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  2. Taking the Offline, Online with Vinny Lingham (Gyft/Yola)

Taking the Offline, Online with Vinny Lingham (Gyft/Yola)

Jul 20, 2015

Today we have the co-founder and ceo of Gyft. have you 

 Gyft is a digital gift card platform that lets you manage your gift cards and allows businesses to offer customers rewards and loyalty programs. 

Vinny Lingham is one of South Africa’s most well known technology entrepreneurs.  

Having founded his first company, Cilcks2Customers, in 2003 at the age of 24, along with incuBeta, he has since broadened his horizons and rebased himself in Silicon Valley and co-founded Yola.com& Gyft (which was recently acquired by First Data Corporation - the world leader in payments). 

He co-founded the non-profit organization, Silicon Cape Initiative, which aims to build a high-tech cluster in South Africa. 

This interview provides insightful information on how Gyft has disrupted the gift card market by changing the market from plastic to digital. Lingham discusses the potential of BIT coin and how many have overestimated it’s short term success and underestimated it’s long term potential. 

Vinny Lingham is interviewed in Cape Town by chapter director Guillaume De Smedt, 

 

This interview provides insightful information on how Gyft has disrupted the gift card market by changing it from plastic to digital. Lingham discusses the potential of BIT coin and how many have overestimated it’s short term success and underestimated it’s long term potential.