Press kit
Press & media.
Everything you need to write, book or quote me: bios in three lengths, headshots to download, topics I speak on, and the facts to check against.
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Bios
Three lengths, written by me. Use any as is, or as a starting point.
Short
1 sentence
Bokang Sibolla is a technology entrepreneur building Sola, an AI-native travel company, and offering marketing services to businesses.
Medium
1 paragraph
Bokang Sibolla is a technology entrepreneur. He is building Sola, an AI-native travel company whose first product is an app for women travelling solo, focused on Southeast Asia and live on iOS. Alongside it, he offers marketing services to businesses, drawing on over a decade in digital growth across Africa, Europe and America: at global agencies like MediaCom and PHD on brands including Coca-Cola, Audi, Huawei and HP, in-house as Digital Director at the MTV Staying Alive Foundation and Online Channel Manager at MTN Business, and as founder of his own growth firm, Algorithm Hackers. He is also a co-creator of Reconnecting Pangaea, a documentary series on internet inequality in South Africa that aired on eTV.
Long
3 paragraphs
Bokang Sibolla is a technology entrepreneur. He is building Sola, an AI-native travel company built on one belief: the big platforms are not built for the people who need them most. Sola's first product is an app for women travelling solo, focused on Southeast Asia and live on the iOS App Store. It gathers the knowledge women share across the internet and organises it down to the neighbourhood, with AI doing the finding and sorting. Alongside Sola, he offers marketing services to businesses, building and running the whole function: research and positioning, paid media, websites and funnels, CRM, automation and custom AI, designed and run as one system. He builds it with AI and modern tooling, which lets a single operator deliver the kind of work that used to require a full team. That comes from over a decade in digital growth across Africa, Europe and America. He ran paid media at the global agencies MediaCom and PHD on brands including Coca-Cola, Sony, Audi, Huawei and HP. In-house, he was Digital Director at the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, Online Channel Manager at MTN Business, and the e-commerce lead for HP through Leegra, and he founded his own growth firm, Algorithm Hackers. He is also a co-creator of Reconnecting Pangaea, a documentary series on internet inequality in South Africa that aired on eTV, a national free-to-air broadcaster. He writes about travel, marketing and the technology he builds at bokangsibolla.com.
Headshots
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Topics I speak on
On the record, with a longer treatment ready for each.
A whole marketing function, run with AI
How one operator now delivers research, paid media, build and automation that used to need a full agency team, and what that means for small businesses.
AI-native products and the new shape of a small company
Recording everything, agentic loops, software built and shipped in days. What a decade inside legacy companies taught me about why this matters.
Growth for businesses without an agency budget
The systems that actually bring a small or medium business customers, and why most of their marketing spend leaks before it reaches one.
Women travelling solo as a market
The planning premium and the gap the big travel platforms leave open. Why this segment is large, underserved and worth building for.
Internet inequality and access
From Reconnecting Pangaea, a 2016 documentary, to Sola, a 2026 app. The throughline of who gets reached and who gets built for.
Quick facts
For fact-checkers. Use verbatim or paraphrase.
- Full name
- Bokang Sibolla
- Pronounced
- boh-kung
- Nationality
- South African, born in Lesotho
- Based
- South Africa, working between there and Southeast Asia
- Now
- Technology entrepreneur building Sola; offers marketing services to businesses
- Sola
- AI-native solo-travel app for women, live on the iOS App Store
- Reconnecting Pangaea
- Co-creator; an episode aired on eTV, a South African free-to-air broadcaster
- In digital growth
- Over a decade, 2014 to present
- Languages
- English, conversational Sesotho
The common questions
- Who is Bokang Sibolla?
- Bokang Sibolla is a technology entrepreneur. He is building Sola, an AI-native travel company whose first product is an app for women travelling solo, and alongside it he offers marketing services to businesses. He has spent over a decade in digital growth across Africa, Europe and America, at global agencies, in-house at scale, and through his own firm.
- What does he do now?
- He is building Sola, an AI-native travel company focused on Southeast Asia. Alongside it he offers marketing services to businesses: research, paid media, websites and funnels, CRM, automation and custom AI, built with AI and modern tooling so one operator can deliver what used to need a full team.
- What is Sola?
- Sola is a travel app for women travelling solo, focused on Southeast Asia. It gathers the knowledge women share across the internet and organises it down to the neighbourhood, with AI doing the finding and sorting. It is live on the iOS App Store.
- What is his professional background?
- Over a decade in digital growth. Paid media at global agencies MediaCom and PHD on brands including Coca-Cola, Sony, Audi, Huawei and HP. Digital Director at the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, Online Channel Manager at MTN Business, e-commerce lead for HP via Leegra, and founder of his own growth firm, Algorithm Hackers. He is also a co-creator of Reconnecting Pangaea, a documentary series on internet inequality that aired on eTV in South Africa.
- What topics is he available to speak on?
- Running a whole marketing function with AI at solo scale, AI-native products and the new shape of a small company, growth for businesses that cannot afford an agency team, women travelling solo as an underserved market, and internet inequality and access.
- How can he be reached for press?
- Email bokang.y.sibolla@gmail.com. Usually a reply within 24 hours.
Selected coverage
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