For Konga Airports and Jumia eCoffee
When Fortune Magazine wrote that "China has emerged as the biggest, liveliest and most sophisticated digital marketplace in the world", I raised my hand up in agreement. Chinese digital companies are essential breeds. These notes explain:
1. Alibaba and Starbucks are working together on a Reserve Roastery chain designed to use Alibaba technology to offer digital menus and virtual reality tours via a custom Roastery smartphone app. Yes, Chinese like digital menu.
2. JD.com, an online retailer, wants to operate its own airports and run its own plane operations.
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If you check carefully, you will observe that Alibaba now sell cars through its own ecosystems. As it does that, it is making it possible for people to buy digital coffee. Now, JD wants to operate its own airports. Their ambitions are so huge that you will wonder how Silicon Valley will cope.
Bringing this home, it means that Konga wants to build its own airports and own its own planes in order to manage logistics across Nigeria. For a web company like JD to have such ambitions, you will then ask what the non-digital companies exist for. It is not common to see logistics firms that want to build their own airports. China is teaching the world new things, and Nigeria needs to understand this country.