Description

Our guest today is Mark Kiarie of Chpter a an AI-powered conversational commerce platform that enables businesses to sell more on social platforms like WhatsApp and Instagram. They raised $1.2m from investors and have 4,500 customers using their platform in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and beyond. We discuss his early career as an architect, building his first startup, and later pivoting to Chpter, Conversational commerce, and many more. Please enjoy!

Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(1:11) Background, early childhood and studying architecture

(07:21) Building the first business and learning how to code

(20:00) Early days of Chpter

(24:14) Conversational commerce

(36:50) Chapter today

(42:27) Chapter champions podcast

(45:52) Batianpeak fashion brand

(49:16) Advice to founders

(53:45) Quick fire questions

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Guest socials

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-kiarie

Chpter website - https://www.chpter.co/ 
Batianpeak - https://thebatianpeak.com/