So you generally have three sorts of people.
You've got tourists, you've got journalists, and
you've got problem-solvers.
The tourists are just there for the ride, and journalists report problems.
This is bad, this is bad but what you really wanted to have is problem-solvers,
and that's what an entrepreneurs are.
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>> In life I've tried many failed businesses, many failed ventures.
And during this period there are few people call me failure.
>> Founded my first campaign in 22, the company failed.
I try again, the company failed.
>> I think failure is just a way of learning, I think its the best teacher.
And when you're not failing it means you're not trying, you're not growing,
you're not learning at all.
So failure is something that I personally embrace, and
I smile when I fail because I want to overcome it.
>> I don't have any problem with somebody sincerely believing
that they have the right answer, and turning out to have had the wrong answer.
And that sense, I'm a strong believer in accepting,
well-intentioned failure that what makes it well-intentioned was that you were
trying to get to the right answer.
>> I got virtually everything wrong, so I learned my lesson the hard way.
>> We understood there some key problems that we have that
we didn't have a clue how we're going to solve.
>> We were growing at a tremendous space, and
we didn't know which road we needed to take.
>> And getting to know about Stanford Seed Program was a miracle.
>> We've done seven years of running a business.
We've survived three near bankruptcy, and
you were sort of feeling like, I've learned all the rest to know now.
So what possibly could concede offer me?
And yet the experience was nothing like what I thought it would be,
it was phenomenal.
>> You're running your business day to day,
and you're seeing it like this, right?
You're looking at all the challenges, the problems,
weaknesses, the competition, the regulatory, the government.
And then you have Seed, Standford Seed teachers
want you to think like [SOUND], like that.
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>> The Seed Transformation Program is a program targeted at the founders and
leaders of small and medium sized businesses in developing economies.
>> Seed for me is actually the number one game changer.
>> It's like going to business school, really.
But I think it's even better.
>> If you have a process, tools, methodology.
>> The Seed Transformation Program as that program that actually helps
you to plan your business so that it can outlive you.
>> It came in the right time to help think through some of the challenges.
Things like how to deal with corruption, things like how to motivate your staff.
>> With the same resources, we're about five times more efficient than we work.
>> Within these times I've been count to accept, my businesses grown more than 50%.
>> We've just opened our tenth store, from six we've grown to ten.
We're going to open another two in the next couple of months, and
maybe another two before the end of the year.
We've more than doubled our revenues.
>> The last one year we have grown 300%.
>> We've gone from 30 people to 80.
>> We just closed with the Acumen fund, so to the now pretend about,
to the new other countries.
>> But I think what we've seen so far is it seems to work.
They are some of the most energetic, they are some of the most committed.
They are some of the most entrepreneurial, and
insightful leaders that I have ever interacted with.
>> I think that's what the Seed program gives you this courage to
see clearly where you're going.
And so you don't stop working because the journey has just begun.
>> First, my ambition was trust me,
my family, but now it's different.
Is my country, is my region, is Africa, is the world.
>> I think successful is about impact.
It doesn't matter what you've accomplished personally.
You have not yet seeing the correlation across the continent you'd like to see.
>> I only be successful while we've been able to create a platform that
those who are yet to be born.
When they're given birth to the moment they land on this earth.
Yeah, they have access with very basic things in my part of the world.
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