Co-Founder & CEO, Lifeprint Labs
Banks and fintechs have spent a decade trying to bank Africa's unbanked adults. That is the wrong entry point.
You cannot build financial identity starting at adulthood; the data doesn't exist. The infrastructure has to be built upstream — before they earn, before they borrow, before they exist to any financial institution.
It has to start at age 4. Inside a classroom.
Lifeprint Labs is doing exactly this.
Five years of disciplined reading. 287 books. 57,000+ pages. The highest-leverage activity for independent thinking.
Long-form essays and short-form observations on technology, economics, and human potential.
How I developed a cognitive framework for dissecting complex problems into their constituent variables — inspired by pattern recognition, the Pareto principle, and startup MVP thinking. From pricing strategies to trust mechanics, variables thinking is the lens I use to unravel almost everything.
An exploration of African communalism (Ubuntu) as a potential limiting factor in building global enterprises. Why the "necessary evil" of concentrated economic power — and the willingness to make tough, individualistic decisions — may be what Africa needs to produce economic supergiants. Co-authored with Amanda Filtane (South Africa).
A conversation about building Lifeprint Labs and the journey of a founder in the African tech ecosystem.