#FoundersConnect: Interview with Michael 'Trojan' Okoh - Co-founder and CTO, ThePeer

Michael Trojan Okoh is a 22-year-old creative developer, co-founder and CTO at The Peer. The Peer is a technology company with a bold mission—to help businesses and Apps enable business-to-business transfers for their customers with their API infrastructure. In this video Trojan as he is fondly called, talks about learning to code at a young age, his early influences, how he got the name “Trojan”, his work experience and what he is currently doing at The Peer.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMG3C5LoGj8

Video Timestamps

1:56 - Trojan shares his background, childhood

4:29 - Defining Period of interest in Tech

5:57 - When he Solidified his love for Coding

8:28 - Getting into University, Becoming good with Coding

12:04 - Graduating and getting a DevOps job

13:15 - Meeting with Abeg Co-Founders, Freelancing, Heartbreak, Failed Startups

16:15 - On what makes a Good Engineer

17:07 - ThePeer story

21:14 - The difference between Leading ThePeer and Projects done in the Past

25:24 - What to expect from ThePeer

26:43 - How past work has affected the ease of ThePeer

31:58 - Advice for young people seeking to build something

35:04 - Trojan shares what he does when he is not working

36:22 - Top Favourite places in Lagos

37:40 - Wildest Dream

38:27 - Who he is outside work

40:31 - Something he has learned as a Startup Founder (Regulations)

42:06 - Parting words