Last night, I had a nightmare.

Koos Bekker put his arm around my shoulders. And said; ‘son, you’ve done an amazing job. I’ll take it from here’.
Those avuncular, kind, settling words ignited the $100Mn war for Nollywood. At least in my nightmare it.
iROKO is dead. Long live iROKOtv. Part 2
Building a $500Mn company requires patience, f*** loads of patience and placing massive, massive unworldly bets when the timing is right. Most times, said bets go wrong and you lose money and, on occasion, it goes horribly wrong. But sometimes they work. Amazingly well. Here is a story about someone who inspires me greatly. CEO of Naspers Koos Bekker, the true African media and technology mogul.
In August he joined the USD billionaires clubs for the first time, 17 years after he began the journey. He took Naspers’ ‘The National Press’ which was founded in 1915, and where he became CEO in 1995 and transitioned Naspers from their decades-long legacy of print to PayTV to Ecommerce/internet services. From approximately ~$100Mn to...