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by benjaminf 6y ago
NALA | Accel Partners and YC backed | Building a Bank for Africa | Remote (preferred GMT to +3 GMT hours) | Android Developer Engineer What is NALA? At NALA, we’re on a mission to build a bank Africa loves to use. We are always keen to hear
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by benjaminf 7y ago
NALA | Accel Partners and YC backed | Building a Bank for Africa | Remote (preferred GMT to +3 GMT hours) | Android Developer Engineer What is NALA? At NALA, we’re on a mission to build a bank Africa loves to use. We are always keen to hear
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by benjaminf 8y ago
Yes, definitely Kenya is where M-pesa started but if you look at recent GSMA reports, over $300B was transacted in Mobile Money within Sub Saharan Africa just last year. Kenya is definitely the country where mobile money is used the most, b
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by benjaminf 8y ago
great question, they were actually out of curiosity to learn to build something in fintech. Interviews themselves are really hard, I struggled to not ask 'leading questions' when I wanted the interviewee to say what I wanted to he
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by benjaminf 8y ago
That’s right! The idea for NALA was totally shaped by these conversations. I wrote a short post about how NALA was born that provides a bit of insight into some of these interviews ( https://medium.com/nala-money/how-we-
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by benjaminf 8y ago
Great idea! Yes, the current process of sending money is so long... literally 39-46 digits (including waiting times) per payment. Thanks for the Angaza reference, we will work on creating simple videos!
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by benjaminf 8y ago
hi! You are right! The cellular protocol we use is called USSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...
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Launch HN: Nala (YC W19) – Internet-Free Mobile Payments App for Africa
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