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Premie Naicker makes the average entrepreneur feel like a serial underachiever.

13 August 2020

What kind of person climbs Everest for a laugh? Premie Naicker does. She’s also completing her PhD in philosophy, is the MD of Fuse-Forward South Africa, the director of the South African arm of Computer Aid – an NGO that provides refurbished computers to needy schools and community projects – and founded GreenSkills Consulting. Tacked on to this already impressive list is her founding of the local arm of DataGirls, an initiative dedicated to teaching women to become data scientists.

I had to resign my job to do my PhD

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