You know I could always have a corporate career and made sure that I finished the charters and all those sorts of things, but I knew I would end up in entrepreneurship at some point.

It was not a doubt in my mind.

The advent of float was this whole bina I'll pay later craze was exploding was very excited about the prospects of this business model

But at the same time the last thing South African needs is just more insecuresecured credit being piled on top.

This isn't Australia, it isn't Sweden.

So I did take that to heart and looking into the binary pay later space,

realize that in Latin America, point of sale, interest-free installments have been

there for ages. In those markets it's done very much off the back of a credit card and

our view is that credit cards are the best cash flow tools available to consumers if used correctly.

The point of float is to help people to use it in the best way possible. When I did my MBA back in 2007, it included an overseas trip.

I went with a group going to the US to explore the

startup scenes in Seattle, Palo Alto and New York. At the midpoint of that

adventure we had the opportunity to meet with Guy Kawasaki who we had known about from

entrepreneurship and innovation lectures. I think the art of the start is still somewhere

on my bookshelf but in person he is even more charismatic. So ever since I've always

kept an eye out for his books and his talks and more recently his podcast, Remarkable

People. You'll find that where if you're listening to this one but even better news is that he's

just released the Think Remarkable book.

It's a distillation of the lessons learned from his incredible lineup of guests.

I've just started listening to it and already as I was recording this episode,

I've had a chance to see some of its lessons play out in real life.

Order Guy's book, read it, and then think about Alex's early career

...