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Speaker 2: All right, guys, Welcome back Episode twenty nine. This is
Speaker 2: an extremely special episode for us because we are going international, right,
Speaker 2: We're going international vir content. As we said before, a
Speaker 2: lot of people you know, always access for stuff outside
Speaker 2: of America, so we thought this would be a good
Speaker 2: idea and we're gonna touch Mother Africa, the continent.
Speaker 3: We got a large fan base out there, yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: So before I start, I wanted to shout out all
Speaker 2: of our international listeners. We are trending on the top
Speaker 2: charts and a lot of different companies countries Canada, South Africa, Mosambique, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Grenada, Barbados, Barswana, Jamaica, UK,
Speaker 2: DR the Netherlands and Trinidad. They say Tanzania, I think
Speaker 2: I said Tanania. So yeah, shout out to you guys
Speaker 2: man that we really appreciate you. You know, coming from America,
Speaker 2: coming from New York, who knew that somebody in South
Speaker 2: Africa will be interested in our conversation. But once again,
Speaker 2: that just goes to show you the power of the Internet.
Speaker 2: And in Great Britain too, Oh yeah great. But well
Speaker 2: we're gonna do something in London.
Speaker 3: Ye, A lot of people from London always asking us
Speaker 3: when we come in.
Speaker 2: Toronto and London are two biggest international markets, so you
Speaker 2: know that's special. But we know everybody else and it's
Speaker 2: all a melting pot to a lot most people from
Speaker 2: our listeners, probably in Toronto and UK, they're immigrants on
Speaker 2: some level. Their parents, you know, they come from Africa,
Speaker 2: they come from Jamaica, they come from the island. So
Speaker 2: it's all a melton pot. It all mixes together. So
Speaker 2: we have a very familiar guest if you listen to
Speaker 2: the podcast, because he was the guest on the last podcast.
Speaker 2: It's pushing a double hitter. It's qucially the double header
Speaker 2: for us first, y'all, so welcome back having me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, we did a wardrobe story. It was too long.
Speaker 3: We had to make sure you get two episodes.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, all right, so we're going to talk about Africa. Right.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about a lot of different things in Africa,
Speaker 2: but first we're going to talk about something that started
Speaker 2: in America reached over to Africa, which is basketball.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Basketball is a global sport. If anybody is not familiar,
Speaker 2: I played basketball in my whole life. That was my
Speaker 2: original plans going to the NBA.
Speaker 3: As most young people in our community.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, so now my son has to live up
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of pressure on them.
Speaker 2: So so, but the NBA is strategically spreading its wings
Speaker 2: across the globe.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: If you know anything about sports, you know soccer is
Speaker 2: the most dominant sport in the world football football, It's house. Yeah, yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: American football is what they call our football. That's the
Speaker 2: most popular sport in almost every country in the world.
Speaker 2: But basketball is catching up close, probably second in majority
Speaker 2: of the countries. It's huge in Asia. Think it's like
Speaker 2: the number one sport in China, and it is the
Speaker 2: number two sport in Africa, right behind soccer football. So
Speaker 2: the NBA decided that they're going to open a branch
Speaker 2: in Africa.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I actually wrote about this on Instagram. But it's going
Speaker 2: to be NBA Africa.
Speaker 4: I think nine different countries are going to be participating,
Speaker 4: and it just shows the spread of the game. And
Speaker 4: I think it goes back to we can we can
Speaker 4: pinpoint it back to like the original Dream Team in
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 3: Hopefully all listeners can remember back that far.
Speaker 4: It seems crazy to us, but like, yeah, nineteen ninety
Speaker 4: two when the Dream Team played at in Goola and
Speaker 4: they won by like seventy something points, But it was
Speaker 4: the fact that you had people from a country in
Speaker 4: Africa competing with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird
Speaker 4: and all those greats and then fast forward, right, like
Speaker 4: a guy like Joel Embiid who's now an NBA superstar,
Speaker 4: And you know gods like Surge and Vodka and Siakam
Speaker 4: come from you know, countries in Africa.
Speaker 3: You can contribute to that, to that game, of course.
Speaker 4: And it's similar to like how like Rashall was saying,
Speaker 4: like China it's number two sport there, right, or close
Speaker 4: maybe number one, but like the impact that a guy
Speaker 4: like Yao Ming has had of course, right. So like
Speaker 4: you see now when when NBA players, especially those who
Speaker 4: have marketing deals, they do the season right and the
Speaker 4: first stop they that they have on the off season,
Speaker 4: they do it to China exactly right, right, And then
Speaker 4: you got companies like Leaning and all these other companies
Speaker 4: signing guys because they know the global spread of it,
Speaker 4: right right, Like that's our export. Whereas sports like baseball
Speaker 4: it's played in China but not played in other countries,
Speaker 4: right right. Like and same thing with American football. They
Speaker 4: tried it in London, botch.
Speaker 5: And that's what was the only international American sports exactly
Speaker 5: the fact.
Speaker 2: So you you used to work for NBA League pass right,
Speaker 2: that's right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And then so.
Speaker 2: You you were a part of the African launch of
Speaker 2: the NBA Pass. Yeah, yeah, can you talk about that?
Speaker 3: Sure? Sure, sure, So I pay out every every year.
Speaker 5: So EMI League Pass for those who don't knows, like
Speaker 5: the Netflix for basketball. So obviously you could watch if
Speaker 5: you live in New York. Well let's say you live
Speaker 5: in Chicago. You basically if you're your local television station
Speaker 5: is only going to show you the Bulls, right, and
Speaker 5: then maybe you could watch maybe a national televised game.
Speaker 3: That has some other teams. But let's say you live.
Speaker 5: In Chicago and you are a Rockets fan and you
Speaker 5: want to watch every game, you had to subscribe to
Speaker 5: the NBA League Pass.
Speaker 3: And so that's how it works in the US.
Speaker 5: But people that are NBA fans internationally, they're not going
Speaker 5: to get as many games on their local television or
Speaker 5: they may not even people can.
