Tope Awotona
Calendly
$1.35B
as of 12/10/24
About Tope Awotona
Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of scheduling software company Calendly.
Awotona, a former salesman for tech firms including EMC (now Dell EMC), founded Calendly out of his own frustration with the back-and-forth emails required to schedule meetings.
He bootstrapped Calendly for years before taking on a $350 million investment in 2021 that valued the firm at $3 billion.
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Awotona immigrated to the United States as a teenager.
Before founding Calendly, he had started a few other businesses, including one that sold projectors and another that sold garden tools, that flopped.
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United States of AmericaSource of wealth
SoftwareResidence
Atlanta, GeorgiaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
04/22/81 (age 43)Education
Bachelor of Business Administration, The University Of GeorgiaSelf-made
self-madeTope Awotona’s fortune is worth
23K
troy ounces of gold
21K
median U.S. household
14K
median U.S. income
0.027%
U.S. credit card volume
0.005%
GDP of the United States
0.004%
United States debt
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To build its first product, Awotona hired a Ukrainian firm for programming help and was in Kyiv during anti-government protests in 2014.
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