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The Trajectory Africa is a “pop-up” podcast exploring the trajectory, or pathway, of venture capital and startup formation in Africa. With the unique African landscape—market characteristics, business environment, goals, and culture—as a starting point, The Trajectory Africa aims to identify a destination for African tech, as well as the sign posts that signal direction of travel. It’s modeled on the concept of a mixtape, in which each episode, or “track” will feature a conversation with a “ ...
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The Flip

The Flip Media

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The Flip is an editorial-style podcast exploring contextually relevant insights from entrepreneurs and investors changing the status quo in Africa. The name The Flip comes from the opportunity to flip the script – question some of the pervasive narratives on entrepreneurship, challenge the ubiquity of Silicon Valley thought leadership, and champion the entrepreneurs building a future inspired by Africa. Produced and hosted by Johannesburg-based entrepreneur and American expat Justin Norman. ...
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Terser Adamu, who is an Africa Business Strategist, International Trade Adviser, and Director at ETK Group, hosts the award-nominated Unlocking Africa Podcast. During each episode he shares his thoughts on how to unlock Africa’s economic potential in the 21st century. This is delivered through engaging and thought-provoking discussions with innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and business leaders who are unlocking Africa’s economic potential. Whether you're a business leader, ...
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Startup Cornell

Startup Cornell

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Startup Cornell is a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell that explores the bold entrepreneurial ideas coming from our students, faculty, staff and young alumni.
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PushYourAdvantage

Push Venture Capital

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Discover the dynamic world of the African Tech Startup investment ecosystem with Push Venture Capital's captivating podcast series, "PushYourAdvantage." Immerse yourself in the expertise of Ben Singh, the podcast's host and co-founder of Push. Drawing from his extensive background in IT project delivery and Agile coaching, Ben offers insightful glimpses into the African startup ecosystem, seamlessly interwoven with enlightening interviews from key industry players. Delve into the podcast's r ...
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Black Entrepreneur Experience

Dr. Frances Richards, Chief Encouraging Officer

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Black Entrepreneur Experience uncovers the brilliance, boldness and business acumen behind successful Black Entrepreneurs all over the globe. It is a show created for aspiring entrepreneurs, small business owners or startup founders. Black Entrepreneur Experience can be any strategy, wisdom, idea that will ignite, empower and provoke more African Americans (Blacks, African Diaspora) to join the entrepreneurial journey. Invoking a movement to stimulate our communities to move towards business ...
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RiseStartUps

PortableVoices Creatives

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PortableVoices is a digital Publishing and Podcasting company that produces and distributes African spoken entertainment and information. We produce and distribute African audiobook, podcast series, spoken word, radio documentaries and features. Subscribe now to start receive HOT and NEW podcasts from PortableVoices every week.
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In all of our episodes, we will highlight the startup journey we are taking at YeGoBox, challenges we are facing and lesson learned. and more on what we think about entrepreneurship in Africa. Cover art photo provided by Autumn Studio on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@autumnstudio
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The Grinders Table

Uwem Uwemakpan

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The Grinders Table Podcast is your opportunity to sit at the table with entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders who are shaking things up in their industry. Each other week Uwem will interview these amazing thought-leaders to uncover how they've done it and learn something new in the process. Join me on the regular to hear how they dared to defy the odds and live their own success story... or epic failure!
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African Perspective

Africa Business Radio

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News Insights and analysis of the Africa Business Landscape across the 55 African Union member States, we cover from an emerging startup to macroeconomic stories. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/africanperspective/support
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⁠⁠This is a special masterclass series where we sit down and dive deep with some of the most prominent venture capitalists in the Middle East and Africa region. This series aims to provide entrepreneurs with everything they need to know to start their fundraising journey. Beyond exploring each investor and what really makes them tick, we want to help entrepreneurs understand what it really means to take on VC funding, what investors are looking for in a ‘perfect pitch’, and how to build out ...
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In 2019, Adrian Daniels had a brainwave to launch a podcast platform to showcase Ghanaian excellence to the world. The internet is already crowded with content from Ghana: YouTube, Social Media pages, etc. However, after hosting 2x Networking Events during Christmas 2018 & 2019 in Accra for the Global African Diaspora, Adrian noticed a lack and desire for networking, whilst meeting many creatives and entrepreneurs from around the globe. In January 2020, The Sound of Accra Podcast was born. P ...
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Financial technology in Africa is changing at an accelerating rate, and with it, the very nature of business on the continent. As one of the largest payments companies in Africa, the Paystack team is constantly speaking to teams doing amazing work all over the continent. The Decode Fintech Podcast allows us to hit "record" and share what we're learning! We'll be speaking with a broad range of players from across the African fintech ecosystem, from startup founders, to bankers, to the folks w ...
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We deliver independent emerging market focused technology, digital and innovation insights and analysis. Every quarter we produce a community activation mini-series diving deep into the most pertinent issues, headlines, and conversations in the global startup movement. We produce podcasts, virtual activations, live events, and bespoke market insight content with a deep understanding of the complex dynamics of the stakeholders within the global tech and innovation landscape. The show is execu ...
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You can take an African out of the village, but you cannot take the village out of an African. Most of us live in the city but are farming in the village, either out of family obligation, or a deep routed desire to see agriculture work for Africa. What is the return on investment? How does that align with #Agenda2063 - "The Africa We Want" by 2063? Fostina Mani is championing an agricultural markets revolution that favours Africa, under her #legacy2063byfostinamani platform her version of "T ...
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Shades & Layers

