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 […]
Category: Rebels
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 […]
Elon Musk vs. the SEC (how we got here)
I was a Tesla shareholder from 2012 until August 2017. My reasons for selling were very simple: I loved the company because they made great cars that combined technological futurism, environmental safety and performance. Insane, Apple level great, cars. But over the years, I had seen the CEO wreck the balance sheet by piling on […]
Nike May Lose the Battle, But They’re Winning the War
Yesterday, Nike revealed the new campaign marking the 30th anniversary of their “Just Do It” marketing slogan, with NFL player Colin Kaepernick as the face of it. The Internets, understandably, went to shits. For one side of the culture, the campaign was a massive hit and a salute to American athletes who have been taking […]
There Was A Country: Book Review + Thoughts on Biafra
I bought Chinua Achebe’s Memoir, There Was A Country sometime last year, back when it was generating a lot of discussion on social media but I never really made a serious effort to read it until now. I love Chinua Achebe as a story teller, and I definitely loved this book. It is heavily political, as you […]
Apple Hits $1TRILLION
It finally happened. Apple Inc. became the first company to hit a trillion dollar market capitalization ever in the history of everything. This is a legendary moment. From the days when Apple was almost going under, to the re-emergence of Steve Jobs and the creation of the iPhone, this is one of the most remarkable […]
