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Bootstrapping Founders Are The GOATs and MVPs of The Tech World

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readJul 3, 2023

No one can convince me otherwise.

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I am a founder of an Insurance start-up.

And I am building what could potentially be a paradigm shifting, era defining insurance platform for folks who are overlooked by mainstream society.

And my life has been a living hell for a while now.

Yes I write a great deal on this platform on subjects as diverse as politics, economics, history, philosophy and religion while managing a few infrastructural projects to generate a certain amount every month to fund my passion, life as a founder is impossibly difficult.

Scratch that.

Life as a Black founder is incredibly and unforgivingly brutal.

Recently, I read an article in our beloved space in which a (white ) writer was complaining about having to spend a certain amount on laptops.

His piece was to all intents and purposes quite self-indulgent and thoroughly lacking in self-awareness.

In my response to his post, I wrote that I could work miracles with a fraction of the money to which he’s had access.

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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