Speaker 3: Record what national exactly.
Speaker 5: So now you can watch all the games on your app,
Speaker 5: on your app or your Apple TV or your local
Speaker 5: or your PlayStation.
Speaker 3: So I was on the team that was responsible.
Speaker 5: For growing the Digital plaf Digital League Pass outside the
Speaker 5: US and Africa was a major focus for US and
Speaker 5: it was a growth area from a monetary standpoint. China Australia, Canada, UK,
Speaker 5: where the where the I guess the places that most
Speaker 5: of the revenue came from.
Speaker 3: But for the what they saw the future growth.
Speaker 5: From was was Africa for two reasons, not only from
Speaker 5: customer consumption standpoint, but from a talent standpoint too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember, I'm a huge Bulls fan.
Speaker 4: So I remember Lou Dang, right, and he's doing some
Speaker 4: amazing things in Africa.
Speaker 3: But like you know, he's doing stuff with Nipsey's partner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gross David Charlotte, David Gros get him on the podcast.
Speaker 2: So like, what was the plan do you know, like
Speaker 2: the NBA's plan to because obviously this is planned out.
Speaker 2: What was their plan to move into Africa?
Speaker 5: So there's I mean there's always been relationships. You mentioned
Speaker 5: gla game, but there's been NBA players from Africa since
Speaker 5: the eighties, right. So you had a Keem who changed,
Speaker 5: You had new Ball, his son just got drafted exactly.
Speaker 3: Then you had uh change his name. Yeah, there was
Speaker 3: no age prior to him coming to America. When he
Speaker 3: went to Houston, they put the h on it.
Speaker 5: I'm not even sure what the best today's yes, right,
Speaker 5: And then you had the Kirie Matumbo Pools who followed
Speaker 5: a new pat Bowl and Millon Ball.
Speaker 4: We mentioned, Yeah, the KEMPE has some direct ties into
Speaker 4: getting the league into Africa.
Speaker 5: Right, so you know those old players always had philanthropic
Speaker 5: relationships with the league, right, so like doing doing like
Speaker 5: you know, nonprofit stuff. But in that what happened was
Speaker 5: the league would go there and like wow, like you're
Speaker 5: from this tribe and everybody in this tribe at six
Speaker 5: y nine, and like, we can do something here. And
Speaker 5: obviously you have the visual league being the you know,
Speaker 5: the blackest league, right, there's some visual connections there, and
Speaker 5: so they had to realize and then I think they
Speaker 5: learned a lot from the other leagues, right, for instance,
Speaker 5: the investment that the MLB mess Major League Baseball doesn't,
Speaker 5: the Maican Republic doesn't, Venezuela doesn't. In some of these
Speaker 5: other countries where there's a bunch of talent is on
Speaker 5: another level. So they're like, hey, we could do this.
Speaker 5: We can make this whole content on our farms. They're
Speaker 5: trying to do that. Now, that's funny you said that.
Speaker 4: Major They just had the Yankees and the Red Sox
Speaker 4: play in London and everybody was like, we don't even
Speaker 4: care about baseball. It's like it's soccer or it's cricket, right,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, So like that's true, like
Speaker 4: they're trying to spend it two and I think maybe
Speaker 4: and maybe it's true or not. But because of the
Speaker 4: population of Africa, like we know that majority of the
Speaker 4: population is under like twenty five exactly, right, so there's
Speaker 4: a huge growth curve exactly for potential athletes and business people,
Speaker 4: right exactly.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people asked the question. I wasn't
Speaker 2: really one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 3: The teams.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know or not, but the teams,
Speaker 2: like the nine teams, who's going to be the owners
Speaker 2: of those teams? You know, people in Africa?
Speaker 3: Or yeah?
Speaker 5: So this actually so I left the league prior to
Speaker 5: this being an announced. I don't know one hundred percent
Speaker 5: sure the full structure, but what I remember it being
Speaker 5: is a combination, like a co ownership between the league
Speaker 5: and local partners.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, because well, how do you feel personally just
Speaker 2: your personal opinion about that. Do you feel like Africa
Speaker 2: would have been better to have their only because you're
Speaker 2: Europe has their own leagues, Like people come go from
Speaker 2: America all the time, and Africa does have leagues. In
Speaker 2: Nigeria specifically, it's not it's not the same it's not
Speaker 2: the same level of Europe. So but like the EuroLeague
Speaker 2: is very strong. Do you feel like they could have
Speaker 2: done better at just forming a league together themselves or
Speaker 2: do you feel like the NBA is a is a
Speaker 2: good partnership for them.
Speaker 3: The NBA is a good partnership.
Speaker 5: Like you said, there are already leagues, they just haven't
Speaker 5: really taken off to the same level having had. And
Speaker 5: also there's an issue in Africa, not only between a
Speaker 5: from a sports perspective, but from a business perspective where
Speaker 5: there's not too much inter country trade, right, and so
Speaker 5: I think it would have been difficult for like a
Speaker 5: league to be cross continental and to have different things
Speaker 5: and all the ownerships being like inclusive in those specific countries.
Speaker 5: I think the NBA being an outside force for bad
Speaker 5: for worse American Western sports force and tying it together
Speaker 5: makes it.
Speaker 3: A lot better.
Speaker 4: People got to visualize that, right, because this isn't like
Speaker 4: you're going from New York to Florida.
Speaker 3: You're going from country to country.
Speaker 4: So like when they have a Spanish League that they're
Speaker 4: all in that country, exactly what Africa's trying to do here.
Speaker 3: Like literally you're going to nine different countries and.
Speaker 5: Even you know, the the European leagues, just like the
Speaker 5: soccer leagues, you have the you know, you like in
Speaker 5: soccer you have Barcelona playing against Byron or Real Madrid
Speaker 5: I mean, or Manchester United. Like traveling between those countries,
Speaker 5: like their countries are really compact. Like traveling between these
Speaker 5: countries are not really a big deal. And they have
Speaker 5: the funds to do that. Like you can't take a
Speaker 5: train from Legos to Acra or Legos to to you know, Johannesburg,
Speaker 5: like it's it's it's not the same, right, So I
Speaker 5: think the level of investment that you need in the
Speaker 5: organization you would need, the NBA could work that out.
