#andilestake Podcast

Booster Energy is Africa's first brand to produce and market ingenious smartphone covers that not only protect your device, but can charge it as well. 26-year-old Njabulo Makhathini is COO and Co-founder of this clever tech-business, and is notably an alumnus of both the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship and Seed Engine. (Picture by Katego Bodibe)Njabulo and his Booster Energy co-founder Njabulo Mtshali have made significant progress following the hard slog to build a "minimum viable product"-- a process that began nearly three years ago. Some of their achievements since their company's official launch just last year include landing much-needed funding from a reputable South African venture capitalist, securing an imminent product listing on takealot.com, and scoring an invaluable co-sign from Richard Branson-- who personally bought Booster smartphone covers for his team from Njabulo during his last trip to South Africa.I got Njabulo to tell me about his entrepreneurial journey-- beginning with selling t-shi