21/08/2023
🔥 Introducing our speaker for this week’s Fireside Chat, Chidi Nwaogu 🔥
Chidi Nwaogu is a serial tech entrepreneur and software developer. He founded, grew, and sold two successful tech startup companies before he turned 24, including LAGbook, a social network that garnered over one million registered users within three years and was acquired by a Canadian tech company, Gulf Pearl, in 2013. Today, Nwaogu is a co-founder at Publiseer, one of the largest digital publishing companies in Africa, as described by Konbini. Publiseer has helped over 8,000 underserved and independent African creatives living in low-income and disadvantaged communities to earn above the minimum wage and live above the poverty line from the sales of their creative works.
He is also a co-founder at Savvy, a global fellowship program that has equipped over 9,000 passionate individuals from 161 countries, with the necessary knowledge, skills, tools, resources, support network, and community to build sustainable, innovative, and profitable impact-driven businesses and to succeed as entrepreneurs. Nwaogu is the winner of the Migration Entrepreneurship Prize 2020, Africa’s Business Heroes Prize 2021, the Roddenberry Foundation Catalyst Award 2021, the HundrED Global Collection Award for Leading Education Innovation 2022, and the International Telecommunications Union Award for Global Innovation 2021, to mention a few.
He is a French-African Foundation Young Leader 2021 (Paris), One Young World Ambassador (2021), Dalai Lama Fellow 2022 (Virginia), Acumen Fellow 2020 (West Africa), Alibaba eFounders Fellow 2020 (China), Westerwelle Foundation Young Leader 2019 (Germany), African Presidential Leadership Program Alumni 2019 (Cairo), Queen's Commonwealth Trust Young Leader 2022 (United Kingdom), and Yunus & Youth Global Fellow 2019 (New York). He has been recognized as one of the Most Powerful Young Nigerians for the Year 2021 by YNaija, and one of the Millionaire West African Startup Founders by Nairametrics.
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