BUSINESS
Is Not Here to Stay
Kabo Madigele
They come out as a passionate, fun loving and creative couple. That I was able to decode from the nature of their creation-DodoWorkPlay. Joe Lodge and Coralie Marti are on to create something new with a fresh and disruptive approach to work. It’ s a paradigm shift. We met over smoothie fruit cocktails at Café Muller, just a stone’ s throw from Grand Baie Beach, after failing to locate it for more than an hour. Although I’ m late, it’ s a relief to finally meet these industrious people for the first time.
Where it all began
Coralie is Franco-Mauritian and defines herself as an international citizen, as she moved to a different country every 5 years.“ We met in Montreal in 2010 in a student exchange program. Afterward, we both went on to study Masters in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, but in different institutions, me at Paris Dauphine University and him at Newcastle University Business School. Since then, we always thought of how to make the distance shorter, because he went back to the UK and I went back to Paris. For 2 years, we did everything we could to shorten the distance, for if could work online for dissertations or any other thing, I visited and he did that too, just to see each other as much as possible.”