Mr. Sim Shagaya
“Build for the market in front of you, not the headline above you.”
Born in Nigeria and educated at George Washington University, Dartmouth College, and Harvard Business School, Sim Shagaya began his professional journey in corporate technology before returning to the continent with an obsession for foundational problems.
Throughout his career, Shagaya has championed the ethos of radical unit-economic discipline over speculative valuation hype. His operating playbook insists on solving physical market realities before layering software abstractions.
Beyond entrepreneurship, Shagaya has consistently invested in the next cohort of African builders. As the Chancellor of Miva Open University, he is pioneering accredited, borderless tertiary education designed specifically for Africa's rising workforce.
His enduring philosophy remains simple yet profound: 'Africa will not be built by copying foreign blueprints; it will be built by builders willing to construct the unglamorous roads first.'