Our sixth guest in the East Africa bloc is South Sudanese Simon Chao Aloysius the Chief Executive Officer of Nile Boda. Nile Boda are easing commuting challenges for citizens and creating employment for young bike riders. . If you are curious, then listen in.
Conversation Overview
When Simon finished university in Uganda he couldn’t find work. He recognised that youth unemployment was a major challenge. His solution was Nile Boda. It was a pleasure to speak with Simon, who is very passionate about what he is doing and to learn his startup story.
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Conversation Highlights
- “It has been a long time back when we graduated in 2018. We all came back to Juba, S Sudan. There was a lot of unemployment, so we decided to create this boda business, boda from Swahili, the bike business. Nile Boda is a transportation company. We use our bikes to transport.” Simon A. [1:53]
- “We wanted the vision to be as long as the Nile, hence the name Nile Boda.” Simon A. [8:35]
- “We realise there are a lot of bad roads, so for us to be able to reach people who need this service we came up with the idea of the Nile Boda app.” Simon A. [9: 20]
- “The main problem we are solving is unemployment.” – Simon A. [11:02]
- “It is more like a subscription because a lot of these youth are married with kids and they have responsibilities. The model is based on them paying a certain amount at the end of each week.” Simon A. [15:48]
- “Right now we have about 100 people leasing our bikes and we have over 1000 applications.” Simon A. [18:00]
- “Definitely, we have a big vision, which is long like the river Nile and we plan to extend our services far beyond what we are doing now.” Simon A. [23:10]
- “We plan to create 10,000 jobs in 10 years.” Simon A. [28:60]
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