VIDEO: Tyms is an AI personal assistant for every employee
Tyms AI co-founder Allan Rwakatungu explains why AI should handle invisible work, not replace people, and his path from MTN Mobile Money to betPawa and Xente.
About this episode
In this episode of The Founder Room, I had a conversation with Allan Rwakatungu, the Ugandan tech entrepreneur behind Tyms, a platform betting that the future of enterprise AI isn't about replacing people, but empowering them.
With over two decades building technology across Africa, from MTN's Mobile Money platform to founding mBet (which later became betPawa) and Xente, Allan brings an operator's perspective to one of the biggest questions in tech today: what happens when every employee gets their own AI assistant?
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