#25 - Mission Driven: Bringing Solar Power to 1M People in Africa

Some of the best people I've ever met come through the mission aligned work. Our biggest literacy partner is Books for Africa. I got very involved in that. Some of the other board members took me to Africa and had this experience of staying in an off-rid village in Malawi. And then all of a sudden I realized, oh, there's no electricity in this entire town of like 20,000 people. So I founded Solo Electric, which delivers electricity to a million people in Africa every day. And it literally all sprung out of like us sitting around in Risha Tanzania going to the living rooms and saying, okay, we think this can work. If this thing could do 500,000 in revenue, that would be shocking to me.

Right. What did it get to? got to seventy million. Five million is not enough. Ten million dollars.

one or two people in a bedroom actually the threats to these like giant multi-billion dollar companies because you have creativity and you have nothing to lose. Add another zero to that price, buddy. Add two more zero. No. Every week we sit down with self-made millionaires and ask them.

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