Ope AdeoyeinThe Lagoon ChroniclesJust like FMCG, banking needs distributionFor the past nine months, the plumbers of OnePipe have been hard at work putting finishing touches to our embedded banking proposition…Nov 25, 2021Nov 25, 2021
Ope AdeoyeinThe Lagoon Chronicles12 months a startup — Here are lessons I’m taking into the futureConfession: My liver failed me to hit ‘publish’ on this post in January. Till tomorrow, I’m still second-guessing my choices. But here…May 31, 2019May 31, 2019
Ope AdeoyeinThe Lagoon ChroniclesAnd now, my watch has ended. Thank you Interswitch.When I joined Interswitch (the first coming) in 2006, I was a guy with an objective. I felt “the internet” was coming to Nigeria and I…Dec 29, 20171Dec 29, 20171
Ope AdeoyeinThe Lagoon ChroniclesDear Product Manager, here’s a possible lesson in business development…If you are in the kind of industry where you create a product that requires multiple players in your value chain to adopt it at once to be…Dec 15, 20171Dec 15, 20171
Ope AdeoyeThe time I begged for my old job back. And thankful I did.The year was 2009 and I was struggling with a dilemma.Nov 15, 2017Nov 15, 2017
Ope AdeoyeinThe Lagoon ChroniclesThis tech talent exodus from Nigeria, how we go do?In the last 8 months or so, I think I may have heard more than a few rumours/reports of Nigerian developers, designers and other tech…Sep 27, 20173Sep 27, 20173
Ope AdeoyeinThe Lagoon ChroniclesWhat do you indulge in?Recently at work, we were asking one another this question.Sep 12, 20171Sep 12, 20171
Ope AdeoyeinThe Lagoon ChroniclesDear Product Manager, here’s how to be awesome.Once in a while, I get the opportunity to speak with PMs around me. Here’s a deck I often talk around. Hopefully, you can extract some…Aug 23, 2017Aug 23, 2017
Ope AdeoyeinThe Lagoon ChroniclesDear Product Manager, start from the experience, not the techComing from an engineering background, I spent most of my first years as a bumbling PM championing the building of some core tech, then…Jul 24, 20171Jul 24, 20171
Ope AdeoyeinThe Lagoon ChroniclesDear Product Manager, you can’t avoid doing rogue projects.Sigh… Leading the team to do things you were explicitly told not to do.Jun 30, 2017Jun 30, 2017