Markanthony Opurum, popularly known as Ogologo Tallest, will forever give credit to his father for inspiring him to become the man he is today.
Speaking on his predisposition for entrepreneurship, Ogologo Tallest revealed, “My late father inspired me to become an entrepreneur, but I also found role models in Aliko Dangote and Jeff Bezos.”
Lest anyone assume starting a business is a stroll in the park, Ogologo Tallest says he had his difficulties in the beginning.
“The challenges I had, in the beginning, were in the areas of marketing and hiring the right employees,” he reflects, “but once we scaled the hurdles, I tried to enshrine good governance such that the people I work with treat the business as their own business. Most of them started the business with me and we grow together as a family.”
Ogologo Tallest also clearly stated that it doesn’t hurt to have a good education which also prepared him to handle serial entrepreneurship.
To the younger generations, Ogologo Tallest used his trajectory to underscore the importance of education. “My father was very strict with his children with regard to education and you can see this in the way I attended schools. I attended St Francis Urate in Owerri for my primary education, while I started my secondary education at Logos International School before transferring to FSTC Ahoada in Rivers State and finally finishing up at St Paul’s Boys Secondary School, Owerri. It was after then I travelled to the United States to study Computer Science at Louisiana State University (LSU),” he recounted.
Besides his university degree, Ogologo Tallest is also a certified IT professional, with several cutting-edge international training under his belt.
In Dallas, Texas, the United States of America, where he sojourned, Ogologo Tallest founded multiple businesses in transportation and recently in Nigeria, investing in the downstream sector and real estate.
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