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Most people think entrepreneurship is a young person’s game. Mrs. Temilola Adepetun proves otherwise.
In this week’s Founders Connect, the legendary founder of School Kits Limited shares how she went from 16 years in Oil & Gas to building a retail empire that has lasted a quarter of a century.
This is a full 60minutes video on business lessons from someone that is building a legacy business.
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She won a contract at 23 with no prior experience.
One of the biggest cheques of her life came from a painting she created in 6 days.
She wrote the first article about Africa’s creator economy in 2011 before Creator Economy became a thing.
Now she is building @crea8torium .
Today’s episode of Founders Connect is about what it actually costs to build a life on your own terms.
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What happens when legacy and ambition pull in opposite directions?
Walking away from a thriving family business, 200 employees, as a firstborn Yoruba son is definitely not a small thing. But staying and never finding out what you were capable of on your own? That would have been worse.
Sometimes the boldest thing you can do is trust yourself enough to find out.
If you want to build a successful business in Africa today, you need to watch this!
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The best investors know that the experience you leave with every founder you back becomes your reputation, and your reputation becomes your deal flow. In a space where marketing is expensive and word of mouth is free, how you show up in the relationship is the strategy.
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Your starting point does not determine your story. What you do with what’s in your hand does.
Grass to grace looks different for everyone, and every version of it is valid.
Catch up on this insightful conversation we had with the amazing Kola Aina @diekolaaina . Comment ‘KOLA’ to watch the full video.
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What most people miss is that culture scales. The good and the bad. Whatever you normalize in the early days of your company will multiply as you grow. Which means the longer you wait to fix what is not working, the more expensive that fix becomes.
You cannot pay people to think creatively. You cannot incentivize genuine initiative. But you can build an environment where it happens naturally and that starts on day one, not after your Series A.
Build the culture you want to scale. Then trust great people to run with it.
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Most people look at Nigeria and see 250 million people. Kola Aina looks at the same number and sees one of the most dangerous assumptions in African business.
He has spent a decade backing over 90 companies through Ventures Platform -Paystack, PiggyVest, Moniepoint among them. He shares the lesson underneath all of it, how it’s not just about market size or capital but also about judgment...
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The question was never whether Africa could produce global companies. It was always whether African founders believed it was possible from where they were standing.
Location is not your limitation, your mindset is.
You can build from anywhere!
Two of the most important lessons are:
1. Unit economics. Knowing what things cost, owning the quality of what you deliver, and not being afraid to charge the right price for it.
2. Compliance. Not as a box-ticking exercise, but as a long-term competitive advantage. The startups that sail through investor due diligence are the ones that never cut corners — not because they knew someone was coming to look, but because they built that way from the beginning.
Build like you’re in Silicon Valley. The standard of excellence is not a geography, it’s a decision.
