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Profile: Guinea’s entrepreneur Moustapha Naite
Guinea’s entrepreneur Moustapha Naite opened a small cyber cafe in Conakry, the capital, 10 years ago. Now his company, Mouna Internet Technologies, has grown into the country’s largest web provider.
“To tell you the truth, when I started this company, my idea was basically just to become independent, to be able to do things as I want to do, and to be the master of my own time,”
Mr Naite studied civil engineering and economics in the United States.
He said that he returned to Guinea with the idea of creating something for which there was demand and discovered a niche in the web access market.
He asked some friends in the US to send him 10 computers in order to start an internet cafe.
Mr Naite said that a journey that started with an internet cafe which used to make from US$10,000 to US12,000 a year has become a company with an annual revenue in the region of US$4m to US$5m.