AfroTech Conference 2026
Thai Randolph
Founder and CEO, NILE & Co.
Track Legacy Speaker, Entrepreneurship
Biography
Thai is an entrepreneur, producer, brand builder, and business architect. Founder and CEO of NILE & Co. and former co-founder and CEO of Hartbeat where she led a $100M+ capital raise one of the largest ever secured by a Black woman for a private company and scaled the company to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. She held senior roles at Sony, Lionsgate, WPP, Publicis and Meta. Recognized on Variety’s and Entrepreneur’s Women of Impact lists, Billboard’s Power Players Hip-Hop & R&B, Cynopsis’s Visionary Leaders, and AdAge’s 40 Under 40. Gracie Award-winning podcast host and producer. LP, Brainstrust Fund. Board member, Rock The Bells.
Sessions
Your IP Is the New Real Estate
Tue, Nov 3, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM CT
Track Entrepreneurship
For generations, real estate was the primary vehicle for building and transferring wealth. Today, your voice, likeness, content, and personal brand can do what property once did: generate income, appreciate in value, and be passed down. Denise Bailey-Castro and Thai Randolph have built companies on this thesis. This conversation is about how to structure your IP as a real wealth-building asset and what to do right now to start.
