"The most successful people have had their own failures"

With guests
CLAUDE GRUNITZKY

Episode notes

Limitless Africa host Claude Grunitzky is in the hot seat this episode. Claude has founded, built and sold businesses you will have heard of - he founded Trace, a global hip hop magazine. Trace eventually became the TV channel and he then raised $15million in funding from the investment bank Goldman Sachs in 2003. Now he spends his time as an investor and teaching entrepreneurship in his home country of Togo and across the continent. In this episode Claude will be talking about what Africans can learn from the American mindset - and what he learnt from the American mindset, he built Trace in the US after all.

Transcript

🌟 IN THIS EPISODE:
1:38 Trace’s origin story
8:08 From Alicia Keys to Rihanna
12:11 Three principles for success
17:04 The story of Dick Parsons
19:46 The African entrepreneur
24:37 Permissionless ambition
26:07 Why Africans need to ask for permission less

💬 QUOTES TO REMEMBER:
“Failure wasn’t the opposite of success. It was the tuition that I paid.”
“It’s hard like solving a puzzle and it’s hard like lifting weights.”
“We Afric...