Speaker 3: Yah, that makes it a good partner.
Speaker 2: And I think the African Union actually did that. They
Speaker 2: just announced that they're going to eliminate tariffs on into
Speaker 2: continental trading. We wrote about that on Instagram as well.
Speaker 2: I think it's like forty countries involved, and yeah, I
Speaker 2: think that's going to start next year where tarrofts will
Speaker 2: be eliminated for the majority of the continent. So they
Speaker 2: actually hopefully they're going to start doing more because you said,
Speaker 2: like you know, it's not a lot of that going
Speaker 2: on right now, but hopefully that's a step in the
Speaker 2: right direction where they can actually start to trade in
Speaker 2: between the continent with each other. So all right, so
Speaker 2: now we got we got the league covered, but we're
Speaker 2: going to go into some more interesting things on the
Speaker 2: continent on the next segment. All right, so we're now
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about content, right because continents King, We've
Speaker 2: covered content on America, but we haven't covered continent internationally.
Speaker 2: So Iroco yep, can you explain that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so Iroco is Aroco TV is the is a website.
Speaker 5: It's a startup that was created in twenty and eleven.
Speaker 5: I work there from twenty twelve through almost twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: And so what it is is basically the Netflix of Africa.
Speaker 5: And the question is why do you need in Netflix
Speaker 5: of Africa is because the third big the third biggest
Speaker 5: movie marker in the world is actually out of Nigeria.
Speaker 5: So number one is Hollywood. Number two is Bollywood. Number
Speaker 5: three is is Knowllywood. I heard it's a huge there.
Speaker 5: It actually one of the years I worked there. It
Speaker 5: actually grows about eight hundred million USD in that place,
Speaker 5: and it's a tremendous market. It's it's interesting, at least
Speaker 5: from my perspective, I might have consumed too much Western content.
Speaker 5: It's not really my thing. But the movies are being
Speaker 5: produced for like less than ten thousand dollars and in
Speaker 5: like two weeks high volume. As you can imagine. Because
Speaker 5: the market, the movies are not the highest priced and
Speaker 5: the biggest budget. You're not really seeing action movies. These
Speaker 5: are like romantic movies, comedy movies, movies where you don't
Speaker 5: need special effects. But basically the way it worked is
Speaker 5: the gentleman I worked for. He's a Nigerian brit So
Speaker 5: he lives in London, travel to London to Nigeria often
Speaker 5: to see family or whatever. And at the time, all
Speaker 5: of the content was in DVDs. So what his mom
Speaker 5: would do is go from London and Legos, spend maybe
Speaker 5: Christmas time or whatever their family, come back with a
Speaker 5: suitcase full of of DVDs. He was like, well, why
Speaker 5: can't my mom consumed the content the same way I
Speaker 5: do on Netflix? And so that's how the ideas started.
Speaker 5: So move back to Nigeria, took that, took the DVD
Speaker 5: content digitized. It also built relationships with some of the
Speaker 5: movie producers. To them, they were like, because Netflix wasn't
Speaker 5: even a big thing out there at the time, They're like,
Speaker 5: you want you want to give you want to pay
Speaker 5: me for my digital rights? And to them they're like,
Speaker 5: I don't really know what digital rights means, but like
Speaker 5: you want to give me some money, it's whatever. So
Speaker 5: they he got some exclusive pretty pretty uh cheaply and
Speaker 5: basically took that, took those that piece of content, initially
Speaker 5: put it on YouTube. It started blowing up, and because
Speaker 5: people that emigrated outside Africa that lived in the US UK,
Speaker 5: they were able they were now able to see the
Speaker 5: latest movies without having a wait for people to send
Speaker 5: the DVDs back. And then he eventually actually raised money
Speaker 5: from a US venture capital, so that firm was actually
Speaker 5: the probably one of the first two Africa based tech
Speaker 5: firms to get the US venture capital in twenty eleven,
Speaker 5: and I joined them and opened up their New York
Speaker 5: office because their biggest audience, even though they had African content,
Speaker 5: were Africans in the US and so and then it
Speaker 5: kind of grew from there.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: So Netflix itself, right, he said, it's the Netflix of Africa.
Speaker 4: It doesn't exist on all continents, right, And that's one
Speaker 4: of the things they said that it probably potentially has
Speaker 4: some great growth and we documented, you know, some of
Speaker 4: its setbacks as well.
Speaker 3: But what is like the price point on a rucual
Speaker 3: TV type situation.
Speaker 5: The latest price is it depends on the country, but
Speaker 5: the latest price is it's actually similar to Netflix.
Speaker 3: So they have a nine ninety nine plan.
Speaker 5: There's one that's around uh around six ninety nine, but
Speaker 5: it's actually priced in and UH at least in Nigeria
Speaker 5: and uh Nayra. And it's very volatile. It depends on
Speaker 5: the US the exchange rate. But the company's expanded. So
Speaker 5: since I worked there, they've done a lot of production.
Speaker 5: So they're actually making movies content. Yeah, and actually they
Speaker 5: they they as of two weeks ago, they actually ended
Speaker 5: up selling that production house to a French media conglomerate
Speaker 5: called kind Out kind Out Plus, so kind c A
Speaker 5: n A L plus.
Speaker 2: How so, how many countries are there.
Speaker 3: In so the the rocal content is global. It is everywhere.
Speaker 5: So there when I was there and and and even
Speaker 5: now there's customers in over two hundred countries in the
Speaker 5: world because the African ds port is everywhere.
Speaker 3: And it's just started by African.
Speaker 5: African, Yeah, Africa and German so uh so basically too,
Speaker 5: they went so that the German person and an African
Speaker 5: person went to school in Manchester.
Speaker 3: They met.
Speaker 5: The African person came up with the idea and then
Speaker 5: he co founded it with the German individual and they
Speaker 5: both moved full time to Legos and built it out.
