03.08.2020
10 months after starting our initiative to live in 12 markets for one month each, our venture was cut short as a result of the pandemic. By that...
07.05.2020
frontier
It took one of us 33 hours on four flights through five empty airports, and the other 38 hours on consulate-arranged transportation and a ferry plus...
30.04.2020
“If you don’t like something, just sell your shares” – this is what the chairman and controlling shareholder of one of our portfolio companies tells...
02.04.2020
Looking out the window of our co-working office in Cape Town, we stared at an unfinished highway bridge which, as we later learned, was started over...
05.03.2020
In order to experience life as expats in Riyadh, we rented a place in a so-called compound – a walled neighborhood which gives expat residents a...
07.02.2020
After finishing our meeting with the chairman of an €80m real estate company which had raised equity three times in the past four years and lost 60%...
21.01.2020
After a three-hour drive from Bangkok that started at 5am, we were excited to meet the CEO and CFO at the plant of a small manufacturing company...
13.12.2019
After many unsuccessful attempts to get a meeting with Pakistan’s finance minister, we decided to simply show up at his office. Getting through...
20.11.2019
“Investors from Norway-based ‘Evely Group’ have been visiting Bangladesh for an entire month. They will invest their $20 billion fund in Bangladesh...
07.11.2019
At the third of four dinners we were invited to attend with Donald Trump Jr. in Bali, Indonesia, he told the small group that his father, a...
02.10.2019
With over 20% of our portfolio invested in Malaysia, we are often asked why we like the country so much. Our answer: we don’t!
