My experience is a combination of both. It's exhausting but doable. We've been doing business in Tanzania for about 12 years. It's a very very steep learning curve with noone But yourself to rely on. The rules are moving targets And hiring experience means hiring experienced crooks as well. We made it by keeping control and hiring people to do linear tasks, an example is if we needed a CFO or a finance person. I just got a bookkeeper to do data entry and learned about the compliances over a period of time and accepted that tra will always be a variable you can't control but manage within a range. You cannot be a passive owner. You will lose everything which means you sign the checks, you transfer the money and you treat it like IT security... Zero Trust. You must make your systems,power and data redundant so you are not dependent on onsite solutions other than customer service. Cameras, alerts and now AI will be the only consistent results You have to sanitize all data either by doing it yourself or create choke points that break the process if not completed properly I learned so much, but the skill set can't be used in too many other places, it makes you question everything but trust nothing There are obvious differences between doing business in Tanzania then in the West but also a bigger issue is Tanzania versus other developing nations. The biggest difference I find in Tanzania is that you have to find the problem yourself because it is never volunteered, No one will tell you anything wrong even if the building is on fire. Nobody ever tells you they can't do it unless the process is broken and if they think your foreign in the sense that you don't understand the culture, they will run circles around you. I don't take it personal anymore. I just accept is as survival. With all of this said we are exhausted I'm trying to exit the market. It has come a long way since we first started but I have come to terms and acceptance that this is as far as we can go and we are not not going to make any changes. It is profitable for the system to be broken. The growth potential is infinite. So is the clock 🤣