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The Flip Notes #99 - founders used to have a choice: rich or king. Nowadays, they can to be both. The question for our nascent tech ecosystem is - should they?
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The Flip Notes #96 - we hear a lot of analogies like Stripe for Africa... what about Cargill for Africa?
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The Flip Notes #94 - exploring the rising Egyptian fintech sector, with Axis Pay’s Jacques Marco.
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The Flip Notes #93 - a partner edition with Wasoko, on its rapid growth in the B2B commerce sector.
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The Flip Notes #92 - collaboration and sharing is how ecosystems develop and how innovation happens. Is there a business model for this kind of incentive alignment?
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The Flip Notes #90 - exploring questions of value of NFTs, AI and generative art, and artwork by African artists, with Linda Dounia.
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The Flip Notes #89 - a partner edition with Stitch, behind the scenes of the fast-growing fintech infrastructure startup.
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The Flip Notes #88 - as work is being unbundled from traditional employment, do we need to think differently about jobs?
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The Flip Notes #85 - as the African population continues to grow at a staggering rate, where are the income generating opportunities going to come from?
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The Flip Notes #84 - smart, ambitious people want to work with other smart, ambitious people.
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The Flip Notes #82 - global fintechs manage are risk in a punitive and discriminatory way.
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The Flip Notes #81 - unequal relationships lead to misaligned incentives. Will it lead to more regional cooperation in Africa?
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The Flip Notes #80 - Each week of season 3, The Flip Notes will cover a corresponding topic to the podcast episode just published. Today, we’re talking about healthcare.
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The Flip Notes #79 - Each week of season 3, The Flip Notes will cover a corresponding topic to the podcast episode just published. Today, we’re talking about cross-border trade.
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The Flip Notes #78 - Each week of season 3, The Flip Notes will cover a corresponding topic to the podcast episode just published. Today, we’re talking about retail.
The Flip Notes #77 - Each week of season 3, The Flip Notes will cover a corresponding topic to the podcast episode just published. Today, we’re talking about logistics and infrastructure.
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The Flip Notes #76 - Each week of season 3, The Flip Notes will cover a corresponding topic to the podcast episode just published. Today, we’re talking about APIs.