Know this and know peace: many investors in Africa don’t fund untested ideas. They fund evidence. A landing page with 120 signups, 10 conversations, and 2 pre-orders is a better signal than a 20-slide deck of ideas. You don’t need an investor to start selling to customers, just

Today has ignited me

Larry Page: Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely. That's the thing that people don't get.

The funny thing about investing: The more you know, the less you diversify.

Some days I wake up and I just love my job. Today is one of those days. Yes, VC funding works for a small set of founders and the risks seem unattainably high for our African context. But, nothing ventured, nothing gained. There are fewer pleasures than seeing great founders

Banking sector NPLs fell to 16.5% in November 2025 from 16.7% in October and 17.6% in August, helped by improvements in mining, energy, household and transport sectors. Private sector credit growth strengthened to 6.3% in November 2025 from 5.9% in October and from -2.9% in

Bro rejected $1,000,000,000 offer for his AI company.

"We have inherited the British system, and you see how grievously they have harmed themselves. They say, just nationalise. Oh well, just redistribute wealth. Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak. It sounds wonderful at election time..." Lee Kuan Yew, August 16th, 1981.

The secret to success in Silicon Valley is crazy simple. Do a lot of favors. Help people. Be useful. It will all come back to you 10x. Repeat.

There's a certain amount of volume required to be great at anything. The faster you can pay that "debt" down, the faster you will get what you want.

- Amazon In 1994, profit-$0 - Amazon in 2003, profit-$0 rn its the 5th most valuable company

My kind of PR

Shareholder value

There's nothing wrong with showing your competitive advantage using a magic quadrant like in the picture below. But, investors will be far more convinced if you accompany this with evidence of behavior change (switching, retention, time-to-value) than by feature matrices. Lived

Florent (Flo) Nduwayezu Great chat yesterday