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It's amazing how many people have been conned by Shaun King
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:48 am
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:48 am
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Shaun King Keeps Raising Money, and Questions About Where It Goes
He blamed issues at The North Star on over-ambition, but seven former employees of the site King launched with great fanfare painted a darker picture.
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A month later, the company boasted on Twitter that it already had “multiple angel investors” and more than 30,000 subscribers contributing $5 per month for students and $10 a month and up for the general public.
Subscribers at the highest giving levels, according to one former employee I spoke with, included Sigourney Weaver, Brené Brown, and black billionaire philanthropist Robert Smith, who gave a healthy $10,000 a month. If every single subscriber gave at the lowest $5 a month “student plan” level, subscriber revenue totaled more than $125,000 monthly, or $1.5 million a year, per figures tweeted by both King and The North Star.
But 14 months after launching, almost none of what King promised to build has appeared and the site has struggled with issues that alienated many subscribers. The headquarters and television studio was quietly shuttered last summer, and all Atlanta-based staffers laid off. The mobile app disappeared for over a year, and the “full news site” displays branded The North Star apparel for sale alongside relatively scant original journalism.
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Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:49 am to RLDSC FAN
Stupid people and their money...
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:49 am to RLDSC FAN
You mean to tell me he is a grifter?
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:50 am to RLDSC FAN
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This post was edited on 6/9/20 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:50 am to RLDSC FAN
I think a lot of people transfer the respect they had for his father to him. In his day Don brought a lot of people of both races together and had a joy for life that was very attractive to the masses. Shaun unfortunately could not follow in those massive footsteps.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:51 am to NIH
He was a hell of a QB for Tulane
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:51 am to RLDSC FAN
Martin Luther Cream is a goot boi
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:51 am to RLDSC FAN
Another white man taking advantage of black people. Such a shame.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:51 am to RLDSC FAN
He is a fraud that white guilt urban chicks love for some reason.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:51 am to RLDSC FAN
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Shaun King
never heard of him
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:52 am to RLDSC FAN
This dude has absolutely ZERO shame. Whoever gives him money deserved to lose said money.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:52 am to RLDSC FAN
He’s been buying powder. Lots and lots of powder.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:52 am to stout
There’s so many great names for this dude
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