Gerald Youngblood is the Founder of Tankee, a family-friendly entertainment platform that helps parents protect their kids from inappropriate online content while giving kids access to the gaming and entertainment videos they love.
Gerald got the idea for Tankee when he noticed that his young son and his friends were more likely to be on YouTube watching gaming content than watching Nickelodeon, Disney, or anything else. As a parent, this made him a bit nervous. He thought about all the non-family friendly stuff that his son could be seeing. Who knew what video or ad could pop up next on the screen.
So Gerald did some research. He started to look for the Nickelodeon of gaming content. But he couldn’t find anything. So he got an interesting idea. What if he built something himself?
To do this, he would have to leave a job that he loved and a career that was going really well. He decided to seek out the advice of his mentor. While they were talking, she asked him a question that really got his attention. In fact, it was a question he could never get away from. From that moment on, he knew he had to do it. Soon after, he launched Tankee.
In my conversation with Gerald today, he shares what that pivotal question was that his mentor asked him. He also talks about what happened on day one, when they flipped the switch and Tankee went live for the first time.
To learn more about Gerald and Tankee, check out their website below:
https://www.tankee.com/
