Admin Access

Hi Admins 👋🏾 this is where tech meets business, and the group chat...finally gets a microphone.Hosted by Dominic Mulinda and Evans Munene, this podcast dives into the stories, trends, and debates shaping the tech ecosystem.From global headlines to the realities of building in Africa.Expect smart takes, nerdy breakdowns, startup highlights, and the kind of banter that happens when two tech operators have opinions… and a microphone.If you care about tech, business, and what’s really happening behind the dashboards - you’re in the right place :)A MY TECH STORY AFRICA PRODUCTION.

Admin Access is a news podcast hosted by My Tech Story Africa, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

My Tech Story Africa hosts Admin Access, a news show with 39 episodes published.

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  Three Tech Debates. One Brutal Comment Section. | The 1k Sub Special

  Jul 30, 202627 min

  On this special episode of Admin Access, Dominic and Evans mark the milestone of reaching 1,000 subscribers by reacting to audience comments, sparking honest debates on some of tech’s biggest questions.The hosts start with AI's quiet takeover of creative work, from AI-generated "slop" flooding social feeds to AI music good enough to fool a cab driver mid-ride. But the real insight isn't doom, it's a harder truth about human behavior: production quality will only keep improving, and the values we claim to hold around craftsmanship rarely match what we actually consume. From there, the pair revisit an old take that hasn't aged well, Dominic's early skepticism about Ferrari's EV strategy, and get called out by a sharp, car-literate audience member who makes the case that Ferrari's anti-EV stance is actually the most "Ferrari" move the brand could make, refusing to build what everyone else is building.The episode closes on the show's favorite recurring argument: are prediction markets just gambling with better branding? Using real examples, from a politician betting against his own confirmed appearance at the State of the Union to everyday risk decisions like staying home during unrest, Dominic and Evans dig into where speculation ends and gambling begins.Evans draws the line at manufactured risk versus risk that already exists, and who you're actually betting against, a bookie's fixed odds versus an opposing opinion on an exchange. Dominic pushes back with his own framework built on time horizon and participation, arguing that dopamine-driven, low-effort bets sit closer to gambling than long-term, high-participation ones like building a business. Neither fully convinces the other, but that's exactly the point. To keep up with Dominic’s and Evan's Journey, check out their LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-mulinda/https://www.linkedin.com/in/evans-kanyithia-munene _______________________________________________________________Join Dominic & Evans as they explore the world of tech and share their bold takes with guests on Admin AccessSubscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! Follow us on social media: Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/adminaccess_ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/admin-access/ ♪ TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@admin.access_ Interested in partnering with us? Drop us an email at: contact@adminacccess.tech

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  The $1 Billion Bet That Could Rewrite Venture Capital

  Jul 23, 202623 min

  On this episode of Admin Access, Dominic and Evans turn their attention to a funding story quietly rewriting the venture playbook: General Catalyst's $1 billion bet on IM8, David Beckham's longevity brand.With no equity, no fixed repayment schedule, no maturity date, and no collateral, the hosts break down what it actually means to fund a business on capped revenue alone, and why a traditional VC would choose this route over the stock they'd normally chase.But the excitement comes with a harder question sitting right underneath it: if capital is fungible and it's flowing hard toward Frontier AI labs, what does that mean for every non-Frontier business competing for the capital left behind?Dominic and Evans debate whether this is private equity's playbook in reverse, isolating the one part of a business that already works instead of buying the whole thing to fix it, drawing parallels to a weak top of funnel as a specific, fundable slice rather than a whole-company problem.The hosts also explore whether more capital is always the answer, pulling in the Zappos lesson that businesses die more from constipation than starvation, and why founders chasing a billion dollars might be inventing problems they don't actually have.The two land on the Kenyan real estate case study, developers who took on more capital than their capacity could handle, and unpack what that says about knowing exactly where capital should go versus simply chasing the biggest check. Because the real strategic question for any African founder isn't "how much can I raise?" but "where in my business would capital actually act like a slot machine?To keep up with Dominic’s and Evan's Journey, check out their LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-mulinda/https://www.linkedin.com/in/evans-kanyithia-munene _______________________________________________________________Join Dominic & Evans as they explore the world of tech and share their bold takes with guests on Admin AccessSubscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! Follow us on social media: Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/adminaccess_ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/admin-access/ ♪ TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@admin.access_ Interested in partnering with us? Drop us an email at: contact@adminacccess.tech

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  Is Apple Building the Future, or Renting It?

