THE PITCH THAT CHANGED HIS THINKING

“I have the biggest thing since Mickey Mouse.” That was Richard Musinguzi’s pitch to Netflix’s head of feature film animation. She laughed, then invited him to breakfast the next morning to show her what he meant. He had one night to think bigger than he ever had before. The opportunity eventually disappeared, but the exercise gave him a skill he still uses: taking a complex idea, organising it and turning it into a business proposition people can understand