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Real stories and actionable frameworks from 20+ years of building, failing, and learning.
Africa is a continent, not a country
I started a mobile Internet company in Cape Town, South Africa about 3 years ago. For the uninformed Cape Town is a little bit Europe at the tip of Africa.
The feature phone is dead, long live the feature phone
There’s a mad scramble going on right now in Africa and it isn’t for raw materials. It’s for the mobile market.
I Have No Fucking Clue What I’m Doing Most Of The Time
I’m better at starting failed business than successful ones. That’s something that has been hard for me to admit or even recognise until recently.
I write to you every week
Every week I'll send you my three favourite things from the week and at least one idea that I can't stop thinking about.

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