I carry two. The Kenyan one opens most of Africa and closes most of Europe. The Australian one does the inverse. Between them, I can move — but every visa queue reminds me what the default is for most people who look like me.
I didn't plan to build businesses across two continents. It started as a personal logistics problem. How do you run a holding company in Nairobi while maintaining a legal structure in Sydney that can actually open bank accounts and sign contracts without being treated as a flight risk?
You solve it by building the scaffolding yourself. And then you realise the scaffolding is the product.
That thread runs through most of what I do. Not disruption. Not transformation. Just: someone built the wrong thing, or nobody built it at all. So here we are.
The passport thing taught me something early. Mobility is not equal, and the gap is not a policy problem — it's an infrastructure problem. The right database, the right document architecture, the right private guidance layer. That's VisaNationals. That's the question I started with.
The rest followed.
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