The Mind & Money Podcast | Xavier Mbouma

Episode 08. The mind behind the decision. In the eighth episode of Mind & Money, I sit down with Xavier Dikor Mbouma, Co-Founder and CEO of DataFret in Bordeaux, about bringing visibility into transport spend for companies that ship across Europe, and about the summers he spent alone on a basketball court while his friends were on holiday. We get into how DataFret was picked by Google out of 7,000 applications, why large shippers still have almost no idea what they are really paying, and how quickly the product actually goes live. Then the harder part: separating from a co-founder with equal voting power one year after a funding round, months of negotiation, and the hair he lost along the way. Xavier shares the three things that carried him through it, why family time is non negotiable for him, and the small signal that tells him he has pushed too far, the moment he loses patience with his son.