Erik Hersman

“In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.”

“Change happens at the frontier.”

“I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.”

“The future of Africa is in innovative engineering.”

“If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.”

“The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.”