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Stefan Froelich popularly known as The DumbTechGuy is one of Ghana's bright minds in computer engineering with hands-on experience building tech for the Ghanaian and global markets. In this episode we discuss his journey to becoming a software engineer, how he rose into 'software leadership', his experience building some of Ghana's favourite fintech platforms, and his work at DevCo...

Desmond founded Complete Farmer seven years ago with the mission of unlocking global market access for local farmers in Ghana. In this episode, we delve into the journey so far, exploring what drives him as a leader and gaining insights into the innovative projects that Complete Farmer is currently developing. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities Register for Demo...

Big techs have helped accelerate growth in Ghana’s tech ecosystem in the past with the presence and activation of Google Ghana, YouTube, Facebook and now with the presence of Google AI Office and MTN Ghana. In this episode, we diagnose their impact on innovation in Ghana with Emmanuel A. Gamor current Senior Manager at MTN Ghana and ex YouTube and Facebook employee. Listen here and share with your...

Three Questions is a new extension of the Building Bytes podcast, on this show, we ask your favourite tech personalities quick-fire questions to get to know them better. This is an episode with Irina Oduro co-founder and CEO of Verifibuy.

Verifibuy (formerly Kudigo) was recently named one of the fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times, in this episode, we spoke with Verifibuy's CEO Irina Oduro about how they are building technology to support commerce activities of micro, small and medium enterprises in Ghana and Nigeria. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues! Opportunities ⁠Workshop on Alternative Dis...

Three Questions is a new extension of the Building Bytes podcast, on this show, we ask your favourite tech personalities quick-fire questions to get to know them better. This is an episode with Ebenezer Ghanney co-founder and CEO of WeWire.

Ebenezer Ghanney founded WeWire to make B2B payments possible for all businesses across the world after leaving Yellowcard where he was employee number one in Ghana and led business operations. In this episode, we learn about his journey as an entrepreneur, building WeWire and his general thoughts on the fintech industry in Ghana and globally. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues...

Three Questions is a new extension of the Building Bytes podcast, on this show, we ask your favourite tech personalities quick-fire questions to get to know them better. This is an episode with Joseph-Albert Kuuire founder and editor of Tech Labari.

In 2017, Joseph-Albert Kuuire founded Tech Labari to address the increasing demand for high-quality local tech reporting on Ghana's tech ecosystem. In this episode of Building Bytes, we chat with him about their seven-year journey as a tech news publication covering Ghana and Africa as a whole. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues! Opportunities ⁠⁠⁠⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa E...

In 2012 Sandister Tei co-founded Wikimedia Ghana User Group a community of volunteer editors focused on improving and promoting Wikipedia's knowledge projects in Ghana. In this episode, we ‘delved’ into the birth of the community, and the role they play in advancing digital literacy among others. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities ⁠⁠⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa...

For most software businesses in Ghana, accessibility is an afterthought but in this conversation with Derrick Omari we learn about why building inclusive products is a good business case and how to approach this mind shift. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities ⁠⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship AU Digital and  Innovation Fellowship McKinsey & Company...

We had an exciting conversation with Paul Damalie who recently exited his startup Appruve to Smile ID. We learnt about the early days of Appruve, what inspired the exit and what Paul is up to these days at Damalie Innovation Holdings Group. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Production partner: Kweku Tech Opportunities ⁠Mastercard X MEST Africa Edtech fellowship

What are the indications of a real product market for African startups? What does it take to achieve real product market fit?  We got answers for these and more in our conversation with Bright Ahedor serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Kudigo and Startup mentor at MEST Africa with over a decade of experience building, leading and mentoring African startups. Listen here and share with your friends a...

As we slowly welcome ourselves back from the internet blackout that hit major parts of Africa including Ghana, we had a conversation with telecommunication and software expert Raphael Acquah who currently leads software strategy at MTN Ghana to have an understanding of Ghana’s internet infastrusture and how it all works. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities ⁠⁠⁠Gen...

Benjamin Sackey a seasoned product designer and manager with over a decade of experience working in Ghana's product design and development space discussed how the space has evolved over the last ten years in this episode of Building Bytes. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities ⁠⁠Gen F by Founder's Fund

In this episode of Building Bytes, we delve into the story of Vanessa Leonie-Mensah, CEO of VDL Fulfilment, and how she pioneered Ghana's tech-enabled fulfillment infrastructure. Her journey began with a quest for a superior courier service for personal use. This episode serves as an interlude for the Hall of a Decade season, which will resume next week. Listen here and share with your friends...

Eyram Tawia's journey of pioneering Africa's game development industry from Ghana is one full of passion and a bouquet of lessons, 15 years on Eyram tells the story of the early days of game development in Africa and founding Leti Arts with the Building Bytes Hosts. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunities Gen F by Founder's Fund

Entrepreneurial Support Organizations [ESOs] play an important role in the development of startups, in this episode we sat with Olufemi Adewumi [Mr. Femi], the Program Director at MEST Africa to talk about the impact ESOs have contributed to building global startups. Listen here and share with your friends and colleagues. Opportunity ⁠UNICEF StartUp Lab MEST Training Program

In 2010 Ghana had no technology hubs, today in 2024 there is a hub in almost all the 16 regions in Ghana. We spoke to the founder of Ghana's first indigenous tech hub, iSpace who doubles as the President of Ghana Hubs Network about how Ghana's Innovation hub space has evolved over the years and what's next for that sector. Listen here and share with your friends, and colleagues. Opport...

It's a new year and a new season at Building Bytes, the guys are back. In this episode, they interview Eric Nsarkoh, a Telecommunication Giant who in the span of his career, led Innovations of telecoms like MTN, Airtel and Tigo, he shared his account on the evolution of Mobile Money in Ghana. Listen here and share with your friends. Opportunity MEST Training Program

Just as Sam Altman's stay at OpenAI has ended, so has the first season of Building Bytes, it's been a great experience and thanks for listening, see you next year and have a fun holiday ahead. Listen here and share with your friends. Opportunity Accra Lawtech Hangout

Every thriving tech ecosystem is built on the foundation of strong communities, most of these communities are in various sectors of the ecosystem and in this episode, we highlighted a few of them. Listen here and share with your friends. Connect with us on Socials; Twitter:  ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ Instagram:  ⁠@BuildingBytes⁠ LinkedIn:  ⁠Building Bytes Opportunities Ghana Digital Innovation Week 2023, 6...

We a̶d̶d̶r̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ discussed the elephant in the room, aka Co-founder Dilemma. We tried our best and shared some of our experiences dealing with our co-founders. This may not be the best episode we have recorded but it had some hard truths. Connect with us on Socials; Twitter:  ⁠⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠⁠ Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn:  ⁠⁠⁠Building Bytes⁠

We believe part-time founders can also build great companies and we went guns blazing in this episode. If you are building while still at post at your 9 to 5, this is your episode share with your friends who are also building startups part-time and yes full-time founders do listen. Opportunities eCedi Hackathon 2023 MEST Africa Challenge (MAC) Connect with us on Socials; Twitter:  ⁠⁠⁠@BuildingByte...

In this episode of Building Bytes Caleb and Yaw discuss the best approach to incorporate a startup from Ghana and share their experience protesting at #OccupyJulorbiProtest. Connect with us on Socials; Twitter:  ⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠ Instagram:  ⁠⁠@BuildingBytes⁠⁠ LinkedIn:  ⁠⁠Building Bytes⁠