Before they announced their $200 million dollar fundraise, I thought of Wave as just another fintech startup. Then I went to Senegal and found out what was really going on. 🇸🇳 Their penguin logo was everywhere! Shops, car windows, street corners, etc 🐧 And that's when I understood. Wave Mobile Money had quietly built West Africa's most popular money transfer service by focusing on one thing first.. Making peer-to-peer payments effortless. Sid Sridhar and I were discussing how they turned that initial focus into a broader platform now powering merchant payments across the region. 💰
Absolutely! Everywhere you go in Senegal 🇸🇳 Their distribution needs to be studied further
In 2018, as I was preparing to leave Wari, one of the best Fintechs in Senegal, I had predicted the tidal wave of blue that is Wave. Two years later, Wave became what it is today.
Sid Sridhar is an amazing communicator and he just dropped an important insight ‘frequent use cases’ that’s really core to how build successful products.
CEO and Co-Founder at Archer; Previously CEO and Co-Founder at Payhippo (YC S21)
2wBtw I'm referring to this: