From Bolt Drivers to Tech Unicorns: Hilton Theunissen on Fixing SA’s Entrepreneurial Engine
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What if solving unemployment starts with rewiring how we support hustlers? In this Doing Good Business episode, Hilton Theunissen (GrowthWheel SA) and Sam Marshall spotlight:
🔧 The Bolt Effect: How the e-hailing giant’s accelerator bets on drivers’ side hustles (think: a mechanical engineer building anti-hijack tech).
💸 Procurement’s blind spot: Why early payments + mentorship matter more than contracts (Tongela Mine’s ABSA partnership case study).
🌍 SA’s startup gap: ‘We need 50K startups—5K will scale’—and how gov’s new digital czar could help.
🚀 Do-good business 101: Why ecosystems win when corporates stop ‘favors’ and start partnerships.
💡 ‘Your garden isn’t just a rose—it’s the soil, water, and bees too.’ — Hilton
🔧 The Bolt Effect: How the e-hailing giant’s accelerator bets on drivers’ side hustles (think: a mechanical engineer building anti-hijack tech).
💸 Procurement’s blind spot: Why early payments + mentorship matter more than contracts (Tongela Mine’s ABSA partnership case study).
🌍 SA’s startup gap: ‘We need 50K startups—5K will scale’—and how gov’s new digital czar could help.
🚀 Do-good business 101: Why ecosystems win when corporates stop ‘favors’ and start partnerships.
💡 ‘Your garden isn’t just a rose—it’s the soil, water, and bees too.’ — Hilton