Randolph Rodrigues: Starting a venture while on the programme

My name is Randolph Rodrigues. I’m from Ghana. I live in the US.

My venture is called Second Stax. It’s based out of Ghana, and for my day job, I work at Bose Corporation. I run corporate development and venture investing.

Thinking particularly about the MSt in Entrepreneurship at Cambridge Judge, there’s probably 3 things that I’ll mention that made it important for me. One is starting a venture in entrepreneurship, like I mentioned, I wanted to get formal education on how to approach the entire lifecycle of a new venture. One amazing thing has just been the network. I’ve actually found someone in the Programme who is interested in investing in my venture. I’ve come across ventures that I’m interested in learning more about.

The third thing, which is really personal, is I’m from Ghana, I mentioned. Long-term aspiration, I want to be active politically. One of the things that I think will help the country, from an economic perspective, is really being able to unleash entrepreneurship in a way that helps the country sustainably thrive. Obviously, doing that with, one, the education from Cambridge but also the network from Cambridge and the stamp of credibility that Cambridge provides us, I think that that says it all.