Speaker 5: Ended up opening an office in New York and London
Speaker 5: to help distribute the content.
Speaker 2: Something else was was recently started with a German and
Speaker 2: an African right that went public.
Speaker 5: Junior Ji so based the Ali Baba of Africa exactly.
Speaker 5: So there's this company called Rocket Internet started by German brothers.
Speaker 5: And what they do is they actually built, they built.
Speaker 5: They built companies that are successful in the first world,
Speaker 5: so Amazon back group on all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 5: and they built it in like emerging markets where those
Speaker 5: companies are not there yet. And so what they did
Speaker 5: was they looked at Ali Baba slash Amazon and they
Speaker 5: decid had to build it in Africa and they called
Speaker 5: it Jumia. And so they're in Nigeria there in Kenya,
Speaker 5: and there's some other countries as well, and so yes,
Speaker 5: there there, it's interesting there is there is like I
Speaker 5: guess a few people of German descent that build tech
Speaker 5: companies in Africa.
Speaker 4: So that's so they're literally watching the world as it's
Speaker 4: happening and saying, all right, let's go to a part
Speaker 4: of world where it's not happening.
Speaker 3: And let's build it there. Exactly.
Speaker 4: But I mean from a kid from Queens Man, like
Speaker 4: your journey has been out of this world, like a
Speaker 4: vision like that, your studies, whatever it take you like.
Speaker 5: No, definitely not definitely not man, it's just kind of
Speaker 5: like uh working in you know, went to school. I
Speaker 5: knew I wanted to do business. They didn't know what
Speaker 5: that really meant because I didn't really have business people
Speaker 5: in my my you know, my family or even around me.
Speaker 5: Haitian rights, yeah, man, Haitian thing is like hey, mom's
Speaker 5: a nurse, you're going to be a doctor, or if
Speaker 5: you don't want to be a doctor, to be a lawyer,
Speaker 5: if you're gonna be a layer, be engineering, and so
Speaker 5: this business think it was something different and uh study
Speaker 5: business got was was was fortunate to be part of
Speaker 5: an internship and called in Roads in college. In college
Speaker 5: that introduced me to Wall Street for lovel wall Street
Speaker 5: financial crisis happened, fell out of love of Wall Street,
Speaker 5: went to school and kind of discovered tech and the
Speaker 5: world and how it was using around the world, and
Speaker 5: kind of that's kind of how I ended up working
Speaker 5: at the company.
Speaker 2: So we talk about music. I know you I mentioned
Speaker 2: on the content of musical content, Yeah, which is hot
Speaker 2: right now. As far as afrobeats, it's a bunch of
Speaker 2: artists out there with his kid.
Speaker 3: Uh he just put out his album. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Somebody else has had a song on the radio they
Speaker 2: keep playing all the time. Uh that Joanna song. Joanna
Speaker 2: is like things that.
Speaker 4: I forget the name the title. Then God, all I
Speaker 4: know is that it follows me every time I get
Speaker 4: in the car.
Speaker 3: Is knows he's burning up. Now.
Speaker 2: I think you got a song with casting over to
Speaker 2: but yeah, can you talk about that?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: So we back then we uh, this is twenty twelve
Speaker 5: to thirteen, and so obviously being in the movie space
Speaker 5: in Nigeria, there was a cause proximity to the musical
Speaker 5: space and so the CEO came out with the idea
Speaker 5: like all right, let's come up with a company called
Speaker 5: ira King, which we would it's basically Spotify for Africa
Speaker 5: where we take that content. And so a lot of
Speaker 5: these people you talk about we did. We were the
Speaker 5: first ones to digitize that content even back then.
Speaker 3: And uh, it was too early. It was too early.
Speaker 5: I mean the company was out there and it just
Speaker 5: the music wasn't as popular yet here. And then obviously
Speaker 5: probably after they decided to wrap it up and focus
Speaker 5: only on music, I mean movies one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Like that's when like Whisky was doing songs with Drake
Speaker 3: and it was just an early thing.
Speaker 5: And if they were, if they were to capt that
Speaker 5: up like that company would have been something different because
Speaker 5: that you know, afrobeat is the thing.
Speaker 3: Right right now for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So and it's it's it's it's it's crazy. I mean
Speaker 5: because of the Internet, you know, music and content and
Speaker 5: just cultures is so there's no borders.
Speaker 3: Afrobeats feels like reggae to me.
Speaker 2: It does a vib it's a whole vibe like that.
Speaker 2: It's a similar type of vib I think.
Speaker 5: So, you know, I think we're all in a similar
Speaker 5: age groups like mid thirties whatever growing up in New
Speaker 5: York City area, Like you couldn't go to like a
Speaker 5: party in the late nineties and early two thousands without
Speaker 5: hearing you know, dance had his time where he was
Speaker 5: doing songs with everybody then. Like I think it was
Speaker 5: a big era of like reggaetne reggae, albat is it.
Speaker 5: So I think everybody there's always like some of this
Speaker 5: this like African daspora music that's taking over.
Speaker 3: Afrobeat is having this thing right now.
Speaker 2: All of the music, I mean it has roots in
Speaker 2: Africa of course, you know, as far as the drums
Speaker 2: of course, and you know all of that stuff. So
Speaker 2: you know, it's not surprised that it's popular because it's
Speaker 2: always been popular, just not it wasn't framed in that way,
Speaker 2: right right, So like you said, it sounds like reggae,
Speaker 2: but really probably the reggae comes from that originally.
Speaker 3: Like you know what I'm saying, So like jazz and.
Speaker 5: What's fluid ben because people out there love reggae, people
Speaker 5: out there love even Haitian music. White Clefs is huge
Speaker 5: over there in Africa. Like I go, like, you know,
Speaker 5: I that's why Cleves young. They might be the young. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: My you know, my my in laws are from Nairobian.
