Leanna Byrne

Okay, so fast forward to 2020, COVID hits, travel stops, and your business at the time was very much built around travel spending.

So how serious was that moment for you?

So this moment essentially saved you getting in touch with the customers and understanding what they needed.

Cecilia, what strikes me listening to your story is how often you've had to rebuild from your upbringing to the first startup to the pandemic.

Do you think resilience is something you learn or is it something you're born with?

That's Cecilia Chu, founder of U-Trip.

She was speaking to me, Leanna Byrne, on this edition of Business Daily.

The program was produced by Amber Mahmood.

To get in touch with the team, do send us an email.

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Hello, I'm Leanna Byrne and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

This is Meet the Founders, where we speak to innovators around the world about the ideas, risks and realities behind starting a business.

Today, a founder tackling a problem many people rarely think about until it becomes urgent.

What happens when you simply can't get the medicine you need?

In Nigeria, where access to drugs can be inconsistent and fragmented, she's building a company trying to change that, connecting more than 1,000 pharmacies and delivering hundreds of thousands of medicines across the country.

What followed was a business built from scratch in a challenging market and moments where it nearly didn't survive.

Even after those setbacks, demand for the service grew faster than they could keep up with.

Now, she says, the company's future may no longer depend on her.

That's Abimbola Adebakken, founder of Advantage Health Africa, here on Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

Abimbola grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, in a blended faith household with Islam on one side of the family...