Abdul Hassan, CEO & Founder of Mono, Backed by Ycombinator
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2024
- Abdulhamid Hassan is the CEO of Mono, a data startup that is “powering the internet economy” in Africa. Mono is the modern financial infrastructure for Africa, backed with $17M from Tiger Global, Entree capital, Target global, DST, SBI Group, and powering companies like Carbon, Tangerine, Renmoney, Identitypass and so much more.
Mono is currently live in Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Kenya.
0:00 Introduction
0:59 Abdul shares his background
2:35 What’s your favorite childhood memory growing up in Ijebu Ode?
3:24 You went to Europe to school, but how did your Dad take it?
5:36 Tell us about Oya Pay. What was the idea and how did it start?
9:11 How long did you spend at Voyant before Mono clicked?
13:23 What has been the biggest challenge so far?
16:44 When Mono started, it was a B2B, but at some point, you switched. Please talk about this.
18:33 Aside the mission-driven company you are building, what else about Mono brings it into that legacy you are building?
20:22 What kind of people do you look out for when you’re hiring?
21:25 How are you guys on the consumer end managing the data collection on the platform?
23:20 What has been your biggest lesson so far building all these companies?
28:30 Have you ever been afraid of the Mono’s growth?
29:35 What’s your non work-related wildest dream right now?
30:00 When you’re not working, what do you do?
30:47 What is one city that you haven’t been to yet but would like to visit and why?
31:09 Who would you say has had the biggest influence on you?
32:11 What would you say to people who want to enter the tech ecosystem?
I must say that Abdul Hassan's superpower as a tech founder is his ability to be well articulated. I even bought into his mission for mono.
"Don't raise too much money at early stage, get a good co-founder and hire the best people" - I am taking note. Thanks peace for the interviews
Thank you for watching!
The way Abdul is able to very clearly articulate his brilliant thoughts needs to be studied.
It's one thing to have knowledge, it's another thing to be able to convey that knowledge to people in a very clear and succinct manner.
I know right??
This is one of the most amazing interviews i have seen on your page. thanks Hassan! i should join MONO
You can literally binge on founders connect.
😮❤🎉
I am going to be interviewed someday on #FoundersConnect as a Founder. #Bookmarkthis
Love love love your channel!! I am a serial entrepreneur and want to come back home. I’ve been looking for this channel and not even know it exists. Thank you!! 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Adbul is really an operator and you can tell he loves building. I wish hime the best at Mono and thank you for this interview Peace.
Thank you🙏🏽
Exceptional as always...
Abdul speaking some truth.
There is a lot of money in the ecosystem.
We are killing creativity.
Thank you Peace for bringing Abdul.
Learnt a whole lot from this interview, thank you Abdul.
Best way to be the best is to learn from the best ... Mono to the moooooooooooon!
Best lesson about business I’ll ever hear… let the CEO interview new hires
I really enjoyed watching this! It's truly inspiring the solutions these founders are building for the local market.
Really hoping to be in this ecosystem someday building alongside these guys.
Loved this episode 💫🤍
Thanks for sharing Gems Abdul! Really insightful episode. Thanks, Peace!
Awesome videooooo!!! Would love a podcast version🚀
Hi Peace, can we a forum for startups… I feel there’s a lot of value you can add to us in terms of knowledge and experience
Great Interview.
Thank you.
very interesting interview
I think so too 😁🤩
Wow! Peace, you so beautiful
Thank you
I really enjoy watching this series “founders connect”. I learn a lot of things from just one video thanks peace, keep the good work on. Peace out ✌️ ☮️.