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143 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

But then my co-founder is a good guy, super awesome guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

He's one of the best engineers in this continent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

And trust me, with him, I don't necessarily have to do the hard coding part of the duties.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

Well, so myself and my co-founder, we've dated way back to 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

So we pretty understand ourselves so well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

And we also built a startup in the past, which we sold to a bigger company in Africa.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

That was in 2019.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

Did you get really rich on that deal or was it like an acqui-hire?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

So it was an acqui-ire then with some kind of tickets and all of this kind of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

So we decided to take a break sometime in 2022 to just chill out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

We've been hustling for like 10 years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

And then boom, the idea came.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

And trust me, we have this very seamless and effortless connection.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

So having to do equity splits is never an issue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

As a matter of fact, it was just to make it feel like the CEO has more than the CTO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

That's all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

But I've just done 50-50.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

So today we're 12 full-time guys, about seven engineers, and then five business guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

Okay, so recall I said we are bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

So myself and my guy has, again, we have some box and bag in the bank that we can actually use to just bootstrap stuff.