Africa

“It's now cheaper to get an Android-based smartphone, you know, made in China or elsewhere than it was to buy a candy bar phone in Africa back when they were coming online.”

“For the most part, any internet startup in Africa is really struggling to kind of get any traction in this local market because there's just not enough people on the internet.”

“As soon as the smartphone kind of wave started breaking, you know, WhatsApp just won the race. It has won the race. It will win the race.”

“It is actually BS.”

“And apps are not that popular, really, actually. A lot of studies we've done, especially for you know applications for governance issues, they're not popular.”

“Well, so, you know, I have the questionable honor of residing over probably the biggest tech failure in Africa.”

“So what happens in China or India or Africa, I think could actually be, you know, even, even more change, you know, Kind of like, you know in a way, let's say, we'll jump over the old internet and go purely mobile, and the ways that will deliver services is pr…”

“Tata, again, Tata, Reliance, all of these Indian telecommunications companies, where's their biggest growing footprint besides their home market? It's Africa.”

“In some estimates, in some parts of Africa, that absorption rate, 20 to 25%. So only 20 to 25% of what gets into the country to be injected in patients is viable.”

“This paradigm that if you're operating in Africa, you're doing charity or you're doing philanthropy is totally going to change.”

“The best guess is about a 160,000 years ago, and it's almost certainly that that person lived somewhere in Africa.”

“One of the things that you see in emerging markets, and I see this in Africa in particularly is trust is the most important thing to be able to light up people who are the trusted community leaders. Become something which is really quite unique to these areas …”

“I saw companies from Africa, from the Middle East and Southeast Asia that started, you know, day one going to London and started going to Different parts of the world. And I was skeptical of it at the time. And in hindsight, I I'm proven right. Right. Because …”

“The way that I would characterize China's foreign policy is that it's very engineer-driven. They, the way that they conduct a lot of diplomacy in Africa and Southeast Asia, as well as Latin America, is just to go up to these countries. Build some roads. Build …”