Speaker 5: I go over there and like I go and I
Speaker 5: listen to I'll be at a restaurant and then the
Speaker 5: server would have a Jamaican wristband. I'm like, you've been
Speaker 5: in Jamaica, Like you know, I've been you know, from
Speaker 5: I mean Haitians, back from Queen So like, I've always
Speaker 5: been around Jamaican's.
Speaker 3: I've been in Jamaica many times.
Speaker 5: And so I was like, oh, where you from in Jamaica,
Speaker 5: Like what are you doing here in Narobi And They're like, no,
Speaker 5: I've never been in Jamaica.
Speaker 3: I just love reggae culture. Culture. The culture is huge, right,
Speaker 3: and so yeah, it's kind of gone back.
Speaker 5: So definitely, I do believe although reggae has African rules,
Speaker 5: I think the afrobeats learned from reggae too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: And even I mean it's all cross because even if
Speaker 2: you go to Jamaica, you see a lot of flags
Speaker 2: from Ethiopia.
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Speaker 2: Shout out to the rosters. Yes, yes, yes, so you
Speaker 2: know it's it's it's all. It's all connected for sure.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this as far as the
Speaker 2: music scene, because you know the music is blowing up,
Speaker 2: do they have record labels in Africa or are those
Speaker 2: artists being signed to like American labels.
Speaker 5: So they have record labels, but most of the people
Speaker 5: that you see successful here are they have affiliations with
Speaker 5: US record labels. And that's that's what's helped quite a
Speaker 5: bit bad. At the time, it wasn't like that. But
Speaker 5: you know, actually the individual that ran that division at
Speaker 5: the company I was at here, he left and went
Speaker 5: to Sony Music. So like the that at that time,
Speaker 5: they realized that it was heating up and they started
Speaker 5: putting people on the ground to kind of pull that
Speaker 5: talent in and be that that in between. So yeah,
Speaker 5: so for the most the people that you see now
Speaker 5: and having success. They're backed by US powerhouses.
Speaker 4: So even then, even at that venture in Iroco, your
Speaker 4: job was to do the analytics, right, yeah, so what.
Speaker 3: Type of things are you looking for? Like sure, sure,
Speaker 3: so yeah, So it was a lot of things.
Speaker 5: So the analytics were mainly analytics that you would see
Speaker 5: on any digital platform. So I was responsible with looking
Speaker 5: at the website, seeing where people were coming from and
Speaker 5: use that information to figure out what the best marketing
Speaker 5: campaigns were. Like you would see if people came from Google,
Speaker 5: people came from an email, people came from Facebook. I
Speaker 5: would look at also what people do on a website
Speaker 5: to see whether we should do things to the website
Speaker 5: that would make the navigation a lot easier. And then
Speaker 5: from a content perspective, the cool thing about digital content
Speaker 5: you could put numbers behind actually the amount of people
Speaker 5: that were playing a certain piece of content, and then
Speaker 5: I could go to the content team and they're like,
Speaker 5: all right, drama movies are on average played twenty five
Speaker 5: percent more on our web site. Therefore drama movies are
Speaker 5: more viable. So they would use that information to go
Speaker 5: to the negotiation table to decide what content to renew,
Speaker 5: what to buy and et cetera.
Speaker 3: The numbers guy.
Speaker 2: All right, So in the next seven we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about a few other things. And the question that
Speaker 2: everybody asks anytime that we post anything about Africa is
Speaker 2: it's China behind it, Chinese influence. So we're gonna talk
Speaker 2: about Chinese influence in Africa a little bit. We're gonn
Speaker 2: talk about some other things as well, So be right
Speaker 2: back with that, all right. So one of the things
Speaker 2: that everybody always comments, so anytime we post anything about
Speaker 2: Africa is like the Chinese behind it, was Chinese involved
Speaker 2: with So anybody's not familiar China. And it's not just Africa,
Speaker 2: it's all over the world, right, Jamaica heavy and heavy influence.
Speaker 2: China has a heavy influence in Jamaica and they also
Speaker 2: have a heavy influence in Africa.
Speaker 3: A lot of countries in Africa, the continent.
Speaker 5: They really have a China has been involved in Jamaica
Speaker 5: for a long time. Jamaican billionaire. Yeah, Chinese. Yeah, it
Speaker 5: bugged me out the first time. I really I ain't
Speaker 5: really I saw somebody that was Chinese, but they was
Speaker 5: talking in Jamaican accents.
Speaker 2: Why, but it's a lot of people in Jamaica. It's
Speaker 2: a very diverse country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean my grandparents Jewish, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So like when I heard both of your grandparents, my grandfather.
Speaker 4: So when I when you see them on TV, talk
Speaker 4: like my mom, my mom's last made The name is Twari,
Speaker 4: which is a Jewish diamond company in Jamaica. So like
Speaker 4: when I sold on TV, it's like bugs me out.
Speaker 4: I'm like, wait, they don't look like us. They sound
Speaker 4: just like us though it.
Speaker 3: Is we It's crazy.
Speaker 2: So all right, can we talk about that Chinese influence
Speaker 2: in Africa?
Speaker 5: China obviously, you know, since they kind of you know,
Speaker 5: they're still communists kind of, but over the last whatever
Speaker 5: three or four decades, they've embraced capitalism and it's been
Speaker 5: with the aggression. The level of wealth that's being created
Speaker 5: there is immense, level trade is immense, and with that
Speaker 5: they want to be a world player, right, and to
Speaker 5: be a world player you have to, you know, put
Speaker 5: stakes in other places. And they see Africa as a
Speaker 5: place that's been ignored by the Europeans, the US, et cetera.
Speaker 5: And there's a lot of opportunity and the way they're
Speaker 5: doing it is by using.
Speaker 3: Financial capital as well as human capital. Right.
Speaker 5: So what they there's a lot there's a lack of
Speaker 5: infrastructure across the continent. So what they're doing, they're going
Speaker 5: to countries and they're saying, hey, we'll build a new
Speaker 5: highway for you, we'll build a new bridge for you,
Speaker 5: we'll build a new factory for you. But you know,
Speaker 5: after we build it, you know, maybe we have to
Speaker 5: have exclusive rights to it. Maybe you know, we need
Speaker 5: to do X, y and z, and so in doing that,
Speaker 5: they're just building everything, you know, they're you know, they're
Speaker 5: having the opportunity to kind of uh state their claim
Speaker 5: and so they're going into it at least from the
Speaker 5: onset of as if they're helping, which there is a
Speaker 5: level of it.
