The popular definition for an entrepreneur is that, an entrepreneur is someone who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks on the hope of making profit. So basically, there’s no guarantee that there is going to be profit, but there must be an investment for one to become an entrepreneur.
In an era where many confuse what entrepreneurship really is, we will be focusing on one of Africa’s biggest entrepreneurs, who has stood the times, and because it’s not all been glory, he has leverage in this domain by rising and falling. Vusi Thembekwayo is our focus. While other continent’s boast of trailblazers, the African continent is proud to have him.
Vusi Thembekwayo is a South African venture capitalist, entrepreneur and founding CEO of MyGrowthFund and Knowledge Bureau. He is a best seller South African authors and his debut book “The Magma Carta of Exponentiality” reportedly sold over 6800 copies in one day when it was launched in Barcelona, Spain in 2017.
When Thembekwayo was 25, he ran a R400 million division at a renowned multinational, and one of the youngest directors of the JSI listed company. Vusi is reputed for his unique speaking skills. He’s one of the best selling public speakers.
Thembekwayo was featured in Forbes before he was 27, had equally ammassed a lot of successes before he turned 30, and in one of his recent publications, he did admit that despite thr portfolio he had built, he crashed when he was 30. This sounds like a mystery, but that’s the gamble of entrepreneurship. He bounced back on a springboard nonetheless. He can take credit for the growth and success of many global businesses. His contributions are not limited to one industry. His versatility sets him atop many entrepreneurs.
“I have learned the truth about the world: that it isn’t as round as a tennis ball, and it isn’t shaped like itself. It is shaped according to the way we see it, the way we mould it to our ambitions and our destiny. I know the colour of who I am. I am a black man, running for my life, for my freedom, for opportunity born from the struggle, possibility born from sacrifice. And I am running too. For my father, who never became what he hoped to be, and who never got to see what his children would one day become.” – Vusi Thembekwayo
If there are entrepreneurs with results that you must emulate and be inspired by, some of such African lordships should be your radars.
