#30 Scaling an African FinTech startup with Lungisa Matshoba from Yoco.

Welcome to the ‘how to be moderately successful podcast’, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better FinTech products and a better version of yourself.Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.Building a FinTech business is difficult and building the software that powers that business,  that scales and that your users love is very difficult. In today's competitive environment, you just can't afford to get your tech wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, your team,  closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.This is where we can help,With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for FinTech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner. We’ll take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards and by people that really care.We’re small enough so that you are always close to the principals but big enough to be able to deliver at the highest standard consistently without KMD’sWe have deep expertise in FinTech, and particularly Blockchain.We have a proven track record of expanding and evaluating tech teams and capabilities for our partners.If you would like to accelerate your FinTech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.Go to www.nona.digital to book a call directly with one of the principals or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.Today my guest is Lungisa Matshoba.After completing a Business and Computer Science degree Lungi set out to build the world's first VoIP service that would work on a smartphone. They raised some investment and after two years joined the TelFree group. Keep in mind this was before the smartphone and this tech was running on Windows Mobile and Symbian OS phones so Lungi has been around for a while in the tech space.In Feb of 2013 Lungi co-founded Yoco where he is the CTO today.Yoco is one of the big African FinTech names. They build tools and services to help small businesses get paid, run their businesses, and grow.To date they have over 120 000 paying customers and are on a massive growth trajectory.Lungi is articulate, surprisingly calm for someone that's part of the leadership of a rocket ship like Yoco and also a  genuinely nice guy.Welcome Lungi, it’s really great to have you on the show.                                                                                    ******************If you have a Fintech project that you would like to accelerate with a partner that will take care of your design and development to allow you to focus on your area of genius, we’d love to help you. Head over to our website www.nona.digital to book a call with one of our principles or follow any of the contacts in the show notes.