August 22, 2025 • 22 mins
Episode 403 - “College Match Pros” Feat: Ferrari Simmons & You Know BT Produced by: Baller Alert
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They get a little they called me Alert.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Push up in the Robbert with for Robert and you
know b T as you crush you you like me
mental health chat, talk to me. Somebody got you fed up? Colin,
get it off your mind. Catch us in there a
turn us up while you in traffic sline. Welcome to
the Greatest Shawn Earth. Yeah it's the Bottle of Alert.
Yeah it's the Bottle Alert. Yeah, it's the Bottle of Alert.
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Welcome to the Greatest shown Nerve. Yeah it's the Battle Alert.
Yeah it's the Battle of Alert. Yeah it's the Battle Alert.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Broadcast live from the Nickel Law Firm Studios. I go
by the name Ferrari sim I go by to the
name you know BT to the Ball Alert Show.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Please introduce yourself, gentlemen, I'm Batch you. I'm here on
behalf of College Match Pros HBC three sixty.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Welcome back, bo to you, Welcome back.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I'm Lawrence AKA at tech tow and I'm the founder
and owner of College Match Pros, educational technology company that
lets kids take towards put it on virtual reality headsets
as if they're actually there on campus.
Speaker 7 (01:09):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And before we start, shout out to or watches.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
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or watch, go to Ura dot com.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
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Speaker 7 (01:19):
That's it. Get your discount.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
You know what I'm saying. Anyway, please continue, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Yeah, absolutely so. I met Bachi a few years ago.
I've been in education space over eighteen years, and I
had a tagline, brilliance to spread out equally. Opportunity is
not God, the missing nobody with brilliance, but opportunity.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
There was that disparity.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
So being in a public school system and executive director,
nonprofit organization, everything that had to deal with youth and education,
it was a disparity from the haves and the have nots,
and it was like, what can we do to try
to close this this gap as far as access.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
And I just had a.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Wild vision one day and it was how can we
bring well? One exposing kids to careers, because you can't
be what you don't know exists. So that was number one.
So you can't be what you don't know exists. So
to that end, we all have different gifts and talents
and they align with a career. But if you have
no exposure to that career, then how can you be that?
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Right?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
So, the first thing that I did when I was
working in the education system, in the public school system,
was I created this career library of six hundred careers
and they would directly correlate it to different subject content.
So if you ask a kid that was great in math, like, hey,
what do you want to be when you grow up?
You know, I said number one question. Number one ask
question to kids, what do you want to be when
you grow up? Again, there's your caveat. You can't be
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what you don't know exists. So to that end, it
was like, you have a kid who's great at math,
and yet all they know is a banker or an accountant.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
So yeah, you can't be what you don't but.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
You don't what you don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
So essentially, I just started doing a bunch of research
and I started looking at the different subject content from e. L. A.
The history to math, and I was aligning the different
careers with basically those subject contents. And then I was
exposing those kids that had a little mentoring program and
I was exposing those kids to the.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Different career pathways.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Then I had another wild idea of all right, what
if we could college tour and not just college tour
but introduced kids of like tech schools and trade schools.
Think about touring.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
That's where it's at. Bro them tech schools and them
trades grades. That's a very misunder like promoted. That's not
promoted enough.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
I've never even.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Heard about that.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
When I was in the South, when the ac be
going out, the folks be getting the bad Yeah, I
know several people who know how to fix the age
vac and do the free on and all that.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
That's big business business.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
There's plenty of successful people who didn't go to a
traditional college university.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
They went to a trade school.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And but what people don't understand is a lot of
times people think if you didn't go to the you
know U G A or historically black college, but you
went to a trade school, that you're not gonna be successful.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
What's what's the trade school?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Trade school?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
When you learn how to do a trade, you could
be an electric to school electric to be an h
you go to big you go to school for that
specific trade.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
But the thing is, you know, you get the certified,
You get the certification.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
To get the certification, and you're going to school specifically
for that reason, and that's what you're going to do
as a career, correct, got yea. So probably a lot cheaper.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
If they had a radio school, we know we're gonna
go there, and we know after we're done, we're probably
gonna get a radio station job.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Oh that's fire.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
They used to have, like Connecticut School of Broadcasting. Yeah,
you know, I don't know what happened to that, but it.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Was one in Orlando. I forget what it's called. I
know what happens for music, social media full sell.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I don't know if that's the log social media, but
that's that's why, you know. I wanted to be a
part of this because this is this opportunity and the
chance it's going to give a lot of kids like
myself who didn't get the goal. I went to one
college tour to Hampton and found out that my scholarship
that I was supposed to have wasn't a real scholarship,
you know what I'm saying. But we didn't have the
means to go travel here and go travel there. So
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with this company, when you can bring the college tour
to you, that's amazing, Like.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Say the name of the company again.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
So college match pros, College.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Pros, and you've got specialize in giving people the tour
the college or the trade school is a trade school.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
That you get trade trade schools is included as well.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The experience of going there and seeing it virtually.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Virtually so you put on the virtual reality headset and
essentially what we've done is we've brought the college campuses
to you. So what happens is is we go and
film so all a. So when our first initially had
the vision, it was like, how are we going to
do this? So we started off with the HBC use.
