A GP's son who took the doctor's rooms online. These are the SA founders making moves this week.

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Dr Piet van Niekerk grew up as the son of a GP in a small West Coast town. In 2018 he opened his first virtual care clinic in a Paarl shopping mall. 8 years later, Udok links 300+ practices and has done more than 215'000 consults. If he started again, he'd raise more and move faster, because being first bought him a head start, not a moat. Read Piet's 3 lessons.

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