Jagat Shah: Success gave me everything, but the bill was paid at home

Mitsumi Distribution chairman and chief executive Jagat Shah during an interview at his Nairobi office on May 21, 2026.

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Jagat Shah has a few things to say about money. “It is only a commodity.”

“Money buys experience; experience winds up with the money.” Money, he says, adds no real happiness to life. He should know. As the driving force behind Mitsumi Distribution, he has made plenty of it. “Enough for my children’s children not to run out of,” he says.

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