and guarantee offers inside that range in 90 days or less. If we don't deliver on that promise, we'll give you $10,000. We are the only broker that will guarantee results like this.

Must be a USA-based, profitable business, with 3+ years of solid profitability to qualify. If you want to join this group of inaugural Sellers with our team helping you get your exit done, the easy way, for free, hit me up in a DM.

Lastly, if this isn't you but you want to refer us to a Seller that you think would like this offer, reach out as well and we'll pay you $5,000 up front for any Seller you send to us in this group that signs up to sell with us, plus additional $ when the deal closes.

[Whitney Griffith @impactwhit]

Join me for a  “Thriving on Your Terms” virtual event, proudly sponsored by @Zillow through a partnership with @Fairygodboss! I’m looking forward to exploring  how we can shape our careers on our own terms.#virtualevent #careerdevelopment

https://t.co/g3JTFmk3aA

[Whitney Griffith @impactwhit]

I’m invested. Proud to be part of the movement that invested $10M into Black-founded startups in 2024. Read the HBCUvc Impact Report at https://t.co/eyKjaWu92M

@HBCUvc #InvestingForward #HBCUvcImpact #HistoricallyMade

[Keith Mattix @keithmattix]

Istio's 7th birthday holds a lot of significance for us here at Azure because it marks 1 year since our OSM community joined forces with Istio. Since then, we've been hard at work making Istio better for everyone, especially our customers. Here's to many more!

[Whitney Griffith @impactwhit]

It's such a relief to see Istio's Classic APIs are now v1 💃https://t.co/mfCuR3yD9a

[Keith Mattix @keithmattix]

Ambient hits beta in this release, but sidecars didn’t get left behind! Istio 1.22 sees uri templating support arrive to AuthorizationPolicy, many of the classic Istio APIs hit v1, and a new experimental way to ensure only stable CRDs and fields get used in your cluster!

[Ben Kelly @benkellyone]

A good life balances being present and looking to the future.

When you do both well, you'll live a beautiful life.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

David Gottesman invested in Berkshire Hathaway in 1968 and held on. His wife now has $11.7B of the stock; the stock is up ~30,000x in these 56 years.

His wife is donating $1B to the Einstein College of Medicine to make tuition free.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

NEWS

Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is now tuition-free thanks to a $1 billion gift from Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a former professor.

Gottesman, whose late husband was an early investor with Warren Buffett, has made it a condition of the gift that the college NOT change its name—an unusual requirement in a world where much smaller gifts often come with the requirement that the colleges be named after the donor.

Most students at the Einstein College of Medicine graduate with $200,000 in debt; they will now be free of that burden.

https://t.co/SOekmWV8d4

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

8 Forecasts & Implications for 2024+
(top of mind for me now, as we head into new year)

[Whitney Griffith @impactwhit]

@benkellyone Boring

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Embrace Fear

Take one swing a year so big it makes you physically sick with anxiety...

That's the key to outsized success: not letting your rational brain cower away from discomfort.

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

99.999% of people are not and will never be Steve Jobs or Elon Musk.

Most people simply want to put food on the table, clock out at 5pm, and enjoy their life.

My advice to anyone getting started:

The journey towards wealth is a generational game.

It takes 5 years to build momentum and 10 years to put yourself in the right position to potentially get wealthy.

If you are thinking about starting a business, start smaller.

Forget raising capital, or having a new idea, or a "grand vision.”

Go find 5 people who are willing to pay for your product or service and then scale up from there.

That's it. That’s how you build.

Watch this clip for more:

[Istio @IstioMesh]

At #IstioDay NA, we want to THANK all our top contributors, and community helpers!! Do not worry if you did not get a t-shirt today, visit us at KubeCon booth F5 for the cool new Istio t-shirts :) @_howardjohn @FaseelaDilshan @keithmattix @kf0s @linsun_unc

[Jeremy L. Morris @MorrisLaw93]

Istio Ambient discussion about to start any minute... @mitchashimself and @kelseyhightower are co-hosting!

[9th Annual Black Blockchain Summit @BlkBlockchainDC]

Software Engineer and Real Estate Investor @impactwhit is speaking at the Black Blockchain Summit 2023. For more information visit: https://t.co/Kn8cl77BJo

#SatoshiIsBlack #blackblockchainsummit

[Nathan Barry @nathanbarry]

My SaaS business hit $1,500 MRR and then got stuck.

Until I learned an important trick…

Here’s the exact method I used to scale to $100k MRR in the next 12 months:

[Istio @IstioMesh]

The first announcements from #IstioDay are out - Istio as a managed add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service!

Congrats to @keithmattix and the team on the launch.

[Keith Mattix @keithmattix]

Very excited to bring @IstioMesh to AKS as a managed addon!