Founder Of Foodlama: “I Left Nigeria With A Week And A Half’s Notice” Roots To Routes With Anand Dattani podcast

Founder of Foodlama: “I Left Nigeria With A Week And A Half’s Notice”

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"you can't change the world without being lonely, so get comfortable with it"

About the Guest

Damilare Ogunleye (pictured on the left) is the co-founder and CEO of FoodLama, a trusted shopping assistant that makes your online grocery shopping easier to find the perfect food products that meet your household’s exact dietary requirements or preferences.

Damilare has over 12 years marketing experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPGs) sector, most recently as co-founder of an e-commerce platform supporting African creatives to monetise their skills, serving over 50,000 consumers with over $4M revenue in 5 years.

Damilare is a fellow of UNCTAD Alibaba eFounders program that annually identifies 25 high-potential entrepreneurs shaping the digital economy. The fellowship program includes an intensive capacity-building program at Alibaba’s HQ in Hangzhou, China covering e-commerce, inventory management and rural commerce, logistics and mobile payment systems, and data analytics.

"my plan B was my plan A, and my plan C was my plan A; failure was not an option"

We discuss:

Typical culture of a Nigerian household
The 3 things Damilare learnt from his parents
How his parents traits showed through his early years
Learning integrity from his father
Getting tuberculosis during University
Driven by the fear of poverty
LEAVING a respectable job at Nestle
Why you need to be comfortable with being lonely
The influence of role models
Why Nigerians are not like any other culture of people
Leaving Nigeria for the UK
Why Foodlama?

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