Miishe Addy
Miishe Addy is a Ghanaian entrepreneur pioneering her path in Africa’s logistics industry, she is the co-Founder of Jetstream Africa, an e-logistics company headquartered in Tema, Ghana. Jetstream is Africa’s largest digital freight forwarder and financier, with 500 mid-market business customers served. Founded in 2018, Jetstream Africa is on a mission to simplify global trade logistics for African businesses.
Quotes
[edit]- " If you have an idea of a problem that you want to solve, and you have the intuition that technology could make that solution scale bigger or faster or to more people, do it. Don’t wait till it’s perfect – just do it." [1]
- “Our goal isn’t just moving goods – it’s moving possibilities.” [2]
- Technology specifically is a little harder in Ghana because there are so few women with engineering backgrounds or who have the capabilities to build an engineering or technology-based business. Miishe on the challenges of African women in TECH
- "My favorite thing about my career choice in tech entrepreneurship is the ability to make an impact."[3]
- "We want to help build an ecosystem for trade on the African continent. Our role in building that ecosystem is to build a platform that enables our customers to both see and control their cross-border trades." [4]
- “It’s a very good idea to look at fundraising like a marriage, and just as you wouldn’t propose to your significant other right after having met them, you shouldn’t try to get investment from an investor you just met. The better way to do it is to start fundraising before you need the money and start to build relationships.”Miishe Addy on how founders should approach raising venture capital
- “The first thing to start with is just getting your mind right and making sure that the way you’re presenting yourself to investors is as confident without being arrogant and as precise as it needs to be to convey your message.”Miishe Addy's advice to founders seeking venture capital investments
- “If you’ve been at this for a while, you’ve been a woman or an under-represented person your entire life, you probably have figured ways around it; you probably are more resilient than the average person. You probably have developed skills to navigate that bias that are sharper than the skills of someone who sort of walks in the door and gets the benefit of the doubt.” Miishe Addy on gender inequality in the TECH industry