![]() ![]() The Lessons from Unreplied Iyinoluwa Aboyeji Emails - and Missing Opportunities - TekediaĪs a foreigner, if you are going to visit or live in Nigeria for several days, months, or years, do not be too concerned when you read on google or other search engines that over 500 native languages are spoken in Nigeria.ĭespite the high number of native languages being spoken across the country's geography, only three of those native languages are predominant which are Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa because they are spoken by a majority of the country's population. All of us who are now privileged should return emails to our young people. Of course, I do hope Iyin, now that he is a big king, will not ignore emails. Most times, what they want is nothing small guidance. ![]() The Lesson: do not ignore the Iyinoluwa Aboyejis in your network as they email you. That I was a professor teaching engineering and a group of young people with a huge vision wanted me to serve as an advisor would not have been a distraction. I am using that experience to mentor people: sometimes, the goal we desire to achieve can come via many ways. I have shared the experience many times with him he simply laughed! In an Alibaba Board meeting program we both attended last year, I found a way to get into that also. I did not respond to that email. He followed up via LinkedIn on my CMU classnotes and how I could assist him (I deleted my old Linkedin profile before I returned in 2016 or so). ![]() This was the last Iyin’s email to me: “Also I wanted to ask if you are fine with me putting you on as an advisor for our project Let me know”. I failed the test of observation and awareness. But when a MASSIVE opportunity was knocking at the door, I did not pay attention. I was stuck with teaching engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. That was the life. Think about it, I could have been given a small piece in Andela, now a unicorn. He sent a pitch deck and he even followed up, offering me an advisor role in his company. This man, one of his continent’s best, wrote to me many times in 2013. ![]()
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