Trying to put together a story of someone's entrepreneurship journey is crazy. So just listen. This is Mikul on tragedy, his mental health, just where money should fall in the grand scheme of things, what family is to him,  the investment scene in an African country that welcomes ex-pats warmly, the elements of a complete life and if he is really happy. Let's go eat out for this one!

Music: Sun El Musician - Ntaba Ezikunde (feat. Simmy)

The norm, almost to a point of being a stereotype, is that the Indian business ethos is to keep it in the family. So what happens when you come back from a decade abroad and the factory floor doesn't appeal to you? Especially when the alternative is building your tech business from scratch in the post-dot-com bubble burst and the 2008 financial crash? You go back to basics and remember what it was like selling "Kiondos" (traditional African baskets) in London...

Sun El Musician - Ntaba Ezikunde (feat. Simmy)

Rina talks about confidence in boys vs girls, the unfair advantage that isn't nearly enough to overcome patriarchy in finance and what the world looks like in 5 years.

Music: Sune El Musician - Insimbi

In almost everything in this life, especially in business, its harder for Black women, and harder still for African black women. So when they do get their time in the light, they know how to shine on all sorts of levels. Rina Hicks is part of that crew..they just go and go and go. Because when in doubt, just go..because you will always be in doubt. 

Music by Sun El Musician: Insimbi

In part 2 of John's conversation, he talks about cryptocurrency, why banks are in trouble, Millenials and Libya and the future of money, which is just one form of currency. There is nothing as scary.... and as hopeful, as a futurist. 

Music by Sun El Musician - Insimbi

Entrepreneurship has been sold to this generation as a remarkably sexy and fascinating journey that feels something like a ride on a rainbow into that big pot of gold. That is like living on psychedelics and hoping to crack the code on eternal youth. John is one of Kenya's authorities on cryptocurrencies to the point of doing global conferences on it. But it did not start that way. In fact, listening to his story, he probably should have quit many times over...

Music by Sun El Musician - Insimbi

Coming back from a number of unsuccessful decisions, Michael is pivoting the business once again. And it is all about reading the customer, something very few builders of software are good at doing. Does he succeed, or does he fail...or at this point does he even care?

Music by Sun El Musician - Insimbi

It started off as a business partnership facilitated by an international development agency. 12 years later, Micheal is a sage at what doesn't work and what works...and how to move from one to the other. And he also has an interesting view on what it's like watching Kenyans be..Kenyan!

Rebecca Crook runs Metis. And that is all I am going to say. But it has everything to do with what lessons we learn from those that have come before us and those that are currently telling us what to do with lives they do not yet relate too, understand or even remotely comprehend. The Kempinsky culture vibe..

In the second part, Olive Gachara gets into the nitty-gritty, down and dirty trenches of learning how to make money in a new space and the 'crazy girl lost it' stigma that comes with being the child of the 5 big jobs' continent. Fun fun fun...