I don’t intend this to be a very long post. It’s mostly a musing. Why are founders the best people to run their companies? If you look at most of them, they’re erratic, iconoclastic and relatively inexperienced at building companies. They don’t have the structure that MBA types have. So it often seems to be […]
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Updates
I feel really bad for neglecting this space. I loved and still love blogging here, sharing my experiences with you all and learning alongside you as we embark on this investments journey. Life got really busy and writing here has suffered for it but lately I’ve been looking for ways to get back into it. […]
“Let Us Keep That For You.” Do Nigerian Parents Train Their Children to Be Financially Irresponsible?
There’s a huge contrast between the way, say American parents raise their children when it comes to money and the way Nigerian parents do. I’ve started to wonder if this feeds into the way we relate to finances as adults. For instance, I read John D. Rockefeller’s biography, Titan. He describes his dad giving him weekly allowance […]
2019: Let The Story Begin
Happy New Year everyone! It’s a late new year post but I’ve been in my village with really bad internet for the past almost two weeks (for those of you not aware, I’m currently in Nigeria). I hope you all enjoyed the festive period and are coming into 2019 with a lot of energy and […]
How The Nigerian Government Kills Innovation
This post doesn’t offer much in the way of solutions. I’m merely trying to articulate a position, and you can fill in your own details with your own anecdotes. The story is told of a time when President Einsenhower of the United States was just President of a university. His school was growing rapidly and […]
Introducing Cashestate, Dollar Denominated Investments for Nigerians
I started thinking about how to make it possible for Nigerians to invest in US Dollar opportunities as far back as 2014. Around this time four years ago, in this post, I talked about the difficulties Nigeria’s economy was going to face and how Nigerians should find ways to convert their money and invest in […]
General Motors Earnings Update – AKA Mary Barra Is An Excellent CEO
I’ve been singing Mary Barra’s praises for a long time now, here and on twitter. As CEO of General Motors, she has been doing such an excellent job and it’s funny that people have not been wising up to this for a long time. Maybe because she’s a woman and not as brash and loud […]
