Meet the airline pilot behind one of the biggest apps in Morocco and Algeria

Stéphane Lagouche is not your usual app developer. Ten years ago, this French engineer moved to Morocco to start a new career as an airline pilot. After a few years, foreseeing the potential of mobile apps, he decided on another career change. In late 2010, he started his own app development agency called BabDreams.

When he launched his company, two years after Apple opened its AppStore, neither he nor any of his three employees knew anything about app development. They released their first apps in 2011, including news aggregator Maroc Presse, but it wasn’t until 2013 that they were able to live on their app’s revenues.

In the meantime, the team offers services to facilitate European companies employing Moroccan companies or employees due to their reduced expenses. Even though Lagouche is critical how outsourcing is impacting the Moroccan talent market, he admits he would never have made it without this initial revenue flow, and the learning opportunities outsourcing presented.

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Meet the airline pilot behind one of the biggest apps in Morocco and Algeria