#6 — Born Weird. Built Right.

Born Weird. Built Right.

I grew up in Mexico. My dad spent his career in government. He signed me up for law school without asking. Having a gap year wasn't a thing back then. So I became a lawyer.

I went to big law because I wanted to tackle big monsters. Then Yale. Then Mauritius, which is where my Africa story actually started.

From there I flew to Kigali for four days to sign financing for a campus. I stayed four months. Negotiating a bond with the government pension fund, a loan with the largest local bank, and building terms with a Turkish contractor. Four days became four months because the work was real and someone had to stay until it was done.

Then came Nairobi. I was on a business trip from Mauritius to Dakar. Two-day layover. COVID hit. Two days became two years.

Every step was an accident that turned into a decision.

And every accident built the exact skill set that no traditional path could have assembled. Cross-border structuring. Multi-jurisdictional governance. Capital raising across cultures where trust matters more than term sheets.

Mexzungu exists for the people who took the weird path.

The founder who grew up in Lagos, studied in London, and is building in Kigali. The operator who spent five years in corporate and now can't breathe in those rooms anymore. The creative who knows their business needs real structure but can't stomach the pin-striped-suit consulting world.

You don't need to fit the mould. You need someone who understands why you broke it.

Mexzungu is an outlaw studio built by an outsider, for outsiders. Structure without the straitjacket. Big law rhythm meets rock and roll rhyme.

The beautifully unconventional ones. That's who we're here for.

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