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Fail Forward FridayFail Froward #28 | Big Client, Bigger Mistake: Why Small Clients Matter Most | Malesela & RocheWhat do vending machines, fake R100 notes, government contracts, panic attacks, and a butcher shop with no Chisanyama have in common?
They all feature in the unforgettable, painfully honest, and deeply inspiring entrepreneurial journey of Dr. Roche Mamabolo, the guest on this week’s episode of Fail Forward Friday, hosted by Malesela Molepo.
From his first taste of black excellence at a prestigious boarding school, to selling cold drinks from vending machines in Joburg, to watching a dream butchery spoil under load-shedding and bad timing, Roche walks us through failure after failure with humility, humour, and ra...2025-07-181h 09Fail Forward FridayFail Froward #28 | Big Client, Bigger Mistake: Why Small Clients Matter Most | Malesela & RocheWhat do vending machines, fake R100 notes, government contracts, panic attacks, and a butcher shop with no Chisanyama have in common?
They all feature in the unforgettable, painfully honest, and deeply inspiring entrepreneurial journey of Dr. Roche Mamabolo, the guest on this week’s episode of Fail Forward Friday, hosted by Malesela Molepo.
From his first taste of black excellence at a prestigious boarding school, to selling cold drinks from vending machines in Joburg, to watching a dream butchery spoil under load-shedding and bad timing, Roche walks us through failure after failure with humility, humour, and ra...2025-07-181h 09Fail Forward FridayFail Forward #24 | Project Titan: Apple Car That Never Was: The 10-Year Disaster | Malesela & Roche`What happens when a continent that sparked the Industrial Revolution finds itself lost in the digital one?
In this powerful episode of Fail Forward Friday, Malesela Molepo and Dr. Roche Mamabolo dive deep into two stories that, on the surface, seem miles apart, one about Europe’s quiet collapse in global tech innovation, and the other about Apple’s secret electric car dream, Project Titan, that crashed after 10 long years and billions of dollars.
Europe’s Blunder: The Innovation Engine That Stalled
Malesela unpacks a haunting reality: Europe, the birthplace of the web, scientific enligh...2025-05-2359 minFail Forward FridayFail Forward #24 | Project Titan: Apple Car That Never Was: The 10-Year Disaster | Malesela & Roche`What happens when a continent that sparked the Industrial Revolution finds itself lost in the digital one?
In this powerful episode of Fail Forward Friday, Malesela Molepo and Dr. Roche Mamabolo dive deep into two stories that, on the surface, seem miles apart, one about Europe’s quiet collapse in global tech innovation, and the other about Apple’s secret electric car dream, Project Titan, that crashed after 10 long years and billions of dollars.
Europe’s Blunder: The Innovation Engine That Stalled
Malesela unpacks a haunting reality: Europe, the birthplace of the web, scientific enligh...2025-05-2359 min