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Apple Buys An Application Developed By A Nigerian For $1billon by berryBee(f): 4:41am On May 20, 2015
Founded in 2005, Hopstop.com makes mobile applications for both iOS and Android that covers over 300 cities and that helps people get directions or find nearby subway stations and bus stops. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed as at the time of this report.
Echeruo, formerly an analyst at the investment banks and hedge funds, founded Hopstop.com in 2005.

Echeruo is now Chairman of the Board for Hopstop, has been compared to Israel’s Waze, which was recently acquired by Google for $1 billion. The move is seen as Apple’s plan to bolster its map offering, especially given Google’s recent acquisition of Waze.
A serial entrepreneur, Echeruo grew up in the Eastern part of Nigeria and attended Kings College, Lagos.

He attended Syracuse University and the Harvard Business School in the United States and founded Hopstop.com after working for several years in the mergers and acquisitions and leveraged finance groups of J.P Morgan Chase where he was involved in a broad range of M&A, financing and private equity transactions.

He also worked at AM Investment Partners, a $500 million volatility-driven convertible bond arbitrage hedge fund. He founded and raised nearly $8 million for his two U.S based internet companies: Hopstop.com and Tripology.com. Tripology.com was acquired in 2010 by American travel and navigation information company, Rand McNally.

True to form, Echeruo is working on yet another venture but this time, focused on small businesses in Africa.
According to him, “There is no reason why every entrepreneur should have to reinvent the wheel every single time in all the countries in Africa.
Re: Apple Buys An Application Developed By A Nigerian For $1billon by olaglamour(f): 5:14am On May 20, 2015
Oh God, he is blessed
Re: Apple Buys An Application Developed By A Nigerian For $1billon by excellentmomma(f): 5:59am On May 20, 2015
Good one bro!, keep developing more. But wait o, these pple from that part of the country will not stop bringing us "shame" in this country in their love of money. I knew it b4 opening this thread, and I'm not disappointed @ d name. Hahahahahah, I hope one onye ofe sees this thread and keeps making the above comments o, na kwa echeki nu o.
Udo diri gi nwanne.

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