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Review: Play Nice But Win: A CEO’s Journey from Founder to Leader

I try and read as much as possible when time allows. Certain topics fascinate me, over the last few years, it’s been the confluence of tech, strategy and finance. This book covers all these topics. It’s a fascinating story of his evolution from a teen wunderkind defying his parents to put together his fledgeling startup,…

A Critique of Safaricom’s Recent Bandwidth Policy

There has been a lot of opprobrium about the recently introduced fair use policy by Safaricom. In this post, I’ll explain why it is logical to have this, why “unlimited” internet isn’t really unlimited, delve into the business model and cost structure. Finally, I’ll cover the world according to Safaricom and other ISPs, and why…

The Future of Cloud in Africa is Managed Services

The global cloud market has been accelerating. Estimates are that, by 2030, 90% of all computing workloads will be in the cloud. Africa has paradoxically been at the forefront – AWS was developed in South Africa – while at the same time lagged behind the global cloud movement. The first hyper-scale cloud provider to launch…


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