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We’re back! It’s Motivation Monday with Maya on MaYapinion with another amazing guest, Dayo who is the founder of the newest and hottest social audio app, Wisdom!
Here is a bit more about Dayo:
- Dayo started as an IT Management Consultant at Accenture and Deloitte
- Then, driven by the lack of diversity in London’s tech ecosystem, she joined the founding team of OneTech, London’s largest diversity in startups programme, backed by the JP Morgan Chase Foundation.
- Subsequently, after spotting a gap in the market, she went on to found Africlick, a cultural dating app targeting 1 billion Africans globally. Africlick has been mentioned on BBC Africa, BBC London Radio and Huffpost.
- Dayo holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester and a M.Sc. in Technology from University College London.
Recognitions
- Dayo was named 2021 Women In Dating Powerbook, celebrating the 20 most inspirational and influential women in the dating industry
- Dayo was named in the Financial Times Top 100 Most Influential Ethnic Minority Leaders in Tech.
Show notes and Key times:
01:25 Dayo talks about her background in technology and how she started her career, and how she founded her first startup “Africlick”, how she got into entrepreneurship, her experience starting “One-Tech” program based on equity and diversity in terms of Financing founders; How a lack of mentorship blocks this program, How she got the idea to start to Found the “Wisdom app”.
07:07 Dayo talks about how she started the “Wisdom app”, how the App democratizes mentorship and access to knowledge, how does it work to connect to mentors to get wisdom and to monetize their expertise.
14:56 What Distinguish “Wisdom” from “Clubhouse” and what are the differences between them,
22:31 Dayo explains the Mentorcoin feature that they launched recently to encourage creating content in “Wisdom”. And why they are looking to monetize the top mentors directly through “Wisdom”.
27:49 How does “Wisdom” help Maya launch her new business “Find A Co-host”. https://www.findacohost.com/
30:34 Dayo talks about the feature that enables you to download of recordings audio with the mentor or to save it as a podcast to make content creation more accessible.
33:09 Dayo explains the feature “reactions” to react to a talk in goal to facilitate the communication with the guests.
34:50 Dayo gives advice on how to start and succeed on your leadership journey
37:02 How to find “Wisdom App” and how to benefit from it.
Join Wisdom here: https://www.joinwisdomapp.com/
Wisdom Socials
- https://www.instagram.com/joinWISDOMapp/
- https://twitter.com/joinWISDOM
- https://www.facebook.com/joinWISDOMapp
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinwisdomapp/
- https://www.wisdom.audio/
Dayo’s Socials
- https://twitter.com/DayoAKK
- https://www.instagram.com/dayo.akk/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dayo-akinrinade-6102762/
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