Kutloano Skosana Ricci

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Shades and Layers is a podcast focused on black women entrepreneurs from across the globe. It is a platform for exploring issues and challenges around business ownership, representation and holistic discussions about the meaning of sustainability in an increasingly complex global context. Conversations are wide- ranging and serve not only as a Masterclass in Entrepreneurship but also provide wisdom and tools for Successful Living. It is a space for meaningful conversation, a place for black ...
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Danchima Media

Daniel Alison

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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/danchimafm/subscribe Welcome to Danchima FM Podcast. We're a community online station. Giving the best first hand information on things happening around the globe. From Newsflash, business, startup, sports and recreational events.
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Business of African Fashion

Business of African Fashion

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The Business of African fashion podcast is a seasonal podcast that teaches African fashion entrepreneurs how to build, grow and maintain a successful fashion business. Let’s talk about what it’s really like to build a fashion business; especially from a financial perspective. Get ready to be empowered with actionable strategies and the opportunity to connect with a community of fellow creatives across the world. Join your host + fellow fashion entrepreneur, Victory as she shares her journey, ...
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Acalytica Lounge

Edzai Conilias Zvobwo

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The Acalytica Lounge podcast provides insights into entrepreneurship, technology, and business growth strategies. It features expert interviews, success stories, and actionable tips to empower entrepreneurs and businesses. https://acalytica.com
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Inside the C-Suite

I-DEV International

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Inside the C-Suite is a new podcast focused on showcasing Africa startup success stories. From Goodlife Pharmacy, the East African pharmacy and beauty supplies chain to Big Square, East Africa's fastest growing casual dining restaurant group, and Cellulant, an award-winning digital payments company, which recently raised an impressive $47.5M Series D funding from TPG Growth's Rise Fund! Join the founders and investors behind these success stories, and host, Winnie Odhiambo, Associate Directo ...
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Nigerian American

eLDee The Don

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Nigerian American explores the stories and experiences of International migrants. Hosted by eLDee, the show features interviews with guests from all walks of life, including entrepreneurs, artists, activists, and more. Through these conversations, the podcast aims to create a platform for Africans in the diaspora to share their stories and perspectives, while also providing a space for dialogue on topics such as identity, society and culture. The podcast also covers a range of topics, includ ...
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African Business Stories is the go-to podcast for insights into the women shaping Africa’s business landscape. Africa is one of the world’s most promising frontiers for growth and innovation—and women are at the heart of this transformation. Hosted by Akaego Okoye, this podcast spotlights female entrepreneurs who are breaking barriers, scaling businesses, and driving economic development across the continent. Through bold conversations, we explore funding, scaling strategies, digital transfo ...
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Founders Connect

Founders Connect

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Founders Connect is on a mission to document the stories, journeys and ideologies of leading and emerging African entrepreneurs and operators. The podcast aims to create meaningful insights that can be shared and beneficial to other founders, entrepreneurs, knowledge seekers, consumers and the world in general - targeting a wide variety of audiences.
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Here me and my cohorts talk about everything under the sun as regards to sports, music, life, love, business and living a Kick Ass life, all while having some fun talking Sh*t! Download our FREE Business StartUp guide here: http://bit.ly/BusinessStartupChecklist
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How can Fintech contribute to building a better world? In Season 4 of Fintech Files, we’re turning our focus to where financial technology meets social impact. This season, we explore financial inclusion, sustainable investing, and decarbonization with some of the brightest minds in the industry. As financial services touch every aspect of our lives, the opportunity to drive positive change is enormous. About Fintech Files: Join us on Fintech Files from BCG Platinion as we explore the cuttin ...
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RISE Urban Nation

