From Illiterate Teen to Managing $1.3B portfolios | Aeko Ongodia| Uganda Edition

At 12 years , he could barely read. Years later, he was managing $1.3 billion in public funds. Aeko Ongodia’s story is not motivational. It is structural, he grew up in Entebbe, missed six years of formal schooling, and was kicked out twice. Nearly illiterate as a teenager, he taught himself to read using discarded books and relentless repetition. That discipline would later carry him into institutional finance, where he managed $1.3 billion at the Bank of Uganda and the National Social Security Fund Uganda. Then he walked away.In this Uganda edition of Financially Incorrect, we unpack how he saved $60 a month on a $200 salary, traveled by bus to invest at the Nairobi Securities Exchange during a historic bull run, and used those early gains to fund further education. We explore why he left a secure institutional career to build Zeno Investment Management, an automated investment platform designed to make professional portfolio management accessible from as little as $3, and how he went further to build regulated pull payment infrastructure to automate recurring investing across East Africa.This is not simply a founder’s journey. It is a story about building financial rails in a market where only a few hundred people once had active private investment accounts. Money, he argues, is freedom. But freedom at scale requires systems.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Access all our links in one place: ⁠https://lnk.bio/Financially_Inc💹 Ready to start trading?🔍 Who is FXPesa: ⁠https://shorturl.at/rWFqC⁠🎓 Learn how to trade: ⁠https://shorturl.at/xR2Ye⁠📊 Try a demo account: ⁠https://shorturl.at/izDMc⁠💸 Open a live account: ⁠https://shorturl.at/Od2ux