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by Naga Tuma » 04 May 2024, 11:33
This sounds a successful business startup.
That said, the analogy with Elon Musk sounds a stretch.
So, some ideas to think about.
He sounds too good to be stuck in a recycling business.
Compared to recycled materials, there are more abundant construction materials (soil, rocks, and water) all around the world for sustainable development.
So, it doesn’t sound a right analogy for recycled materials to have a niche like Elon Musk had.
In my limited thinking about the niche that made Elon Musk successful:
First, the atom was discovered.
Then electrons, protons, and the nucleus of the atom were discovered.
Then electricity was discovered from a spark of electrons.
Thomas Edison also discovered Direct Current for the flow of electrons.
Nikola Tesla discovered Alternating Current for the flow of electrons.
As the saying goes, the rest is history about the power of electronics.
I am using my rusty memory about the subject here to make a point.
The clever and clever by half Americans tapped into the power of electronics almost exclusively and produced the world’s leading billionaires time after time: Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk.
Clever, because that is history in and of itself.
Clever by half, because you put a bunch of Teslas on the road and recall the bunch off the road after just a little while.
Now, just imagine how the power of electronics was tapped into and became the source of accumulating the dollar.
This startup depended on funding, right?
If the founder is too good to be stuck in a recycling business, may be he could find a good MBA for CEO for it and imagine something that could make him even bigger than Elon Musk.
Yes, you read that right.
I don’t mean to put a word in his mouth. Just throwing out there what is in my mind.
Electricity gave us another source of light in addition to sun light, which is abundant in Africa.
Can he tap into sun light and make it a niche for generating income and become independent from funding? I don’t have a conclusive answer.
My preliminary knowledge about the power of solar energy is that it is possible.
Somebody made it sound like buying bulbs and batteries to have a flashlight in hand. Just an analogy.
Somebody else said they have done it for one family in one African country. I couldn’t help asking immediately why they can’t do it all over the country and electrify it while making it a profitable business for themselves. Government bureaucracy gets in the way was the explanation for the failure to do so.
You have a proof of concept here. You can give an African family additional source of light from sun light and extend the day with light by hours for them. Imagine giving an African family four extra hours of light in one day and that you were able to do it for one million families. That would be four million extra hours of light everyday altogether. If the business is profitable, it also means income for the business everyday.
I would contribute every penny I can to effectively remove bureaucracy that gets in the way of getting more lights for any family, including those in Africa.
Add to that the projected urban growth in the coming years, which means urban planning would be in high demand.
Africa is vast. That means lighting it would be in vast demand, its urban planning would be in vast demand. Fortunately, it also has vast sun shine to tap into for successful people like him.