PODCAST: Yoco CEO Katlego Maphai on growing a payments business in Africa
03 June 2022 - 06:00
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Yoco CEO and co-founder Katlego Maphai. Picture: SUPPLIED
Co-founder and CEO Katlego Maphai launched Yoco with three friends in October 2015. From a year-long beta with 500 merchants, they are now adding 10,000 new merchants a month.
He tells FM columnist Toby Shapshak about the phenomenal rise of this remarkable mobile payments business, that has now evolved into a payments platform.
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers.
PODCAST: Yoco CEO Katlego Maphai on growing a payments business in Africa
Co-founder and CEO Katlego Maphai launched Yoco with three friends in October 2015. From a year-long beta with 500 merchants, they are now adding 10,000 new merchants a month.
He tells FM columnist Toby Shapshak about the phenomenal rise of this remarkable mobile payments business, that has now evolved into a payments platform.
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