I’m exhausted, it’s been a roller coaster for the past 12 years having started my first startup then and ever since, it’s been from one to the other.

I really felt I could succeed, I have read the right books, the right blogs. But in execution and drafting right business plans, I have fallen short. Maybe it’s time to change things a little, something is quite wrong I think.

The height of it was last year end, business was doing fairly well then everything started crashing. Somehow I survived the robbery at gun point in the middle and rallied round to try to make things work. But things were getting worse and every now and then the thought would always come around, “what if it all ends here?” “What if I just have an accident right now (while driving home at 11 pm on third mainland bridge)?” Maybe it was law of attraction but somehow I had an accident but in the daytime when I didn’t think about it.

I launched Showroom.ng almost 2 years now and within months with all the permutations (maybe strategy) we were on a super roll; the dream roll. I think personally I wasn’t introspective enough as I was just riding with the tide. That’s super wrong for a CEO, “you don’t just work in your company you work on it”, so they say. I only read it, I didn’t live it.

I personally won’t attribute the failure to wrong market, or wrong product. It was a wrong execution.

You can find the full story here: https://techpoint.ng/2016/08/24/sheriff-shittu-is-shutting-down-showroom-ng/

It is still possible.