Seun Osewa
Oluwaseun Temitope Osewa born July 17, 1982) is a Nigerian internet entrepreneur. He is the founder of Nairaland, a popular internet forum launched in March 2005, which was projected as the biggest African forum by Forbes. YNaija listed him as one of the most innovative Nigerians in technology. He was also listed among T.I.N Magazine's top 10 most influential Nigerian online entrepreneurs in 2015.
Quotes
[edit]- Honesty and popularity rarely coexist in the same space. Once in a blue moon, when what people want to hear is actually true, it happens.
- After we got the Internet, the first online service I wanted to build was a Nigerian Paypal. I held 3 or 4 related domains for a while, but failed to renew them, as I didn't have what it'd take. This was years before I thought about starting Nairaland.
- I learnt that one could make money by starting a popular website and placing adverts on it, but I couldn’t make my blog popular enough to
be profitable, so I decided to start various forums where people can post on various topics that I have no personal interest in.
- I always tell job seekers to create their own jobs, because nobody owes them a job.
- Look for a painful problem that others are facing, and then devise a way to make people pay you for the solution. Look for problems that don’t require much capital to solve.
- In a developing country like Nigeria, there are so many problems waiting to be solved. One man’s problem is another man’s profit! Competition is often weak which means you’ll make a lot of money. So what are you waiting for?
- I used to be active on various discussion forums online, so I recognised their value. But the Nigerian forums available at the time were dominated by Nigerians abroad. They focused on topics like US politics and inter-racial relations.
