No Free Lunch With Greg Stewart

About No Free Lunch With Greg Stewart

There's no free lunch in business. Join Greg Stewart, Editor of Business Tech Africa, for honest, unfiltered conversations with entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders across the African continent. This podcast isn’t about polished success stories or rehearsed pitches. It"s about the real wins, the hard losses, the pivots that worked, and the failures that taught valuable lessons. No Free Lunch gets into the meat of what it really takes to succeed in African business today. Topics span entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, business strategy, market disruption, funding, leadership, and the unique opportunities and challenges of building businesses across Africa. You'll hear from seasoned veterans and rising stars, covering sectors from fintech and e-commerce to manufacturing, agriculture tech, media, and everything in between. New 20-35 minute episodes drop twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays

Publisher

Greg Stewart

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Sept 2025

Latest episode

23 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 43 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Addressing The Youth Unemployment Crises - Discussion with Evan Jones and Rudi Dicks

   Host Greg Stewart interviews Evan Jones, CEO of Collective X, and Rudi Dicks, head of the President's Private Office PMO, on creating work-ready jobs for youth through digital skills and workplace experience.

2. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Are They Listening - Ai Risk Assesment with Richard Frost

   Greg Stewart interviews Richard Frost, Head of Technology Solutions and Consulting at Armata Cyber Security, about mitigating AI risks and protecting sensitive data in connected devices.

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   23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   AI Agents and AI Risk - Why is the AI iIndustry Panicking? - Discussion with Professor Anne' Verhoef

   Greg Stewart interviews Professor Anné Verhoef about the AI industry's panic over AI agents, exploring recent allegations and sensible AI development.

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Addressing The Youth Unemployment Crises - Discussion with Evan Jones and Rudi Dicks

Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And one of the strategic outcomes is naturally we want to work with the unemployed youth so that we grow the available skill in South Africa. Another strategic outcome is we know that these roles require work-based learning or what we call work-integrated learning as part of that absorption. And then, of course, we don't just want to be another training initiative, training tens of thousands of young people that don't find their way into gainful earning situations. We want another strategic outcome to be absorbed into positive earning trajectories. And so the fund is available for employers to apply to. […]

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• Evan Jones
• Rudi Dicks
• Richard Frost
• Anné Verhoef
• Dr Ryan Noach

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