bobby pittman
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Africa’s fashion industry has the potential to be massive and you should pay attention to it. When I found out that Akin Adebowale, Kolade Adeyemo, Bobby Pittman, and the rest of the team were building Oxosi, I couldn’t wait to see what they would come up with. Oxosi is an e-commerce platform that brings African high fashion…
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This piece on Jack Dorsey being named as CEO of Twitter while keeping the CEO reins at Square is pretty poor. How do you give recent examples of folks successfully running multiple companies without discussing what is enabling them to get this done? Yet, you reach back to 1990 to pull out a worst case…
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No. 87: Build Something From Nothing
Angelina Darrisaw, bobby pittman, C-Suite Coach, cherae robinson, entrepreneurship, Eric Guichard, Eric Osiakwan, fast company, hello tractor, jehiel oliver, Josh Moore, Kwadwo Som-Pimpong, Maame Boakye, MRket, Nana Ama Afari Dwamena, Nina Oduro, odini nwakuche, paul judge, SapidMedia Productions, soylent, Whitney White
Paul Judge has a mantra – build something from nothing. It’s amazing to watch folks I have met along the way live this out. Jehiel Oliver’s startup Hello Tractor was profiled in Fast Company today. It wasn’t too long ago when we sat down at Chinatown Coffee and he told me about this idea he was working…
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Bobby Pittman, head of Kupanda Capital, did a nice interview with the Center for Global Development where he serves as a board member alongside the likes of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Lawrence Summers. He highlights the reasons Dr. Adesina won the AfDB presidency, and some things on which he will have to focus. Three points that…
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List of my top people to follow for insights on Africa’s business and policy environments.