Chidi Nwaogu

Chidi Nwaogu is a serial tech entrepreneur and software developer. He founded, grew, and sold two successful tech startup companies before he turned 24, including LAGbook, a social network that garnered over one million registered users within three years and was acquired by a Canadian tech company, Gulf Pearl, in 2013.

Today, Nwaogu is a co-founder at Publiseer, one of the largest digital publishing companies in Africa, as described by Konbini. Publiseer has helped over 7,000 underserved and independent African creatives living in low-income and disadvantaged communities to earn above the minimum wage and live above the poverty line from the sales of their creative works.

He is also a co-founder at Savvy, a global fellowship program that has equipped over 6,700 passionate individuals from 154 countries, with the necessary knowledge, skills, tools, resources, support network, and community to build sustainable, innovative, and profitable impact-driven businesses and to succeed as entrepreneurs.

Nwaogu is the winner of the Migration Entrepreneurship Prize 2020, Africa’s Business Heroes Prize 2021, the Africa 35.35 Award 2019, the Young Leaders Award2019, and the Bizz Business Excellence Award 2019. 

He is a French-African Foundation Young Leader (Paris), Dalai Lama Fellow (Virginia), Acumen Fellow (West Africa), Alibaba eFounders Fellow (China), Westerwelle Fellow (Germany), AfricanPLP Fellow (Cairo), and Yunus&Youth Fellow (New York).

Accomplishing very difficult things certainly bring power and status, but humility helps you not to abuse it. Rather, it helps you focus your power and status on helping and encouraging others to rise, even above you, and do even greater things.

I’m fond of saying, “Accomplishing something great is nothing if you fail to help others accomplish great things too.” “Generosity” is a value I hold dearest to my heart because I believe that we rise by lifting others.