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Continue reading →: Racing in the Dominican Republic: where to drive, train and compete
People think of the Dominican Republic as beaches, baseball and all-inclusives. I think of it as a country where you can get a kart under you on Monday and a race licence by the end of the season. I race here. I drive in the Dominican national championship, and I…
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Continue reading →: I Lived in South Africa. I Think I Saw Europe’s Future.
When I moved to South Africa in 2017, I used to joke that I was seeing how Europe would look in 20 years. I’m no longer joking.
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Continue reading →: 2:51 pm, Warsaw Airport: The Smile Disappeared from Her Face
I was flying to London to ask bankers for money. Instead, a border guard made a phone call, and I was led away in handcuffs on an Interpol Red Notice from Nigeria.
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Continue reading →: You Don’t Own Your Invoices: Entrepreneurship Under Permission in the Dominican Republic
In the Dominican Republic, opening a company doesn’t mean you can invoice freely. The tax authority decides how many invoices you may issue. That is a quiet but real tax on freedom.
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Continue reading →: Find Your Racetrack: Why a Passion Outside Business Made Me Better at ItI never really had hobbies. Racing taught me that a passion outside business is not a distraction from it. Founders have a well-documented burnout problem, and this is one practical answer.
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Continue reading →: Building While Being Framed as the ProblemI agree with the critics on the problems. The disagreement is about what to do next. A decade in frontier markets, and what evidence says about community land trusts.
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Continue reading →: A Milestone for Nomad City: Infrastructure and Housing Execution PartnershipSamana Group has signed a strategic execution partnership for the infrastructure and housing of Nomad City. Why execution risk, not land, is what decides whether a development ever gets built.
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Continue reading →: The Caribbean Burns Fuel It Doesn’t Own. Here Is the Way Out.Nine percent of Caribbean electricity is renewable. The world average is 32%. The islands that fixed it did three boring things, and the data shows exactly which.
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Continue reading →: Paradise Should Not Be CheapLiving by the beach in the Caribbean is a privilege, not a coupon. If you want it, earn it, contribute to it, and stop treating a poorer country as a discount.
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Continue reading →: We Didn’t IPO. We Did Something Cooler First.After 15 months of work and audits across three countries, Samaná Landbank Trust became the first Caribbean real estate fund accepted into European financial market infrastructure. What that means in plain English, and why it matters.
Hello,
I’m Marek
Founder & CEO of Samana Group. Author of “Chasing Black Unicorns”. Born in Poland. Built in Nigeria, South Africa and the Dominican Republic. Co-founder of Jumia Travel and SunRoof International. Racing driver.
