#80: The End of the Afrobility Podcast - Until We Meet Again…

Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about Afrobility. We’ll explore the Afrobility story across the following areas: Why we started Afrobility Lessons from past episodes Behind the scenes of Afrobility Future plans after Afrobility Closing thoughts This episode was recorded on June 8 & 14, 2025 Companies discussed: All of them :) - Jumia, Flutterwave, Paystack, Andela, Chipper Cash, Safaricom (M-Pesa), Wave, Reliance Health, M-Kopa, Naspers, Interswitch, Kuda, Yoco, Tyme Bank, Twiga Foods & many more… Business concepts discussed: Market Creation, Business Model Innovation, Cross-border Expansion, Fintech Infrastructure, Informal Economy Digitization, Agent Networks, Platform vs Vertical Strategy, Talent and Outsourcing, Unit Economics, Scalability, Offline-to-Online (O2O), Acquisition & Exit Strategies Conversation highlights: (05:50) - Afrobility Founding Story (19:07) - Review of all Afrobility episodes (03:50:12) - Lessons across episodes (4:00:10) - Bankole’s overall thoughts (4:05:00) - Olumide’s overall thoughts (4:10:00) - Recommendations Olumide’s recommendations: Interested in investing in Africa Tech with Olumide: Read about Adamantium fund & contact me at olumide@afrobility.com. Founders looking for funding: If you're a B2B founder working on Education, Health, Finance or food, please contact me for funding at olumide@afrobility.com Checkout my FIREDOM book = FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) + Freedom = personal finance and financial independence book. Website , Read: Substack Newsletter & Buy: Print, eBook or Audiobook ) Recommendation: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (Harry Browne) - Independent thinking and freedom Recommendation: FIREDOM: Financial Independence stories of immigrants, expats, underdogs, outsiders, nomads or minorities (Olumide Ogunsanwo & Achani Samon Biaou) - Book about creating and living the life you want. I love it because I wrote it. Recommendation: Maximum Achievement (Bryan Tracy) - Self belief & Self development Bankole’s recommendations: Recommendation: Anything you want (Derek Sivers) Recommendation: Book of Why (Dana Mackenzie & Judea Pearl) Listeners: We’d love to hear from you. Email info@afrobility.com with feedback! Founders & Operators: We'd love to hear about what you're working on, email us at info@afrobility.com Investors: It would be great to link up with you. Contact us at info@afrobility.com Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes on Afrobility.com

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#80: The End of the Afrobility Podcast - Until We Meet Again… is an episode from Afrobility: Africa Tech & Business by Olumide Ogunsanwo and Bankole Makanju.

This episode is 04:13:44 long.

This episode was published on Jun 20, 2025.

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