Jack of everything; master of growth
Looking over my career, I can’t help but marvel at the different things I have done and how they have shaped me, sometimes painfully, and other times painlessly, into what I have become. Nevertheless, both brought me to this point.
Evolving Passion
I studied Mass Communications in school and I was beyond convinced about its importance to what I thought would be my career path. Plot twist … my current path couldn’t possibly lead me any further from the subject matter. 6 years down the line, I often look back and smile wryly to myself having discovered how wrong I was 🤣. At the time, when people asked me what I wanted to do after school, I would, in a heartbeat, tell them all about my aspirations to be a PRO — Public Relations Officer or a Media Personality. To tell you the truth; I had no idea what I wanted to do but one thing I knew for sure, was that I wanted to be successful; everything else was “elementary, my dear Watson”
My tech experience started with being an EA to a tech executive and I spent half the time confused when he would open his mouth, and out of it spewed his tech jargon 😕. What had I gotten myself into?? I often wonder if he could tell that he was constantly speaking over my head. Still trying (not sure how much I was succeeding at the time) to soak in this alien world I had somehow stumbled into, and not yet settled, he thrust me into the run around of setting up a credit fintech. Fintech … I didn’t know. Credit, beyond taking loans from my siblings, I didn’t know; but I was curious about understanding his technical jargon (I do like myself a good challenge).
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Constant Curiosity
The experience of founding a fintech (call me a co-founder if you like 😉 ), executing every role apart from writing code has given me a significant understanding of my ecosystem and the problem I’m solving. Yeah, back up and read that again; you read me right: every single role from Customer Success to HR to Finance + Settlements and reconciliations to Product Manager; all as an Operations Manager 💃 💃 (feels like I am a superstar).
I also launched a demo app with over 125k users, where we do actual lending to experiment and discover the smartest ways to lend and scale safely and successfully. You might want to explore Irorun to get a feel.
Jack of everything; master of growth
As the new year turns around, and we are rounding up our fundraising, the new growth, and hyper scaling beckons. I have no other option than to step forward one more time, diving deep into the unknown world of growth, while my team, our shareholders, and my family await my ability to deliver these absolutely mad numbers, which when achieved, would completely change the consumer credit game.
Ready? Set? To be honest .. I won’t truly know until I.. Go. So help me God.
