Heavy Chef Seeks To Empower South African Entrepreneurs
Heavy Chef Seeks To Empower South African Entrepreneurs. Heavy Chef creates learning experiences for entrepreneurs. Heavy Chef offers evening events and morning Masterclasses for entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and emerging entrepreneurs. Heavy Chef aims to inspire people to start new projects and empower them to succeed. The company believes inspiration comes from creating tactile, authentic and magical ‘interactive moments’ that add a richness and permanence to the learning journey.
The company’s name comes from the term ‘never trust a skinny chef’ – meaning that, in a time where the world is empowered to talk, it believes that it’s time to become a doer. The company’s monthly events are the longest-running and most popular monthly tech and entrepreneurs events in South Africa.
Heavy Chef is a combination of content and community. Heavy Chef offers recipes for entrepreneurs. A ‘recipe’ is like a mini-course on just about any topic relevant to the community members. Each recipe is made up of 10 learning bites consisting of a video focusing on a salient question, three focus points, a transcript and an audio file. Each month Heavy Chef orgnaises community gatherings where its members can meet the ‘chefs’.
Heavy Chef believes that entrepreneurs can change the world for the better. The company aims to inspire entrepreneurs on their journey and then empower them to succeed. It offers recipes on technology, leadership and creativity for its community of 45,000+ entrepreneurs. In a world of talkers, it’s the doers that are going to change it.
The company offers recipes on technology, leadership and creativity for its community of 45,000+ entrepreneurs. In a world of talkers, it’s the doers that are going to change it. Its recipes range from how to book a domain, build a website, launch an e-commerce store, AI, machine learning, app design and robotics. In the 21st Century, every entrepreneur needs to fully embrace technology.
Heavy Chef began in 2017. The learning platform was launched to the public in 2021. However, the idea was born out of a digital marketing agency much earlier that that. In a chance meeting in 2005 the saying ‘never trust a skinny chef’ influenced a team of digital creatives to be more entrepreneurial. The Heavy Chef learning platform was finally launched in February 2021, with just 8 recipes. Heavy Chef has subsequently created 1000s of learning videos for an ever-growing community of passionate entrepreneurs.
Many observers have commented on the dearth of strong, empathetic and visionary leaders in the business space. From self-discipline to self-care, its range of recipes continue to inspire and empower. A ‘Heavy Chef’ is someone who can speak with authority about a particular thing because they have real experience doing that thing. A Heavy Chef could be someone world-famous or someone who has been performing notable work in the background. The company has hosted 100s of technologists, leaders and creatives on its platform to speak about an ever-expanding curriculum of topics.
Heavy Chef aims to create the largest entrepreneur learning repository, providing a high quality of education to a diverse range of community members. The Heavy Chef Foundation NPO was launched in 2019 to support this mission. Heavy Chef Foundation conducts some of the most authoritative research surveys on the African continent, with the aim of providing entrepreneurs in disconnected regions with high-quality learning resources.
