The Co-Founder, the Friendship, and the Legacy That Built Clickatell

Endeavor has released a powerful Untold Story featuring South African Endeavor Entrepreneur Pieter de Villiers, co-founder and CEO of Clickatell. This is not just the story of building one of Africa’s most successful tech companies, but also of friendship, loss, resilience, and the values that shape a lasting legacy.

Pieter shares how he and his co-founders started Clickatell in 1999, transforming an idea on a napkin into a communications platform that now processes over nine billion messages each month for five billion users worldwide. At the heart of the journey was his deep bond with co-founder and best friend Danie du Toit, whose battle with leukemia tested Pieter in ways far beyond the pressures of scaling a high-growth company.

Through personal tragedy and professional milestones, Pieter learned that true strength comes from vulnerability, from letting others in, and from building companies with values rooted in love, courage, and shared purpose. Danie’s legacy lives on in Clickatell’s DNA, shaping its culture and mission to this day.

This is a must-read for every entrepreneur about the weight we carry, the people we choose to build with, and the power of values in shaping not just companies, but lives.

Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/e4teT9tK