Black Entrepreneur Used His Entire Life Savings to Launch a Scheduling App. Now It’s Worth Over $3 Billion Less Than 10 Years Later.
When Nigeria-born, Atlanta-based Tope Awotona launched the meeting scheduling service Calendly in 2013 he believed in his idea so much that he used his entire life savings to launch the startup. The idea grew out of Awotona’s own challenges keeping track of his schedule. A lot of other people needed appointment scheduling services — today, the platform has…