So with that raised the money, got in contact with
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a bunch of the HBCUs Hampton, Howard Morgan, State fam
You Tuskegee, and we started going and we were filming.
And then with filming we started what I started doing
was going into these different local high schools and I
was bringing the VR head sets, the virtual reality head sets,
and kids were put in the morning, they were tripping
because it literally is as if you're actually there on campus.
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So I was doing that so many times that Harvard
alumni group had heard about what we were doing. A
local Harvard alumni group that was here and they sent
us out to Boston, Boston Preparatory School, and we had
like one hundred and forty juniors that toured, so we
had thirty VR headsets that Meta heard about us. So
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that's when we got the partnership with Meta and then
the partnership say that part partnership with Meta.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, so yeah, so Meta's Facebook, the.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Instagram, Yes, Shadow glasses right right, shout out to Susan
over there, and Meta shout out the sauce.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So we took the meeting.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
We took the meeting with with UH with Meta, and
they vetted us for a year and it was like,
all right, so this is great, but the application, how
you built it, how we essentially built it. Think about
it like like building making a cake, if you will.
We had the box and we just added the flour.
Meta was like, can't do that. You gotta build it
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from scratch. So you're like, oh man, so now we
you know, we're talking. I'm thinking, might have boatloads of
money or what have you, you know, And it was
it was, it was, it was a little bit, you know,
but we learned a lot in that experience, and they
connected us, they allowed us to uh, they gave us
three different developers that were Meta certified, and we work
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with those developers, and then now we have what's called
the soul Source, meaning that we're the only company with
Meta that is providing college tours and the entire country, you.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Know, only the only Yeah, so we're a soul source company.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So for someone who's watching this interview and this is
this is good because this is gonna get shared a lot.
What how why should someone you know tap into you
guys right now?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Oh, that's a that's a great question. So we we
actually have big news.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
So we started working with school districts and we were
selling the virtual reality head set to the school districts
and letting them put on their own virtual reality tours.
So we became a venda New York Department of Education. Yeah,
it's the largest school district in the entire country, you know,
big shout out to Principal Tours in the South Bronx.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
He was the first one.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Because to get in with New York Department of Education,
it's like trying to get in the mafia. They gotta
endorse you, you gotta do what's called the penetration tests
through IBM, where basically I know that sounds crazy, right,
but What happens is they, because they're the larger school
district in the entire United States, right, they press your
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application to see if they could break it. So if
they had sixty or seventy thousand students on the application
at once, is that going to slow it down. It's
called the pin tests, you know for the techies they'll know.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
So you you yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
So we went we went through the pen test and
that was about a year and a half and then.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
We got to took a year and a half the
whole process. It's you had to have a lot of
patience with this.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Oh absolutely, between them LA Unified, shout out the Oak
Park School District and uh Detroit just came back from Detroit,
shout out to them.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
There their adopters as well.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Georgia coming.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
That's a plan. We're working on it.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
However, what we what we do have right now is
we're opening the hub. So now parents can bring their
kids to tour colleges at.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Our hub and up in Atlanta, yes, or in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Okay, pint so, Okay, we're going to do a rip
cutting certamony.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Hey, hey make sure brought Yeah, we'll be there.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
We'll be there.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I figured that out. But but to go along what
he's saying, what it will allow you to do is
bring your kids to the Hub and they can experience
the Virtual Headset College Tour.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
When's that happening?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
So our ribbon cutting is August twenty fourth, Sunday pretty soon.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, ten to ten.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
To twelve and we're located yeah, eight eighty one Ponts.
