About Us – Blk Squares

CEO and Founder Prince Mapp is an engineer and author of Silk Tears. Prince grew up in South Jamaica, Queens. Just like most kids in his neighborhood, he had aspirations to become a professional athlete. As he grew, he began to distance himself from that dream.

Meet the CEO and Founder Prince Mapp

My Story

I watched my mom get up every morning at 5 AM and head to her first of two jobs. She did a tremendous job at not exploiting the fact that we lived below the poverty level. As I got older, my new friends did not have aspirations to become professional athletes; they all wanted an easier path to life's finer things. I started selling drugs at a very young age which led to a very unhealthy lifestyle where I was eventually robbed and shot, and wounded at 16 years of age.

Four years later, I was headed to state prison to serve an 18-year sentence for making terrible decisions.

At that point, I had lived 20 years on earth, and half of that was the worst version of myself. I lacked any respect for community, people, or life itself. There was a moment while in prison where I became disgusted with my life. I knew that I could do better. I knew that there was a better version of myself.

I decided to complete my education and eventually enrolling in college where I earned my Bachelor's degree in Organizational Management & Leadership with 3.78 GPA.

After being released from prison he worked as a Violence Interrupter in the same community I helped destroy.

Today Prince is an engineer at a NYC tech startup, a company whose mission is to make the world a better place. “As humans we are similar in so many ways, we laugh, we cry, we struggle. However, our journeys are our own and where we end up is solely up to us. We are not the same.”
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