Dream. Grow. Be Found. How Fuzu equips thousands of Kenyans for the workplace, with Jussi Hinkkanen
The East Africa Business Podcast: African Start ups | Investing | Entrepreneurship | Interviews · samfloy
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Show Notes
The demography in East Africa dictates that tens of millions of people will be entering the job market in the coming years
There is not only a challenge of creating jobs, but also guiding individuals on a path of what they want to do.
People typically lack the career counselling framework from, say, their families, especially for roles such as “digital marketing manager”.
Jussi is building Fuzu – a platform to guide people through their careers.
We discuss growing a company with a base in both Finland and Kenya,
how Fuzu categorises their type of job seeker and the challenges of bringing a disruptive business model to a traditional market.
Jussi also has probably the best rationale I’ve heard around the role of “for profit” and “not-for-profit” organisations in solving large scale social problems in developing markets, something I’ve always struggled to grapple with myself. It comes in at around 12 minutes.
For now though, I hope you enjoy the episode.