According to your LinkedIn you completed your Bachelor’s Degree in 2017, and you have been CEO of a company since 2017. Because it is astonishingly rare for a fresh graduate to have the required skills to be an effective CEO, I’m guessing that you are CEO and founder of your own little company. Thus, I’d want to know what qualifications/skills/background make you competent to found and run a university.
The fact that you describe it as “in Africa” rather than as in any particular country gives me a bit of a negative feeling, but I’m not exactly sure why.
This seems like a “pie in the sky” kind of plan. I want to be supportive, but it seems like there isn’t much of a plan here. I’ll end with this: while there are a LOT of details missing and MANY things should change between now and the actual implementation, the idea (of building a better university) has merit.
Thank you Jay. I have founded a refugee secondary school this year from scratch with 32 students and by the end this next year we’ll have more than 200. On same space we’ll start the University courses. The team that complements me has experience in working with State and private education projects like design and technology curriculums, starting new schools in USA and around the world. Together we’re developing a global curriculum (education)-2030. We’re still developing the curriculum and programs this year. We’ve got curriculum, program and advisory board committees meeting monthly. We need to develop these details before implementation. Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, without a degree, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing.
Near the end of his life, Jobs was visited at home by Larry Page, who was about to resume control of Google, the company he had cofounded. Even though their companies were feuding, Jobs was willing to give some advice. “The main thing I stressed was focus,” he recalled. Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up, he told Page. “It’s now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.” Page followed the advice. In January 2012 he told employees to focus on just a few priorities, such as Android and Google+, and to make them “beautiful,” the way Jobs would have done. My point is I want to focus and then we’ll have great results.
It is possible for a person to build a successful organization from scratch; it is a very rare thing. The base rate of being a “Steve Jobs” is quite low, approximately one in 7 billion.
According to your LinkedIn you completed your Bachelor’s Degree in 2017, and you have been CEO of a company since 2017. Because it is astonishingly rare for a fresh graduate to have the required skills to be an effective CEO, I’m guessing that you are CEO and founder of your own little company. Thus, I’d want to know what qualifications/skills/background make you competent to found and run a university.
The fact that you describe it as “in Africa” rather than as in any particular country gives me a bit of a negative feeling, but I’m not exactly sure why.
This seems like a “pie in the sky” kind of plan. I want to be supportive, but it seems like there isn’t much of a plan here. I’ll end with this: while there are a LOT of details missing and MANY things should change between now and the actual implementation, the idea (of building a better university) has merit.
Thank you Jay. I have founded a refugee secondary school this year from scratch with 32 students and by the end this next year we’ll have more than 200. On same space we’ll start the University courses. The team that complements me has experience in working with State and private education projects like design and technology curriculums, starting new schools in USA and around the world. Together we’re developing a global curriculum (education)-2030. We’re still developing the curriculum and programs this year. We’ve got curriculum, program and advisory board committees meeting monthly. We need to develop these details before implementation. Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, without a degree, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing.
Near the end of his life, Jobs was visited at home by Larry Page, who was about to resume control of Google, the company he had cofounded. Even though their companies were feuding, Jobs was willing to give some advice. “The main thing I stressed was focus,” he recalled. Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up, he told Page. “It’s now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.” Page followed the advice. In January 2012 he told employees to focus on just a few priorities, such as Android and Google+, and to make them “beautiful,” the way Jobs would have done. My point is I want to focus and then we’ll have great results.
It is possible for a person to build a successful organization from scratch; it is a very rare thing. The base rate of being a “Steve Jobs” is quite low, approximately one in 7 billion.
Don’t forget to give credit where credit it due. The source of most of the text here is an HBR article from 2012: https://hbr.org/2012/04/the-real-leadership-lessons-of-steve-jobs
Yeah, thank you. Inspiration takes most part.
For more details, we can have a zoom chat if you can schedule one. Thank you again for your interest.