Back in 2013, Viola and her business partner Marvin Cole decided they wanted to create a business that would help African businesses, that is, SMEs, to gain access to capital so that they could grow. Everyone knows that small businesses need capital to sustain themselves.

Gaurav was very young when he became interested in the stock market and was one of those guys who “jumped right into it”. He borrowed some money from a friend’s father, who was kind enough to believe in his investment philosophy.

Nate said he has made a couple of bad investment missteps, but the one he spoke to Andrew about was one that remains in play as he still owns some of the shares in the company he mentioned. As an energy industry financial analyst, he covered the midstream space.

Reed moved the United States in early 2012 and was without a job, so he took the brave move of walking the streets of New York City to visit every engineering firm he could find, with his portfolio in hand, and saying: “Hey, give me a job!” He quotes Tony Robbins, who says: “One ‘yes’ will change your life”. And it did.

Around seven years ago, Paulo experienced what he called a “real fail”, meaning in terms of investing, it was not a case in which he could find a way through to recover or minimize his losses. This one was “critical”.