Nairobi, May 7 -- Restless. That's not the word that first comes to mind when you think about Sacha Michaud. That word would be 'Glovo', a delivery company he co-founded (with Oscar Pierre) in 2015 in Spain, now in 22 countries, and having made Kenya its primary innovation hub in Africa. But it is restlessness that acts as an inner stabiliser to global conglomerates, the ability to keep asking 'What's next?'

Under Michaud's leadership, Glovo attracted one billion euros (Sh151 billion) in investment, scaling it into the fastest-growing multicategory player across Europe, Central Asia, and Africa before being acquired by Delivery Hero in 2022 for €2.3 billion (Sh350.75 billion). Before Glovo, he spent nine years as an executive at Fl...