Archive - The Grinders Memoir

The Transparency Double Standard: Why Founders Need to Own Their Shutdowns

Founders need to do better!

11 hrs ago •

April 2025

The Invisible Walls Around Us

How Low Mobility Passports Lock Out African Innovation

Apr 18 •

Seeing Through the Noise

Investing Beyond Simple Metrics

Apr 7 •

March 2025

The Prison of Good Intentions

How Past Success Constrains the Future

Mar 24 •

Building Healthcare Solutions That Matter: Jelle Schuitemaker's Journey of Faith, Purpose, and Innovation

How a Dutch entrepreneur is revolutionizing healthcare in Africa and redefining our understanding of purpose-driven business

Mar 18 •

How Dual Systems Thinking Shapes Our Decisions

Navigating the simplicity bias

Mar 11 •

Podcast: First Followers - How Ghita Zniber Is Reshaping African VC

Leading by following

Mar 4 •

February 2025

The Small Cracks We Ignore (Until They Crack the Foundation)

Feb 28 •

The Authority Fallacy

Why blindly following authority might be your biggest blind spot

Feb 21 •

Podcast: Building Hard Tech in Africa - Key Insights from Octavia Carbon's Founder

How a team of 54 Kenyans is building Africa's first Direct Air Capture company, and why that might rewrite the rules of climate tech

Feb 18 •

The Curse of Knowledge

When your expertise alienates you

Feb 14 •

The Hidden Cost of Consensus

What we miss when everyone agrees

Feb 7 •

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