Adeniyi Adebayo
Corporate entrepreneur and deal architect building offline-to-online businesses in emerging market cities.
About
Chemical engineering background. Currently Chief Business Officer at Yango Group, overseeing strategy and operations across 30+ markets. Previously co-founded ProctorEdu.
Writing
- Know Thyself — market density, monopoly thinking, and why most ventures miss the niche
- Why Venture Scale? — does it have to be?
- Scaling Fast with Marketplaces — launching Yango in Lusaka
- Building Resilience — denied a Canadian visa four times, ended up at MIT
- Luck Surface Area — from Nigeria to Kazan to Moscow to MIT
Press & Talks
- Collaborating with Local Entrepreneurs for Growth — CNBC Africa
- How Yango Reclaimed 2 Million Hours Across African Cities — TechCabal
- My Success Story — Brut Media
- Africa CEO Forum 2024 — speaker
- Africa CEO Forum 2023 — speaker
- True Story: Adeniyi Adebayo — Skoltech
Bookshelf
Books that shaped how I think. Not a complete list — just the ones I'd press into someone's hands.
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
- Zero to One — Peter Thiel
- An Elegant Puzzle — Will Larson
- The Marginal Revolutionaries — Janek Wasserman
- Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman