Dream Big. Hustle Hard: Interview with Abadesi Osunsade.

Danielle Newnham
Founder Stories
Published in
8 min readJun 19, 2018

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Abadesi Osunsade was born in Washington DC and grew up in East Africa, before moving to the UK to complete secondary school. She is now the founder of Hustle Crew — a career advancement community for the underrepresented in tech, and NonTechTech — a mentorship community for non-technical techies, as well as author of careers advice book Dream Big. Hustle Hard. Abadesi also works on growth at Product Hunt / AngelList.

Previously, Abadesi was team leader in growth-oriented roles at Amazon, HotelTonight and Groupon — where she joined as one of the first Partner Managers and helped scale the department x 5 in her first eight months. Here’s her story:

Newnham: What is your background? What were you like growing up and how would your friends and family have described you?
Osunsade: My father is Nigerian and met my mother in her hometown in the Philippines in the 70s. Growing up I was precocious, bright and talkative. As soon as I knew what school was I desperately wanted to go. Every morning as a small child I became jealous as I watched my older brother and sister go to school while I stayed home with the nanny watching Sesame Street. To feed my growing curiosity and thirst for knowledge I would invent games and try to teach myself how to read the longest books I could find on our bookshelf to show my siblings that I was smart…

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Danielle Newnham
Founder Stories

Host of Danielle Newnham Podcast — interviews with tech founders and innovators. Writer. Author. Recovering Founder.