{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"African Tech Roundup Podcast","title":"Building Bridges: Maya Horgan Famodu's Silicon Valley-Africa Crossing Playbook (2017)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4494,"description":"Episode overview\r\nThis unfiltered 2017 archive dialogue captures Maya Horgan Famodu (Founder and Partner, Ingressive Capital) before she became known for straight-talking LinkedIn posts about founder insights and personal growth. \r\n\r\nFresh from investment banking, she was forging new pathways between Silicon Valley capital and African startup innovation via carefully-curated investor tours—laying the groundwork for the launch of Ingressive Capital's investment months later.\r\n\r\nListening back, you can hear how the same independence and non-traditional EQ that helped a \"small girl from a trailer park\" believe she could launch a VC fund was already shaping her vision.\r\n\r\nCritical points\r\n- The early signs of the independent thinking that would later become her trademark\r\n- How her unconventional background shaped her approach to investment\r\n- Why bridging Silicon Valley and African tech required a translator's insight\r\n- The unexpected ways growing up between worlds prepared her for building cross-cultural understanding\r\n\r\nWhat we know now\r\nLooking back from 2024, this conversation reveals both professional and personal threads that would define Horgan Famodu's impact:\r\n- The shift from understated confidence to singular public voice\r\n- How her own story of independent creativity would later resonate with investors and founders\r\n- The evolution from curating entrees to the African tech startup opportunity to foreign investors to leading investments\r\n\r\nQuestions we're pondering\r\n- How has Horgan Famodu's public sharing of her personal journey influenced African tech discourse?\r\n- What role does authentic leadership play in venture capital today?\r\n- How has the relationship between personal story and professional impact evolved in African tech?","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/wTDUhb1kfdVqc_mrE6iErzNBxf93XiLPsPKqDs3m-xg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kOGJi/MWMxMWNiYjRjOGVm/MjNhNDgxYzI3NjU0/N2ZlOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}