So we we're excited. So with that, you'll have access
to the schools heir and Georgia. You know school he's
probably not even heard of in Georgia, I mean some
coastal college, Gordon State of course, your ugas and then
twenty five plus HBCUs.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
So I mean we need to be there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, that makes it happen, That's that's what.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
That's dope because a lot of a lot of you know,
black kids can't afford to be traveling and going to
different colleges and you know, now people can just virtually see.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
It and we have you know, for those who, of course,
we want you to come to the Hub and experience
it with the VR headset because the immersive experience is different.
Like you when you put that headset on, bro, you
feel like you're on campus, like, it's crazy. Man. We're
gonna let y'all try it too. But then also for
some reason, if you can't make it, we also have
the subscription process, so you can go to our website
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and you can subscribe for a small fee and then
you'll be able to go online and do the towards there.
So I do it with my son and my daughter.
You know, they'll go online. Dad, I want to see
what it's like at this school. I want to see
what it's like this. The exposure is what it is,
and exposure starts early. It's not just high school. You
know what I'm saying. You get exposed to college starting
the elementary school. It's the process of knowing I want
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to go to school. I want to go to the
trade school or even if you go on the I
don't know if you mentioned it. If you go on
our website, you can filter it so like you go
to Westlake High School, you have a three point oh GPA,
you made a ten fifty on the say T it'll
filter it to the schools that you can be accepted for.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, we got it buzzed down to the g PA.
So I had two students.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Past the tests that you.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Penetration the biggest.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Tests, so that the biggest It's interesting because when when
I was in the school system. So just to throughout
some some numbers as far as like the school counselors.
It's something called the American School Counselor Association, and they
report that it's four hundred and eight students to every
one school counselor.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
So if you think.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
About that, you know, it's like kids to one American school.
The American School Counselor Association, there's four hundred. The average
number in high schools and the United States is four
hundred and eight students to every one school counselor. Last year,
loan students spent five minutes with their school counselor.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
That's it for the entire school year.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
So when you think about it, the top ten percent
of kids would be fine, it's the ninety Yeah, So
when you look at that, it's kind of like, all right, well,
how can we help this?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Right? Like, how can we help again this disparity.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
That's all kids, that's not just in the city or
a rural that's that's all kids. So to that end,
what we did was we worked with these developers from
Georgia Tech, and we created the algorithm, and that algorithm
you can put your GPA in, so if you're a
C student, you can see all of the schools that
you would match up with that taking you know what
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I mean.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
So you ain't even wasting your time.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah, you don't want to waste your time. Yeah, because
everybody charges for application.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Feet right, I remember because in a while if that
college application for a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Right, yeah, sure, if you if you're applying to a
few colleges, you.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Yeah, yeah, okay, it's definitely it's definitely expensive. So I
mean we looked at every factor, right, you know, we
got the career component all right, as far as you know,
and then you can itemize like I was saying, you know,
if you're into math, you can see all of the
all of the math careers you in the English Stem,
steam whatever. And then it was like, all right, so
we took care of that. Can't be what you don't
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know exist. Now let's let's look at this component of
g PA because personally I was a C student and
it wasn't because I couldn't do it. My dad died
when I was in ninth grade.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
That messed me up.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
For like, my dad was there, like I had a
great relationship with him, and at that time, counseling wasn't
a thing. So I didn't really care about high school.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
As much like you when you had to go to
counseling too.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
That Y're right.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I have been to counseling when I was when I
was in school, right go to counseling.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
So I was a man right now.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
It was something.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
But before like you know, I was coming up, you know, nineties,
that wasn't that wasn't it. Like it wasn't it wasn't
it wasn't it. So it wasn't that I couldn't do
the work. It was I just lost my dude. So
that point, I'm like, I got them sitting here with
this two point five two point seven.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
And I'm like, what do I do? What do I do?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
And then so I mean I had a backup plan
if it didn't work. I was just gonna say college
ain't for me.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So no, I got I got you and and see
and now I was gonna ask you a question, but
to pick a back what you're saying. That's why them
trade schools are important, bro, because when I had the
broadcast live with DJ mvy at a trade school, at
a trade institution.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I saw all these people. I was like, wow, this person's.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Graduating to be an electrician. But it was a specific electrician.
I can't remember what it was. These people were doing
h VAT and they were hit me like Farra, if
you need you, if you if you need me to
service your your AC unit and all get my number.
I got like five people aged five h VAT people
that I have on call. But I met at the
institution right that. So I didn't know about trade schools
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until I was grown up.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Man trade school right now, two of my boys got
h companies, both both most million.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yeah straight, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I mean my man started when he was what nineteen twenty,
went to the school and some of those trade schools.
