VIDEO: Opeyemi Awoyemi from building Jobberman to changing how talent gets found
The serial entrepreneur who co-founded Jobberman shares insights on the future of work for people in the informal job market who will never be on LinkedIn.
About this episode
In this episode of The Founder Room, I had a conversation with Opeyemi Awoyemi, the Nigerian entrepreneur who started WhoGoHost (now Go54) as a student in 2007 and went on to co-found Jobberman, the largest recruitment platform in sub-Saharan Africa.
Over more than 15 years, Opeyemi has built a career around one idea: connecting people to opportunity. From his early exits and his role in Ringier One Africa Media, to launching Fast Forward Venture Studio and his latest venture, hello.cv, he now spends as much time backing founders as building for them.
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