Encuentro con Peter Owiti [1], empresario de café en Nairobi, Kenia:
The story of Peter Owiti, the brains behind Pete’s Coffee shop, speaks volumes of the great deal of effort that is spent when setting up a successful business. In the brief video below, Pete, who is a father of three, talks to Kuza Biashara about the challenges he encountered when he set up shop in 2004.
Peter resigned from a well-paying office job and, left with nothing other than his lifetime savings that amounted to Ksh500,000 ($6,000), he resolved to tread a path he was barely familiar with. Today, his business is valued at Ksh5,000,000 ($60,000). This admirable growth was recorded despite the scourge of Kenya’s Post Election Violence (PEV) in 2007/2008 which threatened to break his sequence of success.
La historia de Peter Owiti, el cerebro detrás del ‘Café Pete´, dice mucho del gran esfuerzo que se gasta para establecer un negocio exitoso. En el breve video Pete, quien es padre de tres niños, cuenta a Kuza Biashara sobre los desafíos que enfrentó cuando instaló su café en el 2004.
Peter renunció a un trabajo bien pagado, se quedó con los ahorros que había hecho que eran de Ksh500.000 (6.000 dólares de EE. UU.). Este admirable crecimiento se registró a pesar del flagelo de la violencia post electoral de Kenia (PEV) en el 2007/2008 que amenazaba con destruir su éxito.