Taryell Simmons

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Welcome to the RISE Urban Nation Podcast – your go-to source for empowering stories, expert insights, and practical strategies for Black and Pan-African entrepreneurs, creators, and community leaders worldwide. Hosted by Taryell Simmons, an entrepreneur and renowned advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, alongside Adesola Akindele, an economic strategist, serial entrepreneur, and mentor dedicated to fostering growth and self-sufficiency. With experience from top industry names like G ...
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Food for the Future

World Food Forum

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The World Food Forum delivers stories about agrifood systems, climate change and all its moving parts in this youth-led podcast. Learn more about the World Food Forum: https://linktr.ee/worldfoodforum
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Startup Corner

Africa Business Radio

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This is a platform for Start-Ups, to serve as enablement to entrepreneurs. We create a media hub for entrepreneurs to be heard, showcase their businesses and also share lessons they've acquired on their entrepreneur. The Show inspires, motivates, and informs on doing business
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Techpoint Africa Podcast

Techpoint Africa

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The Techpoint Africa Podcast brings you the most important stories of the week on startups, technology and innovation in Africa. Listen in every Thursday afternoon (WAT). You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn or anywhere else you get your podcasts
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Too often Silicon Valley has become the new Hollywood of broken promises and dashed dreams. Is the startup journey weighing you down? Are you searching for your own coffee shop conversation that turns into a $5M check? Weekly, Philip Topham, The Savvy Founder and Armchair sociologist, explores the startup struggle and what it means to be founder and Chief Everything Officer. Philip will be interviewing guests and sharing his own experiences uncovering the raw truths and hard earned “aha” mom ...
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UWaterloo Alumni Podcasts present personal stories and professional expertise from our global network of grads. In "Uncharted" alumni open up about their career journeys to inspire your own path. In "Alumni Know" grads share their expertise on today's timely and important topics. "Event Broadcasts" bring UWaterloo alumni events, including lectures and expert panels, straight to your earbuds.
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This podcast tackles the biggest trends in African tech and interviews local startups disrupting their industries. The hosts are Connecting Africa Editor Paula Gilbert, Associate Editor Matshepo Sehloho and Venture for Africa Co-Founder & CEO Tobi Lafinhan who may come from different geographies and cultural backgrounds but who all have a love of tech and an interest in Africa's startup scene in common. Find the latest news at http://www.connectingafrica.com Connect on Twitter: Paula - @paul ...
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The Akro Podcast

