FTX in Africa
Host
Producer
Yoofi
Status
Platform used
Zencastr, WhatsApp
Sponsors
Recorded link
Date & Time
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Episode
5
Guest & Project
Harri Obi/FTX Africa
show note
Season
Property
Background Research
- FTX Africa PR & Marketing Manager July 2021 - Now
- Creative & Strategy lead AT3 Resources Jan 2021 - June 2021
- Senior Communications Strategist, Content Strategist - Amplify Digital Agency
Questions:
Intro
- How did you discover and then get hired by FTX Africa? ✅
- What was that transition like, from traditional work to working in the ever moving world of cryptocurrency and web3? ✅
Body
- The challenge of regulation in the African crypto ecosystem
- What does the regulatory landscape look like from this perspective? ✅
- What are the biggest barriers to entry for the normal African ✅
- What has the adoption of cryptocurrency as an ecosystem been like
- Does our experience with mobile money systems help in any way in terms of the understanding, the adoption and the innovation around the crypto space? ✅
- Selling or marketing a product/service like FTX to people whose first thought inclination is that crypto and scams are the same thing sounds…tedious, how has that journey been?
- What has been the biggest setback/challenge? ✅
- What are the plans going forward, short to long term? ✅
- What does ‘Africa’ entail for FTX, I mean there are 52 nations on the continent, does FTX recognise all of them, how do you approach it essentially
- You are based in Nigeria, can you confidently say that the rest of Africa is also involved in the growth of a company like FTX or is it only a specific region at the moment? ✅
- FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried bought the trading brokerage firm Robinhood for a 7.6% stake this week, what does this mean for the African base of FTX, what can we expect this to mean for Africa? ✅
- What campaign are you most looking forward to? ✅
Closing
- 3 words on how you feel about the space ✅
- bullish, still early, ‘built by traders for traders’
Intro
For this conversation we are joined by the PR & Marketing Manager at FTX Africa, Harrison Obiefule. ✅
Thank you Harrison, keep building with us…