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Zahra Baitie-Boateng: Building Africa's Bridge to China (opens the original)
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Zahra Baitie-Boateng built her career at the intersection of Africa and China - from Yale to founding Beijing's first Africa Week, to seven years building Africa's Business Heroes into a pan-African entrepreneurship institution. In this conversation, she talks candidly about the data behind the Africa-China trade relationship, why she believes implementation capacity matters more than good ideas, and the belief about strategy execution it took her seven years to unlearn.
Dayo Koleowo (Microtraction) on Turning Desperation Into Fuel (opens the original)
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A failing startup. A tweet he almost scrolled past. A cold email offering to work for free. Now Partner at Microtraction, one of Africa's earliest and most active pre-seed investment firms, he has been consequential in the growth of the startup ecosystem in Nigeria/Africa. In this episode, we talk about the following : The tweet and the cold email that got him into Microtraction in three weeks Why he treats desperation as fuel, not something to hide from investors His contrarian take on friendsh
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