Robert Mpisha

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[Robert Mpisha @Mpisha]

:If you really want something, & really work hard, & take advantage of opportunities, & never give up, you will find a way. -Jane Goodall

[Robert Mpisha @Mpisha]

#BaldNation

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@MisterAlbie @Kamugikamau Cote d’ivoire.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To all the dads out there – Happy Father’s Day!

Nothing we do is more fulfilling!

[Robert Mpisha @Mpisha]

AI for leaders. Credits #Aakash

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

Não era o arranque que queríamos, mas isto está longe de ter acabado. Cabeça levantada e foco no próximo jogo.

[Formula 1 @F1]

The moment of victory!

#F1 #BarcelonaGP @LewisHamilton

[Robert Mpisha @Mpisha]

: Well deserved @LewisHamilton Forza Ferrari!

🏆🎉

#F1 #BarcelonaGP

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇰🇪 Starlink helping schools in Kenya 🇰🇪

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

Apostle Joshua Selman will leave you speechless every time...

[Kelvin Roman @KelvRoman]

I named my company Daraja. Swahili for bridge.

For months, that name was an aspiration. Each Babel model spoke one language and one language well. Creole. Swahili. Yoruba. Twelve languages, each a specialist, each connecting only to English.

But Africa doesn't run on English.

A trader in Kinshasa speaks Lingala. Her supplier in Lagos speaks Yoruba. A nurse in Addis speaks Amharic. Her patient's family speaks Somali. The real connections that Africa needs aren't language-to-English. They're language-to-language.

So I built the Bridge - 23 languages supported, any language to any language across Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Live today.

A Wolof speaker in Dakar can now message a Zulu speaker in Durban. Without English. Without a translator. Without anyone in between.

The continent with the most borders now has the fewest barriers.

Live on translate and API

https://t.co/SjA7P1ewVM

#AIforAfrica

[Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist @mohammedhersi]

1/4 My sunday thought 🤔 long piece but worth every second of your time.

Leave your comfort nest, or rot in It, Why Your Comfort Zone Is Killing You. From Pretoria to Munich to Barcelona to Manhattan , the ones who left are the ones who won

Let me tell you something nobody wants to hear: your comfort zone is not protecting you. It is burying you. We dress it up in lovely language “stability,” “loyalty,” “knowing where you stand.” But let’s call it what it really is, fear wearing a comfortable pair of slippers. The terror of the unknown disguised as contentment.

Every single day you stay in a place that no longer serves you, you are choosing a slow, invisible decline over the terrifying possibility of greatness.
Don’t believe me?

In 2003 I was head hunted to manage largest beach resort in Kenya and still is 680 beds Sarova Whitesands Beach Resort & Spa. I switched jobs at a very difficult time when terrorism had just started to rear its ugly head with bombing of Paradise Beach hotel in Kampala. As a team we managed not to survive we thrived . 8 years down the line every time I meet repeat guests they keep asking me " Bado uko tu" you are still here. Look here i was very comfortable and happy . The owners The Vohras & The Kariukis amazing people . I then decided well maybe its about time I raised my gaze to see what is other there and shortly after I was head hunted to take charge of Heritage Hotels as CEO. The rest as they say is history.

Let me now give you four names , four people who had every reason to stay put and every reason to be glad they didn’t.

1. ✅️Elon Musk: The Boy Who Left Africa to Build the Future, before he was launching rockets into orbit and electrifying the auto industry, Elon Musk was a teenager in Pretoria, South Africa, getting beaten up at school and dreaming of something bigger than the horizon he could see. At seventeen, he left not for a holiday not for a gap year. He left for good , first to Canada, then to the United States with little more than audacity and a bone-deep refusal to accept the life that geography had assigned him.

South Africa is a beautiful country but it was not where Musk’s future lived. His future lived in Silicon Valley garages, in PayPal code, in SpaceX launchpads, in Tesla factories. He could never have built any of it from Pretoria. The comfort zone even an uncomfortable one would have swallowed him whole.

