Preston Timeyin Ideh is Co-founder and CEO of Stears, an Intelligence startup providing data and insights on local (and global) affairs for enterprises and individuals. Stears' mission is to become the world's most trusted source of African data, insight and data collection tools for businesses and financial and policy professionals. Before founding Stears, Preston worked as a corporate lawyer for several years and co-founded LSE Africa Summit, an annual conference highlighting African business developments. In this interview, Preston shares his journey, from Secondary school in Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, to building a Startup that has raised a seed investment of $600,000 and has been selected for Google’s Black Founders Fund cohort II. Watch the Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAqG8QfK5Z8&t Video Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:10 - Preston's Background, Secondary School 6:48 - Attending LSE 9:55 - The Conception of Stears 15:55 - Working in Corporate Law 17:30 - Coming back to Nigeria 22:40 - Going to Nigerian Law School 24:32 - The Nigerian Elections 26:39 - Building an Election Site to showcase Election Data 27:35 - Crowdsourcing Data Project 29:11 - Success of the Election Site (2 Million Users, CNN Article, etc.) 32:48 - What Stears does 34:32 - Raising Money for Stears 38:09 - Stear's Audience 41:11 - What Preston is most Proud of 44:46 - On Learning 46:56 - The Speed and Velocity of Early Stage Startups 47:56 - Anything He would do Differently 49:32 - Predictions for where we're headed Economically 53:47 - One Takeaway

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