Douglas Kendyson is a software engineer with a lot of experience in the fintech & payments space. He has worked for the top YCombinator backed payment startups in Africa (Flutterwave & Paystack), as well as a Robo-advisory firm in the UAE (Sarwa) and Dapi, building the payment infrastructure for the Middle East. Douglas is also the Founder and CEO of Selar, an eCommerce tool creatives & entrepreneurs use to sell their content, products and services across borders without any hassle. Selar has over 15,000 registered users today. Watch the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwpNgUH240c Video  timestamps Douglas shares his life outside LinkedIn and Selar, and work background 0:59 Douglas shares his experience in UAE 7:19 At what point in between your career at Flutterwave, UAE and Paystack did Selar start? 8:48 How many of you started the company? 9:53 What were the things that made you stay with Selar when every other person left? 10:20 How did you ascertain that Selar is a good idea that you'd like to push? 11:12 Douglas shares more about the huge milestone that Seller had in revenue. 12:20 How much has Sellar grown since the beginning of 2020? 14:07 Are you now doing Selar full time? 16:27 What has been the biggest challenge of building Selar up to this point? 17:29 How do you spend a few weeks every week to work for people and still build your thing? 19:25 What's your favourite thing about building Selar? 21:14 What kind of people use Selar? 22:24 What's the most pivotal personal experience you've had? 23:44 When and how did you make your first million? 28:03 What's the next thing for Selar? 29:44 What's the most important and biggest business lesson you've learned in your 5 years of business experience? 31:26 If you had an opportunity to build Selar all over again, would you change anything in the process? 33:34 Douglas pitches Selar 35:30

#FoundersConnect: Douglas Kendyson of Selar on Hitting Huge Revenue Milestones

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