Speaker 3: But the way they're doing it, a lot of people
Speaker 3: don't agree with.
Speaker 5: It, right, because what they do is they you're not
Speaker 5: hiring local people, right, they bring their own people to
Speaker 5: build everything from China.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cheaper labor, cheaper labor.
Speaker 5: There's even people, I mean, I don't know if this
Speaker 5: is true or not, but the people saying that they're
Speaker 5: taking prisoners from China and using them as like labor
Speaker 5: in Africa.
Speaker 3: That's that's that's I don't I don't know the truth there,
Speaker 3: that's there's a whole there's a whole story on it
Speaker 3: on HBO UH Sports. They covered it. It was like
Speaker 3: pretty in detail.
Speaker 4: It was that was one of the rumors that they
Speaker 4: covered so right, and you know, and you.
Speaker 5: Know, I think, I don't want to I don't want
Speaker 5: to like feed into like the whole Africa and nepotism
Speaker 5: and and and corruption story.
Speaker 3: But there's a lot of out there.
Speaker 5: And so what they're doing is they're like sometimes they're
Speaker 5: Greece in the pockets certain politicians and then politicians are
Speaker 5: signing things.
Speaker 3: Off and and that's it. So then you have a.
Speaker 5: Road, you have a bridge, you have a something like that,
Speaker 5: just a railroad built by Chinese hospital hospital. And then
Speaker 5: you know then after that they have ownership or they
Speaker 5: could have ownership. What they might do is they may
Speaker 5: do something where they they offered, they built it, they
Speaker 5: offered the financing, and they do it at like maybe
Speaker 5: a user's interest rate to the point where the country
Speaker 5: can't pay it and then they're stuck with it. So
Speaker 5: you know, there's a story in Kenya that I could
Speaker 5: go into if you want. Yeah, yeah, so Kenya recently,
Speaker 5: you know there's a port that is in their uh
Speaker 5: their Mambasa which is a huge port city. And in
Speaker 5: Kenya where it was a port that was rebuilt shipping
Speaker 5: port that was rebuilt by the Chinese and and and
Speaker 5: part as part of the deal. Somehow they built it,
Speaker 5: but they lent Kenyon's money to pay them for building it,
Speaker 5: and then Kenyans cannot keep up with the interest rates
Speaker 5: and they took the port over. But the what was
Speaker 5: said is that it's it's temporary, but you know, you
Speaker 5: know things are not always not.
Speaker 2: But they did in Jamaica to this, so they built
Speaker 2: the airplane. They bailed the airport out, like the second
Speaker 2: largest airport in Jamaica, and it's like on a twenty
Speaker 2: year lead, like they own it for twenty years, but
Speaker 2: then they can buy it back at the twenty year mark.
Speaker 2: But probably something tough me toughing them to buy it back.
Speaker 2: So they probably just own the airport now, right.
Speaker 5: But in their defense, I mean, Africa has been the
Speaker 5: victim of like usurus financial transactions for a long time
Speaker 5: because you know, most of Africa got independent in like
Speaker 5: the sixties into the seventies. There have been multiple dictatorships
Speaker 5: and all types of stuff and when they had when
Speaker 5: they got independent, these European powers that were involved just
Speaker 5: pulled out, didn't care. They left the countries in bad
Speaker 5: shape and the World Bank IMF came in and a
Speaker 5: lot of those loans were with caviast that were not
Speaker 5: great for the countries. And so China's doing this kind
Speaker 5: of just kind of just stepping into that role bit
Speaker 5: and to the country, they're like, at least these people
Speaker 5: are building us stuff. So like there's positive and negatives
Speaker 5: to it.
Speaker 3: Like all things in life.
Speaker 2: So and then also, like you said, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: the politicians are the ones that actually have to sign
Speaker 2: off on it. They're not putting a gun at anybody's
Speaker 2: head and taking the land over. So ultimately, if they
Speaker 2: are taking over Africa, it's the politician's fault, right you can't.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, they're going to do what's best
Speaker 2: for their country, right like any country would do. America
Speaker 2: has done that for generations. Every country would do that.
Speaker 2: But it's up to the country to say no, all
Speaker 2: money is not good money.
Speaker 5: Right right, right, you got that country has to think
Speaker 5: long term and the leaders have think long term, and
Speaker 5: that's not always the case. And another reason why they
Speaker 5: love Africa is because they've been building so much in
Speaker 5: in China. They need materials for that, and there's materials
Speaker 5: in Africa, every material so you know, you can't do
Speaker 5: They realize you can't do what they did in the
Speaker 5: eighteen hundreds nineteen hundred, come with guns and whatever, like let's.
Speaker 3: Let's let me do a deal with you.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go and build this school for this hospital,
Speaker 5: give you buses, do whatever. And by the way, like
Speaker 5: that mining over there, like yo, like I see can
Speaker 5: we get see I.
Speaker 3: See Belgians doing some stuff there.
Speaker 5: I see some British Like, why don't you just like
Speaker 5: let us hold that ourselves because we are We're really
Speaker 5: your friend.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that.
Speaker 5: You know, they're they're they're definitely being strategic about it.
Speaker 4: It's a gold continent for a reason, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. So in terms of like Americans of African descent,
Speaker 4: what do you think long term as far as investments
Speaker 4: in the continent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's very very important for us to
Speaker 5: be involved. I think there's a lot of opportunity. Like
Speaker 5: we said on the side earlier, I think over fifty
Speaker 5: percent of the population in Africa is.
Speaker 3: Is under the age of twenty five.
