5 Lessons I Learnt from Top Nigerian Tech Founders

One thing I love about events is you get to learn even hidden things from founders.

Here I am at the founders connect event, and my head is already filled with knowledge in my first five minutes here.

These founders are really smart, and sharing their knowledge here is just world.

Here are a few things I learnt TodayBuild a distinct brand – Tomiwa Aladekomo (CEO, The BigCabal)Build your brand so that you are recognized everywhere you go. It’s different just building a brand, but building a good brand and putting it out there (of course, you know the world is now operated on social media), corner your contents with storytelling, before you know you will be recognised. 

Steal ideas and adapt it, and improve it: look for successful brands like yours copy their ideas, amplify their strategies for your own brand.

Seye Bandele – The best founders are great salespeople (How to sell anything)Seye Dele, Co-founder and CEO of PaidHR said something that struck me on how to identify salespeople who can thrive even without prior knowledge or experience in a new field:

“You don’t need long answers, what matters is seeing how someone thinks on their feet, especially when they’re in unfamiliar territory.

For example, I don’t know how to build workspaces for remote workers, but if you have the conviction to collaborate, I want to see how you come up with solutions calmly and quickly.

That mindset means when they join your team, they can absorb knowledge fast. In sales, intuition is key, it helps you pivot between different product features until you find what works for the client.

Sell the vision not just the product: employee, in

Fisayo Fosudo: How to be a creator of value Fisayo’s story from using his life-saving of $5000 dollars to buy a camera and customs sizing it telling him to pay $1000 to retrieve it. 

He has now interviewed top people like …. check his YouTube 

1. Read books

2. Show up (consistency = feeling)

When you are creating value (how do people feel when they see your content)

3. Trusting the process (build knowledge and confidence)

4. Mastery ( to become a master there are 2 ways – creating combination and deep understanding)

5. Challenges (there will be Challenges)

Four years into his YouTube journey he wanted to give up even with a 100,000 subscribers, he wasn’t making much with it.

He had to give himself a challenge and came up with a new idea to do a content in finance and he made more in a year than he made in 5 years.

6. Always ask why

If there’s one thing these speakers had in common, it’s that they took risks, showed resilience, and focused on value over vanity.

Whether it’s building a brand, learning to sell, or creating content that connects, they all play the long game.