Marathon Series: The Amazon of South Africa

Manuel Koser, Zando, eCommerce, International Founders, Physical Product

Every country needs an e-commerce giant. Today’s guest helped create one in South Africa in a very unique way.We’ll talk about how he did it in this interview.

Manuel Koser is the Managing Director at Silvertree Holdings, an entrepreneur-led investment growth partner — Scaling consumer and digital brands in Africa. He is also a Co-Founder of Zando, an online shopping platform.”

Manuel Koser

Zando

Manuel Koser is the founder of Zando, an online shopping platform.

Andrew: The interview you’re about to hear was recorded in South Africa thanks to Toptal. Toptal is a place where . . . well, you know this. You can go to Toptal when you want to hire the best developers. They pride themselves on creating a process that makes it hard for anyone but the best of the best developers to be in their network. Anyway, you know all that. What you may not know is that they are a truly completely remote company. It feels like everywhere in the world that I go, I bump into somebody who works for Toptal remotely. And so one of the things that I’m especially proud of is that they, as a remote company, have sponsored Mixergy and enabled me to fly to South Africa and record this interview for you.

So if you’re looking to hire developers, go to Toptal. Yes, you will get the best of the best developers. You will also, if you use this special URL I’m about to give you, get 80 hours of Toptal developer credit when you pay for your...

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