"Resilience is very African" - The entrepreneur moving 20,000 trucks across Africa

🌟 IN THIS EPISODE:

2:51 How to transport $10 billion-worth of goods across Africa

7:17 From Harvard back to Africa

11:35 What Lori’s done so far

13:45 American money

14:46 Eight and a half years without profit

19:01 The number one problem for founders

23:51 Financing your customer

27:06 Why resilience matters

29:17 Why Africa should prize diversity

💬 QUOTES TO REMEMBER:

“We’re only now coming around to fully cracking what it takes to reach th...

🌟 IN THIS EPISODE:

2:51 How to transport $10 billion-worth of goods across Africa

7:17 From Harvard back to Africa

11:35 What Lori’s done so far

13:45 American money

14:46 Eight and a half years without profit

19:01 The number one problem for founders

23:51 Financing your customer

27:06 Why resilience matters

29:17 Why Africa should prize diversity

💬 QUOTES TO REMEMBER:

“We’re only now coming around to fully cracking what it takes to reach the African consumer.”

“Resilience… It is something that is truly pretty quintessentially American. And it is also very African.”

“If you come to the continent, and you speak to a dozen founders, I suspect that 10 of them will tell you that one of the biggest challenges they face is financing working capital.”

“Keeping the lights on as a CEO is your number one job, period”

“What built Silicon Valley was diversity. It was diversity of thinking.”