The same 2009 ASUU strike that changed my life forever by giving me enough time to build Gistcaster, also gave Ayodeji Adewunmi, Olalekan Olude and Opeyemi Awoyemi enough time to start an online job search company; Jobberman.
(Gistcaster went on to crash and burn a few years later, but today’s story is not about how much Gistcaster sucked, but about how well the Jobberman project fared. )
Last week, One Africa Media announced that they had acquired 100% stake in Jobberman and our 3 heroes will now move up to One Africa Media where they will now be directors and be able to produce more good results. This deal must have been worth millions of dollars. (Neither party announced figures, but OAM recently raised about $10 million and we know that a great chunk of that money went into this deal. That is all I was able to gather…)
Awesome!
In this Internet times, the ability to build business empires from scratch is here. Anyone can literally write a better future for herself and mint as much money as you decide you need.
So, if you are yet to start something in this space, what are you waiting for? With so many opportunities in the Nigerian web space, the only regret you will have in 5 years time is that you did not start sooner. This Jobberman deal is a great win for the entire Nigerian market and a greater morale booster for a hustler like me. My morale is high, time to produce more good results.
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Watching The World
- Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, Google just acquired Timeful Inc. Timeful is the second company Yoav Shoham (a Co-Founder and Chairman of Timeful Inc) is selling to Google in less than 5 years.