The lesson? Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is buy a one-way ticket.

2. ✅️Trevor Noah. Born a Crime, Became a King
If Elon Musk left South Africa to build machines, Trevor Noah left to build something even harder a career making people laugh in a country that wasn’t his own, in an accent that wasn’t theirs, about a life they couldn’t imagine.

Noah’s story doesn’t just begin with discomfort — it begins with illegality he says it in his pen book " Born a crime" . Born in Johannesburg in 1984 to a Black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss-German father, Trevor Noah’s very existence was a crime under apartheid law. His mother had to hide him from police. He grew up in Soweto, navigating a world that had no category for what he was. He was too Black for the white kids, too white for the Black kids, and too mixed for everyone else.
By his mid-twenties, Noah was already a star in South Africa. He was selling out theatres, hosting television shows, winning awards. He was comfortable. He was successful. He was safe.
But “safe” was not big enough for what Trevor Noah was meant to become.

In 2011, he packed up and moved to the United States. Not to a cushy TV deal to the grind. He toured tiny comedy clubs across forty American states, from El Paso, Texas, to Erie, Pennsylvania. He once nearly got deported at the Mexican border because of a Google Maps error. He was a nobody in a land of somebodies, starting from zero in a country that didn’t know his name...

[Robert Mpisha @Mpisha]

@mohammedhersi Great insights and examples of people who stepped out of their comfort zone and got rewarded.

[Robert Mpisha @Mpisha]

@chepteg Good research @chepteg . Open DM for further discussion.

[Makhtar Diop @Diop_IFC]

What does it take to move Africa from potential to prosperity?

I sat down with @AlikoDangote, President of @DangoteGroup and one of the most consequential industrialists of our time, to find out. We talked about African-led investment, job creation at scale, and what it truly takes to build a prosperous Africa.

Watch our full conversation here: https://t.co/F8pzTOZ5LE

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Marc Andreessen says Elon Musk runs 120 design reviews a day in 5-minute slots.

He does this while running six different companies at once.

Andreessen says Elon maps each company as a production process.

Each process has one bottleneck — the single thing slowing it down.

Elon finds the engineer working on that bottleneck and sits with them until it's fixed.

He does this at Tesla 52 times a year. Personally.

"There's no CEO like this."

Most CEOs run their companies through a wall of middle managers.

Andreessen watched IBM collapse under that model.

Inside IBM, they had a name for the failure mode: the "Big Gray Cloud."

It was the traveling court of suited men who kept the CEO away from engineers.

After 12 layers of compounding lies, the CEO had no idea what was happening.

Elon's method is the polar opposite.

Design review math:

- 5 minutes per engineer
- 12 reviews per hour
- 10 hours per day
- 120 reviews per day

An engineer described working for him as entering "a zone of shocking competence."

On sustaining it, Elon's rule is:

"I don't take vacations."

What's the one weekly bottleneck in your work that nobody's fixing?

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— Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ), co-founder of a16z, on David Senra's ( @FoundersPodcast ) podcast

[adidas @adidas]

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[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

In 2025, Sabastian Sawe asked the AIU to test him as frequently as possible.

He underwent 25 tests in the build-up to the Berlin Marathon, blood and urine, around 2–3 times per week, including days where he was tested twice.

He maintained that same approach into 2026.
Now, he has broken the Marathon World Record, clocking 1:59:30 in London.

Officially the first man to go sub-2 in the marathon.

[Robert Mpisha @Mpisha]

@jgault13 Same parameters and procedures for all athletes.

[Jonathan Gault @jgault13]

Reminder that Sabastian Sawe's sponsor adidas spent $50,000 for him to be drug-tested out of competition as much as possible in 2025 and are doing the same thing in 2026.

Today in London, he became the first man to break 2:00 in an official marathon.

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