Madhupe Akinnola

And sometimes I think we forget about ways that are really around us and leveraging the people around us to go internally more.

The community.

your employees, your colleagues, and all that.

And I also think that, you know, our leaders are people that we look up to and respect and admire.

And if there are also more accessible forms of going internally, then I want role models of that too.

So there was a speaker, Satoyo Lopokoyet, who founded M-Pesa, which is a fintech company in Africa that started in Kenya.

And I teach a course on new business opportunities in East Africa and in Rwanda.

And I just loved how his idea of starting this company just came out of him saying, okay, what can I do differently?

What is a problem that we're trying to solve?

Who is really not getting access to certain opportunities or to certain markets?

And it

You know, you can pause and say, well, is that really surprising?

But to me, anything and any idea that starts with a who can I help and what can I fix is really surprising because it didn't exist before.

And so that one really brought me joy, especially seeing farmers using it in Rwanda or people who, again, had little access to financial institutions just being all about this new technology.

I appreciate this.

That's great.

I love it.

I'm going to have to try that.

It speaks to Sherelle talking about playing.

We need to play more and have fun more.