Temie Giwa-Tubosun

Temie Giwa-Tubosun (born Oluwaloni Olamide Giwa, December 1985) is a Nigerian-American health manager, founder of LifeBank (formerly One Percent Project), a business enterprise in Nigeria working to improve access to blood transfusions in the country.

Quotes

• The biggest skill is storytelling. Investors want to be inspired. Of course, you need to be really good at defending your financial model. You need to be thorough in terms of your pricing model and your cashflow model.
  • Skills that are necessary for entrepreneurs and for founders to successfully raise venture capital and other routes to obtain capital (25 June 2019)

• We have the same problem in most of Africa—indeed throughout the world. There is a demand for critical supplies of blood and oxygen, at the right place at the right time.
  • Temie Giwa-Tubosun: the Nigerian entrepreneur delivering blood to patients (29 September 2020)

• If you can build a business in Lagos, you can do it anywhere else. It would be a cakewalk.
  • Building business (2020)

• Nigeria has a lot of promise. I have to do my part. And I will tell other young entrepreneurs to take a risk, to engage in scalable, smart and efficient operations. The market is huge.
  • Doing business in Nigeria (September 2020)

• One of the things I know is that your dream needs to make you nervous. It needs to make you have some level of anxiety.
  • Daring to dream (27 November 2020)

• If you’re a young woman, you have an idea, you’re shy and introverted, no one expects you to do great things, but you have something in you saying that you can. Listen to that voice, even if your voice is shaking and you’re worried, listen to that voice, stand up and just do it.
  • Giving advice during an interview with Business Day

• Don’t wait for anybody to give you permission; just start. If that voice is telling you this is an idea and you feel passionate about it, start because that’s when magic happens.
  • Temie Giwa-tubosun, giving hope and saving lives for a living (2020)

• It is when you start, everything comes together, God sees your heart, grace will be added as long as you’re willing to do the work.
  • Her final words during an interview (November 2020)

• Be focussed and consistent, there are lots of factors that will try to pull you down, from policies to resources. Have your eyes set on the goal and consistently give it your best. Be consistent with your thought, purpose and action.
  • Key to starting and running a successful business

• As a woman, the pressure to prove oneself might be there more than the men but I think we all can use that as a motivation to shatter records especially in male dominated industries.
  • How to overcome challenges as a woman in health sector