African Giants

📲 What's up with WhatsApp - How Africa is going all in on Messaging apps 💬.

🐾 What are the next steps? - Roundup of my East African trip🌍

⚖️ Currencies are not created equal - The $7trillion African opportunity 🌍

Understanding the cross-country payment problem and how startups are solving it 💰

🦸👉🤦‍♂️ From Hero to Zero: the graveyard of failed VC companies ☠️🌍

The first generation of big fails paving the way to smarter entrepreneurs and investors in Africa.

Next stop: Kenya - The Silicon Savannah 🦒🇰🇪

Understanding mobile money with M-Pesa

Timing is everything: is Ethiopia Forex reform a good idea?💵

Understand Ethiopia's biggest economic reform of the decade

20+ Meetings later: snapshot of the Ethiopian tech ecosystem 🇪🇹📲

Learnings from 20+ meetings with Ethiopian entrepreneurs and stakeholders.

Why African founders should reinvent the wheel - the TtoT framework (Tradition to Tech)

Leveraging ancient traditions to built the next African giants 👴🦄

Ethiopia + Digital Payments = 🐣

My first week in Addis + How digital payments still have a long way to go in Ethiopia.

The truth about Ethiopia monetary black market 💰

Understanding why it's so hard to get money in and out of Ethiopia.

Navigating life effectively 🚣‍♀️ + the surprising insurance system in Botswana 🇧🇼

How I'm organizing my days before my African trip + How insurance companies overcome local constraints to thrive in Africa 🏥

Do you really know where you come from? 🇪🇹 + Debit card system

Let's discover Ethiopia + learn how traditional debit card payment works.