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Julian Rowlands

Distributor APIs: a massive product category hiding in plain sight

In the tech world, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that APIs are one of the hottest product categories out there. And for…

5 min readJun 1, 2021

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Julian Rowlands

A guide to working with Julian

I wrote this to make it as easy and intuitive as possible for teammates to collaborate with me. My success or failure as a leader depends…

5 min readNov 17, 2020

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A guide to working with Julian

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The two things that enable all of human progress

I first became aware of an international development mystery back when I was a regular passenger on the prop plane route connecting…

5 min readMay 28, 2020

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The two things that enable all of human progress

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How to protect your investors while operating in the wild west

Disclaimer: the following is observations gleaned from years of speaking with investors and entrepreneurs across Africa and Asia, and does…

4 min readSep 15, 2019

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Incentives matter (don’t take development money!)

Incentives are destiny. If you align yourself with development entities (read: impact investors, NGOs, or govt agencies) whose…

4 min readAug 14, 2019

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Incentives matter (don’t take development money!)

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How to launch a startup in an emerging market

Note: this is the first in a multi-post series that I’ll be publishing over the medium-term future. I’ll be moving stage-by-stage (from…

8 min readAug 5, 2019

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You can’t travel to Myanmar without funding oppression

It is impossible to be an ethical tourist in Myanmar. Here’s why

3 min readJan 5, 2019

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You can’t travel to Myanmar without funding oppression

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Your favorite solar business might be doomed

Demystifying — and questioning — frontier market consumer-facing solar businesses

3 min readJul 7, 2018

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Your favorite solar business might be doomed

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Frontier Market Numbers Aren’t Real

It’s 2am. You’ve been staring at World Bank, UN, and IMF numbers for weeks. You’ve finally found the data points that paint a compelling…

3 min readJun 25, 2018

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Frontier Market Numbers Aren’t Real

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How Frontier Markets Taught Me to Love My Student Loans

In June 2017, I graduated from The University of Chicago with both an MBA and a student loan burden of $203,419.72. I don’t come from a…

3 min readFeb 2, 2018

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How Frontier Markets Taught Me to Love My Student Loans

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Julian Rowlands

Julian Rowlands

Head of Finance @ Spruce // Chicago Booth alum // Worked in Indonesia, Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Bangladesh, Myanmar // Scruffy and kind

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