Yanmo Omorogbe is a Co-Founder and COO at Bamboo. Before founding Bamboo, she was an Investment Associate at the African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM). Bamboo gives unrestricted access to over 3,000 stocks listed on the Nigerian stock exchange and U.S. stock exchanges, right from your mobile phone or computer. In this episode of Founder’s Connect, Yanmo speaks to me about her 'accidental' journey into entrepreneurship, what growing up was like, how running Bamboo has been, their biggest wins and lessons learned. Watch the Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMf4n3XimRA Video timestamps Yanmo talks about 5 things that represent her personality, Growing up, Fondest memories, fun things to do, 1:16 Educational background in relations to her current career path - Finance 4:32 Yanmo talks about how she became a startup founder 6:24 Yanmo talks about challenges faced kickstarting Invest Bamboo 9:39 What has been the biggest win so far? 12:11 Yanmo talks about why she moved from Head of Growth to Head of Operations 13:20 Defining moments in Yanmo’s life 15:03 Biggest life lessons ever 17:34 Would you consider entrepreneurship in five or four years? 18:49 Yanmo talks about the ideal people to hire at Bamboo 20:05 Dating back to some months before starting Bamboo, what would you do differently 21:12 Yanmo talks about the Impact of YC on the team and company generally 22:42 She talks about hiring more women in tech or investing in an NGO to fund more women in tech. 24:16 Yanmo shares top three investment tips 26:51 Favourite city, colour & food. 29:59

YouTube

#FoundersConnect: Interview with Hanu Agbodje, the Founder and the CEO of Patricia 

#FoundersConnect: Interview with Musty Mustapha, Co-Founder & CTO of Kuda

Nominated for 2022 - Top Tech Youtuber

Nominated for 2022 - HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - Edtech

Too Long; Didn't Read

Make resilience your competitive advantage

#FoundersConnect: Interview with Yanmo Omorogbe, Co-Founder of Invest Bamboo

About Author

Comments

TOPICS

THIS ARTICLE WAS FEATURED IN

Related Stories

Untitled Story

Adewale Yusuf, Co-founder TalentQL, on Helping Young Africans Launch Their Tech Careers

123 Stories To Learn About Youtube Transcripts

55 Stories To Learn About Peace Itimi

61 Stories To Learn About Founders Connect

Adewale Yusuf, Co-founder TalentQL, on Helping Young Africans Launch Their Tech Careers

Adewale Yusuf, Co-founder TalentQL, on Helping Young Africans Launch Their Tech Careers

123 Stories To Learn About Youtube Transcripts

55 Stories To Learn About Peace Itimi

61 Stories To Learn About Founders Connect

Adewale Yusuf, Co-founder TalentQL, on Helping Young Africans Launch Their Tech Careers

Light-Mode

Classic

Newspaper

Dark-Mode

Neon Noir

Minty

HN StartUps