Speaker 5: I think that's I believe that's a stat that Africa
Speaker 5: is one of the Africa in Asia all the only
Speaker 5: two continents where the POB is growing, like the US, Europe, Japan,
Speaker 5: Like these are places where people are having less or
Speaker 5: less children, so there's less and less people, whereas in
Speaker 5: Africa is growing. So therefore obviously you have more talent
Speaker 5: and also more consumption. Obviously this is a place where
Speaker 5: people of African set, whoever whoever they are, is it's
Speaker 5: more of as.
Speaker 3: Looked upon an asset.
Speaker 5: Like it's it's not as easy for us to just
Speaker 5: drop in Belgium or drop in Malaysia and just open
Speaker 5: up a business. But like I'm not gonna say, I'm
Speaker 5: not saying it's easy in Nigeria or but Tswana, but
Speaker 5: it's easier, right, And I think it's just important, Like
Speaker 5: you know, we've we we we come from that country,
Speaker 5: that continent originally, everybody has a different story about how
Speaker 5: they ended up here, right, and it would be I
Speaker 5: think it's very important for us to like take take
Speaker 5: part in it its resurgence.
Speaker 2: Now for sure, I've seen Akon he said that he
Speaker 2: encouraged all Americans, Black Americans specifically, to go back to
Speaker 2: Africa and taking talent, like whatever talent you have, whether
Speaker 2: it be real estate, whether it be manufacturing, construction, music, whatever,
Speaker 2: and established business there because he was like, you know,
Speaker 2: it's still a learning curve where it's still learning and
Speaker 2: we might have the expertise to help out. And like
Speaker 2: you said, even if you've never been, it's still a
Speaker 2: connection on a certain level. It's got to be a
Speaker 2: connection for sure. So there was there was.
Speaker 4: I was speaking to a gentleman in Atlanta stop and
Speaker 4: he does work in Africa, and he was telling me
Speaker 4: something this might be true or not if you can
Speaker 4: prove like through like your ancestry dot Com or something
Speaker 4: like that, if there's any ties to country in Africa.
Speaker 3: Like you can get a dual citizenship within like six months.
Speaker 3: Is that true or not?
Speaker 2: I think I think Ghana was offering African Americans. I
Speaker 2: think they still are citizenship. It was like part of
Speaker 2: a campaign come home campaign that they were running. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure Gana was doing that. I'm not familiar with
Speaker 2: any other country, but I know Gana specifically was offering that,
Speaker 2: and I think they still are offering that. So shout
Speaker 2: out to Ghana.
Speaker 3: For sure. We gotta go back. We said that we
Speaker 3: gotta gom sorry to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we gotta go. We gotta do something out there.
Speaker 5: It's a new way I saw on I g New
Speaker 5: Year's like a lot of celebrities, a lot of people
Speaker 5: are going to a crowd to something New Years.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, hear me talking about that all the time.
Speaker 5: He spends like the last two weeks of the year
Speaker 5: in South Africa, right, Yeah, South Africa is beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to go out to Africa period. You know,
Speaker 2: there's so many different places in Africa. So yeah, we
Speaker 2: definitely got touched. Can we talk about the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So am pessa is M stands for mobile
Speaker 5: for mobile passa is money in Swahili and basically it's
Speaker 5: mobile money. And so you know, obviously people use mobile
Speaker 5: money all over the globe. In the US, we used
Speaker 5: v we use cash app, but not to an extent
Speaker 5: they use it out there. Like the first real successful
Speaker 5: implementation of mobile money was in It was in Kenya,
Speaker 5: and it's something that everybody uses. It's something that is
Speaker 5: it's actually that's from like two thousand and eight, like
Speaker 5: way back then, people were using money to sex message
Speaker 5: to each other and it's it's still considered the most
Speaker 5: successful implementation of mobile money. Like you, these are people.
Speaker 5: These are you know, we've always had financial instruction infrastructure
Speaker 5: in the US. You had bank accounts, you have credit cards,
Speaker 5: et cetera. These are individuals that didn't even have that,
Speaker 5: but they were able to transact digitally using their phones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, cut you up, but yeah, I saw
Speaker 2: it in sixteen minutes. It was crazy because they were
Speaker 2: saying that like how successful it was, and they were saying, like,
Speaker 2: you know, especially in a lot of the rural parts,
Speaker 2: they can't get to a bank. Even if there is
Speaker 2: a bank, they can't get to it physically, So like
Speaker 2: I forgot how much. But a large population, large part
Speaker 2: of the population is unbanked and have bank acounts, never
Speaker 2: had bank accounts, so not a mobile thing. But everybody
Speaker 2: has to cell phone, even if it's like a cheap
Speaker 2: cell phone, but they still have a cell phone. So
Speaker 2: it made life tremendously easier when they developed that program
Speaker 2: because not everybody uses that, so easy you don't have
Speaker 2: to use the band. I think the guy is like
Speaker 2: a billionaire who developed that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he was part of that, but also it
Speaker 5: came together with a marriage between basically Seth Fari Khan,
Speaker 5: which is like their Verizon, like their major cell phone provider,
Speaker 5: and Equity Bank, which is a major bank. So it
Speaker 5: was as if, you know, if I was to use
Speaker 5: a parallel in the US, It's as if Verizon and
Speaker 5: JP Morgan Chase came together and got along and they
Speaker 5: just they created this huge digital digital thing in a
Speaker 5: way because it's a it was emerging market and had
Speaker 5: less infrastructure. You have fewer players, you had a few
Speaker 5: fewer regulatory hurdles, and it just came together seamlessly and
Speaker 5: took over.
Speaker 2: That's powerful, man. So what's your overall outlook.
Speaker 3: On the content?
Speaker 2: I know you've been there a lot and your family
Speaker 2: half your wife is from Kenyon as well, and you
Speaker 2: worked in the NBA and stuff like that on on Africa.