Akro Holdings (Pty) Ltd

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Akro is an early-stage accelerator for African startups - this is its podcast, which aims to provide a portal into the minds of key players in the early-stage scene for the next generation of entrepreneurs and investors. The go-to podcast for serious discussions on all things startup in Africa, we put Africa in the spotlight and provide transparency into successes, weaknesses and learnings for all who believe in innovation on the continent.
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As part of a broader app update, Airbnb on Tuesday introduced a new feature that allows travelers to book services and experiences, like getting a message, haircut, or chef-prepared meal, or taking part in some activity. These new offerings can be added to your stay, but they can also be booked independently, Airbnb says. Learn more about your ad c…
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Episode 175 with Desmond Koney, CEO and Founder of Complete Farmer, a Ghanaian agritech company which empowers African farmers to conduct their work in a much more sustainable and profitable way. Complete Farmer provides farmers with AI and data-driven technology to allow for "precision agriculture" so farmers can optimise their resources. The plat…
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Dr. Houda Ghozzi, founder of Open Startup (OST), shares her journey from professor to pan-African ecosystem builder. Following Tunisia's revolution, she transformed uncertainty into opportunity, now helping young entrepreneurs across 19 African countries develop through "hope, skills, and exposure." Houda discusses entrepreneurship as a common lang…
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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok appeared to experience a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to dozens of posts on X with information about genocide in South Africa, even when the user didn’t ask anything about the subject. The strange responses largely came from the X account for Grok. Also, digital consumer bank Chime has moved forward with its …
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In this episode, produced by Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), we feature finalists from the WFF Startup Innovation Awards — a global competition spotlighting tech-driven agrifood solutions. We speak with Miraal Kabir and Martin Turuta, co-founders of Safi, a Canadian-Rwandan startup using IoT to make milk safer and more accessible. As winners of the D…
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The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn. Also, speaking during a business summit in Doha, Trump said he met with Cook and asked him to stop building in India and instead increase production in the US ... and YouTube introduced an interactive product feed for shoppable TV ads Lear…
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Our new episode features Van Hamilton Barbeau, AVP at Ochsner Ventures, the venture capital arm of Ochsner Health, which invests in healthcare companies from seed-stage to growth-stage. He has spent his career building, advising and investing in healthcare companies. Barbeau earned his undergrad degree from Cornell in 2011, where he studied politic…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is using his olive oil inefficiently in an “offense to horticulture,” the Financial Times humorously reports. For its “Lunch with the FT” series, the paper joined Altman in his kitchen. He prepared a garlicky pasta and salad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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In this episode of the Lucidity Insights podcast: The Perfect Pitch, we sit down with angel investor and ecosystem builder Lucy Chow, who shares hard-won truths about startup fundraising. From explaining why founders should “fire their angel” if the fit is wrong, to stressing the danger of giving away too much equity early on — Lucy doesn't hold ba…
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This episode of The Trajectory Africa features Kelvin Umechukwu, Founder and CEO of Bumpa, a company that provides sellers with the tools needed for digital commerce, inventory and sales management, and customer engagement. Kelvin explains how Bumpa helps businesses by aggregating and integrating functions like inventory and order management, payme…
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📌 OFFERS JOIN CASHBLACK FOR FREE AND GET A CASH SIGN-UP BONUS: https://bit.ly/4jSgLKb BOOK A CONSULTATION TO NAVIGATE BUSINESS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LIFE IN GHANA AND WORLDWIDE: https://thesoundofaccra.com/consultations SIGN UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: https://thesoundofaccra.com/newsletter In this episode, Adrian speaks with Matthew Addai, founder …
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The mobile controller company Backbone unveiled its Backbone Pro controller this week, which brings iOS and Android gaming experiences to the next level. A successor to the Backbone One controller, the Pro features full-size joysticks, re-mappable buttons, and Bluetooth compatibility, making for a more premium gaming setup. Learn more about your ad…
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Yelitsa Jean-Charles, Founder of Healthy Roots Dolls. She is a brand builder, marketing and social media obsessed. Artist,Designer, Founder @healthyrootsdolls. Info: https://yelitsajeancharles.com Let's Connect and Engage: Leave a Google Review Today on what you enjoyed about Black Entrepreneur Experience Podcast. Connect on YouTube and Sign up for…
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Episode overview:In this conversation, Verto co-founder and CEO Ola Oyetayo shares the journey of building a cross-border payments platform that tackles the unique challenges African businesses face when making international transactions. Since graduating from Y Combinator in 2019, Verto has established itself as what Oyetayo describes as a profita…
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For millions of movie enthusiasts in the ’90s, Moviefone’s 777-FILM number was the go-to source for obtaining showtimes. Now, under new ownership, Moviefone is trying to make a comeback. On Friday, as part of its 35th anniversary celebration, Moviefone announced the relaunch of its mobile app and a new nationally syndicated broadcast TV series. Lea…
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Kudzayi Hove's entrepreneurial journey from Zimbabwe to Nigeria represents a masterclass in adapting, pivoting, and building with purpose in Africa's challenging business landscape. As co-founder and CEO of Amayi Foods, meaning "mother" in her native Shona language, Kudzayi and her co-founders have transformed what began as a passion for Ghanaian S…
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Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we don’t allow our employees to use the DeepSeek app,” Smith said, referring to DeepSeek’s application service (which is available on both desktop and mobile.…
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Send us a text In 2020, then nurse practitioner, Shaina Rainford got seriously ill from COVID. She survived the illness, but lost all her hair and found nothing on store shelves that could help with her condition. Then, she remembered that her younger sister went through something similar – not COVID – five years prior, and their mother had made a …
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Much of the world isn’t paying close attention to Greece right now. That may be a mistake. Best known for its stunning islands, sun-soaked cities, and deep historical roots, Greece has been quietly laying the foundation for something far less expected: a modern, resilient tech economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch…
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Joshua Pope (BASc ’19) came to Waterloo with a big idea to change how people play and train for sports. With the right support at Waterloo, the right partner — Rowan Ferrabee (BASc ’19) — and plenty of grit and perseverance, that dream is now a reality. The Trajeckt Arc is a pitching robot that replicates pro players and is being used by dozens of …
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During his junior year study abroad, Max Morganroth, traveled to 30 countries, primarily flying in business and first class. His jet setting was funded almost entirely by airline points he collected through strategic credit card applications and miles redemptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Episode 174 with Faizal Bhana and Claire Machin, who are recognised voices in global finance and private wealth, working at the forefront of family governance, cross-border investment, and wealth structuring. Faizal serves as the director for the Middle East, Africa, and India at Jersey Finance, while Claire is the group director and head of privat…
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