The founder is sitting across from a woman who runs a small logistics business out of Witbank (eMalahleni). She has been using the product for four months. The founder drove all the way from Johannesburg to see her, which she found slightly strange, but she agreed to the meeting. For
The power went out at 11:43 on a Tuesday morning. Amara had been on a demo call with a prospect in Accra, a logistics company, their biggest lead that month, when the screen went black. No UPS. No generator. The modem died with the lights. She had been here
For decades, the dream of programming has been consistent: to ascend the ladder of abstraction. We've journeyed from punch cards to binary, then to assembly, high-level languages like C, frameworks, and eventually to low-code/no-code tools. Each progression diminished the importance of syntax, elevating the significance of intent.
Most founders obsess over either building or selling. The truth? You need both working together in a loop. Think of your startup as an infinite cycle: building feeds selling, selling feeds building. The faster that loop spins, the closer you get to product-market fit. Unifying Building and Selling Startups must
South Africa: The World’s Most Unequal Country Nearly 30 years after apartheid, South Africa still holds the unwelcome title of the most unequal country on Earth [1]. Multiple data points from global institutions underscore how starkly income and wealth are concentrated at the top, far more than in any
Recently, I've been closely observing creation, driven by genuine curiosity and filled with countless questions. It began by simply noticing the fascinating instincts of animals: These creatures do more than survive. They perform, plan, sacrifice, collaborate, deceive, and sometimes give everything. Their lives unfold like poetry, patterned, purposeful,