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With the Flutterwave cross-border expansion as a case study, Mayokun Owolabi, Head of Global Expansions and Payments Partnerships at Flutterwave, highlighted the need for builders to understand consumers in the market they are building for, especially, when they are building across markets. In her panel session with Alex Onukwue, Nigeria Correspondent, Semafor, Owolabi said that

Crop2Cash began with an ambitious goal: to end hunger by helping smallholder farmers access loans. But the journey from that goal to a functional business was much harder than its founders thought. They built the wrong products, lost almost everything during the COVID-19 pandemic, and had to slowly earn the trust of their target audience:

38% of Nigeria’s SMEs make less than ₦10,000 ($6.78) in daily profit, according to Moniepoint’s 2025 Informal Economy Report, suggesting that small businesses—critical engine of the country’s economy—remain stuck in survival mode rather than scaling toward growth. The study, which leveraged Moniepoint’s data of 5 million businesses and physically surveyed small business owners across the