Shylocks almost ruined my company

Dr Maxwell Okoth. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Nine years ago, an intern at a Kiambu hospital started thinking of going out on his own. He didn’t see why he shouldn’t. He could barely afford rent on his job anyway. It also wasn’t his first rodeo. As a medical student at The University of Nairobi, he would buy flash disks from Nairobi’s River Road and resell to classmates. “On Valentine’s Day, I sold flowers. And for boys too shy to deliver them to their girlfriends, I offered delivery services,” he laughs.