Meet Funke Opeke, CEO of MainOne who sold her company for $320M to Equinix

The first-ever Live Founders Connect Interview was held at the Founders Connect Live in Lagos Event, which took place on the 8th of July 2023. Here, Peace spoke with Funke Opeke, the Founder/CEO of MainOne, one of Africa’s leading data and connectivity solutions providers. In this interview, Funke shared her remarkable journey from childhood to building MainOne and her thoughts and opinions on the country's infrastructure, advice to people just starting in their careers and so much more.

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0:00 - Introduction
1:21 - 3 Words She Would Use to Describe Herself
2:22 - Background Story
5:20 - How the People Around her Influenced Her/ Why She Stayed in the US for 25 Years
9:17 - Most Important Thing she Took Away from her Experience Working in the US
11:04 - Coming Back Home
14:21 - Working at MTN, and Nitel and the Inception of MainOne
16:54 - Raising 240 Million Dollars for MainOne
22:39 - Biggest Challenges Building MainOne
25:10 - Things She Wants to See
27:34 - Lessons for Younger Entrepreneurs
29:36 - Audience Questions
31:07 - Peace Recaps
34:26 - One Advice for Building a Successful Career

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We did it in Lagos, and now we're coming to London!✨ Brace yourselves for Founders Connect: Live in London, an event that is going to be truly remarkable.

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