Edmund Olotu's guest appearances

Edmund Olotu

African Tech Roundup

Third Culture Africans

Mark Zuckerberg

Rozan Ahmed

Jason Njoku

Ray Youssef

Charles Murray

Paul Kent

Aminatta Forna

Judith Okonkwo

Charles Ojei

Joel Macharia

Helen Anatogu

Sara Oon

Tunde Kehinde

Ido Sum

Baba Zoumanigui

OwlTail

Efe Edmund Olotu   ABOUT EFE EDMUND OLOTU   Efe Edmund Olotu is the CEO of TechAdvance, a fintech infrastructure company that provides platforms to enable transaction processing and payment collection, aggregation, and reconciliation. He is a cutting-edge fintech entrepreneur, having been a founding investor and CEO of other companies like biotech company Novira Therapeutics, Nigeria’s G-Pay Instant Payments, and SuperGeeks Services and Solutions.  He has dedicated the last decade to advancing technological solutions for businesses in Africa. The United Nations named Efe one of the 100 Most Influential People of African descent.   ABOUT "Invest In What You Care About"   Listen to Efe Edmund Olotu’s entrepreneurial journey, and the importance of learning, pivoting, and solving problems come to the forefront. Over the decades, his passion for providing solutions has led him to be a leading African entrepreneur. He’s learned from his incredible successes and failures and shares some lessons. Efe hasn’t been afraid to step back to gain experience or change his mind about something.   Hear about some of the challenges facing young African entrepreneurs in raising capital and building an investment infrastructure. He touches on how COVID-19 has exposed business gaps and the need for entrepreneurs to take advantage of them. Finally, hear about Efe’s interesting side hobbies and overcoming his fear of the water.   Highlights of the episode:    04:07: Efe Olotu is a pajama CEO 14:40: Reflecting on his first startup and the challenges when getting started 20:30: Learning about entrepreneurship living in Lagos; the start of SuperGeeks and figuring out how to solve distribution problems 29:30: What COVID-19 has meant for his business and gaps it has exposed 32:55: Are there opportunities for young African entrepreneurs? Speaking about investing in African businesses and building a venture capital structure. 42:28: The importance of evolving and changing your mind as an entrepreneur 45:06: The Glenfiddich campaign and conquering his fear of the water    Mentioned Resources    TechAdvance  Glenfiddich Malée    ABOUT ZEZE ORIAIKHI-SAO   Learn all about Zeze Oriaikhi-Sao

Efe Edmund Olotu ABOUT EFE EDMUND OLOTU Efe Edmund Olotu is the CEO of TechAdvance, a fintech infrastructure company that provides platforms to enable transaction processing and payment collection, aggregation, and reconciliation. He is a cutting-edge fintech entrepreneur, having been a founding investor and CEO of other companies like biotech company Novira Therapeutics, Nigeria’s G-Pay Instant Payments, and SuperGeeks Services and Solutions.  He has dedicated the last decade to advancing technological solutions for businesses in Africa. The United Nations named Efe one of the 100 Most Influential People of African descent. ABOUT "Invest In What You Care About" Listen to Efe Edmund Olotu’s entrepreneurial journey, and the importance of learning, pivoting, and solving problems come to the forefront. Over the decades, his passion for providing solutions has led him to be a leading African entrepreneur. He’s learned from his incredible successes and failures and shares some lessons. Efe hasn’t been afraid to step back to gain experience or change his mind about something. Hear about some of the challenges facing young African entrepreneurs in raising capital and building an investment infrastructure. He touches on how COVID-19 has exposed business gaps and the need for entrepreneurs to take advantage of them. Finally, hear about Efe’s interesting side hobbies and overcoming his fear of the water. Highlights of the episode: <ul> <li>04:07: Efe Olotu is a pajama CEO</li> <li>14:40: Reflecting on his first startup and the challenges when getting started</li> <li>20:30: Learning about entrepreneurship living in Lagos; the start of SuperGeeks and figuring out how to solve distribution problems</li> <li>29:30: What COVID-19 has meant for his business and gaps it has exposed</li> <li>32:55: Are there opportunities for young African entrepreneurs? Speaking about investing in African businesses and building a venture capital structure.</li> <li>42:28: The importance of evolving and changing your mind as an entrepreneur</li> <li>45:06: The Glenfiddich campaign and conquering his fear of the water</li> </ul> Mentioned Resources <ul> <li><a href="https://techadvance.ng/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TechAdvance</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/12/31/williams-olotu-embark-on-mavericks-challenge-with-glenfiddich-nigeria/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Glenfiddich</a></li> <li><a href="https://maleeonline.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Malée</a></li> </ul> ABOUT ZEZE ORIAIKHI-SAO <a href="https://www.zezeonline.com/about-zeze-oriaikhi-sao/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Learn all about Zeze Oriaikhi-Sao</a>

Efe Edmund Olotu, Invest In What You Care About

In this conversation with Andile Masuku, TechAdvance CEO, Edmund Olotu, sketches Nigeria's digital payments infrastructure landscape and explains why he feels the time is right for his company to participate more actively in the discourses around the next wave of data analytics-driven tech in Nigeria.Listen in to hear Edmund unpack TechAdvance's ambitions to take the game to competitors like Interswitch and position to be the platform partner of choice for big corporate and government-owned enterprises looking to reduce payments friction, as well as newer fintech startups looking to deliver digitized financial services to the masses.

In this conversation with Andile Masuku, TechAdvance CEO, Edmund Olotu, sketches Nigeria's digital payments infrastructure landscape and explains why he feels the time is right for his company to participate more actively in the discourses around the next wave of data analytics-driven tech in Nigeria. Listen in to hear Edmund unpack TechAdvance's ambitions to take the game to competitors like Interswitch and position to be the platform partner of choice for big corporate and government-owned enterprises looking to reduce payments friction, as well as newer fintech startups looking to deliver digitized financial services to the masses.

Edmund Olotu of TechAdvance on building out digital payments infrastructure in Nigeria