Tomiwa Aladekomo

"Choose a platform where you can be consistent and you think you can build an audience, stick to what you are great at."

"I initially moved back to Nigeria kicking and screaming. I wasn't ready for it, but I decided to make it work and avoided making rash decisions for the first six months to a year."

"After that, the guys at Big Cabal, the founders, and I started a conversation and they said, you know, you should come join us. And they wanted me to come do biz dev for them. And I was like, you guys can’t afford me. And somewhere along the line, the conversation goes to, do you want to come run it? And I said, that could be interesting because career-wise, I’d always wanted to kind of run my own business. I’d always wanted to build something, and I thought, I really liked TechCabal, I really liked Zikoko. I think the fundamental thesis of the business is interesting. We could do something with this, we could make it big."

"We’ve built a really good data unit within TechCabal called TC Insights. And that’s because we know this matters. This is the future. This is a critical aspect of being the kind of publication that TechCabal wants to be."

"At TechCabal, we think that technology will be the biggest driver of innovation, of employment growth, and high-quality employment growth, of productivity growth across countries over the next decade and beyond. And what that means is that the media that covers that technology must grow. There must be more of us to tell the stories of what's happening, how technology is affecting people's lives."

"It’s important to utilise all skills and knowledge gained from different experiences to create a successful business."

"Media is not an easy industry. But when it’s done right, its impact is massive."

"Any company that is looking to expand to a new market has to learn to sell in those markets."

"Global expansion will make African tech companies more resilient, especially since they will be less reliant on the African market and less susceptible to its unreliability."

"What is going down in the investing space has not really hit the early-stage investments as hard yet it is still mostly later-stage investors that have slowed down. So, I think everybody should prepare for a tighter market fundraising, people should prepare for fundraising to become more difficult. If you have raised before the slowdown, use your capital well; stretch it as far as it can go to profitability and sustainability. And if you haven’t raised, you need to know that it’s going to be a lot more difficult."

"“The fusion of media and technology is reshaping how we communicate, share stories, and consume information.” Tomiwa Aladekomo at a tech summit speech."