This young founder spoke at the White House’s black entrepreneurship summit

Ofo Ezeugwu, the young black founder of rental rating startup Whose Your Landlord, spoke at the White House last Friday.
He was in good company.
Megan Smith, Chief Technology Officer for the U.S., spoke. So did Doug Rand, the White House’s Assistant Director for Entrepreneurship, and Lonnie Johnson, the inventor of the Super Soaker.
Better yet, it wasn’t like your normal tech event. Here, Ezeugwu was surrounded by other entrepreneurs of color, like Johnson. Founders who looked like him.
It was the White House’s “I Have a Dream Summit,” hosted by President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, which aims to create opportunities for young black and Latino boys.

Speaking at the @whitehouse on Dr. Martin Luther King’s actual bday is pretty amazing. Thankful to My Brothers Keeper and The Student Dream for having me. #mbkstemplus #wyl

A photo posted by Ofo (@ofoezeugwu) on Jan 15, 2016 at 3:57pm PST

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Ezeugwu was on a panel about investment in companies led by women and people of color. He was invited to speak by The Student Dream, an organization that supports entrepreneurs of color, and was one of 120 attendees. About one-third were young entrepreneurs — Ezeugwu especially liked Jaylen Bledsoe, who started a successful IT services company as a sophomore in high school in Minnesota.
Ezeugwu even used the White House spot as a way to land a meeting with an organization that had originally rejected his company’s application (he stayed mum on who).
He joins the crew of Philly technologists who have spoken at or attended events at the White House, like Girl Develop It Executive Director Corinne Warnshuis, Philly New Tech Meetup’s Mike Krupit, O3 World’s Courtney Wilburn and teenage game studio cofounder Nicodemus Madehdou.