Zimbabwean entrepreneur makes it on Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list

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Zimbabwean entrepreneur, Paul Makaya - the founder and CEO of Bergast House,
a digital solutions company - has been named in the Forbes Africa's 30 Under
30 list.

 

The Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list is one of the most-anticipated list of
young game-changers on the continent.

 

Each year, Forbes Africa looks for resilient self-starters, innovators,
entrepreneurs and disruptors who have the acumen to stay the course in their
chosen field.

 

The 27-year old Zimbabwean businessman's budding empire is based on digital
design and marketing.

 

His is a story of defying the odds at almost every turn.

 

With just the $200 he had saved up, Makaya and his friends invested it in
2016 and rented a miniature one-room office space that had only two chairs.

 

This was only the beginning of Bergast House, a company that offers
strategy, public relations, digital and design services.

 

Today, the two chairs he started the business with have quintupled, as they
now have a team of 10 and can gladly say they have worked with numerous
organisations including software giant Microsoft.

 

"The initial trigger was obviously frustration about the limitations of
being an employee, but in that sense as well, I felt that as a young,
dynamic person, there was so much more that I could offer to the industry,"
he told Forbes Africa.

 

"I also felt we had a part to play in the rise of the African continent. Our
vision is to rebrand Africa and this is our purpose."

 

And what does he think of being on such esteemed list?

 

"Being on the Forbes 30 under 30 list is such a big honor, going through the
list I saw amazing individuals doing incredible things across the African
continent and being part of that same list is just humbling.

 

"It also comes with the pressure to meet expectation, gives hope to other
young entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe, to say even in the challenging economic
environment we are in, you can do something, you can make something, you can
create employment, you can be a solution barrier and not just cry about the
problems," said Paul.

 

Bergast House has served over 103 clients including Zuva Petroleum, Astro
Mobile, Maranatha Group of Schools, the Contact Centre Association of
Zimbabwe, Tech24, the Chartered Institute of Customer Management, Steward
Bank, and the Zimbabwe Agricultural Society, delivering an advertising value
of up to $175 million.

 

Makaya has been listed on the Gumiguru 40 Under 30 list of emerging
Zimbabwean leaders and in 2019, was selected to be the vice curator of the
World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Harare Hub.

 

 

 

 

 

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