Gray Matter Conversations BONUS episode!
In this episode, hear from Fellow Melvyn Lubega, founder of GO1, an organization that serves as the Expedia for corporate training by allowing organizations to easily search, view, and book courses both online and in-person from GO1's marketplace of over 350000 learning items. GO1 has recently attained Unicorn status, which celebrates a startup company that has a valuation of over $1 billion. Hear about how Melvyn's entrepreneurial journey began and how his moral compass led him to solve a pressing problem of access to effective training within the entrepreneurial realm, and how it drove his company to achieve Unicorn status.
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Episode 4: Entrafluence Series
Gray Matter and chill with Timothy Maurice Webster in the fourth episode of our Entrafluence Series where we hear from Okendo Lewis Gayle, the founder of the Harambeans entrepreneur alliance, an alliance dedicated to supporting the visionaries and innovators of Africa. Hear about the beginnings and experiences that shaped Okendo and how one moment inspired him to continue to pursue a better world.
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Episode 5: Entrafluence Series
Listen to the fifth episode in our Entrafluence series, with Timothy Maurice Webster where we hear from Harambean Fellow Velani Mbweni, CEO and co-founder of Lula, a disruptive tech company focusing on transforming the way people commute by leveraging the shared economy with mobile technology. In this episode, Velani highlights the moment that shaped not only him but his decision to become an entrepreneur and identifies how he could solve a growing socio-economic problem with a practical solution.
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Episode 3: Entrafluence Series
Gray Matter and chill with Timothy Maurice Webster in the third episode of our Entrafluence series where we chat to Thandeka Xaba, Fellow and co-founder of Digital Africa Ventures, which serves and represents the underrepresented by bridging the funding and support gap for early-stage tech entrepreneurs. Thandeka is also the Founder of Glam Mobile Grooming Services. Hear about what shaped and molded her into who she is and when the entrepreneur side of her was born. Listen to how a simple personal problem sparked a chain of entrepreneurial action for Thandeka.
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Episode 2: Entrafluence Series
Catch this second episode of Gray Matter conversations podcast in the Entrafluence series with Timothy Maurice Webster and Marie-Noelle, a researcher at the Brenthurst Foundation which offers new ideas and innovation for strengthening Africa’s economic performance. This episode speaks to Marie’s academic experience and how she applied it along with entrepreneurial tools to have an impact within the policy-making space in order to regulate society better. Gray Matter and chill with us.
Through the Gray Matter Conversations, the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation seeks to initiate conversations that will enable us to share, debate, interrogate and learn in order to create a collective voice into issues related to entrepreneurship education.
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