#19 A journey to 1m bookings and beyond with Aisha Pandor from Sweepsouth

Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I’m your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better fintech products and a better version of yourself.Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital.Building a fintech business is difficult and building software that scales and that your users love is very difficult. In today's environment, you just can't afford to get it wrong, but you also need to focus on building your business, closing your next round and making the impact that you need to make.This is where we can help,With an impressive track record of delivering scalable intuitive software for fintech companies around the world, we are a great choice of tech partner to take away some of your stress by making sure that your product is designed and built at the highest standards. If you would like to accelerate your fintech project with a team of experts, we’d love to hear from you.Go to www.nona.digital or follow any of our contacts in the show notes.Today my guest is Aisha Pandor from Sweepsouth who is just such a powerhouse of a woman.Her accomplishments are far too long to list but I’ll pick out a few.She has a  PhD in Human genetics from the Univeristy of Cape Town where she received multiple awards and scholarships.While she was doing her PhD she also completed a postgraduate in business administration where she was class president and was the top student in her class.While working as a management consultant at Accenture she was ranked top 3 in her peer group in the EMEA region.After 2 years at Accenture Aisha co-founded  Sweepsouth, a tech startup which is still her focus today.Sweepsouth provides a convenient way to book home cleaning services online from a phone, tablet or computer, connecting clients to cleaners in minutes. By bringing technology into the process, they aim to modernise the domestic cleaning services industry. Sweepsouth reached 1 million bookings late last year so they are really making an impact.Aisha has got a string of awards and recognitions some of which include:South African women in science awardMail and Guardian top 200 young south africansForbes Africa top African millienelsPrice check female entrepreneur of the year award.And recently scooped up the Forbes Woman Africa technology and innovation award.I was actually at school with Aisha so watching her journey has been extra cool for me.Welcome Aisha, it’s great to have you on the show.                                                                              *************If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project that you would like to accelerate or to apply to come onto the podcast as a guest, please do:Mike on [email protected]'s website.