Screenings / Archive shorts / Visual records
The Films
A video-first record of founders in motion, connected to their written case files, companies, and timelines.
Where Code Meets Culture
Official Chai & Code screening · 1:28
The opening statement for The Ledger of Grit: an archive seeking the truest founder stories rather than only the largest outcomes.
The Accountant's Daughter
Andrea Reynolds
A founder film about Andrea Reynolds, the banking knowledge she carried into entrepreneurship, and the problem of small businesses losing time inside opaque funding systems.
When Drought Becomes Data
Jairo Trad
The story of a drought, an information gap, and Jairo Trad's effort to make agricultural irrigation more precise through Kilimo.
The Quiet Architect
Guillaume Pousaz
A film record about Guillaume Pousaz's long apprenticeship in payments and the seven bootstrapped years that shaped Checkout.com.
Wave: The Mobile Money Revolution
Drew Durbin
How Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk built Wave around radical affordability and challenged established mobile-money economics in Senegal.
144 Pixels That Changed How We Communicate
Shigetaka Kurita
The story of Shigetaka Kurita, the 176 original emoji, and how a severe 12-by-12-pixel constraint became a global visual language.
Careem: Built on Courage
Mudassir Sheikha
A visual archive of Careem's founding choices: building for cash, treating captains as partners, and adapting mobility to the social and cultural realities of the Middle East.