(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

S4E5 - How To Irresistibly Rise in Sub-Saharan Africa When All Water Experts Step Out


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with 🎙️ Walid Khoury, General Manager of Desalytics & Water Influence Guru 

💧 Desalytics is a social impact investment vehicle helping solve Africa's water challenges that ambitions to change the Water landscape in the Sub-Saharan region.


What we covered: 


🍎 How Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia host the World's most pressing Water Challenges 

🤔 How the Water Industry feels more confident, serving the Asian than African market, and why 

🍎 How there's an overall lack of understanding around what Africa and the Sub-Saharan region are 

🍏 The drivers that make this region incredibly attractive if you know how to address it 

🍏 How the reluctance of Water Multinationals to serve the Sub-Saharan region creates a void and an opportunity in the market 

🙋 How Desalytics aims to address this market, and how it's at the same time an innovative and bold move 

🌎 How Blended Finance and Industrial projects are totally different and shall be approached accordingly 

🍏 How the "Desalytics" Idea was cooking in Walid's head for over 12 years 

🍏 How to beef up your water marketing and sales engine, and how to build it up from scratch with 2021 tools 

💪 How to drive awareness on the African potential, brilliant minds, and tremendous opportunities 

🍏 How Desalytics' path furiously resembles the expected trajectory of hypergrowth companies, and how they might achieve it without burning Venture Money 

🧮 How the company ambitions to grow into a full vertical, catered to an underserved market 

🍏 Gender Diversity, Finding time to grow simultaneously in so many places, having a positive impact... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 


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