Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️

Raised $10m+ for Ag/Energy/Tech in Africa

Goal: make entrepreneurs' search for funding as easy as finding an Airbnb by 2040

by @kyleschutter

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

Bribes and Investors

When I came to Kenya I planned to never give a bribe; its just part of our "religion" as westerners that we take for granted (nevermind that at the highest levels of government everywhere quid pro quo is the norm).

Then I joined a business group in Kenya known for its high ethical standards. We visited eachothers businesses. All them were doing better than me and older than me.

It's not that some of them gave bribes. All of them did, and they were often very clever about it. Almost a core competency....

And was this really so bad? Imagine you're driving a truck of food to starving people and a police officer asks for $1. Would it be amoral NOT to give something small?

And considering democracy came on a boat and people back then had a perfectly well functioning system of giving something to the local chief who protected the area. Is backlash against quid pro quo neo-colonialism?

Bribes in the US only become important at the level of Boeing, Pfizer, Halliburton, etc but in Africa it’s part of everyday life for startup founders right from the beginning.

But western investors don't want to know about bribes in Africa.

How do you handle this?

Some more thoughts here:
https://t.co/9xLfMi0wTB

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@JulianFried Mythical man-month.

The more people you have the longer it takes. Strong argument to acquire, fire and increase profits. Don’t know why more such funds don’t exist.

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@adeoressi @paulg Interesting!

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@EACinvestor @Afro__Investor @MwangoCapital Will there be a reckoning for their family legacies? Like how embarrassing it is for some former slave holding families in the US?

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@yoelapalkin If you’re in Silicon Valley you already optimized for a certain kind of thinker.

Go somewhere else.

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@stephsmithio National Museum of Qatar

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@stephsmithio The Qatar history museum. How they went from pearl divers to fending off a trade blockade in 2020 was incredible.

There’s a shawarma place on the street outside delicious.

Also Yemeni food was a highlight for me.

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@joliegans @patrickc 💯“We went from 500 people who could conduct and execute on research to 50,000 locked in cages”

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@SMB_Attorney @smblawgroup Detractor status on average is less than zero, sir.

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@MwangoCapital This is a good sign. People start complaining when the issue is nearly over.

Happens repeatedly throughout history.

[Jusper Machogu @JusperMachogu]

The climate change debate is dying. Everyone of us has contributed to its death and our kids and grandkids will be thankful.
The younger educated population in Africa won't buy climate alarmism, unlike our corrupt leaders who did it for climate reparation 💰 💰 and green related funds to loot.
From 2050, Africa will be one of the largest emitters and we will not give a damn until every last one of us has tapped water, can afford a balanced diet, has a clean toilet, is cooking using cleaner Fuels, a house with a floor, access to electricity, the last of their kids is well educated, little to no survival toil, roads, etc.
These people you are here are crushing rocks to gravel for construction, manually. They dig the rocks up using mattocks and crush them using a mallet. Our Einsteins and Newtons are tied in this loop of poverty and toil, for life.

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@USAmbKenya https://t.co/Nno0tnYvWw

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@USAmbKenya amen

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@johnrushx @listingbott We run https://t.co/jkmfvGOXDW an acceleration fund for the top 0.1% SMEs in Kenya. Would SEObot and listing bot work for us to get more, better applicants?

Or it doesn't work in Kenya yet?

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@johnrushx @listingbott @benstukenborg this looks interesting...

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@johnrushx I do use Mercury and love it! It's all the other things that keep logging out like Gusto, stripe, my Kenyan bank, etc.

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@johnrushx The challenge with this is that by the time I come back my online banking has already logged out 😭

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@johnrushx Now I feel better about task switching and not delegating.

Are you diagnosed with ADHD btw?

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@baldridgecpa Use @cursor_ai for Google apps script and you can push code in less than seconds use the clasp command

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@paulg @ianmisner Talking to customers perhaps.

[Kyle @ Grant&Co--Af/Acc 🌍🚀⚛️ @thegrantdotco]

@StephNass @createsomechaos No. Each Google Doc has an activity dashboard. It’s very comprehensive. Underrated feature.

Also you could have a landing page for someone to enter their email and then redirect to a public google doc.