The journal

Building.

Companies, capital, and the long arithmetic of enterprise.

Ọláoyè Samuel Adétáyọ̀ standing by the lake, looking up.

Browse

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Capital Is a Coward

Money does not go where it is needed. It goes where it is safe. Once I stopped resenting that and started building for it, everything about raising capital, and refusing it, changed.

Building

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Slow Is a Strategy

Everything around a Nigerian builder screams speed: the headlines, the devaluations, the overnight billionaires. I want to make the unfashionable argument for building slowly, on purpose.

Building.

Capital Is a Coward

Slow Is a Strategy

Letters worth keeping.