What's Working Podcast

What's Working Podcast

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What's Working Podcast episodes

  • What To Look Out For When Recruiting A Software Engineer To Your Startup - Ayomide of Trove Finance

    Today I am joined by Ayomide of Trove Finance. He is a YouTuber, software engineer and the Head of engineering at Trove Finance. Trove Finance helps you invest in companies from across the world, they democratise software stocks.  In this talk, Ayomide talks about what he looks out for when employing engineers into his company and what startups should look out for when employing software engineers into their team ultimately.



    Cheat Sheet

    1. Who Ayomide is? 1:47

    2. How Ayomide got into coding and engineering? 2:44

    3. What built his engineering experience 4:42

    4. Testing how innovative your problem-solving skills are 7:20

    5. the one engineer Ayomide hired that was a big mistake 12:09

    6. In building an engineering team for a startup, what's the best way to hire a good team? 14:30

    7. How the 'passion' trait is important for an engineer to have about a product in the startup? 16:41

    8. How stability and focus are needed for the founder and the engineer to be able to build what is needed? 20:11

    9. As a founder you have to know when to stop and create a road map for your product and team 24:04

    10. The checklist Ayomide uses to employ a software engineer 25:25


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    30 min
  • What Startups Are Getting Wrong With Marketing By Josephus of Alpega Group, Belgium.
    Marketing is getting your brand to the world!
    Marketing is one of the key areas of every business, be it a traditional business or a startup. 
    On this podcast, I and Joey talked through marketing in general and what startups are getting wrong with their marketing.
    Listen in and share!
    Find Joey here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephusayoola/
    You can find me here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/oluwamayowaos/
    42 min
  • Building a Solid Engineering Team By Ayodeji of Konga.com

    I caught up with Ayodeji Ayankola, an iOS engineer at Konga.com. 


    We talked about his journey being an iOS developer and then he gave rich insights and a unique perspective on what it takes to build a solid, agile, and continual engineering team. 


    Listen and do kindly share. 

    Cheat Sheet

    0:00-1:32- Meet Ayodeji

    1:33-3:36- More about Ayodeji and his work experience

    3:37-5:40- What does it feel like working on a team with millions of users interfering with the product?

    6:02-9:59- From the team perspective, what is important when a startup is trying to set up their engineering team into something that is scalable?

    10:46-14:49- In the area of the volatility of talent, what can startups do to maintain stability?

    14:54-19:16- If you are going to recruit a junior engineer, what will you be looking out for?

    21 min
  • Figuring Out Your Entrepreneurship Path By Tobiloba of Adireworld.com
    Adesanya Tobiloba at 24 has built her company https://www.instagram.com/adireworld/ into a global brand that has gone ahead to design prints for celebrities and prominent individuals beyond the walls of Nigeria.
    But things didn't start off as rosy, on this episode, Tobiloba shared the back story, challenges and the journey to building her business.
    One thing she emphasized is: Clarity comes with action. Don't let me be the spoiler here, go listen for yourself.
    She also talked about issues around:
    Role of parents in supporting their entrepreneur child
    Balancing the advice you receive from people around you 
    Dealing with negative people.
    Go listen and share.
    43 min
  • How To Start With What You Have - Olasupo Abideen of Opab Group of Companies

    From applying to 200 international conferences and getting denied for 175 of them, to writing a 'shitty' email to the governor that actually got his response to learning to self-improve and self-innovate. Two things I picked out from My chat with 26-year-old multiple award-winning and multi-million naira business owner Abideen Olasupo: 

    1. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. 
    2. Start where you are, start with what you have and get better as you know and see better.

      3. This 1 hour 2-minute chat will get you fired up, I promise.

      1 hr 3 min

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    In a fast paced business world, what worked yesterday sometimes ends up not working today.