🌍✈️☕️🍷. VC @Invenfin, prev M&A @Naspers engineer @Azoteq.

Joined September 2008
The amount of duct tape on our plane's wing is slightly concerning...
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After being consistently ~20% below dam levels over the past few months vs. last year, the recent storms esp. last few days means we are now well above levels vs. last year. Cape of Storms indeed 😳💪
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Inexplicable 🤯
What is Amazon doing in South Africa? I can’t buy a Kindle? Have to buy through their UK site… bizarre
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Theo van den Berg retweeted
Replying to @elonmusk
The injunctions aren’t about the deportations, they’re about jailing people for life without a trial. You’d know that from even a cursory reading of the court docs
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As a friend quipped "that car is going to hop like a kangaroo on SA roads" 😂
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Fantastic interview with @Invenfin portfolio company @boltapp's CEO @villigm. Too many insights to mention them all, but I agree with Harry's observation towards the end "God, you Estonians, always so calm and methodical in everything you do" 😂 youtube.com/watch?v=i4xkpeq0…
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Pinky and The Brain - genius @zapiro 👌
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This dude is a patriot. My goodness.
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On form from @zapiro as usual
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Springboks are now winning games they should have lost, mark of a real champion team 💪🏉🇿🇦
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When raising money from investors, best not to have quirky titles such as 'chief chaos creator'. CEO is fine, really.
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Mixing politics and Gary Larson 🫶🏻
Cyril at the Government kiosk:
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“You place the laptop on the tray table, turn the computer on and remember just how little room there is on a plane. You tuck your elbows in, and your hands dangle in front of you. You look like a T. rex about to take dictation.” Just brilliant 👌 economist.com/business/2024/…
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Thrilled to launch Bolt's electric motorbike program in Africa. A perfect example of cutting costs and emissions simultaneously! 💰⚡️ Rolling out 300 bikes in Kenya now and already planning for thousands.
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This guy has lost the plot. 1) Tesla 'established to fight climate change' 2) China (paragon of capitalism) Tesla's biggest market 🤔
Babe, tell me the truth …
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This isn’t a close up of a computer chip, it’s an aerial photo of a giant steel plant in South Korea called Gwangyang Steel Works (courtesy of @DOverview).
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Pour one out for our 300,000-year reign as the smartest species on the planet. Was a great run.
AI is now smarter than the average human
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A remarkable performance by the US not just in terms of growth, but also inflation is tamed, unemployment near 50-year low, and real wages rising. That's unprecedented. "The Establishment" gets a lot of well-deserved criticism, but in this case, I have to acknowledge that the Fed and senior government officials did an impressive job with monetary and fiscal policy as well as other policy choices. Kudos.
The fact that the US is chugging along (blue) is all the more noteworthy because everyone else has pretty much stopped growing. After the sugar rush of fiscal stimulus faded, private consumption stopped growing pretty much everywhere. Except for the US...
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Excited to partner with and back the awesome @OfferZen team - Matt, @PhilipJoubert and @malanjoubert - and co-invest alongside @rutherfordbase as well as @rogergrobler, @MichaelJordaan & co at @AICapital_pe. 👩‍💻 🚀
We're proud to back the team at @OfferZen, a leading job marketplace, as it looks to scale its business in South Africa and beyond! From startups to enterprises, if you're looking for the best way to hire the top software developers, OfferZen is it 👩‍💻🚀
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