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Posted on February 2, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton
Home > 28 Days of Diversity > #28DaysofDiversity: People of color impacting the social web. Day 2: @TristanWalker of @FourSquare

#28DaysofDiversity: People of color impacting the social web. Day 2: @TristanWalker of @FourSquare

28 Days of Diversity Featured


As we all know, February is Black History Month. It’s a month where we honor those who have made an impact on American culture for equal rights, those who have invented, those who have a helped others and those who have inspired everyone to be the best they can be, not only as a person of color but as a human.

As someone in the technology/web/social space, I often travel and attend various events in the industry and notice a huge lack of diversity, and when it comes to getting attention from mainstream media/tech blogs it’s almost impossible. That’s why I’m starting 28 Days of Diversity on SocialWayne.com. The goal of 28 Days of Diversity is to feature someone new everyday for the month of February for just being awesome in their own right. The list will include some of leaders in the social web space, startups, bloggers, conference organizers, IT professionals and friends not ranked in any particular order. Each post will include a picture, bio, two links from the selected person and this paragraph. So for the next 28 days, come back to visit SocialWayne.com to see who’s on the list. For day two, I would like to introduce to some and present to others: Tristan Walker

tristan walker

Website: JustTristan.com
Twitter: @tristanwalker

Tristan Walker has experience across a great number of verticals. After graduating as valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA at Stony Brook University, he went on to work as an oil trader for Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan Chase. Passionate about entrepreneurship, however, he went on to apply and be admitted to the Stanford Graduate School of Business, one of the top business schools in the world.

It was there where he gained an appreciation for tech entrepreneurship, and found his way into an internship with Twitter, Inc. There, He led a team of Stanford students to perform market research on business applications of the Twitter platform as an input for the company’s product roadmap and created original case studies from for both internal and external communications on best practices and compelling use cases for corporate Twitter usage, which became the foundation for a new website section on use of Twitter by businesses (“Twitter 101)

He is now head of Business Development at Foursquare Labs inc (foursquare.com) and responsible for some of the recent brand integrations on the platform, like Metro News (foursquare.com/metronews) and BravoTV (foursquare.com/bravo).

He loves his wife dearly! :)

Come back tomorrow to see who’s next on the list.


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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 9:00 am and is filed under 28 Days of Diversity, Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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  • http://socialwebtools.info/ ChaCha Fance

    Nice!! Never heard of him but he seems really influential. I just recently joined Foursquare though I haven’t been using it. He has some great educational background; good for him!

  • http://socialwebtools.info ChaCha Fance

    Nice!! Never heard of him but he seems really influential. I just recently joined Foursquare though I haven’t been using it. He has some great educational background; good for him!

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  • http://www.woodsidemediagroup.com/ Amani

    Yes, Tristan is a real cool dude. Laid back but focused.I have ennjoyed working with him and the interview that I did with him as well.

  • http://www.woodsidemediagroup.com Amani

    Yes, Tristan is a real cool dude. Laid back but focused.I have ennjoyed working with him and the interview that I did with him as well.

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  • http://www.ChurchMarketing.tv/ Arvell Craig

    Hey this all sounds pretty cool.

    Is there any way to make suggestions as to who I featured?

    Just wondering. ;)

    Arvell Craig
    @chmarketingtv

  • http://www.ChurchMarketing.tv Arvell Craig

    Hey this all sounds pretty cool.

    Is there any way to make suggestions as to who I featured?

    Just wondering. ;)

    Arvell Craig
    @chmarketingtv

  • http://www.ChurchMarketing.tv/ Arvell Craig

    Hey this all sounds pretty cool.

    Is there any way to make suggestions as to who is featured?

    Just wondering. ;)

    Arvell Craig
    @chmarketingtv

  • http://www.ChurchMarketing.tv Arvell Craig

    Hey this all sounds pretty cool.

    Is there any way to make suggestions as to who is featured?

    Just wondering. ;)

    Arvell Craig
    @chmarketingtv

  • http://socialwayne.com/ Wayne Sutton

    Arvell, thanks for the comment. I’m glad you ask as I’ve been thinking about other ways for people to participate in the #28DaysofDiversity project. I’m going to post this later but my idea is to have people write a blog post and list their 28 people or suggestions and use the tag #28DaysofDiversity from there. Tweet the post and I’ll add it to a new site I’m launching. Sounds good?

    • http://www.gebedo.com/ Arvell Craig

      Ok. That’s not bad. However, I moved from Detroit to Tulsa 7 years ago and my “sphere of social diversity” is pretty slim- at least when it comes to those I actually FOLLOW and CARE about what they are saying.

      But anyway, leaving suggestions with the #tag is great. I assume there may be some tools out there that could tally the results for you; then maybe put them in twitter.grader.com and come out with a decision.

      Thanks for listening-
      Arvell Craig
      @gebedo

  • http://socialwayne.com Wayne Sutton

    Arvell, thanks for the comment. I’m glad you ask as I’ve been thinking about other ways for people to participate in the #28DaysofDiversity project. I’m going to post this later but my idea is to have people write a blog post and list their 28 people or suggestions and use the tag #28DaysofDiversity from there. Tweet the post and I’ll add it to a new site I’m launching. Sounds good?

    • http://www.gebedo.com Arvell Craig

      Ok. That’s not bad. However, I moved from Detroit to Tulsa 7 years ago and my “sphere of social diversity” is pretty slim- at least when it comes to those I actually FOLLOW and CARE about what they are saying.

      But anyway, leaving suggestions with the #tag is great. I assume there may be some tools out there that could tally the results for you; then maybe put them in twitter.grader.com and come out with a decision.

      Thanks for listening-
      Arvell Craig
      @gebedo

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