Peter could not believe what his eyes were staring at, when the door to the left wing of Green Suite towers opened up at ground floor. He had been standing there close to 3min now. He wanted to get to the 4th floor, on time for his interview at 15minutes past 2.00pm.
The fact that he had undergone twelve unsuccessful interviews despite having a first-class honour degree from the University of Nairobi pricked him hard. The thought of failing left him emotional, depressed and more often a tear on the cheek. He could not understand how the numerous struggle his single mother had gone through to have him educated had all gone into a dumpsite.
Right in front of him was Josh, dressed in a three-piece striped navy blue suit, a brown Italian shoes, those you see top models like David Gandy putting on. A pair of dark glasses and clinching to his right a brown leather bag, probably in it lied an apple laptop.
“Good afternoon, I guess you are Peter,” Josh said as he extended his hands to Peter. They had a brief talk and Josh gave Peter his business card with a request that his former classmate calls him by the end of the day. He got into his black Mercedes E-class packed outside and off his driver took. “Josh P. Karanja, The CEO Amazing Media”. That was the title in the card Peter was holding. Josh had never scored anything more than an E in all the twelve units he did before the University could forcefully discontinue him. The guy who had always topped the class from below was now the CEO of such a big marketing company.
As Peter waited at the reception area, to lay his fate before the Human Resource Manager, he quickly ran a search on the internet to know how fast Josh had risen to such a level, and BOOM! He bumped into an incredible story of his former classmate, who became a school drop-out, to a matatu tout, to an office cleaner and to a businessman who started eighteen different business and failed. How slowly he started his company Amazing Media as just a blogging company. How the company has grown from a bedroom company in his small house in Kibera to an international media company with a full floor office space in one of the most expensive malls in Kenya. An astounding story of an entrepreneur who started from nothing to everything.
Statistics show that 9 out of 10 youths in Kenya are seeking employment. 90% of university graduates now are seeking jobs. With the market so flooded how does one stand out?
The 21st century is rampant with information and ideology on what entrepreneurship is and is not. Entrepreneurs such as Bill Gate and Mark Zuckerberg make entrepreneurship appear easy and yet in Kenya, about 400,000 SMEs close down every year since 2014.
Some common misconceptions about entrepreneurship:
1) Entrepreneurs are born to lead
2) Entrepreneurship must be related to your skills
3) You will have limited freedom
4) It is an easy way to get rich
5) Success comes fast
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