Disruptive Voice podcast, episode 9: Stories from the ground — on building a market creating company in Ghana

the Forum at HBS
The Disruptive Voice
1 min readMay 5, 2016

Moringa is recognized as a miracle tree across the tropics worldwide for its nutritional, healing, and economic value, but farmers in Ghana lacked the processing capability to capitalize on this treasure. Enter MoringaConnect: co-founders Emily Cunningham and Kwami Williams have come together to build a portfolio of companies designed to help smallholder farmers realize their full potential.

Minga Foods turns superfood moringa into tea or a powder supplement. True Moringa harnesses the natural oils in moringa seeds to create superior cosmetic products.

In this episode, Cunningham and Williams talk about how they are unknowingly using the theories of disruptive innovation to build a company that we hope and believe will help smallholder farmers across Williams’ native Ghana rise out of poverty. If you want to learn more about their current fundraising efforts (next round closing in June!), contact Emily.

Theories mentioned in this episode: interdependence and modularity, good money/bad money, RPPs

Kwami Williams and Emily Cunningham

— Tracy Kim Horn, Community Manager, Forum for Growth & Innovation

--

--

the Forum at HBS
The Disruptive Voice

Forum for Growth and Innovation — a research project at the Harvard Business School guided by Professor Clay Christensen