What the life of Murungi Mastermind tell us about human relationships

[digi]

@mikel

@digi we learn from others…we don’t have to go to space to rediscover black holes when we have been presented with proof of their existence.

The results of what you learn need to be seen, otherwise you cannot differentiate between you and a street urchin. All of you can dispense wisdom that you don’t understand

[digi]

@gashwin

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Yes, he can start a different company, we already have BAT and mastermind, the next he can do is mastercat

[Electronics4u]

@ohoros

This was a man of no small achievement, a stone cold entrepreneur who fought a multinational like BAT in the pathetic Moi era no less. All the time getting sabotaged by greedy politicians who are supposed to out for indigenous businesses

You are wrong on this.I had the opportunity to work for a company that supplied to one of his companies.
-He may have been a cold entrepreneur, but he was an extremely bad paymaster. Invoices for 30 day terms were paid mostly after 300 days! Explains why he had issues with KRA.
-He was also a very bad employer. Staff turnover was very high.

• This made him turn to his village to recruit young men/women. 99% of employees in that company were Amerucans. Vaite was the almost the official language…
  -Regarding BAT and MoI, yes he was a former employee of BAT, but I think he rode on sycophancy to establish mastermind. Politicians did not use him, he used them.

[mikel]

@digi

The results of what you learn need to be seen, otherwise you cannot differentiate between you and a street urchin. All of you can dispense wisdom that you don’t understand

am sure he has something up and running…May be not on a similar scale but we can bet hes successful elsewhere.

[digi]

@Electronics4u

You are wrong on this.I had the opportunity to work for a company that supplied to one of his companies.
-He may have been a cold entrepreneur, but he was an extremely bad paymaster. Invoices for 30 day terms were paid mostly after 300 days! Explains why he had issues with KRA.
-He was also a very bad employer. Staff turnover was very high.

• This made him turn to his village to recruit young men/women. 99% of employees in that company were Amerucans. Vaite was the almost the official language…
  -Regarding BAT and MoI, yes he was a former employee of BAT, but I think he rode on sycophancy to establish mastermind. Politicians did not use him, he used them.

You see, the person who posted the thread saying anga “wisdom” anga “cold business” is giving villagers 100% pure Hogwash. How you see things depends on your individual brain capacity.

[digi]

@mikel

am sure he has something up and running…May be not on a similar scale but we can bet hes successful elsewhere.

Not possible, with the way he has analyzed his hogwash wisdom it’s in doubt. Most established business savvy individuals always see through the bullshit, they also manage to keep their mouths shut. Such stuff only excites peasants.

[dingoo_wa_ingoo]

@Rene Descartes

ok. care to say which force?

Foolishness. That is one force that many [many, not all] people below late thirties be resonating with.

And I dare [yes, dare, cos even @gashwin wouldn’t] say it’s a YYUUUGE force.

[Rene_Descartes]

@dingoo_wa_ingoo

Foolishness. That is one force that many [many, not all] people below late thirties be resonating with.

And I dare [yes, dare, cos even @gashwin wouldn’t] say it’s a YYUUUGE force.

okay. but we aslo see many foolish old men which is more tragic. But i get the point.

[Sambamba]

Jibambe when you are alive and don’t take life too serious. Nothing is black and white. When you die, what they do with your body is upto them.

[LeoK]

I was expecting some brilliant s.hit. Kumbe ni ile umeffi even a new born knows!

[Thirimaii]

@Starscream

Hakuna mtu wa late thirties and above hapa

Are you winking at your tomb?

[Thirimaii]

@Starscream

I’m sixteen years old

Chungulia kaburi pole pole mzee,exchuse me,how was it in the 40s?

[Thirimaii]

@Azor Ahai

This advice only makes sense if your goal is to have friends attend your funeral. Friends are important for connections. That’s why you should cut ties with any friend that is broke than you. Friends aren’t loyal but they are a necessary evil for networking. Don’t let friends use you, use them instead and ditch them as soon as you climb higher. Its not personal. They should understand :D. Ukienda Runda cut ties with Korogocho people instantly but politely (ghosting) and start associating with watu wa Karen to upgrade.

It may work that way,use them but don’t cross them

[gosh]

@Azor Ahai

This advice only makes sense if your goal is to have friends attend your funeral. Friends are important for connections. That’s why you should cut ties with any friend that is broke than you. Friends aren’t loyal but they are a necessary evil for networking. Don’t let friends use you, use them instead and ditch them as soon as you climb higher. Its not personal. They should understand :D. Ukienda Runda cut ties with Korogocho people instantly but politely (ghosting) and start associating with watu wa Karen to upgrade.

heheheh

[Tiger_Bone]

Hakunanga Rafiki Wa kufa kupona. Firisika uone wakihepa

[cents]

sasa watu wa ‘billionares’ tuketi kipande ipi?

