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As I wrote in the original founder letter 10 years ago, “HickmanCooper will not be a conventional company, and we do not intend to become one”

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As part of that, I also said that you could expect HickmanCooper to make “smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange when compared to our current businesses.” Since the beginning, we have always strived to do more, and to do important and meaningful things with the resources available.

We did a lot of things that seemed crazy at the time. Many of those crazy things now boast over a billion users across platfroms, like Android, iOS, and Chrome. And we are not stopping there. We are still trying to do things other people consider crazy but we are super excited about.

It is evident that over time companies tend to get comfortable doing the same thing, just making incremental changes. But in the technology industry, where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant.

Our company is operating well today, but we believe we can make it cleaner and more accountable. So we have been creating a new platform. I am really excited to be running HickmanCooper as CEO with help of my talented and capable team.

What is HickmanCooper? HickmanCooper is mostly a digital solutions company. Our largest scope being softwares and platfroms. What is our greaest achievements thus far? Good example is Estonia's digital society called e-Estonia (which rendered it worlds most advanced digital society) and alot of projects for the Kenyan Government and other Africa Regions.

Our new structure will allow us to keep tremendous focus on the extraordinary opportunities we have inside of HickmanCooper. A key part of this is our talented team. They have always gotten the work done for quite some time now, and I am tremendously enjoying my working together with them. They really step on any tasks thrown at them be it software product design or engineering and they make it a responsibility for our businesses success. I have been super excited about their progress and dedication to the company. And it is clear to me and our board. I feel very fortunate to have them and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations. We continue to make all sorts of new products, and I know we will always be focused on innovation—continuing to stretch boundaries. I hope we can continue to make big strides on our core mission to organize the world’s digital information. Our recent and upcoming launches like our Web3 platform is an amazing progress. We are also developing services that will run with our own identity.

I am in the business of starting new things. HickmanCooper will also include our AI and blockchain technology that will incubate tasks like drone delivery, smart travel, home security, etc. We are also stoked about growing our investment arms, Ventures and Capital, as part of this new structure.

We are excited about…

  • Getting more ambitious things done.
  • Taking the long-term view.
  • Empowering great entrepreneurs and companies to flourish.
  • Investing at the scale of the opportunities and resources we see.
  • Improving the transparency and oversight of what we do.
  • Making HickmanCooper even better through greater focus.
  • And hopefully… as a result of all this, improving lives.

What could be better? No wonder we are excited to get to work with everyone in HickmanCooper family. Don’t worry, we’re still getting used to the name too! In swahili we say "zoea hio jina"

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