Really, are banks terrified of mobile payments in the US?
But they don't have to be, just need to move faster and acknowledge the inevitable, we are bringing something better through #Flesh and #Fleshweb. #payments#fintech#banking#mobilefirst
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In Africa , there are much more opportunities to #Buildthandisrupt. We will leave disruption to the smarties. We are building #Flesh as an African #PaaP. This gives us #Wingstofly.
I have opened a Pre-seed round to build the first MVP of Flesh and initiate Banking & Telcos API integrations
Flesh “[Payments as a Platform] A community, mobile commerce+Pos & Digital Cash ” on AngelList https://t.co/EUg9iyysdw
#Whyflesh? Someone said, knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit, but wisdom is not using it to make a 'fruit' salad. You get the picture.
Unless you are in China and you suddenly have to enjoy sweet tasting pork.... Anyway 在中国他们说:入乡随俗! #Fleshweb
Building local solutions for local problems.
An aquaponics farmer in Brooklyn NY and a trout farmer in Lesotho highlands have the same end goal. But the task and problems of getting there are quite the opposite. #Fleshweb#Communitymarkets
... this is why #Flesh would mean a different thing depending on who has it, especially in Africa.
It would mean something else to:
A farmer | A community organiser | A street vendor | A retailer | A Restaurant | A beauty Salon | A village shop and you. A community. #Fleshweb.
Look, if we thought paying without a gadget but yourself was impossible, we would be in disregard of why #Africa leads with #mobilemoney. We went ahead with mobile phones because we were unprofitable to get telco's fixed lines. Here we are with ATMs. #fleshweb
But get this...
We are not keen to make a "wallet". Doing simply that is why everybody is still using cash in an exclusive ecosystem. We are more excited to connect a community, in a deep meaningful manner. Build a market around that, then we can provide a useful digital pathway.