Eric Asuma on childhood, ambition, and refusing to sell Kenyan Wall Street

There is a type of entrepreneurs who start a company because they have seen a gap in the market. Then there is the kind who start one because they are trying to make sense of the world around them. When I met Eric Asuma, founder of The Kenyan Wall Street, he struck me as belonging to the second group.

He grew up watching his parents run small businesses, where every shilling mattered, and…