26 min
Jesse Moore, CEO & Co-founder - M-KOPA - Scaling to 3M customers across Africa Built Tough
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- Entrepreneurship
Originally from Canada, Jesse Moore knew early on that he wanted to spend his life building a business that had a radically positive impact on underbanked customers in East Africa. In 2011, he moved to Nairobi, Kenya to launch M-KOPA, a connected asset financing platform that pioneered the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model in Africa. With more than 12 years at the helm of M-KOPA, Jesse has led the company through major milestones, including raising more than $500M in investment.
In this episode, Jesse speaks about his entrepreneurial journey from wanting to be a humanitarian worker to becoming a social entrepreneur, M-KOPA’s pivot from solar energy, and how his team successfully scaled from a few thousand to 3 million customers.
Originally from Canada, Jesse Moore knew early on that he wanted to spend his life building a business that had a radically positive impact on underbanked customers in East Africa. In 2011, he moved to Nairobi, Kenya to launch M-KOPA, a connected asset financing platform that pioneered the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model in Africa. With more than 12 years at the helm of M-KOPA, Jesse has led the company through major milestones, including raising more than $500M in investment.
In this episode, Jesse speaks about his entrepreneurial journey from wanting to be a humanitarian worker to becoming a social entrepreneur, M-KOPA’s pivot from solar energy, and how his team successfully scaled from a few thousand to 3 million customers.
26 min