Emeka Anen is founder at Instasneaks, known today as THRONE, an online community built for the sneaker and streetwear ecosystem. The app has ranked in the top 40 of hundreds of thousands of apps in the Sports category. Last year, Emeka was featured in Revolts 12 New & Diverse Leaders of Technology alongside other of10podcast guests, Rodney Williams of LISNR, Jewel Burks of PartPic, and Jessica Williams of Uncharted Play.
He graduated from the University of North Carolina (which always makes me think of Michael Jordan, because – of course), and is a Black Enterprise certified Modern Man and “Rising Star” by TechStars.
We talk moving the culture, making it in technology in outside of Silicon Valley, and Lil Yachty,