YES! you read the headline right, it is not everyday that someone gets a job offer let alone from Bill Gates, the richest man on earth yet this young man turned down an offer from the Microsoft owner to start his own start-up in Lagos.
Chris Kwekowe reportedly told the billionaire in August 2016, during a television interview that featured some of Africa’s brightest young entrepreneurs, that he had to reject the software engineer role at Microsoft, specifically to building a startup called Slatecube – a website that aims to solve Nigeria’s unemployment problem.
“When I told him, Gates was intrigued and he smiled. After the programme, all the directors were like, ‘Dude, you mean you actually turned down a job at Microsoft and had the guts to tell Bill Gates?’”
Kwekowe emphasized his desire to use Slatecube’s digital internship to help other young Nigerians find jobs.