The Interesting Cloud Startups 1 Episode

enSeptember 20, 2018

Cloud Over Africa

About this Episode

In this episode we speak to ALEXANDRE N'DJORE CEO of the Digitech Group and recent winner of the AWS Startup Day pitching competition and one of the Top-10 startups in Africa. Find out how they have used cloud to accelerate their business and compete at a global level, and decoupled the customer outcome from the technology the customer is using.

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