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Africa Exits. Who Buys What. (And Why)
Stears and Ventures Platform have just published the most rigorous picture of African VC exits the ecosystem has ever had. The 2025 Africa Venture Capital Exit & Liquidity Report is foundational work. The SVL Index is a real contribution. A...
Walk Together. With Open Eyes.
After completing Early. Not Broken., I embarked on this three-part Walk Together journey for three reasons. First, I was curious - I wanted to test my assumptions with real data. I have always loved data, but finally had the time and tools...
The Hierarchy Problem Isn’t Routing. It’s Distortion.
A brief detour from my Walk Together series on African VC - this piece demanded to be written. I’ll be back to the series shortly.
Last week, Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha published a genuinely thought-provoking piece on the Sequoia...
Walk Together. The 'Who'.
In the first piece in this series, I laid out what three and a half thousand African funding rounds reveal about the structural drivers of graduation - the simple question of whether a company raises its next round. The answer was clear, co...
Walk Together. The ‘Why’.
When I wrote Early. Not Broken. last November, I did so mostly for myself. After nearly two decades oscillating between building, investing, and observing, I felt the need to pause and arrange my accumulated thoughts into something coherent...
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