Moses Enenwali is the Co-founder and CEO of Topship, a logistics service provider helping people send items to over 200 cities worldwide. Before Topship, he worked in Africa Courier Express (ACE) and Sendbox, experiences that influenced his decision to build. In this interview, Moses tells us more about his person, his career trajectory, his experience going through YCombinator and his passion for building with like-minded people, or "animal spirits" as he calls them. It's a great interview, so sit back and enjoy! Watch Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_XBOWmA2v8 Video timestamps - Introduction 0:00 - Background 0:48 - Entrepreneurship efforts in University 2:15 - Coming back in Nigeria and Working in Ersnt and Young 3:42 - Doing Sales at Africa Courier Express (ACE) 5:34 - Biggest lesson from working at ACE 7:47 - What he found about Logistics that made him passionate 8:41 - Moving to Sendbox 10:07 - Left in between to start a Consulting company 11:07 - Starting TopShip as a service 12:40 - How his experience at ACE and Sendbox, has impacted his leadership at TopShip and how TopShip evolved into a Company 16:03 - Resigning from Sendbox 18:24 - How TopShip is an innovative service 20:06 - Describing TopShip to a Layman 25:13 - The Journey to fundraising: Getting into YC 26:04 - What he is most proud of 29:53 - Recipe to building a great Team 31:35 - Other principles or life lessons that guide him 34:08 - Anything he would have liked to ask. 37:31 - Advice for people who want to start businesses. 38:00 Also Published here

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