‘Saving’ Africa
Africa today produces less than 2 percent of global manufacturing output and just 1.4 percent of global manufacturing exports. Manufacturing value added on the continent reached about $351 billion in 2025, which sounds substantial until you remember the size of the continent, its population and its ambitions. Manufacturing contributes about 10.8 percent of African GDP compared with 16.5 percent globally. Those numbers bother me.
Sweet Linda
Walking onto 2nd Avenue and East 2nd Street, and seeing the words Sweet Linda was just so beautiful. The space is as Aury as it could be: light-hearted, warm, and VERY sexy.
Cyber-Physical Infrastructure
A cyber-physical infrastructure company is not a website shop. It is not a digital agency. It is not even a standard software startup. A CPI is a systems company. It sits at the intersection of software, hardware, data, sensing, operations, logistics, control, and physical assets in the real world.
Setting the Foundation[s]
I just landed in Kenya. As we were landing, I found myself looking down not just at the beauty of the landscape, but at continuity. I was looking for light. I was looking for the dark patches.
