Inside ASENTI: The Summit Quietly Rewiring Business & Tech Across Africa

Everyone claps at the launch. Nobody attends the funeral. Across Africa, startups are born loud and buried quietly — and Calvin Jodisi has seen the whole cycle more times than he can count. In this episode, he sits down with Jagero and gets brutally honest about why most African startups collapse: the founder egos, the borrowed Silicon Valley playbooks that don't survive contact with Gikomba, the investors everyone blames, and the mistakes nobody wants to own. Calvin is the Founder and CEO of ASENTI AFRICA — the African Summit on Entrepreneurship and Innovation — a Pan-African platform that has spent a decade pulling founders, investors and policymakers into the same room, from Nairobi to Cape Town to Kigali. He's spent over 10 years working with startups across the continent, which means he's not guessing. He's reporting from the crash sites. We also get into how ASENTI AFRICA is quietly shifting business and tech on the continent — and what it will actually take for the next generation of African founders to build companies that outlive the launch party.