Olawale Adetula is a senior marketing professional with more than 12 years of experience in media and production, marketing strategy, and e-commerce. His portfolio is varied and exciting, ranging across different fields including Banking, Logistics, Ecommerce and more! He is the founder of TNC Africa, a media production company dedicated to taking African stories to the world. The company is making waves, having been nominated for three AMVCA awards in its first year alone. In this Founders Connect Episode, Wale shares his success story with Peace. From growing up in a household where he read a lot, to developing an interest in entrepreneurship. Wale’s career trajectory is varied and interesting. He has moved from engineering to a career in banking, tech, then marketing, and then content. It's amazing how much of life he's experienced and how delightful his stories are. He shares his background, career trajectory, his decision to run his company while simultaneously working as an employee, important marketing lessons, the future of TNC Africa, and many more interesting bits! Enjoy. Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kckBFllRXO0 Video timestamps - Introduction 0:00 - Wale shares his background 0:59 - Wale talks about his University Businesses 5:29 - iBox studios 6:32 - Experience at GT Bank, Creating Ndani TV 10:34 - Blogging, the birth of TNC 12:33 - Being a part of Rocket (Jumia)'s Founding Team 15:09 - Getting into DHL 18:40 - Diageo, Guinness 19:01 - Why he still has a corporate job despite running TNC 19:57 - Biggest Lessons in Marketing 21:03 - The evolution of TNC 23:17 - Wale describes TNC Africa and its Model 32:11 - Wale talks about raising money 38:36 - Some of TNC's wins so far 39:14 - Biggest Lessons with building TNC 41:17 - Anything he would rather do differently? 43:39 - The future for TNC Africa 45:53 - Audio content? 47:41 - Other big goals to achieve? 49:26 - Anything he wanted Peace to ask 50:54

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