It's not that long, b you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, all right, So before we get out of here,
I want you guys to, you know, just run down
the list one more time. How people can if because
you know our listeners and our watchers, they're from all
walks of life.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
So break down Lame's terms. How can they get in
contact with you guys?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What should they what should they do if they want
to try the product or figure out.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
How to be a part of this. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
So the website is college mmas in match pasimpros dot com.
So college mp dot com. Same thing with the with
the with the Instagram and you can follow us and
then you'll you'll see that we'll start highlighting and promoting
as far as the weekend tours when you can take
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your kids. You can bring your kids if you're here
in Atlanta, if you're not. Even if you're not here
in Atlanta, it would make sense for you to come
to Atlanta and that hour spent, you know, touring colleges
seven eight schools within that hour because we consolidated everything down.
It's called three to four minutes, you know, so it'll
take you a couple hours on an actual tour, but
we've like squeezed it to three to four minutes, and
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you have the narrated air, so it's literally like you're
actually there on campus, so you'll hear about the buildings,
you're in, the classrooms, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
But yes, we're opening the first College Street sixty hub.
Atlanta's gonna be our flagship is there on Ponts Sunday,
August twenty, twenty fourth, ten to twelve. And then if
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you want your kids to have access to that career component,
then on the website you can you know, subscribe as
well and they'll have that access to those six hundred
plus careers in addition to you know, all of the
online college tours. But if you're hearing Atlanta, check that out.
But at the same time, definitely definitely look and pull
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up on us because this is an experience.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
And Atlanta will be the first one. But the goal,
you know, he's been a little humble over here to
go to be like Starbucks. You know what I'm saying.
We won't have the hubs everywhere we want to. We
want a college match pros three sixty hubs and with
every city with.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
The meta meta come on.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
So if you if you think about it, every block,
every neighborhood got the stores you know stopping there for
so if we create the lab, you know, every every neighborhood,
like just like you go to the library, and let
me go to the lab. Let me come to these
colleges and give you that's working man. Y'all got the
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first interview I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Hey, look, and I was on them, I was like this,
we gotta.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Get thisself a billion dollars just.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
To be broadcast live at y'all.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
You know, yeah, but but to be honest with to
be honest with you. I know y'all know me from
another light. The entertainment Sauce Buckead Lounge still going great.
Should always come to visit. Yes, got my tax business.
But at the end of the day, this is something
that's gonna help millions of kids. You know what I'm saying.
This is something that we were affected by when we
were coming up, you.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
So it's like, this is this is a like he
told me, man, you you got to solve a problem.
And we're solving a big problem, what I'm saying. So
it's like it's it's gonna change lives, and everybody wants
to do someone be involved with something that changed people lives.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
You know, it's level the playing field that's not level
right there.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
And we got older, we saw that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I was like, oh, yes, at the end of days,
it's exposure to it. Then you don't know, like you said.
If you you don't you're saying.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
What saying, No, the brilliance has spread out equally, opportunity.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Is not Listen, bro, I didn't know why I could
be a rate of personality right when I said out.
When I kept saying it to my parents, they didn't
understand what I was trying to say talking on them.
They weren't exposed to it and playing music, Nah to
FedEx and get beefits.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
You know what I'm saying. That's what I was told.
So I went against the grain, and it was it
was so hard to get there? What if it's not
that hard because for a lot of people it's not hard.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
No, it's not because it's taught from a very young
age because they had information.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
That's why.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
That's why shows like this are important, absolutely absolute, and
we don't.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Hear we be wilding out. But another reason why I
wanted to have you guys on is because we have
to do interviews like this too. These matter and value.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
You see a black on tech company, Yeah it's not
that's that's.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And this this, this interview has replay value when it drops,
it will have replay value over time.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Abol we gotta you gotta shout out just you know,
the good folks over there as well at JP Morgan Chase.
Okay event Chase back next week back at the school event.
And they actually have nineteen community centers and we're looking
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to put virtual reality tours in their nineteen community centers
across the country.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
We just got that. We work definitely too.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
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shout out for Hungary a f and shout out.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
To the faith group what's up yeah, and our our.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
You gotta hold yours up. Come on, bro, you know
what I'm saying, Get you a watch.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
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They get a little they called me Alert.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Push up in the Robbert with for Robert and you
know b T as you crush you you like me
mental health chat, talk to me. Somebody got you fed up? Colin,
get it off your mind. Catch us in there a
turn us up while you in traffic sline. Welcome to
the Greatest Shawn Earth. Yeah it's the Bottle of Alert.
