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If South Africa is not on the list, then it's fake. Where's Musk?

LegendHero:
Below are the six Nigerian founders that made the list.

—Calendly - Tope Awotona

—Flutterwave - Olugbenga Agboola & Iyin Aboyeji

— Cityhealth Block - Toyin Ajayi

—GIP - Adebayo Ogunlesi

—Esusu - Abey Wemimo

Most of these companies are tech related and I don’t think it’s hard to set up a tech related companies, neither is it hard in getting customers, just run ads.
But physical companies like manufacturing, processing, is not among the list.

Which of the names should we follow ?

Is it the one looking like jamb result where all names of South East that made it were wiped out ....


Or is it the other list that has names of South East in it?

Anyway, the names there, of you are not related to them, pls go and double your legitimate works not Agbero online bandits works abeg....

seunmsg:
Developers will soon come here to tell us how they did not make the list because of Donald Trump’s tribalism against them 🤣🤣🤣

Ogogoro man 😂😂😂

seunmsg:
Developers will soon come here to tell us how they did not make the list because of Donald Trump’s tribalism against them 🤣🤣🤣

Haba no b boss Seun be this?
Omoor shey Seun nah clown now ni abi , e just dey play .
Oya make Dem edit m kiakia

LegendHero:
Below are the six Nigerian founders that made the list.

—Calendly - Tope Awotona

—Flutterwave - Olugbenga Agboola & Iyin Aboyeji

— Cityhealth Block - Toyin Ajayi

—GIP - Adebayo Ogunlesi

—Esusu - Abey Wemimo

lol,

E no go easy Allah.

This one dem hate naija

LegendHero:
Below are the six Nigerian founders that made the list.

—Calendly - Tope Awotona

—Flutterwave - Olugbenga Agboola & Iyin Aboyeji

— Cityhealth Block - Toyin Ajayi

—GIP - Adebayo Ogunlesi

—Esusu - Abey Wemimo

Isn't Flutterwave a Nigerian company? Correct me if I am wrong.

seunmsg:
Developers will soon come here to tell us how they did not make the list because of Donald Trump’s tribalism against them 🤣🤣🤣

70 year old man..
Those people are Americans benefiting America, the only thing they share with nigeria is yoruba ancestry, nothing else. The so called developers along with others are doing theirs here in naija beneficial to Nigerians.
Kemi badenock and Sade adu have not made you wise? When you go realize them no send you or naija..

Chisave:
Nigeria, we are just loud mouthed. Some other countries doing way better without noise. Every small achievement we go dey shoit up amd down

Stop saying that Nigerians are loud. You are not in other countries' social media space. You don't know what happens over there.

LegendHero:
Below are the six Nigerian founders that made the list.

—Calendly - Tope Awotona

—Flutterwave - Olugbenga Agboola & Iyin Aboyeji

— Cityhealth Block - Toyin Ajayi

—GIP - Adebayo Ogunlesi

—Esusu - Abey Wemimo

All Omoluwabi. Whom God has blessed, no one can curse. I am proud of my ethnicity

LegendHero:
Number of foreign born founders who founded billion dollar American companies:

🇮🇳 India - 66
🇮🇱 Israel - 54
🇬🇧 United Kingdon - 27
🇨🇦 Canada - 22
🇨🇳 China - 21
🇫🇷 France - 18
🇩🇪 Germany - 15
🇷🇺 Russia - 11
🇺🇦 Ukraine - 10
🇮🇷 Iran - 8
🇦🇺 Australia - 7
🇮🇹 Italy - 6
🇳🇬 Nigeria - 6
🇵🇱 Poland - 6
🇷🇴 Romania - 6
🇦🇷 Argentina - 5
🇧🇷 Brazil - 5
🇳🇿 New Zealand - 5

Good news.

Obi will not react
Racoon will be angry.

