In school, we learn about politicians and generals. But not entrepreneurs. WHY?

And yet, everything around us was made by entrepreneurs. Every car, iPhone and accounting software. Every politician and every bureaucrat's salary was paid by tax money from an entrepreneur's business.

Entrepreneurs should be celebrated. Why aren't they?

In school the only thing I knew about business was Enron, famous for a massive fraud.

The reason? Teachers are kinda, how do I say this... socialist. Un-entrepreneurs. They make the same money regardless of how good they are, virtually impossible to fire... ("Show me the incentives; I'll show you the result.")

School (for me) was an indoctrination in socialism that took me decades to unlearn (I got a lot of great things out of school, but entrepreneurship--how the world came to be--wasn't one of them) 

The Kenya’s GenZ backlash against politicians is admirable. Let's not celebrate the politicians who are 90% corrupt. Instead, let's celebrate the entrepreneurs who are 99% forces for good (Enrons of the world aside).

Our investment program starts Jan 2025 (I wanted our investees to be inspired by people like them, Kenyans. Musk, Jobs, Oprah are great, but hard to relate to in the Kenyan context.

I commissioned a portrait series of Kenyan entrepreneurs to celebrate the people who actually built the world. 

Here’s the first portrait: Manu Chandaria is a legend, building an aluminum pots business that helped Hundreds of Millions of people put food on the table. Painted by Raphael Seleti.

Which entrepreneur should we paint next?