Startup Stories with Cynthia E. Chisom

Bolu Oluwagbesan is the CEO and Co-founder of Tribapay, a payment company based in Nigeria. Before Tribapay, he started and sold another company named Storemia. He preciously was a Digital Marketing trainer, with over 15,000 students in his portfolio and eight large companies. When he’s not working, he’s an avid Chelsea supporter.

Adebowale is a cofounder at myStash. He started is career working on logistics shipments from the Apapa Ports. He was also once a City Manager at logistics startup- MAX.ng and previously cofounded a food processing business, all prior to starting myStash.

Adeshina Adewumi is a Global change maker and social entrepreneur, an MB100 2021 Entrepreneur by Ernst & Young (EY) committed to using technology to support small retail businesses as regards Access to market and Finance across emerging markets. He is the founder of Trade Lenda.

Jeffrey Ehikioya Itepu BSc, MSc, PMP, CIM is a Marketing & Sales professional. He grows personal and corporate through communication  He is currently the Co-Founder Abode; with a mission to create prosperity for Africans using simplified assets ownership. Before starting Abode, Jeffrey was CEO of Pertinence Properties Limited where he led 2 branches as branch manager and facilitated the creation o...

Spotify did this thing called Spotify Wrapped, so I decided to talk jump on it. Let’s look at some of the lessons and accomplishments for the year 2022.

Aina is the founder and principal R&D scientist at her skincare start-up called RD8 Labs. RD8 Labs offers a diverse range of high-performing personalised cosmetic products that primarily address a plethora of skin concerns that people with skin of colour experience while also taking into consideration the consumers daily weather/climatic experiences.

Aina is the founder and principal R&D scientist at her skincare start-up called RD8 Labs. RD8 Labs offers a diverse range of high-performing personalised cosmetic products that primarily address a plethora of skin concerns that people with skin of colour experience while also taking into consideration the consumers daily weather/climatic experiences.

Beautiful Startup Story Session with the Co-Founder of Gova. Industry: Fintech. Region: Nigeria, Africa

Beautiful Startup Story session with the Founder, Ishaz Proptech.

Benjamin is an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) proponent who believes profit and impact are entirely compatible. He has a track record of creating ESG training curricula and facilitating ESG integration exercises for tech startups, venture capital firms, and accelerator programs. He also functions as an Africa-focused VC Scout for a host of notable VC firms across Africa, North America...

In the previous episode, we learnt about the early years of Daipers and how Amazon came at them with an offer they couldn’t refuse. Even though they got a better offer from another company, they still couldn’t refuse Amazons offer because of the terrifying threat hanging over this heads. Although Marc didn’t want to sell, he eventually had to give up on his dreams and join the line of employees un...

Diapers are loss leaders They are loss leaders because retailers are on a race to the bottom. The retailers are pricing it down to get customer to the door of their stores. But Marc decided to go ahead because with the internet, There is unlimited store space, with room to display more high margin products than the regular stores. Marc wasn’t willing to let go of the idea. They decided to move on...

We will be going through the entire journey of a startup founder who took idea guaranteed to loose him money by selling diapers online.

Introducing our first ever commentary episode, we have on the show the General Manager for Ventures Park, an affiliate of Ventures Platform and Future Africa. Such an exciting and thought provoking episode with Gideon a Jayeola.

How did TOMS shoes go from being a 625 million dollar company in 2014 to being in massive debt? At little surprise at the end of the episode.

This company went on to become a multi-million dollar shoe empire. But all that success didn’t come easy. In this episode we are going to discover how Blake turned a good will mission into a multi-million dollar shoe empire and create a business model unlike anything anyone had seen before.

In this series we are going to discover how Blake turned a good will mission into a multi-million dollar shoe empire and create a business model unlike anything anyone had seen before.

Its been a long time coming, hasn’t it Well the wait is over for I have researched and curated an exciting pool of startup stories to share. We will go deep, we explore life changing events, we will share in the anger, tears, and joys of incredible startup founders. Get ready to have a fantastic time as we explore remarkable startup stories from various industries. Can't wait to share it all with...

What a journey it has been exploring the story of Evite from who they discovered each other as founders, to how they discovered the idea. In todays episode we go a bit further to discuss the investor dilenma, the valuation chaos and the final home of Evite.

Today we take a step into the story of Evite. Let’s explore, the birth of the idea Evite.

Today we are going to learn about how two friends from college pioneered the idea for online invitations, and rode the ups and downs of the dotcom bubble with their company Evite.

Its been an exciting journey learning about how Vincent and Andrews built a multimillionaire dollar food company. So far, we saw how they discovered the product, how they went about production and just recently how an incredibly lucky moment placed their brand in front of the millions of followers of Kourtney Kardashian. Today, we go deeper into their unique startup story

In today’s episode, we will learn about how he turned this accidental discovery into an actual product, settling the rising chaos what was going on with Vincent and his brother and how a lucky break from a certain Kardashian sister helped to spread the word real fast

How did two brothers take a simple toasted coconut recipe and turn it into a multimillion dollar company? This snack is currently being sold in thousands of stores across the globe. Knowing how crowded the snack industry can be, how did these startup founders scale through the limitations to create a product that broke-even during the pandemic?

How did a startup founder build her company from scratch for 4 decades, got fired from that same company, went into huge debt, fought back and rebuilt the company, which got sold for half a billion dollars?