Yeah it's the Bottle Alert. Yeah, it's the Bottle of Alert.
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Welcome to the Greatest shown Nerve. Yeah it's the Battle Alert.
Yeah it's the Battle of Alert. Yeah it's the Battle Alert.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Broadcast live from the Nickel Law Firm Studios. I go
by the name Ferrari sim I go by to the
name you know BT to the Ball Alert Show.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Please introduce yourself, gentlemen, I'm Batch you. I'm here on
behalf of College Match Pros HBC three sixty.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Welcome back, bo to you, Welcome back.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I'm Lawrence AKA at tech tow and I'm the founder
and owner of College Match Pros, educational technology company that
lets kids take towards put it on virtual reality headsets
as if they're actually there on campus.
Speaker 7 (01:09):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And before we start, shout out to or watches.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
If we want to get you a watch, go to
or watch, go to Ura dot com.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Actually, and then we got a cold.
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Speaker 7 (01:19):
That's it. Get your discount.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
You know what I'm saying. Anyway, please continue, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Yeah, absolutely so. I met Bachi a few years ago.
I've been in education space over eighteen years, and I
had a tagline, brilliance to spread out equally. Opportunity is
not God, the missing nobody with brilliance, but opportunity.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
There was that disparity.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
So being in a public school system and executive director,
nonprofit organization, everything that had to deal with youth and education,
it was a disparity from the haves and the have nots,
and it was like, what can we do to try
to close this this gap as far as access.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
And I just had a.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Wild vision one day and it was how can we
bring well? One exposing kids to careers, because you can't
be what you don't know exists. So that was number one.
So you can't be what you don't know exists. So
to that end, we all have different gifts and talents
and they align with a career. But if you have
no exposure to that career, then how can you be that?
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Right?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
So, the first thing that I did when I was
working in the education system, in the public school system,
was I created this career library of six hundred careers
and they would directly correlate it to different subject content.
So if you ask a kid that was great in math, like, hey,
what do you want to be when you grow up?
You know, I said number one question. Number one ask
question to kids, what do you want to be when
you grow up? Again, there's your caveat. You can't be
(02:42):
what you don't know exists. So to that end, it
was like, you have a kid who's great at math,
and yet all they know is a banker or an accountant.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
So yeah, you can't be what you don't but.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
You don't what you don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
So essentially, I just started doing a bunch of research
and I started looking at the different subject content from e. L. A.
The history to math, and I was aligning the different
careers with basically those subject contents. And then I was
exposing those kids that had a little mentoring program and
I was exposing those kids to the.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Different career pathways.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Then I had another wild idea of all right, what
if we could college tour and not just college tour
but introduced kids of like tech schools and trade schools.
Think about touring.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
That's where it's at. Bro them tech schools and them
trades grades. That's a very misunder like promoted. That's not
promoted enough.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
I've never even.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Heard about that.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
When I was in the South, when the ac be
going out, the folks be getting the bad Yeah, I
know several people who know how to fix the age
vac and do the free on and all that.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
That's big business business.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
There's plenty of successful people who didn't go to a
traditional college university.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
They went to a trade school.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And but what people don't understand is a lot of
times people think if you didn't go to the you
know U G A or historically black college, but you
went to a trade school, that you're not gonna be successful.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
What's what's the trade school?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Trade school?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
When you learn how to do a trade, you could
be an electric to school electric to be an h
you go to big you go to school for that
specific trade.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
But the thing is, you know, you get the certified,
You get the certification.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
To get the certification, and you're going to school specifically
for that reason, and that's what you're going to do
as a career, correct, got yea. So probably a lot cheaper.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
If they had a radio school, we know we're gonna
go there, and we know after we're done, we're probably
gonna get a radio station job.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
Oh that's fire.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
They used to have, like Connecticut School of Broadcasting. Yeah,
you know, I don't know what happened to that, but it.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Was one in Orlando. I forget what it's called. I
know what happens for music, social media full sell.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I don't know if that's the log social media, but
that's that's why, you know. I wanted to be a
part of this because this is this opportunity and the
chance it's going to give a lot of kids like
myself who didn't get the goal. I went to one
college tour to Hampton and found out that my scholarship
that I was supposed to have wasn't a real scholarship,
you know what I'm saying. But we didn't have the
means to go travel here and go travel there. So
(05:20):
with this company, when you can bring the college tour
to you, that's amazing, Like.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Say the name of the company again.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
So college match pros, College.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Pros, and you've got specialize in giving people the tour
the college or the trade school is a trade school.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
That you get trade trade schools is included as well.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The experience of going there and seeing it virtually.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Virtually so you put on the virtual reality headset and
essentially what we've done is we've brought the college campuses
to you. So what happens is is we go and
film so all a. So when our first initially had
the vision, it was like, how are we going to
do this? So we started off with the HBC use.