Speaker 5: What's your You're optimistic. I'm optimistic. I think similar to
Speaker 5: like crypto, like you know, tread carefully. Like for instance,
Speaker 5: if the people like from when I initially landed worked
Speaker 5: in Africa to now, a lot of those currencies are
Speaker 5: down like fifty percent, right, so they've they've you know,
Speaker 5: there was a time and I would say the you know,
Speaker 5: early twenty ten, so like to on ten to twenty fourteen,
Speaker 5: where all those currencies were booming, there was so much
Speaker 5: investment happening. But there's a there's been a lot of
Speaker 5: like political unrest. The economies have not taken off to
Speaker 5: the level that they that people thought, and so there's
Speaker 5: been a lot of uh, there's been a bit of
Speaker 5: a pullback. That being said, that's good opportunity to put
Speaker 5: money in. I just want to put all my money in.
Speaker 5: And also I would make sure that I think it's
Speaker 5: very important for you to understand the local market, right,
Speaker 5: So like, for instance, like you build an app out
Speaker 5: here in the US, I'm building iPhone first be gets
Speaker 5: over there, Android is king, right, you got to know
Speaker 5: what people are going through. You have to know that
Speaker 5: you know, one trouble we had, it's like all right,
Speaker 5: well people, we want people to streaming movies or watch
Speaker 5: schemes on their cell phone. In the US, my team
Speaker 5: mobile data plan is unlimited. Over there, people are prepaid
Speaker 5: and the infrastructure is not even that strong. So like
Speaker 5: streaming those megabytes and to even watch a game like
Speaker 5: you could kill somebody's whole monthly allotment of Watch one game,
Speaker 5: all right, so.
Speaker 3: They're more likely to wait until they could get to Wi.
Speaker 5: Fi to download something, whereas we here don't care, right,
Speaker 5: so you have to make sure if you would have
Speaker 5: built a product for them, you have to take those
Speaker 5: things to account.
Speaker 3: That's dope.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, man, thank you for that information.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it, and we're gonna try This is actually
Speaker 2: something that we want to try to do, uh, for
Speaker 2: every every continent, so we all have like this was
Speaker 2: an Africa addition, We'll have a Europe edition, We'll have
Speaker 2: a South America.
Speaker 3: Different countries, Caribbean edition. Yeah, yeah, different countries.
Speaker 2: Because I feel like it's important a to acknowledge that
Speaker 2: the people all over the world, and it's also important
Speaker 2: once again for Americans investment. Majority of our listeners are Americans.
Speaker 2: But you got to expand your mind. You got to
Speaker 2: see the world for what it is. You got to
Speaker 2: see bigger than just your neighborhood and your city. It's
Speaker 2: tough a lot of times we get so bogged down
Speaker 2: in our day to day life that we don't see
Speaker 2: past our ten mile radius or even two mile radius,
Speaker 2: Like we just worry about where we're at but the
Speaker 2: world moves quick and you know, business is done all
Speaker 2: over the world and just people. You know, it's good
Speaker 2: to experience different cultures and know what's going on outside
Speaker 2: of it's just your neighborhood. So we could be that
Speaker 2: window of the world and bring people that are knowledgeable about,
Speaker 2: you know, different areas in the world and actually travel
Speaker 2: to those places as well. That's one thing we're going
Speaker 2: to do. We're on toll right now hitting different cities
Speaker 2: in America, but we're gonna eventually we're gonna go overseas
Speaker 2: as well. We're going to go to these places and
Speaker 2: actually talk to people in those actual countries as well.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we can bring some alumni with us. Yeah, now
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Speaker 2: We're going to be on a college tourist for We're
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Speaker 2: thank you. Can you tell the people your information how
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Speaker 2: support the podcast. So we have merch up right now
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Speaker 2: and we make we make statements with our clothes, and
Speaker 2: we complain a lot about designers that you know are
Speaker 2: openly racist, and you know, we still.
Speaker 3: Wear the clothes.
Speaker 2: So it's like you why not wear something that you
Speaker 2: know is a it says something like all of our
Speaker 2: clothes say something that you know is financially related and
Speaker 2: also you know it's from the culture. So that's a
Speaker 2: way to support. And then we're on tour. As I
Speaker 2: mentioned previously, we we hit La was the first stop
Speaker 2: we're doing like these network meeting greets. La was the
Speaker 2: first stop, was crazy, and then we did Brooklyn. Brooklyn
Speaker 2: was really crazy, and then Atlanta and Atlanta was even more.
Speaker 2: So we're just going to keep the momentum going. I
Speaker 2: think the next stop that we're going to do is Houston.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Ashtown, so Acetown man, we need your
Speaker 2: hoy to show your love. We announce that soon.
Speaker 3: We try and make it to the ranch y'all, so
Speaker 3: like y'all got to help us get there.
Speaker 2: Jane Prince, what's up man? A little keykey, what's up,
Speaker 2: don key? That's my guy. We got a lot of
Speaker 2: good people that we connected with in Houston. So I've
Speaker 2: never been to Texas, so I'm looking forward to going
Speaker 2: to Houston for sure, and then we're probably through DMV
Speaker 2: Philly too. But if you want us to come to
Speaker 2: your city, I know Chicago. We're kind of on the
Speaker 2: cusp with that. A lot of people have been hitting
Speaker 2: us about Chicago, but let us know, let us know
Speaker 2: where we need to go. And the purpose of these
Speaker 2: networking events is just to bring people together and to
Speaker 2: meet new people and meet us, meet some of the
Speaker 2: EYO alumni, but more importantly, meet people in your city,
Speaker 2: exchange information, discuss business ideas. You never know who your
Speaker 2: next business partner might be, never know who you can
Speaker 2: make money with by homework, through different things of that nature.
Speaker 2: So relationships are very important. A lot of times we
Speaker 2: don't fully understand that. So that's the whole point of
Speaker 2: these network meeting Greece that we're doing. And my book
Speaker 2: tip of the Week is Howard French is the author
Speaker 2: and the name of the book is China's Second Continent.
Speaker 2: It's about Africa, China's influence in Africa. Fitting since we've
Speaker 2: talked about that, so that's a good book, highly suggested,
Speaker 2: recommend it. So yes, thank you guys for rocking with us,
Speaker 2: and we will see you next week.
Speaker 3: Peace. Peace, Peace.
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