Episode overview
This unfiltered 2017 archive dialogue captures Maya Horgan Famodu (Founder and Partner, Ingressive Capital) before she became known for straight-talking LinkedIn posts about founder insights and personal growth.

Fresh from investment banking, she was forging new pathways between Silicon Valley capital and African startup innovation via carefully-curated investor tours—laying the groundwork for the launch of Ingressive Capital's investment months later.

Listening back, you can hear how the same independence and non-traditional EQ that helped a "small girl from a trailer park" believe she could launch a VC fund was already shaping her vision.

Critical points
- The early signs of the independent thinking that would later become her trademark
- How her unconventional background shaped her approach to investment
- Why bridging Silicon Valley and African tech required a translator's insight
- The unexpected ways growing up between worlds prepared her for building cross-cultural understanding

What we know now
Looking back from 2024, this conversation reveals both professional and personal threads that would define Horgan Famodu's impact:
- The shift from understated confidence to singular public voice
- How her own story of independent creativity would later resonate with investors and founders
- The evolution from curating entrees to the African tech startup opportunity to foreign investors to leading investments

Questions we're pondering
- How has Horgan Famodu's public sharing of her personal journey influenced African tech discourse?
- What role does authentic leadership play in venture capital today?
- How has the relationship between personal story and professional impact evolved in African tech?