So with that raised the money, got in contact with
(06:04):
a bunch of the HBCUs Hampton, Howard Morgan, State fam
You Tuskegee, and we started going and we were filming.
And then with filming we started what I started doing
was going into these different local high schools and I
was bringing the VR head sets, the virtual reality head sets,
and kids were put in the morning, they were tripping
because it literally is as if you're actually there on campus.
(06:27):
So I was doing that so many times that Harvard
alumni group had heard about what we were doing. A
local Harvard alumni group that was here and they sent
us out to Boston, Boston Preparatory School, and we had
like one hundred and forty juniors that toured, so we
had thirty VR headsets that Meta heard about us. So
(06:48):
that's when we got the partnership with Meta and then
the partnership say that part partnership with Meta.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, so yeah, so Meta's Facebook, the.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Instagram, Yes, Shadow glasses right right, shout out to Susan
over there, and Meta shout out the sauce.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So we took the meeting.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
We took the meeting with with UH with Meta, and
they vetted us for a year and it was like,
all right, so this is great, but the application, how
you built it, how we essentially built it. Think about
it like like building making a cake, if you will.
We had the box and we just added the flour.
Meta was like, can't do that. You gotta build it
(07:30):
from scratch. So you're like, oh man, so now we
you know, we're talking. I'm thinking, might have boatloads of
money or what have you, you know, And it was
it was, it was, it was a little bit, you know,
but we learned a lot in that experience, and they
connected us, they allowed us to uh, they gave us
three different developers that were Meta certified, and we work
(07:52):
with those developers, and then now we have what's called
the soul Source, meaning that we're the only company with
Meta that is providing college tours and the entire country, you.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Know, only the only Yeah, so we're a soul source company.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So for someone who's watching this interview and this is
this is good because this is gonna get shared a lot.
What how why should someone you know tap into you
guys right now?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Oh, that's a that's a great question. So we we
actually have big news.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
So we started working with school districts and we were
selling the virtual reality head set to the school districts
and letting them put on their own virtual reality tours.
So we became a venda New York Department of Education. Yeah,
it's the largest school district in the entire country, you know,
big shout out to Principal Tours in the South Bronx.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
He was the first one.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Because to get in with New York Department of Education,
it's like trying to get in the mafia. They gotta
endorse you, you gotta do what's called the penetration tests
through IBM, where basically I know that sounds crazy, right,
but What happens is they, because they're the larger school
district in the entire United States, right, they press your
(09:10):
application to see if they could break it. So if
they had sixty or seventy thousand students on the application
at once, is that going to slow it down. It's
called the pin tests, you know for the techies they'll know.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
So you you yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
So we went we went through the pen test and
that was about a year and a half and then.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
We got to took a year and a half the
whole process. It's you had to have a lot of
patience with this.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Oh absolutely, between them LA Unified, shout out the Oak
Park School District and uh Detroit just came back from Detroit,
shout out to them.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
There their adopters as well.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Georgia coming.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
That's a plan. We're working on it.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
However, what we what we do have right now is
we're opening the hub. So now parents can bring their
kids to tour colleges at.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Our hub and up in Atlanta, yes, or in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Okay, pint so, Okay, we're going to do a rip
cutting certamony.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Hey, hey make sure brought Yeah, we'll be there.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
We'll be there.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I figured that out. But but to go along what
he's saying, what it will allow you to do is
bring your kids to the Hub and they can experience
the Virtual Headset College Tour.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
When's that happening?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
So our ribbon cutting is August twenty fourth, Sunday pretty soon.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, ten to ten.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
To twelve and we're located yeah, eight eighty one Ponts.
