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 succeedin 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

No Free Lunch With Greg Stewart is a business podcast hosted by Greg Stewart, with 41 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Greg Stewart hosts No Free Lunch With Greg Stewart, a business show with 41 episodes published.

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

  Sep 23, 202625 minS2

  AI Agents and AI Risk - Why is the AI iIndustry Panicking? This week's No Free Lunch Podcast, provides a level headed view of AI developments in a discussion between his Greg Stewart and Professor Anné Verhoef of Nort West University. The discussion examines the recently released allegations that a swarm of AI agents acted independently to escape a test sandbox, coordinate with one another and hack Hugging Face, and what sensible AI development should look like.

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  Finding Answers to the Connectivity Challenge in Africa - With Dr Ryan Noach

  Sep 16, 202627 minS2

  Dr Ryan Noach’s career is anything but conventional. From emergency medicine and helicopter rescue services to senior leadership at Netcare, Discovery Health and now DNI, his journey reflects a consistent appetite for entrepreneurship, innovation and meaningful societal impact. In this engaging conversation with Greg Stewart, he explains how his experiences shaped a broader mission: expanding connectivity, affordability and digital inclusion across South Africa and the wider African continent.

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  No Free Lunch - Travel Visa Challenges and New Travel Solutions

  Sep 10, 202622 minS2

  n this episode of No Free Lunch , host Greg Stewart speaks with Hariprasad Vishwanathan, COO for Sub-Saharan Africa at VFS Global, about why international travel is becoming more difficult in some parts of the world, while African countries are simultaneously moving toward more open and accessible travel systems.

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  How Health-Tech is Advancing Early Cancer Detection - Discussion with Brendon Thorpe - xTenure

  Sep 2, 202621 minS2

  In this episode of No Free Lunch , Greg Stewart speaks with Brendon Thorpe, CEO and co-founder of X Tenure, about the fast-growing health tech sector and the role artificial intelligence can play in making cancer screening more accessible, more targeted, and more affordable. The conversation centres on a key challenge in modern healthcare: how to identify the people most at risk early enough to intervene, without relying on expensive blanket screening for everyone.

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  Bringing Smart Phone Access to Africa - Discussion with Shaun Durandt,

  Aug 26, 202627 minS2

  In this episode of No Free Lunch, Greg Stewart chats with Shaun Durandt, Head of Business Development at PayJoy, about how affordable smartphone access can help unlock earning potential, Learning access and business opportunity across African markets. The discussion explores the scale of the smartphone gap in Africa, the business model behind PayJoy’s responsible lending approach, and why access to mobile technology is now central to education, entrepreneurship, healthcare, and everyday communication.

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