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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Software

Residence

Atlanta, Georgia

Marital status

Married

Birth date

04/22/81 (age 43)

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration, The University Of Georgia

Self-made

self-made

Tope 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

Net worth history

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Did you know?

To build its first product, Awotona hired a Ukrainian firm for programming help and was in Kyiv during anti-government protests in 2014.

Net worth over time

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