  Jul 9, 202624 min

  On this episode of Admin Access, Dominic and Evans turn their attention to Apple's biggest WWDC moment and the strategic question sitting right underneath it. With Tim Cook stepping down and John Ternus taking the CEO seat, Apple unveiled a rebuilt Siri: context-aware, system-wide, and finally capable of interacting directly with apps. The architecture powering it? A Google Gemini-backed hybrid model. Apple is calling it Apple Intelligence. Dominic makes the case that if intelligence truly becomes the new operating system, Apple's legendary vertical integration strategy has a dangerous gap in the middle. Owning the chip, owning the device, and owning the user relationship only holds if the layer in between , the intelligence layer is a commodity. If it isn't, Apple has rented out the heartbeat of its own ecosystem. Evans pushes back with a longer game in mind. As AI costs spiral and companies start questioning whether the juice is worth the squeeze, the conversation is already shifting from raw power to efficiency. The real unlock, he argues, comes when accurate enough models can run entirely on-device and when that moment arrives, nobody is better positioned to capitalize on it than Apple. ARM architecture beating Intel is the proof of concept. Apple Silicon is the precedent. The two dig into the compute constraint underneath all of it , why energy and hardware limitations are shaping the AI industry just as much as the models themselves, why open-source is quietly becoming a serious contender, and what it actually felt like to download a local LLM on a five-hour flight and realize just how pampered we've all become on frontier cloud models. _______________________________________________________________Join Dominic & Evans as they explore the world of tech and share their bold takes with guests on Admin AccessSubscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/adminaccess_💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/admin-access/ ♪ TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@admin.access_ Interested in partnering with us? Drop us an email at: contact@adminacccess.tech 📧

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  Are Telcos Making the Same Mistake as MultiChoice?

  Jun 30, 202634 min

  On this episode of Admin Access, Dominic and Evans turn their attention to the deal quietly reshaping African connectivity: Airtel's new Starlink partnership. With SpaceX already licensed in 9 of Airtel's 14 African markets, the hosts break down what it actually means to leapfrog cell towers entirely and route calls through satellites instead and why this could fundamentally lower the barrier to entry for building a telco on the continent. But the excitement comes with a harder question sitting right underneath it: when your core connectivity infrastructure depends on a foreign company's rockets, what does that mean for sovereignty?Dominic and Evans debate whether "the benefits outweigh the risk" is a fair trade or a quiet surrender, drawing parallels to MultiChoice's slow-motion disruption by Netflix and asking whether telcos like Airtel are walking into the same fate without realizing it, essentially outsourcing the one thing that made them valuable in the first place.The hosts also explore whether African fintech actually disrupting banking, or just proving that becoming a bank was the endgame all alongWith Flutterwave's licensing moves and Moniepoint's microfinance play as live examples, Dominic and Evans go back and forth on whether maturing into a bank is a graduation or a capitulation and why banks, by design, will always move slower than the fintechs nipping at their heels. The two land the M-Pesa case study , arguably the continent's biggest "bank," has never actually become one. They unpack what that says about staying asset-light versus owning the regulated stack, and why the real strategic question for any fintech founder isn't "bank or not" but "what are you actually trying to build?" _______________________________________________________________Join Dominic & Evans as they explore the world of tech and share their bold takes with guests on Admin AccessSubscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/adminaccess_💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/admin-access/ ♪ TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@admin.access_ Interested in partnering with us? Drop us an email at: contact@adminacccess.tech 📧

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  The Economic Force Replacing Editors and Content Creators | Admin Reacts

  Jun 22, 202618 min

  On this special episode of Admin Access, the hosts react to recent comments from the audience They kick things off with an honest admission: despite having what they thought was a high bar for quality content, they found themselves completely glued to fully AI-generated videos. The conversation gets into just how addictive this content is becoming, and why the real threat isn't deception it's indifference. They also unpack the economics , specifically Jevons Paradox. When production gets cheaper, you don't get less content. You get a flood of it. Lower costs mean more people creating more things more often, and that wave is already here.They also push back hard on the narrative that AI replaces professionals. Their take? The ground has shifted, not collapsed. AI is opening doors for non-professionals who just need something done , while simultaneously giving professionals tools to move faster and do more. The episode wraps with a cautionary tale about AI sovereignty. Evans shares his experience of when he decided to go off-grid , running LLMs locally on his own machine via Ollama, no data leaving, no subscriptions, just raw computing power. To keep up with Dominic’s and Evan's Journey, check out their LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-mulinda/https://www.linkedin.com/in/evans-kanyithia-munene _______________________________________________________________Join Dominic & Evans as they explore the world of tech and share their bold takes with guests on Admin AccessSubscribe to our podcast, drop a like, comment, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content.Don't forget to spread the word! Sharing is caring! 🌟Follow us on social media:📸 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/adminaccess_💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/admin-access/ ♪ TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@admin.access_ Interested in partnering with us? Drop us an email at: contact@adminacccess.tech 📧

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