Nigerians to the world 🌎

kedeojo:
forget about the noise from our noisy neighbors. Yorubas are the most recognized billionaires. They don't just make noise and hyping is not thier calling.They owned most of the biggest investment in Lagos.They dominated almost the sector of the economy.

Your "noisy neighbors" have the highest number of millionaires. It's not about having a few people surrounded by plenty poor people which is the norm in Yorubaland and the north.

Great people we are proud of you

YourKarma:
Your "noisy neighbors" have the highest number of millionaires. It's not about having a few people surrounded by plenty poor people which is the norm in Yorubaland and the north.

Are the millionaires in the same South East from where your brothers are joining the night bus to the south west

Softmirror:
Musk considers himself an American citizen.

the people in the list are all Americans.

Softmirror:
Musk considers himself an American citizen.

Besides aside him who else and the number of nationalities there are more than 1

Not a single South African. Nigerians are a peculiar people it's why some other African nations and nationals detest us and are quick to campaign our bad sides like they don't have but when the good sides are celebrated daily they hide in envy and wait for the quickest opportunity to harass us on and offline.

Softmirror:
There was a thread already existing. https://www.nairaland.com/8507998/number-foreign-born-founders-founded#136612326

2022

Softmirror:
[quote author=press9jatv post=136612474]South Africa should be there too. Elon musk is from SA and owns Tesla, X and space link. The list isn't complete.

Musk considers himself an American citizen.[/quote]Wrong. From US point of view Musk is a Canadian because that's the passport he used to enter US

Congratulations to these Nigerians. We should do more.

SmartyPants:
You are cross-referencing a 2025 list with 2022 data and asking if there is a clash. Na wa o...obviously, some of those companies from the 2022 list have lost some value.

So how come he lists 5 companies when the list says 6??!😅

Softmirror:
There was a thread already existing. https://www.nairaland.com/8507998/number-foreign-born-founders-founded#136612326

U r right. The Slytiger thread should have been the one to make front page. It is more comprehensive

deji17:
All Omoluwabi. Whom God has blessed, no one can curse. I am proud of my ethnicity

Omoawoke:
lol,

See the true list below - 6 companies NOT 5

DoctorStanley:
So how come he lists 5 companies when the list says 6??!😅

5 companies but 6 founders because Flutterwave has two Nigerian co-founders as you can see on the list.


Simple sturvs.

SmartyPants:
5 companies but 6 founders because Flutterwave has two Nigerian co-founders as you can see on the list.


Simple sturvs.

😅Funny guy. So how come this more comprehensive list below has SIX companies AND SIX founders.

https://www.nairaland.com/8507998/number-foreign-born-founders-founded#136612326

Google only found three..

Here are three billion-dollar companies in the US with Nigerian-born co-founders:

Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP): Adebayo "Bayo" Ogunlesi is the Chairman and co-founder of this New York-based private equity firm that invests in infrastructure assets. In 2024, the firm was acquired by BlackRock in a landmark $12.5 billion deal.

Calendly: Founded by Tope Awotona, this Atlanta-based scheduling software company was valued at $3 billion in 2021. Awotona moved to the US from Nigeria during his teenage years.

Esusu: Co-founded by Wemimo Abbey, this fintech startup helps renters build their credit history by reporting rent payments to credit bureaus. Based in New York, the company was valued at $1 billion in 2022.

DoctorStanley:
😅Funny guy. So how come this more comprehensive list below has SIX companies AND SIX founders.

https://www.nairaland.com/8507998/number-foreign-born-founders-founded#136612326

What's your point?? Genuinely - why are you going on about SIX companies and SIX founders....to prove what?

If you haven't noticed, the thread says 6 founders, not 6 businesses. Why are you jittery?

seunmsg:
Developers will soon come here to tell us how they did not make the list because of Donald Trump’s tribalism against them 🤣🤣🤣

You already sabi these people too much. They will claim that the Nigerian Federal government marginalized them for not being on the list.