So we we're excited. So with that, you'll have access
to the schools heir and Georgia. You know school he's
probably not even heard of in Georgia, I mean some
coastal college, Gordon State of course, your ugas and then
twenty five plus HBCUs.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
So I mean we need to be there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, that makes it happen, That's that's what.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
That's dope because a lot of a lot of you know,
black kids can't afford to be traveling and going to
different colleges and you know, now people can just virtually see.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
It and we have you know, for those who, of course,
we want you to come to the Hub and experience
it with the VR headset because the immersive experience is different.
Like you when you put that headset on, bro, you
feel like you're on campus, like, it's crazy. Man. We're
gonna let y'all try it too. But then also for
some reason, if you can't make it, we also have
the subscription process, so you can go to our website
(11:23):
and you can subscribe for a small fee and then
you'll be able to go online and do the towards there.
So I do it with my son and my daughter.
You know, they'll go online. Dad, I want to see
what it's like at this school. I want to see
what it's like this. The exposure is what it is,
and exposure starts early. It's not just high school. You
know what I'm saying. You get exposed to college starting
the elementary school. It's the process of knowing I want
(11:45):
to go to school. I want to go to the
trade school or even if you go on the I
don't know if you mentioned it. If you go on
our website, you can filter it so like you go
to Westlake High School, you have a three point oh GPA,
you made a ten fifty on the say T it'll
filter it to the schools that you can be accepted for.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, we got it buzzed down to the g PA.
So I had two students.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Past the tests that you.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Penetration the biggest.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Tests, so that the biggest It's interesting because when when
I was in the school system. So just to throughout
some some numbers as far as like the school counselors.
It's something called the American School Counselor Association, and they
report that it's four hundred and eight students to every
one school counselor.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
So if you think.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
About that, you know, it's like kids to one American school.
The American School Counselor Association, there's four hundred. The average
number in high schools and the United States is four
hundred and eight students to every one school counselor. Last year,
loan students spent five minutes with their school counselor.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
That's it for the entire school year.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
So when you think about it, the top ten percent
of kids would be fine, it's the ninety Yeah, So
when you look at that, it's kind of like, all right, well,
how can we help this?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Right? Like, how can we help again this disparity.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
That's all kids, that's not just in the city or
a rural that's that's all kids. So to that end,
what we did was we worked with these developers from
Georgia Tech, and we created the algorithm, and that algorithm
you can put your GPA in, so if you're a
C student, you can see all of the schools that
you would match up with that taking you know what
(13:32):
I mean.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
So you ain't even wasting your time.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah, you don't want to waste your time. Yeah, because
everybody charges for application.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Feet right, I remember because in a while if that
college application for a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Right, yeah, sure, if you if you're applying to a
few colleges, you.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Yeah, yeah, okay, it's definitely it's definitely expensive. So I
mean we looked at every factor, right, you know, we
got the career component all right, as far as you know,
and then you can itemize like I was saying, you know,
if you're into math, you can see all of the
all of the math careers you in the English Stem,
steam whatever. And then it was like, all right, so
we took care of that. Can't be what you don't
(14:13):
know exist. Now let's let's look at this component of
g PA because personally I was a C student and
it wasn't because I couldn't do it. My dad died
when I was in ninth grade.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
That messed me up.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
For like, my dad was there, like I had a
great relationship with him, and at that time, counseling wasn't
a thing. So I didn't really care about high school.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
As much like you when you had to go to
counseling too.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
That Y're right.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I have been to counseling when I was when I
was in school, right go to counseling.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
So I was a man right now.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
It was something.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
But before like you know, I was coming up, you know, nineties,
that wasn't that wasn't it. Like it wasn't it wasn't
it wasn't it. So it wasn't that I couldn't do
the work. It was I just lost my dude. So
that point, I'm like, I got them sitting here with
this two point five two point seven.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
And I'm like, what do I do? What do I do?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
And then so I mean I had a backup plan
if it didn't work. I was just gonna say college
ain't for me.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So no, I got I got you and and see
and now I was gonna ask you a question, but
to pick a back what you're saying. That's why them
trade schools are important, bro, because when I had the
broadcast live with DJ mvy at a trade school, at
a trade institution.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I saw all these people. I was like, wow, this person's.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Graduating to be an electrician. But it was a specific electrician.
I can't remember what it was. These people were doing
h VAT and they were hit me like Farra, if
you need you, if you if you need me to
service your your AC unit and all get my number.
I got like five people aged five h VAT people
that I have on call. But I met at the
institution right that. So I didn't know about trade schools
(15:54):
until I was grown up.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Man trade school right now, two of my boys got
h companies, both both most million.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yeah straight, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I mean my man started when he was what nineteen twenty,
went to the school and some of those trade schools.
