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A garden visitor
Jealous of Edward (named by my boys). Lockdown doesn’t apply to spotted eagle owls. Grateful for his extended visit (most of yesterday). I hope he returns.
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Lockdown essential services
Yebo Fresh always felt like it was going to play a significant, socially impactful role providing for the underserved township markets of South Africa. Last year, no one could have predicted the coronavirus, or South Africa’s crippling lockdown, but Yebo Fresh’s vision has been magnified and its scale fast-tracked to help get grocery deliveries to […]
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Video conferencing gadgetry
I’ve recently become a little obsessed over my video conferencing setup and the quality of my streams. I spend quite a bit of my week in online meetings with the various teams I work with – usually on Zoom, Google Hangouts or FaceTime . I thought a couple of my recent gadgetry additions might be […]
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Over and out
A hearty congratulations to the Over team on a very newsworthy acquisition. Immensely proud to be a friend of the co-founders Matt Winn and Aaron Marshall and filled with gratitude to have journeyed with them as an angel investor. An inspiring story of American friends, and a supportive family, that fell in love with Cape […]
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Disrupt Africa interview
A recent interview with Disrupt Africa covering: Life as a 🇿🇦 early stage investor…. after bootstrapping @WooCommerce My growing curiosity in social impact investing & low-income markets The startups I’m backing to succeed + what an “active” investor role means to me
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SME.Africa podcast
Last week I sat down with a good friend doing fantastic work in the SME space in South Africa, Marnus Broodryk. Marnus convinced me to join him on his SME.Africa podcast. 4 years since our acquisition I enjoyed reminiscing over our journey and the learnings, however distant and fuzzy some parts feel. We also spoke […]
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InstaFamous
Last week we got featured on Apple’s official @instagram account! “We” actually referring to my son – I just snapped the photo. He choreographed it. It’s kind of mind bending to quantify a feature like this. The world’s largest company featuring a photo I took. On a social account they only post one photo a […]
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Cape Cycle Tour 2019
A howling south easter made this year’s 109km cycle tour a rather challenging one. It was however a much more enjoyable one having done a little more training than for previous attempts. Less focus on cramping muscles, and more on the beautiful peninsula views. A road bike, and cleats were also game changing additions…