Coffee Pump Podcast
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Sin Tax, Poisoned Elephants & Life After Quitting Your Job - Fareed Khimani | Coffee Pump (E121) (opens the original)
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Konnichiwa Fam, Fareed Khimani is back, and this one goes from a sin tax nobody can explain to a conversation about identity that I wasn't ready for. He's working inside government now doing comms for the Ministry of Agriculture, he's rebranding Kenyan tea, and he leaves for Karachi this month to direct a documentary on brain health. Then, near the end, he turned it around on me and asked who I actually am without my job title. We talk about: – Why there's now a sin tax on glass and timber, and
Khat, Donor Money & Being Told To Quit - Emmanuel Kisiangani & Bashir Halaiki | Coffee Pump (E120) (opens the original)
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Konnichiwa, On this episode Emmanuel Kisiangani and Bashir Halaiki come through and we go from totally unserious to uncomfortably honest. We get into what donor money actually funds, why the beggar on the roundabout will still be there next year, and then the part I didn't plan on saying out loud: the people closest to me have told me to shut this podcast down. We talk about: – Mortal Kombat for podcasters and who beats who – Khat as a functional stimulant and how normal it's become in corporate
Funeral Startups, Retiring At 45 & The Moon Landing Fight - Joab Ogato | Coffee Pump (E119) (opens the original)
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Konnichiwa Fam, On this episode Joab Ogato from The Couch Connect Podcast comes through, and it turns into one of the most chaotic conversations we've had. He's an assistant professor at McMaster working on his second PhD in regenerative medicine, he sold every stock in his name to buy SpaceX on day one, and he retires in 2035 whether the numbers work or not. We also spent a good half hour arguing about 9/11 and the moon landing, and nobody won. We talk about: – Expensive mediocrity and why ev
Selling Prawns, Building Web Empires & The Coming AI Reset - Moses Kemibaro | Coffee Pump (E118) (opens the original)
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Konnichiwa! On this episode I sit down with Moses Kemibaro, one of the people who actually built Kenya's internet industry. He got his first computer at 11, was selling internet connections in Mombasa before most people knew what it was, started what became OLX in East Africa, and got hired by a global company purely off the strength of his blog. We also get into the morning he opened his laptop to find his entire team had resigned overnight. We talk about: – Growing up in Mombasa and watching h
Violence For Hire, Goon Economy & Odipo Dev - Odanga Madung & Darius Okolla | Coffee Pump (E117) (opens the original)
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Konnichiwa Fam, On this episode Odanga Madung comes back and brings Darius Okolla, head political economist at Odipo Dev, and we spend most of it on the research nobody else in Kenya is doing. They spent a year inside the goon ecosystem, and what they found is that violence here is now a product with a demand side, a supply side, middlemen and a pricing structure. We also get into why Kenya was once the happiest country on earth, why everything here costs too much for what it is, and what the po
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