Patrick Muhire's guest appearances

Patrick Muhire

Young African Entrepreneur

Van Jones

Neil Gordon

Daniel Yu

Sean Keough

Feleg Tsegaye

Karan Singh

Mira Mehta

Nivi Sharma

Addis Alemayehou

Manuel Koser

Samuel Gikandi

Aboubakar Diaby

Daniel Maison

Gregory Rockson

Erik Hersman

OwlTail

Episode 003 of Young African Entrepreneur features Patrick Muhire, founder and CEO of Vugapay. You can connect with him @patrickmuhi on Twitter. Born and raised in Rwanda, Patrick is a self-taught coder. In 2015, he created VugaPay, a mobile money platform, after two days of frenzied code writing with his business partner and brother. In three years, he’s secured seed funding at Kigali’s seminal Transform Africa pitch event; snagged a $150K investment from famed Silicon Valley investor, Tim Draper; and moved to San Francisco to challenge himself and grow his business. VugaPay has since expanded to over 8 countries across the continent and counts over 20,000 users. My conversation with Patrick was illuminating – and a lot of fun. We chatted about his important early influences, the accidental success of his 2nd app Rwanda TV, his counterintuitive secret to a strong pitch, and why he wishes he were Nigerian. There is much to learn from Patrick’s story, so I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did.

Episode 003 of Young African Entrepreneur features Patrick Muhire, founder and CEO of Vugapay. You can connect with him @patrickmuhi on Twitter. Born and raised in Rwanda, Patrick is a self-taught coder. In 2015, he created VugaPay, a mobile money platform, after two days of frenzied code writing with his business partner and brother. In three years, he’s secured seed funding at Kigali’s seminal Transform Africa pitch event; snagged a $150K investment from famed Silicon Valley investor, Tim Draper; and moved to San Francisco to challenge himself and grow his business. VugaPay has since expanded to over 8 countries across the continent and counts over 20,000 users. My conversation with Patrick was illuminating – and a lot of fun. We chatted about his important early influences, the accidental success of his 2nd app Rwanda TV, his counterintuitive secret to a strong pitch, and why he wishes he were Nigerian. There is much to learn from Patrick’s story, so I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did.

003: Love the Hustle. Says Patrick Muhire. If You Don’t, Quit and Find What You Love.