[Wechez]

@Azor Ahai

Luckily, I am not in the business of impressing people so…
The only difference between me and most people is that I am not a hypocrite and won’t hide what I think just to please them. Most of you will desert your broke friends when you get a fortune…but you won’t admit it because of your hypocritical nature. I will because I’m not a hypocrite. To me most friendships are situational and as soon as I get what I want, or when I feel there is no more value in that friendship I ghost them, I move on. The only caveat is to be polite and not to burn bridges…that’s why I prefer ghosting.

At your age, you should know that friendships only last if you are in the same social status. If you doubt, get broke and see how many friends you drink with today will stick with you. It is a zero sum game. You are either being exploited, or doing the exploitation for personal interests. I’d rather do the exploiting than be the exploited. For you to win someone has to lose.

We share same characteristics when I cut off friends I do in a manner that won’t hurt them. And I have learned to value pipo.

[system]

@Azor Ahai

Luckily, I am not in the business of impressing people so…
The only difference between me and most people is that I am not a hypocrite and won’t hide what I think just to please them. Most of you will desert your broke friends when you get a fortune…but you won’t admit it because of your hypocritical nature. I will because I’m not a hypocrite. To me most friendships are situational and as soon as I get what I want, or when I feel there is no more value in that friendship I ghost them, I move on. The only caveat is to be polite and not to burn bridges…that’s why I prefer ghosting.

At your age, you should know that friendships only last if you are in the same social status. If you doubt, get broke and see how many friends you drink with today will stick with you. It is a zero sum game. You are either being exploited, or doing the exploitation for personal interests. I’d rather do the exploiting than be the exploited. For you to win someone has to lose.

I guess you have the wrong friends

[system]

@digi

Yes, he can start a different company, we already have BAT and mastermind, the next he can do is mastercat

@digi

The results of what you learn need to be seen, otherwise you cannot differentiate between you and a street urchin. All of you can dispense wisdom that you don’t understand

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

saa zingine unakuwanga na wisdom but most of the times unapost umeffi

[system]

I agree with you in so much as you do not know about the man as many people

@ohoros

This shall be a bit of a long and deep introspective post, so all you short span clowns can move on to the next post on how to become an alpha male crap.
This shall probably resonate with the late 30s and above who are thinking a bit deeper about life and what it means.
Back in the early 90s, when I was a young cat in high school I remember seeing this magnificent house. It was nothing like I had ever seen in my life, straight out of the movies shit. I was amazed and I remember mumbling : who lives here? A guy called Murungi i was told. He owns a tobacco company. Anyone who knows this house in Karen knows what I am talking about.
That image never left my mind. I always sat up when I heard the words Mastermind tobacco, yet I never saw this Murungi. Never on tv or in harambees flaunting his wealth or standing behind some useless politicians talking crap at a ‘press conference’.
I was intrigued by this man, sometimes i wondered if he existed. But he was around quietly doing his thing/what mattered.
This was a man of no small achievement, a stone cold entrepreneur who fought a multinational like BAT in the pathetic Moi era no less. All the time getting sabotaged by greedy politicians who are supposed to out for indigenous businesses.
But what really got me was his death and to be exact his funeral. He had only very close family and maybe a friend or two who probably were the only sincere people in his life. This is a man who had 100’s of so called friends. No fair weather friends and politicians coming to talk shit and his funeral, no gold casket or whole cows turning away at some furnace for people who really never gave two shits about him when he really needed them.
I decided to dive deep and look at what message this man was sending across, rather than just brush him off as wierd.

1. Your family is your fortress have time for them, they are the only ones who trully shall be there for you when your chips are completely down.
2. Do not waste your time milling around ‘friends’ lying to each other.
3. Handle your business, do what needs to be done, with the skills the almighty blessed you with.
4. In the end, its all vanity. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.

I agree with you in so much as you do not know about the man as many people do. However, I will be the first one to cast aspersions on the person ow one W. Murungi. I believe his preference for privacy is as a result of what he knew and went through to make this immense wealth. For those who have been following up, he succeeded during Moi era and was a shareholder together with Moi in some companies with not-so-good reputation during the Moi-Heist years. He had major problems with KRA because he was not paying taxes and BAT spied and set him up for this in their competition. He worked for BAT before selling the “obsolete” equipment indirectly to himself before resigning to form Mastermind. These are only aspersions that will explain to you that his secret life was not because he was a clean man but one who was not clean and was hiding some thing from the public. It is for researchers and historians to add this up and tell us who Murungi really was.

For your benefit, when you see someone owning shares with Moi in 1985, you need to be wary. See this article: ( Poisoning incident, graft scandal that marked Saitoti's life | Nation )

Quote just one paragraph:

Returns of Pan African Bank show that besides Aslam, who held majority shares through Plaza Investments Limited, other shareholders, included then State House Comptroller Abraham Kiptanui and a Mr Hedam.
Some of the shares were later transferred to Kimya Investments and Mr M.H. da Gama Rose.
When Aslam sought to build the hotel in 1985, the fully paid-up capital of 2,000 shares was divided between Daniel arap Moi (800), Aslam (1,020), C. Kirubi (80), W. Murungi (60) and G. Lindi (40).
As the Minister for Finance, Prof Saitoti found himself at the heart of these intricate transactions; a web that he could never leave at will.