Welcome to episode 38.
Today’s guest is William McCoy, an American tech entrepreneur who has spent over 17 years leading business ventures in real estate, fintech, app development and clean energy. He also supports Fortune 500 clients in enterprise software and hardware services, through scaling global Electric Vehicles and solar energy operations.
William’s most recent business called Kurudy which means Return in Swahili. It is a reward based crowd funding platform using the power of regtech, fintech, and AI. One that aims to raise capital, align incentives, protect backers, and empower creators specifically in Africa.
We were randomly connected to William by a rather clever little bit of tech...that normally we would ignore but for some reason on this occasion we didn’t. And as result Carmen and I landed up having a really interesting conversation with William that would have made a great podcast. So we came back to hopefully create and capture another exciting and enlightening conversation about empowerment, community and how tech and humans can harmoniously co-exist.
As you know Carmen and I are by no means global economic specialists however we did our best to discuss how people all around the world are trying to survive and how different cultures face different challenges. We also touch on many other universal topics such as therapy, parenthood, strength through diversity.
We apologise the sound quality is not great on this episode, but there are some great nuggets of insight within the story.
William stressed how black Americans have to go way above and beyond their white counterparts efforts in order to succeed. And how this need to be overly strong is sometimes a block to discussing mental health issues and can often mean they walk away from big projects.
We discussed the importance of both countries, and individuals, becoming self reliant rather than being beholden to global powers and employers. As global powers benefit from keeping developing countries poor so that they can be exploited for cheap labour and minerals.
“But I’ve been like this as a little kid. I’ve sold everything from candy to shovelling snow to cutting grass. I’ve always been. We didn’t have very much money. I wanted things. I wanted independence.”
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