By Euler Bropleh, Founder and Managing Director @ VestedWorld Charlie Munger once said that “…if [Berkshire Hathaway’s] predictions have been a little better than other people’s, it’s because we’ve tried to make fewer of them.” While we all hope that we can replicate the success that Charlie, Warren, and the…

By Lavanya Anand, Principal @ VestedWorld and Nneka Eze, Managing Director @ VestedWorld The Problem Tosin is a customer service representative at an established Nigerian Bank. Every day he wakes up at 4am to get ready for work. He leaves his house in Ikorodu at 5am. He pays 100 NGN…

By Semir Mela, Vice President @ VestedWorld and Euler Bropleh, Founder and Managing Director @ VestedWorld Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is I don’t know which half. — John Wanamaker (1838–1922) It was more than 100 years ago when John Wanamaker, a marketing pioneer…

VestedWorld couldn’t be more excited to welcome the newest member of our investment team, Nneka Eze. She joins us as Managing Director alongside Euler Bropleh and Jeff Stine to lead VestedWorld’s newest investment vehicle, The Rising Star Fund. She brings over a decade of experience working in Africa with Dalberg…

By Jeff Stine, Managing Director at VestedWorld Last Wednesday morning, a morning like most others these days, I settled down with my coffee in front of my COVID-induced “work-from-home” office and dialed into my first virtual meeting of the day — an introductory call with an entrepreneur who was eager…

By VestedWorld Investment Team The (Continued) Global Rise of African Creative Content — In 2019, Netflix made two relatively quiet moves: they acquired the rights to the British-Nigerian sitcom, Meet the Adebanjos, and launched their first original film produced in Nigeria, Lionheart. While you may not have seen either, Netflix’s…

By Kwame Osei, Investment Fellow @ VestedWorld and Chicago Booth MBA ‘21 “Software is eating the world.” — Marc Andreesen, Founding Partner, A16z The famous quote above opens Andreesen Horowitz co-founder and general partner Marc Andreesen’s oft-referenced article published in The Wall Street Journal in 2011. In it, Andreesen justifies…

By Euler Bropleh, Founder and Managing Director @ VestedWorld I am a big fan of The Voice, the American singing competition TV series. And yet, I’ve been frustrated that none of the winners of the show over the past ten years (19 seasons) have any meaningful commercial success after winning…

By Semir Mela, Vice President @ VestedWorld, Jeff Stine, Managing Director @ VestedWorld, and Kwame Osei, Investment Fellow @ VestedWorld and MBA Candidate, Chicago Booth ‘21 On January 11, 2020, the news that China had experienced its first death from the novel-coronavirus outbreak spread like wildfire on billions upon billions…