At the height of my career, I chose a side hustle

Thomas Njeru, CEO and co-founder, Pula, an agricultural insurance and technology company in Kenya. PHOTO | POOL

Thomas Njeru, like most Kenyans in corporate, had a side hustle while he was a director at Deloitte South Africa. His side hustle was Pula, an agricultural insurance technology that provides insurance to smallholder farms worldwide.

In 2017, he was offered a partnership at Deloitte, around the time he and his co-founder had just raised Sh230 million at Pula. There was a caveat; the investors at Pula had a demand; be there full time or he forgets about the investment.

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