Global internet champion Naspers hitting top gear with “best set of financials in two decades”

LONDON — In today's Rational Perspective episode, an update from South Africa's exponential growth marvel, Naspers, as I get to spend half an hour in London with the group's CEO Bob van Dijk and its CFO Basil Sgourdos to talk about numbers, strategy, exponential growth and the past decade's 23% Internal Rate of Return on its investments excluding the astonishing Tencent (over 50% when the Chinese company is included). – Alec Hogg

This is the Rational Perspective, I'm Alec Hogg. And in today's episode, an update from South Africa's exponential growth marvel, Naspers. Squeezing your way into the diary of Naspers chief executive Bob van Dijk is a lot more challenging nowadays. As the company's investments have flourished, so too has the demand on the now 45-year-old who succeeded Koos Bekker as CEO – he did that four years ago. But results time opens a window and today I managed to grab half an hour with van Dijk and Naspers chief financial officer Basil Sgourdos. What follows is a fascinating half-hour with the men who run a business that is so dominant among JSE listings that it now accounts for a chunky one-fifth of the equity portion of South African retirement funding.

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