23-year-old Nigerian business person turned down occupation offer from Bill Gates' Microsoft

23-year-old Nigerian business person turned down occupation offer from Bill Gates' Microsoft 


A 23-year-old Nigerian business person, Chris Kwekowe turned down a vocation offer to function as a product design at Microsoft, possessed by the wealthiest man on the planet, Bill Gates, keeping in mind the end goal to start his own start-up in Lagos. 

The Lagos State University software engineering graduate gladly uncovered this to Bill Gates amid a TV meet for Africa's brightest youthful business people in August 2016. 


Kwekowe, who won the 2015 Anzisha Prize which accompanied a $25,000 check, said he dismisses the offer to develop his own startup, Slatecube– a site went for helping other youthful Nigerians discover employments. 

"When I let him know, Gates was fascinated and he grinned. After the program, every one of the chiefs resembled, 'Fella, you mean you really turned down a vocation at Microsoft and had the guts to tell Bill Gates?' 

Kwekowe established Slatecube with his sibling Emerald, 20, in October 2014. The match financed their endeavors by outsourcing as website specialists and running a product arrangements firm. 

He said Slatecube tries to take care of that issue by sustaining the graduates through computerized temporary jobs thus far, Slatecube has a 80% business rate for its clients. Organizations that have utilized the stage, have spared over $100,000 in 2015 by contracting talented, prepared to work representatives. 

In a Facebook post distributed last August, Chris described in points of interest of his meeting with Bill Gates: 

"Goodness no doubt, I met with Bill Gates in Durban, South Africa where we had some genuine discourse about everything - from his inclusion with altruistic causes in the landmass, to how he sets aside a few minutes to be an awesome father for his children. My most loved minutes were watching his response after I let him know I turned down occupation offers from Microsoft and the likes to seek after something all the more characterizing for me, and how Africa's advancement depends more on reasonable interests in imaginative social new businesses like Slatecube that tackle a portion of the landmass' most concerning issues, as opposed to giving totally to philanthropy associations who wind up requiring more money related infusion to manage the minutest of issues. In any case, we'd be working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to make our incentivized offer at Slatecube a container African benefit. Before long, you'd rather be sought after over the globe, and take part in organizations and tasks that improve you, and suits your profession objectives. Nothing can truly be better" 

Source: Newsweek.europe/Chris Kwekowe/Facebook

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