"Resilience is very African" - The entrepreneur moving 20,000 trucks across Africa
With guests Jean-Claude Homawoo
Episode notes
Jean-Claude Homawoo is the CEO of logistics firm Lori Systems. Founded in 2017, the company has now managed over 20,000 trucks across 12 African countries, moving goods worth more than $10 billion. Jean-Claude is an entrepreneur finding solutions to really practical problems: transport across Africa and across national borders... And that means potholes, border police, and variable road networks.
Transcript
🌟 IN THIS EPISODE:
2:51 How to transport $10 billion-worth of goods across Africa
7:17 From Harvard back to Africa
11:35 What Lori’s done so far
13:45 American money
14:46 Eight and a half years without profit
19:01 The number one problem for founders
23:51 Financing your customer
27:06 Why resilience matters
29:17 Why Africa should prize diversity
💬 QUOTES TO REMEMBER:
“We’re only now coming around to fully cracking what it takes to reach th...
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