Zeeke

Its 4.37 AM here in Kenya and I am awake. Built a sales dashboard that answered two questions before the next meeting: who's making money, and who's quietly bleeding it. Excel. No BI tool. No data team. Just clarity. DM "START" — free audit.

Since it is weekend

@moneyacademyKE You have just drawn a map of economic pressure, logistics power, taxation policy, and state efficiency across East Africa. Sio kuzuri at all.

Fuel Prices in East Africa today: Kenya: —Petrol: Sh214 —Diesel: Sh243 Uganda: —Petrol: Sh180 —Diesel: Sh175 Rwanda: —Petrol: Sh259 —Diesel: Sh194 Tanzania: —Petrol: Sh205 —Diesel: Sh210 Ethiopia: —Petrol: Sh138 —Diesel: Sh149 Burundi: —Petrol: Sh178 —Diesel: Sh175

Trust people enough to work. Never enough to remove verification

Nobody talks enough about this: One of the hardest parts of building wealth is not money. It’s finding people you can trust to run things properly when you’re not there. Someone who won’t: - neglect the goats, - steal stock, - misuse money, - lie about losses, - or let standards collapse. A lot of businesses don’t stay small because the owner lacks ambition. They stay small because everything depends on the owner’s physical presence. If your business collapses the moment you leave, you don’t own a scalable system yet. Trustworthy operators are one of the rarest assets in business.

Smoking will never make you stoic

@danmartell Self-sabotage disguised as flexibility.

Negotiating with yourself makes you weak.

@VictorWerley @AlexHormozi “Hell yes or no” is a good personal boundary for time protection.

@AlexHormozi This is one of the hardest lessons I had to learn. For me, it has colored how I evaluate new opportunities. If something new is not an immediate "Hell yes!" then it has to be a quick no.

Many entrepreneurs have a graveyard of failed experiments that they're keeping on life support. You've gotta be willing to pull the plug.

@dupanos @AlexHormozi Reputation management problem

@AlexHormozi Did this at 18. Marketing agency, team of 8, polished brand. Stayed "in development" for months after I knew it wasn't working because shutting it down meant telling everyone I was wrong. The project died long before I let it.

@AlexHormozi Define kill criteria before you start

@anyang_1 @MoraraKebaso Most clients don’t fail because they lacked professionals. They fail because they chose cheap professionals or didn’t enforce accountability.

@Zeeke2030 @MoraraKebaso Trying to understand is not the same as doing it yourself helped by someone who knows something (Kawaya, etc) Just because you know something about the circulatory system from biology classes doesn't mean you'll be guiding the surgeon when operating on your heart.

Let me give you some advice. If you are building anything that will cost you more than 1 million Kenya shillings, please hire professionals. Please please am begging you. Hold your ear like this.👂Stop being the architect and structural engineer of your own building. There is more mathematics that goes into what you see than you think. Now some of you have beautiful houses with paint that is peeling. Some of you have bathrooms where water does not drain into the hole#. Some of you have business buildings where the support beam is right in the middle blocking the doorway. Some of you have rental apartments where I cannot pack a car even with magic. Some of you have staircases that are designed like a death trap. Some of you have toilets that bring all the dirt and smell back into the room. Please hire professionals. An architect, a structural engineer, a quantity surveyor, a professional plumber not an apprentice, a professional electrician not kawaya. Stop spending too much money building rubbish. In any case most of you end up spending more than those who hire professionals. You go to Karen you find very poorly constructed houses you wonder surely, land costs 80 million here, are you completely unable to hire a professional or you just think its a waste of money? I am a lawyer. But there is no day I will ever represent myself in court or in drafting a contract. I hire a third eye. The individual must not be a relative or a friend doing me a favour. He or she must do a cutthroat straight perfect job and get paid reasonably for it.

Unicorns that wouldn't exist if the founders followed this advice (links to their pitch decks below) Canva ($40B) was rejected by 100+ VCs BetterUp ($4.7B) was rejected by 76+ VCs Revolut was rejected by ever seed investor and YC Automated Insights was rejected 173+ VCs

@pitchdecks What was different about the signal these companies eventually produced?

@moneyacademyKE @Coopbankenya Did risk-adjusted returns improve, or did you just accelerate lending in a favorable rate environment?

Co-op Bank Kenya profits were up 18% to Sh11.4 billion in the first three months of 2026 on sustained growth in operating income and improved efficiency.

I am from my morning run and i realized Unconsciousness is comfortable. Mindfulness forces confrontation.

@invest_cashflow In Kenya, a person with only KES 1M and no income problem usually cannot “slow invest” their way to wealth. Inflation and life pressure are too aggressive.

If I handed you KES 1M today, most of you would be back to zero in under 5 years. The reasons are simple: 1. Lifestyle Creep: You’ll upgrade your rent before your assets. 2. The Get rich quick scheme: You’ll chase 10x returns instead of 10% growth. 3. Weak Discipline: Your spending habits haven't met your balance yet. Wealth is a behavior before it’s a bank statement.

We humans invent divine narratives to avoid the terror of uncertainty and responsibility.

Bolt ride-hailing has increased fares by 6% in Kenya after fuel prices went up. The company says the move is meant to support drivers and keep services stable as operating costs rise

@moneyacademyKE If your business depends on a commodity input you don’t control (fuel, electricity, shipping, cloud costs), your margins are fragile.