The BIG5D Podcast

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The BIG5D Podcast features interviews with entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, and others driving the adoption of digital marketing and commerce tools by small businesses in Africa and the Middle East. The "Big Five" in this context are search, social, mobile, location, and payments. This podcast is produced by BigFiveDigital and The Africa B2B Tech Report. Send inquiries to info@bigfivedigital.org

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Episode 10: Meghan McCormick, Co-founder & CEO, OZÉ 20.01.2021 37:43

This is the first in the BIG5D Podcast's Fintech Founders Series, This episode features OZÉ CEO Meghan McCormick. Meghan explains her journey from American Peace Corp veteran and management consultant to founding a small-business fintech based in Ghana that helps SMMEs get organized with SaaS tools and get access to capital on fair terms. Meghan comes to everything with a core mission of creating...

Episode Nine: Kartik Taneja, Head of B2B Solutions, EMEA, Uber 11.01.2021 19:34

The pandemic has created challenges for the region’s logistics players — ride-hailing services, food delivery apps, and others. But there is also a tremendous emerging opportunity to offer an ever-widening array of services. We will explore this landscape with Uber’s Kartik Taneja. Episode sponsored by MatchCraft (www.matchcraft.com)

Episode Eight: Samantha Naidu, Volt Africa 30.12.2020 18:05

This episode of BIG5D.TV features an interview with Samantha Naidu, CEO of Volt Africa. We discuss the optimal digital solution set for African SMEs, particularly in times of crisis. This episode was sponsored by Duda: https://www.duda.co/

Episode Seven: Colin Timmis, Xero 15.12.2020 19:59

Today’s guest is Colin Timmis, the South Africa country manager for Xero -- the global cloud accounting platform. We had a great conversation about what it takes to get SMMEs to overcome their anxiety about technology and use it to their advantage. This episode is sponsored by Duda

Episode 6: Grant Greeff 19.09.2020 23:10

Cape Town entrepreneur Grant Greeff shares his experience of trying to save one company, EHire, while launching another, OpenRoute, in the midst of a global pandemic.

Episode 5: Featuring Wayne Bischoff & George Leith 02.09.2020 33:37

This is the podcast version of the BIG5D.TV video series. This episode features a conversation about sales during the COVID-19 pandemic with Wayne Bischoff, CEO of Mediamark, a media sales house in South Africa, and George Lieth, EVP Sales at Vendasta, a Canadian martech company. The original interview was conducted in July 2020.