Financial Times

No. 145: Three AM Reads – Africa’s Women Innovators | 2U Acquires GetSmarter for $103M | China Beating the West in Africa

May 4, 2017

Africa, Geopolitics, Notes

2U, Africa, Financial Times, GetSmarter, women, World Economic Forum, world tourism forum

Short and sweet this morning! Africa’s Women Innovators Honored at World Economic Forum These 6 are just a sample of the millions out there. Also, shout out to Cherae Robinson for winning 20,000 CHF at the World Tourism Forum for what she’s building at Tastemakers Africa. 2U Acquires South Africa’s GetSmarter for $103M Maryland-based 2U…
No. 111: 3 Wednesday AM Reads You Should Have Gotten Tuesday

Oct 7, 2015

News

Africa, bobby pittman, China, Creative Industry, FDI, Financial Times, Greenfield Investments, Jack Dorsey, New York Times, ory okolloh mwangi, Rwanda, Twitter

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…