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Mwaniki Gichuki

For Mwaniki Gichuru, starting Real Pesa was a Eureka moment. For several years, he had been living and working in Perth, Australia where he had gone to pursue a degree in IT while still a teenager.

After graduating from college, Gichuru took up various jobs in technology, inventory control and customer service that took him across the country, at one point shuttling between Perth and Melbourne.

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