Meet Stafford Masie - Google to WeWork, SA tech whiz still running at 100mph

When in the company of 100mph-thinker Stafford Masie, it's best to listen closely. A computer scientist by training but an entrepreneur by persuasion, Masie has a string of successful startups to his credit. The man who opened Google's first Africa office recently returned to a US-based multinational, now helping office sharing group WeWork launch in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The local reception to WeWork has been warm with Masie's charge chalking up a list of vacancy-filling records. In this interview from the latest episode of Rational Radio, we get to know one of SA's best tech minds, plus WeWork SA's general manager provides a rare opportunity for us to look inside a company that has kept an excruciating low profile after being through the publicity wringer over the past year. With infectious enthusiasm. Masie explains how WeWork is now moving past a turbulent start-up phase into a more mature stage that will ensure it can - sustainably - continue revolutionising the world's office market. - Alec Hogg