It's not that long, b you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, all right, So before we get out of here,
I want you guys to, you know, just run down
the list one more time. How people can if because
you know our listeners and our watchers, they're from all
walks of life.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
So break down Lame's terms. How can they get in
contact with you guys?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What should they what should they do if they want
to try the product or figure out.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
How to be a part of this. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
So the website is college mmas in match pasimpros dot com.
So college mp dot com. Same thing with the with
the with the Instagram and you can follow us and
then you'll you'll see that we'll start highlighting and promoting
as far as the weekend tours when you can take
(17:01):
your kids. You can bring your kids if you're here
in Atlanta, if you're not. Even if you're not here
in Atlanta, it would make sense for you to come
to Atlanta and that hour spent, you know, touring colleges
seven eight schools within that hour because we consolidated everything down.
It's called three to four minutes, you know, so it'll
take you a couple hours on an actual tour, but
we've like squeezed it to three to four minutes, and
(17:25):
you have the narrated air, so it's literally like you're
actually there on campus, so you'll hear about the buildings,
you're in, the classrooms, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
But yes, we're opening the first College Street sixty hub.
Atlanta's gonna be our flagship is there on Ponts Sunday,
August twenty, twenty fourth, ten to twelve. And then if
(17:48):
you want your kids to have access to that career component,
then on the website you can you know, subscribe as
well and they'll have that access to those six hundred
plus careers in addition to you know, all of the
online college tours. But if you're hearing Atlanta, check that out.
But at the same time, definitely definitely look and pull
(18:10):
up on us because this is an experience.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
And Atlanta will be the first one. But the goal,
you know, he's been a little humble over here to
go to be like Starbucks. You know what I'm saying.
We won't have the hubs everywhere we want to. We
want a college match pros three sixty hubs and with
every city with.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
The meta meta come on.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
So if you if you think about it, every block,
every neighborhood got the stores you know stopping there for
so if we create the lab, you know, every every neighborhood,
like just like you go to the library, and let
me go to the lab. Let me come to these
colleges and give you that's working man. Y'all got the
(18:49):
first interview I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Hey, look, and I was on them, I was like this,
we gotta.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Get thisself a billion dollars just.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
To be broadcast live at y'all.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
You know, yeah, but but to be honest with to
be honest with you. I know y'all know me from
another light. The entertainment Sauce Buckead Lounge still going great.
Should always come to visit. Yes, got my tax business.
But at the end of the day, this is something
that's gonna help millions of kids. You know what I'm saying.
This is something that we were affected by when we
were coming up, you.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
So it's like, this is this is a like he
told me, man, you you got to solve a problem.
And we're solving a big problem, what I'm saying. So
it's like it's it's gonna change lives, and everybody wants
to do someone be involved with something that changed people lives.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
You know, it's level the playing field that's not level
right there.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
And we got older, we saw that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I was like, oh, yes, at the end of days,
it's exposure to it. Then you don't know, like you said.
If you you don't you're saying.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
What saying, No, the brilliance has spread out equally, opportunity.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Is not Listen, bro, I didn't know why I could
be a rate of personality right when I said out.
When I kept saying it to my parents, they didn't
understand what I was trying to say talking on them.
They weren't exposed to it and playing music, Nah to
FedEx and get beefits.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
You know what I'm saying. That's what I was told.
So I went against the grain, and it was it
was so hard to get there? What if it's not
that hard because for a lot of people it's not hard.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
No, it's not because it's taught from a very young
age because they had information.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
That's why.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
That's why shows like this are important, absolutely absolute, and
we don't.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Hear we be wilding out. But another reason why I
wanted to have you guys on is because we have
to do interviews like this too. These matter and value.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
You see a black on tech company, Yeah it's not
that's that's.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And this this, this interview has replay value when it drops,
it will have replay value over time.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Abol we gotta you gotta shout out just you know,
the good folks over there as well at JP Morgan Chase.
Okay event Chase back next week back at the school event.
And they actually have nineteen community centers and we're looking
(21:16):
to put virtual reality tours in their nineteen community centers
across the country.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
We just got that. We work definitely too.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
We go shout out to our sponsor, the Nagel Law Firm,
shout out for Hungary a f and shout out.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
To the faith group what's up yeah, and our our.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
You gotta hold yours up. Come on, bro, you know
what I'm saying, Get you a watch.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
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