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Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of scheduling software company Calendly.
Awotona, a former salesman for tech firms including EMC (now Dell EMC), founded Calendly out of his own frustration with the back-and-forth emails required to schedule meetings.

He bootstrapped Calendly for years before taking on a $350 million investment in 2021 that valued the firm at $3 billion.

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Awotona immigrated to the United States as a teenager.
Before founding Calendly, he had started a few other businesses, including one that sold projectors and another that sold garden tools, that flopped.

Meet Tope Awotona, richest Nigerian and immigrant in the US

Tope Awotona has been named by Forbes as the richest immigrant and Nigerian American residing in the United States.

The 42-year-old, born in Lagos, Nigeria, and relocated to the US during his teenage years, holds a net worth of $1.2 billion.

Awotona is the founder and CEO of Calendly, a scheduling software company.

Forbes notes that he initiated Calendly in response to his own frustration with the time-consuming back-and-forth emails needed for meeting scheduling, having previously worked as a salesman for tech firms like EMC (now Dell EMC).

https://businessday.ng/news/article/meet-tope-awotona-richest-nigerian-and-immigrant-in-the-us/#:~:text=Tope%20Awotona%20has%20been%20named,Calendly%2C%20a%20scheduling%20software%20company.

Nice meeting Him

forenzy:
Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of scheduling software company Calendly.
Awotona, a former salesman for tech firms including EMC (now Dell EMC), founded Calendly out of his own frustration with the back-and-forth emails required to schedule meetings.
He bootstrapped Calendly for years before taking on a $350 million investment in 2021 that valued the firm at $3 billion.
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Awotona immigrated to the United States as a teenager.
Before founding Calendly, he had started a few other businesses, including one that sold projectors and another that sold garden tools, that flopped.

Richer than Bayo Ogunlesi?

BreconHills:


Richer than Bayo Ogunlesi?

No but he is as rich as Jay Z his net worth is 1.2 billion $ while his company is worth 3 billion $

Congratulations to him but what has been his contributions back home towards bettering the life of the less privileged and the downtrodden

Kokorokomanaoga:

How does someone praising the feats of his tribesmen translate to tribalism, if you are not ashamed of your tribe why dont you post and praise their achievements too?
That means the likes of anambraIstson etc should be banned too?

What are you talking about ?

BreconHills:


Richer than Bayo Ogunlesi?

Yea Bayo worth $2.3b

BreconHills:


Richer than Bayo Ogunlesi?

Ogunlesi is based in the United Kingdom

PrinceofSarcasm:
That tribalist FreeStuffsNG will soon come here and create topic because the person is Yoruba.

The guy doesn't even think like a normal person beyond tribalism. I don't know why he wasn't banned permanently.

Seun if you want to clean Nairaland s like FreeStuffsNG should be banned permanently. He only created topics for one tribe and intentionally avoids achievements of southeast southsouth of Northerners.

Ban that permanently!

You want freestuffs banned but ugly disgusting tribalists from your tribe side retained
You are not serious. You hypocrite

Make una no dey answer PrinceofSarcasm.

PrinceofSarcasm:

Seun if you want to clean Nairaland s like FreeStuffsNG should be banned permanently. He only created topics for one tribe and intentionally avoids achievements of southeast.

Ban that permanently!

Shebi you can create threads to mock other tribes, why don't you create threads to promote your "achievements"?

Do you want him to manufacture achievements for you?
Is it his fault that you don't have achievements to show?
You are crying because you have nothing to show.

Nwanne, If e didn't dey, e didn't dey.

PrinceofSarcasm:

What are you talking about ?

Can someone please translate it into vernacular for it to sink into this boy's skull.

PureFace1:



yen yen look at you wailing as if there are not also s that create topics only for Igbo, all what your generation is good at is playing the victims

For those of you that says Yoruba is successful in this country because of government,
Yoruba is the most successful in UK and USA too, UK and USA government must be helping Yoruba to marginalize Igbo

Chai.

MyVILLAGEpeople:


Ogunlesi is based in the United Kingdom

Can one really ascribe domicile to a $ denominated billionaire?

IgboSomalia:


Shebi you can create threads to mock other tribes, why don't you create threads to promote your "achievements"?

Do you want him to manufacture achievements for you?
Is it his fault that you don't have achievements to show?
You are crying because you have nothing to show.

Nwanne, If e didn't dey, e didn't dey.

Are you a graduate?

So what's the importance of this news

And I dey here dey think say na me sef

Emilokan should extend invitation to such a man to invest in Nigeria and as well as establishing software company here in Nigeria to groom Nigerian youths.

2DADDEY:

You want freestuffs banned but ugly disgusting tribalistic from your tribe side retained
You are not serious. You hypocrite

Wow didn't know sukanmi had so many s !!

Pigggggggs will be green with envy

Yorubas are not your mate anytime anyday anywhere in the world

first source of income please. did he skull mine or yahoo?
cos if na the ipobs, their first source is always drugs.
if na hausa na terrorism.
so please tell us the first source of this afonjas income.

the pig above me is right, afonjas are not mates with anybody when it comes to skull mining . same way Igbo ipobs are not mates with anybody when it comes to drugs.

PrinceofSarcasm:
That tribalist FreeStuffsNG will soon come here and create topic because the person is Yoruba.

The guy doesn't even think like a normal person beyond tribalism. I don't know why he wasn't banned permanently.

Seun if you want to clean Nairaland s like FreeStuffsNG should be banned permanently. He only created topics for one tribe and intentionally avoids achievements of southeast southsouth of Northerners.

Ban that permanently!

What is it with you and tribalism?! See how you want to derail this innocent thread.

🤔

Well done bro, proud of real creative, innovative entrepreneurs like you that created real solution to societal problems from scratch, not corrupt Nigerian government induced billionaires like Aliko Dangote that did nothing exceptional aside leveraging on corrupt Nigerian politicians to enrich his filthy pocket

BreconHills:


Can one really ascribe domicile to a $ denominated billionaire?

Of course

Akuko