Strive Masiyiwa is a Zimbabwean philanthropist, entrepreneur and business tycoon with his most notable business being the ECONET Wireless.
Masiyiwa was born on January 29, 1961, in his home country, Zimbabwe to a middle income but highly educated family. Although much is not known about his early education life, Masiyiwa holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the prestigious University of Wales. He also has an honorary doctorate from the Morehouse College as a reward for his humanitarian work and philanthropic activities across the globe.
Currently has 6 children and is wedded to Tsitsi Masiyiwa who is also a powerhouse in African philanthropist and a prolific social entrepreneur.
Masiyiwa Business Career
Like all the Big time business tycoons across the globe, Masiyiwa had a very humble beginning. After schooling and working briefly in the United Kingdom, he returned to Zimbabwe in the year 1984 then he worked briefly as a telecom engineer for the State-owned telephone company.
From there he went solo by founding his first business; Retrofit Engineering, an electrical firm that handled lucrative construction contracts for the government. Amassing some reasonable wealth from Retrofit Engineering he decided to start Zimbabwe’s first independent mobile telecom network in the year 1993.
Although he faced some resistance from the government which was then the sole provider of telecommunication services in Zimbabwe, the company became a success and the beginning of Masiyiwa’s journey as a business mogul.
Today he owns; Econet Wireless, Liquid Telecom, Cassava connect, Cummii and Kwese TV are some of Strives’ companies. These companies collectively operate in 29 African countries.
Strive Masiyiwa Net Worth
According to Forbes, Strive Masiyiwa is worth $1.1 billion making him the 1851st richest person in the world.