When, in August, 23-year-old Nigerian college graduate
Chris Kwekowe met Bill Gates, he didn’t press the founder of
Microsoft Inc. for business advice or a possible job offer. The meeting took
place at a forum for Africa’s brightest young entrepreneurs.
Rather Chris told Bill Gates during the forum that
featured some of Africa’s brightest young entrepreneurs, how
he had turned down a software engineer role at Microsoft.
“[Gates] was really intrigued, and he smiled,” says Kwekowe,
“After the program, all the directors were like, ‘Dude, you mean you actually
turned down a job at Microsoft and had the guts to tell Bill Gates?”
The young entrepreneur was extremely confident in his
abilities and had a great reason to decline the job offer.
Chris was creating his own startup company, Slatecube, which
helps other young Nigerians who graduated college find jobs. Slatecube seeks to
solve that problem by nurturing the graduates through digital internships.
The company is expecting to open offices in Kenya, Ghana,
and South Africa in 2017. When asked where his tenacious spirit to compete in
the business world comes from, Chris said, “If you can do business in Lagos,
you can do business anywhere in the world.
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