Interests

Building from zero, finding markets, founder-led sales, category creation, and the psychology of persistence.

Software built for specific industries where workflows are complex, trust matters, and generic tools fall short.

How capital, talent, institutions, and technology shape the growth of companies and regions.

LLMs, agentic systems, AI infrastructure, and practical applications of AI inside real business workflows.

How information moves through organizations, how teams make decisions, and how software turns messy data into useful systems.

AI systems where humans remain responsible for judgment, review, and final decisions, especially in professional services.

Renewable energy, nuclear power, geothermal systems, and the role of cheap energy in economic progress.

Sustainable agriculture, precision farming, food systems, and technologies that improve resilience.

Economic growth, institutions, markets, governance, and how societies organize themselves to create opportunity.

Around 2 billion people, roughly 60% of the world's workforce, earn a living outside formal registration, taxation, and labor protection, generating an estimated $10-20 trillion a year. As mobile money, digital payments, and AI make it easier to bring small merchants into the formal system, this becomes one of the largest economic-transformation opportunities of the coming decades, especially across Africa.

Frontier science, synthetic biology, quantum computing, consciousness, and long-term futures.