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Taking Tech Into Your Own Hands: From The Future of AI to Building a New Path to $1B with Esosa Ighodaro

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There wasn't a roadmap to billions designed for us, so we created our own," reads the BWTT website.

Female Founder Collective's CEO Alison Wyatt sits down with co-founder of Black Women Talk Tech Esosa Ighodaro to discuss how she's built and exited her own tech business, created a community to help Black women technology founders turn their dreams into billion-dollar realities, how she's used AI to strategically scale, and what she predicts for the future of Tech.

MORE ABOUT ESOSA

Esosa Ighodaro is the co-founder of Black Women Talk Tech, the organization that aims to identify, support and encourage black women to build the next billion-dollar business. Black Women Talk Tech is the largest collective of black women tech founders therefore bringing a unique understanding of the challenges Black women face and the advantages they bring to the tech industry. As co-founder, Esosa co-leads business strategy and strategic partnership development and leads the organization’s marketing endeavors.

Esosa has more than 15 years of entrepreneurial experience including founding two influencer marketing businesses. Additionally, she has more than 12 years of marketing and operation experience as a serial entrepreneur, and as a former bank executive at Citigroup where she developed high-performing growth strategies and oversaw implementation for key lines of business.

Her achievements at her past companies led to several articles and past awards, including being named 100 Most Powerful Women by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2019 and one of the 50 Inspirational Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017, and Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch by Paste Magazine. This ultimately lands her features in ELLE, Forbes, NBC, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and many more. Esosa graduated with a bachelor of science in finance from the Fox School of Business at Temple University. She and her husband now live in New York, NY and enjoy fashion, travel and food.

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