Posted on 04/19/2022 6:28:51 PM PDT by grundle
When Nigeria-born, Atlanta-based Tope Awotona launched the meeting scheduling service Calendly in 2013 he believed in his idea so much that he used his entire life savings to launch the startup.
The idea grew out of Awotona’s own challenges keeping track of his schedule. A lot of other people needed appointment scheduling services — today, the platform has 10 million users. In 2021, the scheduling app had achieved a $3 billion valuation.
The company was founded in Atlanta and has been profitable since 2016, according to Forbes. Among Calendly’s corporate clients are Lyft, Ancestry.com, Indiana University, and La-Z-Boy. Revenue for 2021 exceeded $100 million.
Last year, Calendly also raised $350 million in funding from OpenView Venture Partners and Iconiq Capital. Awotona’s majority stake is worth at least $1.4 billion, calculates Forbes.
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” Now It’s Worth Over $3 Billion Less Than 10 Years Later.”
huh?
Very poorly structured sentence, and I majored in accounting.
I had to reread it a few times, too. The gist —> In a decade, he became a successful billionaire.
” Now It’s Worth Over $3 Billion Less Than 10 Years Later.”
Now It’s Worth Over $3 Billion more Than 10 Years earlier.
Nigerian Americans are the most financially successful minority group. They are all Doctors and small business owners
The Nigerian immigrants I’ve known were all exceptional folks.
More proof once again...
... on how black Africans can come to this country and do BETTER that native born black folk.
Conclusion: It ain’t about race, people.
jimjohn - OUT
My boss is Nigerian. He was born in Nigeria but parents moved to US when he was really young so he really only knows the United States. Amazing guy, very generous, and treats his people well.
Same here. My daughter is engaged to a Nigerian with three engineering degrees, one from Stanford. He got admitted to college in the US at age 16. He is one smart guy and nice as can be.
That does not mean children of single parents can not do well, it is just harder and not as likely.
You want successful children?
Get married, stay married.
“” Now It’s Worth Over $3 Billion Less Than 10 Years Later.”
whut? the yahoo writer must be a critical race theory graduate if he wrote this headline. I still can’t wrap the logic in this headline lol
The kkk is falling down on the job. How could this happen in an obvious racist country. More fake news.
One was a Captain who was assigned to the Air Force Research Lab in Albuquerque. Very smart, looked like he ironed his uniform after he put it on, and as the program we we were working on was on was an armored vehicle, he was amazingly strong. Had a very subtle sense of humor too.
Nigerians don’t embrace the perpetual victimhood of American blacks.
Poorly written unless he lost $3 billion in 10 years.
That’s because they are not American gibsmedatyouowemewant morehatewhitey members of the ‘have it in for themselves’ minority.
Mind you, the native born black doesn't say this out loud, but it's an open secret in many black communities -- foreign blacks being called "coconuts", or some other derogatory name, just because they are successful.
Not only Africans, but blacks from other countries who are successful are rife for abuse from native-born blacks, unless they also buy into the "whoa is me" scam.
The recent African immigrants to this country are pretty generally good folks, great attitudes, grateful to be here, hard working, good neighbors, well spoken and take care of their houses and kids. AA’s resent them for all that.
Great family people and church people, too.
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