During our second Virtual Town Hall session for 2025, we will discuss the economic trends, challenges, and opportunities impacting Black founders and entrepreneurs and Black-owned businesses’ growth, profitability, and success, particularly as drivers of Black wealth creation. Our goal is to provide guideposts to aspiring and established Black founders committed to leading successful, thriving ventures in the face of dramatically changed political reality, economic landscape, capital markets, and business environment taking shape thus far in 2025 and beyond. We also urge all African Americans to look beyond starting businesses themselves to prioritize becoming a source of funding/investment for Black founders and/or acquiring income-generating businesses as acts of portfolio diversification and strategic wealth creation.