A podcast by Kevin Mutiso
Let The Cake
Bake.
Long-form conversations with the people behind the work. Single guest, single take, no rush — operators, artists, and public servants on what they've actually learned.
#thefutureishere
The premise
Builders are curious people. We want to know how the people who've actually moved things — built the companies, shaped the culture, sat in the rooms — think about the big ideas and a world that won't sit still. Where it's going, what's changing, what they'd bet on next.
Let The Cake Bake gives them the room to say it. One guest, one unhurried conversation — long enough to get past the headline and into the real thinking. No segments, no sound bites, no rush. Let it bake.
In the can
The first conversations.
EP 01▶ WatchNzioka Waita
Former State House Chief of Staff
On power, public service, and what the corner office actually teaches you.
EP 02▶ WatchAddis Alemayehou
Chairman, Kazana Group (Ethiopia)
Ethiopia and its economy, how it compares to Kenya, and building businesses across the continent.
EP 03▶ WatchAnnstella Mumbi
General Manager, Tala Kenya
Is Kenya's potential limited by its challenges? Scaling consumer credit, and what it would take to unlock the market.
EP 04▶ WatchBien
Sauti Sol vocalist & solo artist
The making of an African superstar, the business behind the music, and what comes after the band that defined a generation.
EP 05▶ WatchSajid Vayani
Sales Director, iColo (Digital Realty)
At what point do your opinions become too expensive to keep? The man behind the internet's home in Kenya on data centres, AI, and saying what he thinks.
EP 06▶ WatchSamora Kariuki
Founder, Frontier Fintech
“If you're born in Kenya, you're already guilty.” Running a bank in the middle of a coup, and the hard truths about African fintech from the man who charts the ecosystem.
EP 07▶ WatchRobert Ochieng'
CEO & co-founder, Abojani Investment
Are entrepreneurs really worse off than the formally employed? The man who taught tens of thousands of Kenyans to invest on building wealth, the pension pool, and the money truths nobody says out loud.
EP 08▶ WatchDan Nduati
Founder, Brand2D
“How AI will kill advertising.” The man who built one of Nairobi's biggest ad agencies on what happens to brand-building when the machines take over, why he walked away from his own name, and the opportunity in Kenya we keep failing to see.
EP 09▶ WatchNjeri Muhia
GP & co-founder, FrontEnd Ventures
Why does Kenyan VC money keep skipping Kenyan founders? The ex-Barclays London credit manager who came home at 26 to build an $8M “local founders first” fund, on the inside of the no and what 9 out of 10 pitches get wrong.
EP 10▶ WatchKyle Schutter
Founder & CEO, Kuzana Education & Investments
“I bet my entire future on Kenya at 23.” The American who moved to Nairobi to build, on raising $20M for East African companies, what an outsider sees that locals stop noticing, and where AI lands in investing.
EP 11▶ WatchBrenda Obath
Radio presenter, Classic 105 & psychotherapist
“Not everybody needs to give their opinion.” The Classic 105 presenter who is also a practising psychotherapist on life on air, what she hears when Kenya calls in, and why silence is underrated.
EP 12▶ WatchJune Gachui
IP lawyer & performing artist
“Your idea isn't protected until you do this.” Kenya's intellectual-property lawyer who is also one of Nairobi's great stage voices, on why hiding your idea kills it, what creators keep signing away, and how to own what you make.
EP 13▶ WatchNg'arua Kamuya
Sports expert
Why Tanzania is beating Kenya in football, and it is not talent. The sports mind on what governments really use sport for, the economics under the pitch, and what it would take for Kenyan football to win again.
EP 14▶ WatchKevin Kamau
Contract farmer
Why Kenyan farmers will lose big this El Niño, and it is not just the rain. A working contract farmer on the economics nobody explains: who carries the risk, who takes the margin, and what the weather is about to expose.
EP 15▶ WatchJason Dodier
US state commerce chief
Work, build, exit: the season finale. The man who sells America's smallest state to the world, on the three stages of entrepreneurship, building the biggest solar array at any US airport, and why only 2.6 percent of carbon credits ever deliver.
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