FOUNDER

I got fired from my own company. Twice. The board said I couldn't scale. Maybe they were right. But the soul of the company — that was mine.

I delivered food on my bicycle for eight months. If you don't understand your own product at the ground level, you will fail.

A French guy building a digital bank for Nigerians sounds unlikely. But I spent years working in mobile financial services across Africa. This isn't tourism. It's my career.