How many users does mxit have

I can think of at least five ideas that could be real game-changers. Why compete with smartphones, for example? The son of a Namibian sheep farmer, Heunis began programming as a teenager in Windhoek in Soon afterwards, he moved to Stellenbosch to obtain a B. He married a local girl and, apart from a brief stint writing software for the Navy during his national service, has remained in the university town. Fiercely single-minded, Heunis acknowledges that he is better suited to starting technology companies than managing big businesses.

It has a staff of people. I don't think my real strength is running companies - it is starting companies. World of Avatar has bold plans for MXit. MXit boasts more than 30 million users in Africa. Knott-Craig, who succeeds Heunis as CEO, believes the extensive reach of the MXit service, its proven robustness, support of many different handsets more than 3 and high penetration of the youth market give it an advantage over rivals.

He recognises that competition will be tough and already has eyes on fixing some of MXit's weaknesses. Knott-Craig is a well-known champion of business in Africa. His focus on Africa may temper MXit's ambitions elsewhere in the world.

The new head of MXit may have already pulled off his first masterstroke. Weber is a software and systems engineering specialist with a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University and an impressive academic and business track record.

Heunis pulled in Weber's consultancy firm, Stone Three, to help MXit complete a mammoth overhaul of its core software in Weber, who sold Stone Three last year, knows MXit's technology, its people and its culture well. Heunis first mooted leaving MXit in Touring the Namibian desert, he was almost killed in a motorbike accident.

He broke his back and fractured several bones. Seven months of painful rehab gave Heunis plenty of opportunity to reflect on what he wanted to do with his life. Four years later, Heunis has nothing left to prove. He leaves MXit a tired but wealthy man. He enjoys a reputation not as a maverick but as a successful entrepreneur and technology visionary. It has been one hell of a ride at Mxit over ten years, something which may well have contributed to the general lack of direction at the company.

Heunis founded it, Naspers invested in it. There were rounds of retrenchments, couple with unsustained stabs at expansion. After its early years the company never really looked settled and happy enough to succeed. What really was Mxit anyway? A private messenger service? A community engagement platform? A public chatroom? Essentially, it tried to be all of those, especially with the rollout of Mxit 7. Trying to be all things to all people may have been one of the reasons for the companies eventual failure.

Many startup founders will tell you that, in the initial days at least, it is advisable to do one thing, and do it well. Extra features and platforms can be added later, once you have established yourself in one space. Mxit seemed to move to fast in rolling out various tenements of its platform, with the net result it did none of them particularly well and was unable to focus. A more subtle, timetabled rollout plan may have been a better bet. Passionate about the vibrant tech startups scene in Africa, Tom can usually be found sniffing out the continent's most exciting new companies and entrepreneurs, funding rounds and any other developments within the growing ecosystem.

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