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🎙️ AfriCAN Do! Podcast | Episode 73: Sam Wanyoike — Building a 20-Year Business on the World's Most Overlooked Chore
🌍 Africans CAN Do! And Africans ARE Doing!
What do you do when everyone is chasing the next big fintech, the next shiny startup, the next viral app? Sam Wanyoike did the opposite. He looked at the one thing every single person on the planet has in common, dirty laundry, and built a 20-year recurring-revenue business on it.
👕 Sam is the Founder of All My Laundry (allmylaundry.com), Nairobi's leading dry cleaning and laundry platform, a business he has been quietly, relentlessly growing since 2004. In this conversation Sam pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to build a business that lasts, not just one that launches.
🔑 In this episode we cover:
🧺 Why Sam chose laundry when everyone else chose glamour, and why it was the smartest decision he ever made
♻️ The recurring-revenue obsession: how he turned a one-off transaction into a subscription-style business model before subscriptions were fashionable
📰 Being featured in the Daily Nation in 2006 as a two-year-old startup, the same week a young Illinois senator named Barack Obama was visiting Kenya