Recalculating Risk

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ReFramed Revisited: Conversations that shaped how we think about capital and investing for Africa's flourishing.

In this episode, Kerryne Krause speaks with Curt Laird and Katrina Aitken-Laird, who have spent decades living and working in some of the world's most fragile contexts, from Afghanistan to Somalia. Drawing on their experience of building a billion-dollar business in frontier markets while raising a family in places where their lives were at risk, they offer a different perspective on what it takes to invest and build for the long term.

The conversation challenges the short-term thinking that can shape conventional venture capital and asks what becomes possible when investors are willing to take a longer view, enter difficult places and stay committed where others may not. At its heart is a Kingdom logic that sees risk, capital and opportunity differently, and is prepared to go where others won't.

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26 Oct English South Africa Business · Christianity

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