The Future of Community Investment
Community investment is evolving from niche strategy to mainstream practice. Here is where it is headed and why it matters for every investor.
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Thoughts on impact investing, community development, and building ventures.
Community investment is evolving from niche strategy to mainstream practice. Here is where it is headed and why it matters for every investor.
Insight
Five years of building an impact-first investment firm. What worked, what did not, and what we learned about deploying capital in underserved markets.
Essay
Ideas are abundant. Execution is rare. The single most important factor in any investment is the person behind it.
Insight
The trading floors of Monrovia's open-air markets and the trading floors of Wall Street have more in common than you might think.
Insight
In a world obsessed with speed, patient capital is a radical act. It is also the most reliable path to outsized returns in underserved markets.
Essay
Africa is not a monolith, not a charity case, and not a frontier market. It is 54 countries with distinct economies, and Western investors keep making the same mistakes.
Insight
Early investments in three very different businesses reshaped how I think about capital deployment, risk, and what makes a great founder.
Essay
Community-led development is not a buzzword. It is a proven methodology for creating lasting economic change. Here is how it works in practice.
Insight
Great ideas fail without infrastructure. The most impactful thing we can build is the scaffolding that allows other people's visions to succeed.
Essay
Emerging markets are labeled 'risky' by investors who confuse unfamiliarity with danger. The real risk is ignoring the largest growth markets on earth.