African tech titan Melvyn Lubega shares success secrets: Go1, BRICS, Ramaphosa, G20, SA economy, GNU

Unlocking South Africa’s next wave of growth—through tech, policy, and bold execution. In this episode of In This Economy? (in collaboration with Standard Bank Private), Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh sits down with Melvyn Lubega—entrepreneur, investor, and public-sector advisor—best known as co-founder of Go1, the learning platform that scaled to unicorn status (including the Blinkist acquisition). From boarding school and Oxford to Y Combinator, Melvyn shares the mindset, systems, and failures behind building at scale—plus his mission to help create 100,000 sustainable jobs. He unpacks why execution beats ideas, why your speed of learning matters more than your speed of doing, and why “it takes the same energy to do something big as it does to do something small—so do something big.