Founder Mythos
Building Africa's Rails from the Diaspora
Maijid and I are born and raised in Africa. You could take us to Mars, we will always be Africans.
He built Chipper Cash from San Francisco, and the mission stayed African because identity, not a postcode, defines it.
The diaspora is not a departure from the corridor. It is another vantage point on the same problem.
We're going to take everything we can take in the world, talent, capital, advice, from whatever corner of the world that's willing to give it to us, and we're going to channel it to this very important cause.
Being outside Africa became a way to route global talent and capital back toward African rails.
The job was not to leave and assimilate. It was to gather and channel home.
This is a journey of 1,000 miles. We've done 1% of the first mile. There's a lot more to do.
Cross-border payments across a continent is a decades-long build, not a launch-and-win.
Sending money across African borders was among the most expensive on earth. Chipper set out to make it free.