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The Grinders Table Podcast is your opportunity to sit at the table with entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders who are shaking things up in their industry.
Each other week Uwem will interview these amazing thought-leaders to uncover how they've done it and learn something new in the process. Join me on the regular to hear how they dared to defy the odds and live their own success story... or epic failure!
Each other week Uwem will interview these amazing thought-leaders to uncover how they've done it and learn something new in the process. Join me on the regular to hear how they dared to defy the odds and live their own success story... or epic failure!
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Update frequency:
every 23 days
Average audio length:
32 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
89 episodes
since Jan. 6, 2022
episodic
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Erik Nygard sold Limejump, his London energy technologycompany, to Shell in 2019. Two years later, he moved his family to Accra and founded Kofa, a battery-swapping network for electric motorcycles, small businesses and homes, which now runs in Ghana and Kenya.
Erik explains why he sold while he wa…
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Zahra Baitie-Boateng built her career at the intersection of Africa and China - from Yale to founding Beijing's first Africa Week, to seven years building Africa's Business Heroes into a pan-African entrepreneurship institution.
In this conversation, she talks candidly about the data behind the A…
A failing startup. A tweet he almost scrolled past. A cold email offering to work for free. Now Partner at Microtraction, one of Africa's earliest and most active pre-seed investment firms, he has been consequential in the growth of the startup ecosystem in Nigeria/Africa.
In this episode, we talk…
Oluseun Onigbinde co-founded BudgIT at a Lagos hackathon in 2011 with one conviction: that the gap between what Nigeria's budget data showed and what citizens could understand was itself a governance failure. Fifteen years later, he runs Africa's most recognised fiscal transparency organisation acr…
Yvonne Johnson left investment banking in New York to join the transformation team at First Bank of Nigeria. She spent eight years there, rising to Head of Strategy and Corporate Development - restructuring the operating model and building the bank's first digital finance strategy. When she left in…
Eunice Ajim graduated high school at 15, moved to the US from Cameroon with almost no financial support, and built a hairstyling business to pay for college. She quit Apple inside eighteen months, got wiped out building her first company, and slept in her car before she ever raised a dollar. Then s…
Opeyemi Awoyemi built WhoGoHost in his first year atuniversity before Nigerian tech had a template. He co-founded Jobberman from a dormitory, grew it into the largest online recruitment platform in sub-Saharan Africa, and watched it get acquired by Ringier One Africa Media. He didn't stop there; he…
After co-founding Blip (acquired by Disney), running Facebook's ads product through the chaos of the post-IPO years, serving as CPTO at Deliveroo, and CPO at Monzo, Mike left banking with one conviction: the technology to move money instantly and cheaply across borders already existed. Nobody had b…
What does it really take to build a digital bank for Africa’s green economy, and why might carbon credits become one of the continent’s most valuable exports? In this episode of The Grinders Table, Uwem sits down with Mélanie Keita, CEO and co‑founder of Melanin Kapital, a carbon neobank lending to…
Florent "Flo" Nduwayezu is a Nairobi-based investor at FP Capital, and one of the most consistently honest voices in African tech. He's Burundian, he's been in Nairobi for 13 years, and he has very little patience for the narratives that keep African ecosystems stuck.
In this episode, Flo sits down…
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