Building The Future with Dotun
Summary: One on one interviews with people who are using technology, entrepreneurship and innovative ideas to shape the future of Africa.
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- Artist: Dotun Olowoporoku: Entrepreneur, Investor, Growth Strategist
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On the podcast today, we have the CEO and Co-Founder of Paystack, Shola Akinlade. Paystack is a payments processing company which lets businesses accept payments via debit card or money transfer on their websites or mobile apps. Paystack was the very first Nigerian company to get into YC - which is no small feat!
On the podcast today, we have Ngozi Dozie, Co-Founder at OneFi. OneFi is a platform that provide access to finance by leveraging data and technology. One of their major product is Paylater, a lending mobile app which enable people to get access to short term loans in Nigeria as quickly as possible In this episode, we spend a bit of our time time talking about the opportunities and challenges in running multiple businesses at the same time. And the paradox of focus for African entrepreneurs.
Episode 004 - Bob Collymore: How Safaricom is using technology to solve problems for the man on the street
Our guest this week is Marek Zmyslowski Marek is the cofounder of Jumia Travel (formerly Jovago) and HotelOga. HotelOga is a hotel management system which enables hotels in Africa to have their own booking engine, websites and customer relationship management system. Prior to starting HotelOga, Marek was the Managing Director at Jovago one of Rocket Internet companies in Africa
Episode 008 Deepankar Rustagi, Founder at Vconnect, What we learnt from attempting to build ecommerce platform in Nigeria. How to get early traction by focusing on specific market segment.
Episode 007 Kola Aina, Founder at Ventures Platform, How to build a platform for accelerating the next generation of entrepreneurs in Africa
One of the major challenge for doing business in Africa is lack of data. It’s hard to get information about private businesses in the continent. There are lots of consultants and researchers scouting around the continent for every bit of data they can get on businesses. Rob Withagen used to be one of those researchers. Until he got stucked in traffic in a sweaty taxi on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. And then he had the aha moment.
BTF 005 Mark Essien: Building a business around scalable distribution channels, and why raising money too early can kill your startup
BTF 003 - Tayo Bamiduro: solving hyperlocal logistic problems for ecommerce in Africa
BTF 002 - Bilikiss Abiola: building a profitable recycling platform, shaping public policy and creating jobs.
BTF 001 - Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Empowering people, building platforms and getting power.
