We were lucky to catch up with Terrence Gallman recently and have shared our conversation below.
Terrence, appreciate you joining us today. How did you come up with the idea for your business?
Discretionary discrimination is the bluntest form of economic exclusion and often the accomplice in most crime and poverty plaque communities across the US and abroad. Less than .01 out of 6000 U.S. public companies are black owned. As of late 2022 only .02 of private equity capital is managed by minority fund managers. Recent legislation proposed by NASDAQ and accepted by the Securities Exchange Commission to de-list companies not in compliance with at least one diverse board member is the latest effort to help reduce racial inequalities. I recently founded The Challenge 4 Change Initiative and Wall Street Bonds: The Urban Renaissance to champion the cause to get minority communities integrated into the financial markets issuing shares of my company GIG (Gallman Investment Group Inc.), a SEC exempt and South Carolina Corporation dedicated to acquiring, developing, and delivering substantive and highly marketable stories in both Major Motion Picture and Limited Series formats.
As of 2023, GIG has plans for hundreds of film and series productions (15% theatrical/85% streaming et al) slated for the next decade – spanning every genre and demographic.
Current projects are primarily sole-sourced from Hollywood’s Clay Ayers, a longtime writer for Quentin Tarantino’s A Band Apart. Ayers’s resume and background with major studios (Universal, Sony, Miramax, 20th Century Fox) dates to 2000 with his Universal #1 Box Office opener The Watcher (starring Keanu Reeves in the wake of his iconic role in The Matrix). Currently, Ayers’s most recent developments include No Right Way (inspired by my life story) and the much-touted screenplay No Cops with also attached producer Jack Sojka (currently working on the JFK movie “2 Days, 1963” cast Godfather’s Al Pacino, Pulp Fiction’s John Travolta, and Lord of The Rings Viggo Mortensen).
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
I currently lead GIG Group whose mission is shared by our many benefactors and sponsors. We’re deeply rooted in the spirit of inclusion and seek to provide a wide spectrum of “high-exposure/resume-building” jobs for underprivileged communities and opportunities for those communities to participate and integrate in the Global and Domestic Financial Markets, starting with local Financial Institutions in community partnership with GIG.
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
We found a network that represented the success we wanted to achieve and added value by helping them build their brand presence beyond their audience.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
Discipline! Shortcuts cost you more than you’re going to want to pay. I went to JOB Corps at 16 to get my G.E.D. early so I could get a full-time job and make more money. I started hanging around older people picking up some of their bad habits. As a result of my ignorance and immaturity, I became a teenage father, drug peddler and addict and ended up beginning a long prison sentence before the tender age of 21.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.giggroupinc.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrencelgallman/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/terrence.gallman.3
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrence-gallman-9b08101a/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/terrencegallman