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Dele Bakare

Dele Bakare

Dele Bakare

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Dele Bakare is a Nigerian software developer and entrepreneur from Ibadan, Oyo State in Nigeria. He is the founder and CEO of Findworka, a Nigerian startup that hires software developers and builds custom software products. He formerly served as a senior software developer at Infinion Technologies and technology lead at BudgIT. In 2016, he was nominated for the Future Awards Africa Prize for Scien

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"I like to work with data and from the artisan perspective, I don’t want to assume that they are not online. We realize that they are also online because not everybody that graduated from a particular university is doing a white collar job, some people have gone out there to start their own businesses, some are auto mechanics, painters etc and they are learned, they know how to use the internet. I understand that a majority of them do not but then we have quite a good percentage of them that know how to use tech and for that reason, we can’t just cut out the problem, we just need to find a way to make them know how to use the platform. For example, When Facebook came, nobody taught anybody how to use the platform. We don’t want to make the assumption that the market is not there, we have confirmed the market is there, and it’s just about how we simplify the platform so that they can all understand how to use it. Since we have launched, we have had a pool of people submitting their data on this platform and also getting opportunities."
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"Yes, it depends on how you see it because any opportunity is an opportunity whether it’s full-time or project based especially in this ecosystem where people are largely looking for developers and designers. I would say it’s a task and services marketplace where any project or task you want to do or want to have done can be done, you can just come into the platform and submit the project/task and you would have people who are interested in doing it for you, you guys connect that way and they start working on your project; you pay them and everybody is happy."
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"Early 2012, I met my co-founder, Temitayo. From there, we launched Jobs in Nigeria, which at the time was one of the biggest job hubs in Nigeria, we had over 200,000 members in over eighteen countries in Africa, it was a big deal for me, using technology to help people find jobs around them. Before then, some friends were always asking me to help them find jobs online and they would go through a lot of websites trying to find a suitable job. It was stressful and hard having to browse many websites for a job, apply and still not get a job. Tayo and I had the same dream, same passion, we built JIN and started in 2012."
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