Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2024

Soon after, I successfully exited one of my companies and a few years later founded a real estate development firm that just completed its first residential tower in my home city, Nairobi. There is so much more to leadership that builds community and creates impact. First, a brief background about me.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I had to laugh a bit reading it. Many of my best friends have MBAs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. Here goes….

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

Carving through peaks and valleys At 23, Adriaanse joined and later served as CEO of Private Property, a real estate technology platform. Nelson Mandela’s 1999 retirement brought these injustices further to the forefront, unveiling the deep-rooted inequalities within South Africa’s education system and society as a whole.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The reality is that cryptocurrencies can be both and can be liberating and corrupting at the same time. So I’m going to try and do a single sitting riff of how I’ve viewed the topic as I’ve watched the cheerleaders & naysayers from the sidelines. It’s pretty tough to have a view on cryptocurrency if you don’t have a history of currency.

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