Franklin Ndeffo says his best investment was continuous education across entrepreneurship, nonprofit work, and AI. He moved to the US at 17 and believes a diversified skill set in business, tech, and nonprofit work is essential. Education cannot be taken away, and leadership will become increasingly vital this century.
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Uh, the greatest investment I've made into myself was just, um, taking a chance on my education. Yes. You know, learning, learning, and continuously, uh, um, getting into different fields, whether it is, uh, learning how to successfully start a business, learning, learning how to start a nonprofit to help others, or learning how to boost my career by getting into AI, cloud. That's been the biggest and best investment I've done for myself.
I love that. And my godfather used to tell me that, uh, Education, education, education. Nobody can ever take that away from you. And education is not just going to school like my grandparents. They went to school and they learn and then they never had to open another book in their life. But today you have to open a book almost every single day, keep on learning, right? And nobody can ever, ever take that away from you. Wow, that is powerful. And another thing I'm going to add, I'm glad you're learning how to run a business, a nonprofit and all of that. That is really wonderful because it helps you become a more complete, I guess, being where you have a lot of skills that can all come together to allow you to be even more successful. I don't know if I ever told you this, but I was just 17 years old, I moved to the US and I really don't know where that came from, but I had this idea that was like, you know, in the late '90s, I was like, in the next century, I believe 3 skills are gonna be extremely important. One of them I felt like was leadership. You have to learn how to lead.
