Fatou Diallo

Thiey lets merchants, traders, and small businesses send and receive money using the phones they already have. No bank account required. We built around the real infrastructure — mobile operators, local agents, trust networks — not around the infrastructure that Silicon Valley assumes exists.

$2M+ processed per month — and growing.

A community I co-founded for women building in tech across Dakar and beyond. We run workshops, founder dinners, and an informal mentorship network. The point isn't panels — it's getting people in the same room so they can help each other.

A long essay I've been working on about what it actually takes to build products for markets that aren't San Francisco or London. Infrastructure, language, distribution, trust — all of it is different. Most of the playbooks don't apply.