"My own Africa story completely reset how I view life and what I value in friends and work. You're meant to value a certain set of things whether that's a great apartment, or stature in your career, or being on the cover of The Straits Times, but my time in Kenya really helped reset that for me, and it's been great. It's also been trying because I had to live through a few terror attacks, and I lost one of my best friends in one of those. So, it kind of changed my perspective on how short life is and what we should spend life doing." - Aaron Fu
"When I reflect on being brave, it's been about recognizing that there are things that I can't control and there are things that I can. One of my bravest moments was going back to Africa after the tragedy. Being able to come to grips with something like that means you’re taking a personal risk. Your family has to understand that risk because everyone else around you takes that together with you. It’s important to have a real conversation with them and make them understand why that risk is valuable for you." - Aaron Fu
"I love understanding things in a different context. I like the idea of things being the same, but different. A lot of what’s being built in Africa and Latin America is inventing things from the ground up, whether that's new money transfer systems, new addressing systems, or new identity systems. It's the chance to build humanity from scratch. I'm not saying it's as extreme as we have to move to Mars and have to rebuild everything, but it’s pretty similar. It's intellectually very satisfying but also meaningful. If you're able to offer access to some of these services to some of these tremendously underserved populations, it makes a world of difference to large swaths of people in their daily lives. So, the meaning of it was as much a driver as the intellectual spark of it." - Aaron Fu
In this episode, Jeremy Au speaks on Africa market complexity, terrorism tragedy, and purpose and venture capital mission.
Keywords: Aaron Fu, Africa Market Complexity, Terrorism Tragedy, Purpose, Venture Capital Mission, Middle East & Africa, VC, Founder Story
