During this episode, Santosh is joined by David Akinin, Founder and CEO at Jabu. Jabu is a B2B Marketplace that helps establish a digital link between small retailers and suppliers. Santosh and David discuss economic mobility, physical infrastructure, and more.

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Highlights from their conversation include:

• Overview of Jabu (1:14)
• David’s background (2:09)
• How operations work in today’s market (5:07)
• Economic mobility in Africa (8:47)
• Why David is building Jabu full-stack (9:57)
• Africa’s physical infrastructure (12:35)
• The Jabu experience (15:14)
• Benefits Jabu stakeholders acquire (18:01)
• Cash-based economy (20:27)
• Advice for acting on financial opportunities (23:29)
• Underappreciating broadening the African supply chain (24:46)
• The future of Jabu (26:16)
• Speed round: favorite habits, biggest company building challenge, fondest founder memory (27:31)

Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.