There is a particular kind of distance between Wall Street and Lebowakgomo, a township in South Africa’s Limpopo Province.
One is synonymous with global finance, enormous transactions and institutions moving billions of dollars across markets. The other is where Grace Legodi grew up in a family shaped by the horrors of apartheid, an enforced system of racial segregation, where her parents, a teacher and a social worker, placed an unusually high premium on education.
Legodi eventually crossed that distance.
She studied finance at the University of Cape Town, worked in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs, a global investment powerhouse, in New York and Johannesburg, and spent more than a decade across investment banking, venture capital and entrepreneurship development.
Originally published by TechCabal.