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Jeremy Hodara and the problem behind the buy button
Building Jumia meant teaching a marketplace to deliver, collect payment and earn trust. After a decade in African e-commerce, Jeremy Hodara has taken those questions into a new life of gardens, boardrooms and teaching.
Sacha Poignonnec and the distance between a click and a customer
Ten people bought phones on Jumia’s first day in Lagos. For co-founder Sacha Poignonnec, the years that followed were an education in everything a shopping website needs beyond the screen. His next chapter begins with bicycles.
The Company That Taught Nigeria to Buy Online
Jumia built warehouses, a payment wallet and a fleet of delivery riders to sell phones and rice to a continent the big retailers skipped. Fourteen years in, Nigeria is the market deciding whether the bet finally pays off.
Pierre Hebrard
Pierre Hebrard is the CEO and co-founder of Pricemoov, a Paris-based SaaS platform that helps enterprises set, govern, and optimize prices using AI. He started the company in 2016 after a career that took him from investment banking in London and trading in Hong Kong to running Jumia's operations across Kenya and Nigeria. In April 2023 Pricemoov raised a $10 million Series A led by ISAI and Bpifrance Digital Venture.