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YOUNG people must be brave and trust their instincts, says 20-year-old Joseph Mambwe.
Mambwe is a young entrepreneur, creator and adventurer who runs a
software company.
Mambwe was born in a family of five to Anne and Paul Mambwe.
He is currently at Cambridge University.
Mambwe says his upbringing had been an interesting journey.
"I was born in Zambia and stayed there until my family moved to
Botswana and later to UK. My family moved around quite a lot in pursuit
of better circumstances and when my mother got the opportunity to work
in the UK just before high school, she took it and we joined her later."
He says he always wanted to study engineering from the time he was
young.
"I have an innate curiosity of how everything comes to be, so engineering
has been my natural choice. I am a Cambridge University Engineering
student who started to dip his fingers into app development, I hope to
learn more by engaging with people who are doing the same," he says.
"The main challenges I face as a student and entrepreneur are basically
balancing my schoolwork and my ambitions, Cambridge University's
courses are notoriously difficult, and they strongly discourage anyone
from taking on any extra work and rightly so because the courses here are
super tough and intense. Trying to pursue my ambitions while doing my
course has been the cause of many sleepless nights, but I love it! However,
I always ask myself what's really important to me, then I just do it, things
usually work out if you are brave enough to really go after what you really
want despite what everyone around you might be telling you. And if you
fail at it, at least let it be on your terms, because at the end of the day, you
are the one who has to live with your decisions. The principle here is
taking control of your destiny and making sure you're not leaving out
somebody else's dreams or goals. People, who do just what they are
supposed to do, rarely get to do extraordinary things."
He says he is involved in some activities at Cambridge University.
"I'm a regular at the Cambridge University entrepreneur's events and also
advise different startup companies on matters of design and development.
I am also a mentor to a few aspiring student entrepreneurs who come to
me for advice on different matters. For the meantime, these are the
activities I am involved in that relate to my education and business," he
says.
Mambwe says he was the highest scoring student in both high school and
A levels.
"I would say getting into Cambridge is perhaps the biggest scholastic
achievement, especially as a black African male and at a tender age. It's
important because it's an example of when I went after something with
everything I had within me and succeeded and it really gave me the
confidence to approach even bigger challenges," he says.
He says he does not know where he could be, 10 years from now.
"I have no idea and that is the beauty of life, all I hope is that I am
pursuing my deepest convictions and doing something that matters. You
can follow my journey at www.josephmambwe.com ," he says.
Mambwe explains that Ruvix App Company started as a result of him
being curious as to how apps were made.
"This led me to releasing a few apps that did really well and so I decided
to start a company. I developed the idea of this company in my second
year and incorporated it same year. So far, I have come up with different
apps, a few that can be found at ruvixapps.net but the most notable on is
GymStreak (ruvixapps.net). My apps work in a variety of ways and target
different markets; I would say the best way to find out how they work is to
experience them. They are exclusively for iOS at the moment and can be
found at ruvixapps.net," he says.
Mambwe says he has plans to get his apps to Zambia, so that even
Zambians benefit from his apps and company services.
"I hope in the future to create regional apps that would allow people to
connect with everything around them and leverage the growing adoption
of smartphones in Zambia," he says.
"I am by no means a computer scientist. In fact, I almost failed my
software module before I started my company. You just have to be willing
and motivated enough to tough it out and work through it, it's like learning
another language, and it can be done. As earlier alluded to, managing my
time and prioritising tasks is perhaps the biggest challenge I have.
However, when you constantly have to make decisions, it can be hard to
figure out what exactly is the right thing to invest in both my time and
money into. I overcome this by following my instincts because they often
know the right answer before I consciously do," he says.
Mambwe urges youths to be brave and trust in their instincts."
"Remember that everybody will have an opinion on what you should do
with your life, from your parents, to your teachers to your friends. It's
extremely important that you figure out what it is exactly that you want to
do and go after it, with everything you've got, because when you are really
passionate about something, you will be willing to get through any
obstacles that may come your way and ultimately succeed. Those young
people who have brilliant apps ideas but fail to bring such ideas on board I
appeal to you to stop talking about it and start doing it. Everybody has a
great idea, very few people are good at executing their ideas, so get good
at executing on even the smallest ideas," he says.
He adds that anyone can start up an app business but the secret lies in
learning.
"Learn, Learn, Learn, everything I know now started by typing into
Google 'How to make an iPhone app' and then spending hours and hours
struggling trying to learn how to code. My role model is Elon Musk,
because of his work with PayPal, Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX. He is
really changing the world as we speak," he says.
"Whether I ultimately fail
or succeed, I want people to remember me as the guy who didn't accept a
reality handed to him but fearlessly tried to forge his own destiny."
Be willing to learn. It is that simple, you can do it.
For comments;mwenyamuleba@gmail.com / 0966 461 943/0950 594 050
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