A 19-year-old Thiel fellow just raised $7.3 million to build an African ‘super app’

A 19-year-old Thiel fellow just raised $7.3 million to build an African ‘super app’

Aubrey Niederhoffer dropped out of UC Berkeley and moved to Africa to launch a food delivery service

A 19-Year-Old Dropped Out of Berkeley, Raised $7.3 Million, and is Coming for Chowdeck’s Lunch

There is a particular kind of corporate complacency that only becomes visible when a challenger arrives. Chowdeck, Nigeria’s most dominant food delivery platform, has been gestating that complacency for a while now; quietly stacking fees, adjusting terms without notice, and reportedly inflating menu prices above restaurant rates, in what has lately started to feel less like a growing startup and more like a toll booth dressed in a nice logo. The…