E-commerce in Africa [Entire Talk]
Strategy
Part of Series
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
Season
Season 17
Episode
7
Juliet Anammah is the chairwoman of Jumia Nigeria and the Chief Sustainability Officer of Jumia Group, the largest e-commerce platform in Africa and the first African tech startup to be listed on the NYSE. She previously served as the CEO of Jumia Nigeria for more than 4 years, overseeing the growth and transition of Jumia Nigeria from online retail to a full digital ecosystem that included marketplace, logistics and payments services. In this conversation with Darius Teter, executive director of Stanford Seed, Anammah explores the challenges of building a marketplace business in Africa as well as the huge untapped potential of e-commerce on the continent.
Video clips from: E-commerce in Africa [Entire Talk]
- 1:50Digital marketplaces can help mitigate gender-related bias.
- 1:43Instead of disrupting regulations, innovators can educate regulators.
- 1:25When driving a transition from a physical to a digital marketplace, building trust is priority number one.
- 4:57Digital marketplace businesses don’t need to own many physical assets.