Funke Opeke

Funke Opeke is a Nigerian electrical engineer, founder of Main Street Technologies and Chief Executive Officer of Main One Cable Company, a communications services company based in Lagos State, south-western Nigeria.

Quotes

• There is so much opportunity, there is so much need here that we need to transform our society, when you look around us. No one is going to do it for us and we also have to get our government on board with us to meet the aspirations of Nigerians because that’s what democracy is all about.
  • Excerpt from Raising money is the most difficult thing I ever did as an entrepreneur” — Funke Opeke, MainOne CEO

• Every entrepreneur has to raise capital. If your business is going to grow, you have to raise capital. You have to be smart about raising capital, you have to be determined about raising capital.
  • raising of capital by entrepreneurs

• For anything you are trying to do, there are a thousand other people trying to do the same thing. Even if it costs a billion dollars.
  • Issues in the market place

• So if you are growing a business you have to be very deliberate and you have to do your homework on who exactly has the capacity to buy, how much money do you need, where should you prioritise your efforts.
  • Advice for business owners

• ...Now, of course, there are opportunities here, because we haven’t fully developed our society, that are not available elsewhere as well. So, it’s a risk-reward type of situation.
  • Talking about issues of enabling environment

• While the developed world was fully connected, here in Nigeria the average young person didn’t know what the internet was.
  • Remembering the situation in Nigeria the first time she arrived (24 September 2015)

• We can’t leave an entire generation of young people without proper access to the internet.
  • Quoted from Funke Opeke: Nigeria’s cyber revolutionary (2015)

• A connected Nigeria is a more economically prosperous Nigeria.
  • Speaking at MainOne’s annual tech conference, Nerds Unite (15 February 2019)