Here’s how a former Yogurt Seller & Hairdresser became the owner of a USD 173 Million Internet Firm in Kenya

Original Story Published by: Nzekwe Henry for weetracker.com
Photo Source: lionessesofafrica.com

(Above) Njeri Rionge 

How does one go from being a yogurt seller and hairdresser with a take-home of between USD 30.00 to USD 40.00 to owning and running a USD 173 Mn company touted as one of the leading Internet Service Providers in East Africa? Well, you might need to ask Njeri Rionge; who has been described in several circles as one of Africa’s most successful serial entrepreneurs.

As she likes to reiterate time and again, being successful in business is not entirely about financial rewards. It begins with creating real value. The financial rewards just happen to always accompany value addition.

Before she started out as a hairdresser back in the 1980s in a modest salon stashed away somewhere in Nairobi, she was a vendor of fresh yogurt – her first business, something she started doing at 19.