"Ambition is often loud and fast"

Limitless Africa host Claude Grunitzky is in the hot seat this episode. Claude has founded, built and sold businesses you will have heard of - he founded Trace, a global hip hop magazine. Trace eventually became the TV channel and he then raised $15million in funding from the investment bank Goldman Sachs in 2003. Now he spends his time as an investor and teaching entrepreneurship in his home country of Togo and across the continent. In this episode Claude will be talking about what Africans can learn from the American mindset - and what he learnt from the American mindset, he built Trace in the US after all.

Plus: What permissionless ambition means

🌟 IN THIS EPISODE:

1:38 Trace's origin story

8:08 From Alicia Keys to Rihanna

12:11 Three principles for success

17:04 The story of Dick Parsons

19:46 The African entrepreneur

24:37 Permissionless ambition

26:07 Why Africans need to ask for permission less

💬 QUOTES TO REMEMBER:

“Failure wasn’t the opposite of success. It was the tuition that I paid.”

"It's hard like solving a puzzle and it's hard like lifting weights."

"We Africans have very strong values and we have really strong identities, but we do not support each other as much as we should."

🌍 ABOUT LIMITLESS AFRICA

The podcast that asks how Africans and Americans can work together for shared prosperity

Every Monday: 15-minute episodes that dive into an issue that matters to Africans

Every Thursday: extended interview with someone unlocking Africa's limitless potential

➕ WANT MORE?

What can African entrepreneurs learn from the American mindset? https://trueafrica.co/article/limitless/what-can-africans-learn-from-the-american-mindset/

How the American mindset built Africa's most funded crypto platform https://trueafrica.co/article/podcast/i-got-exactly-what-i-wanted-which-was-my-dms-full-of-nigerian-men/

"Vision without execution is hallucination" - Adam Grant on the skills that African entrepreneurs need to succeed https://trueafrica.co/article/podcast/adam-grant-on-the-skills-that-african-entrepreneurs-need-to-succeed/

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