I sat down with a friend, Phares Kariuki, who is an ardent user and implementer of Salesforce so as to get a quick less than 15 minute deep dive into what Salesforce is and does.
Category: My Writings
My Random Musings
On Remittances and Payments in Africa
Yesterday, I listened to a podcast by featuring Ham Serunjogi, the founder of Chipper Cash, an intra-Africa money transfer service. I here share a few notes and thoughts since it is an area I am interested in. By the way, relatably, Ham is Ugandan and went to school at Aga Khan, Mombasa, Kenya (I am proudly Kenyan 😉
What sucks? Sending money within Africa. Intra-Africa money transfer is a pain point. At 8.9% of the money sent, Africa has the highest remittance costs in the world. For every 100 dollars sent, around 9 dollars ends up as a cost.Â
Takeaways From Earnings Calls: Historic Traffic Levels In Cloud
Here is an excerpt of an article I wrote for Seeking Alpha:
We read transcripts of earnings calls each week and one key theme we have picked up in the last few weeks is the cloud. Several companies keep insisting on how they have been pushed to do more in the cloud. We explore this and more in this week’s edition Takeaways from Earnings Calls.
Historic traffic levels in cloud
While the cloud was already expected to be a booming business in the next decade or so, the expectation was for steady growth. What has happened in this pandemic though is that most companies have been forced to move their businesses to the cloud at a rate much faster than normal. This has resulted in high levels of traffic as adoption rates skyrocket.Â
