Creating Your Own Destiny Through Entrepreneurship With Fatima Dicko (Founder & CEO at Sugar)
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Quote - “Great ideas happen when two old ideas meet for the first time.”
The Afropolitan Podcast spotlights Afropolitans who aren’t afraid to step into the unknown and walk in purpose. With this podcast we hope to empower Africans in the Diaspora to harness their full potential and contribute to the development of a bold and progressive black community.
Our guests will share their working formulas, the hard facts about leaving familiar terrain, embracing the unknown, and staying relevant afterwards.
This episode features Fatima Dicko, Founder & CEO at Sugar; a community management platform for apartment building. Sugar has raised over $3.5M in VC funding from some of the leading investors in the property technology sector.
Fatima was on a product innovation team as a senior engineer at Procter & Gamble focused on bringing new ideas to market. She is passionate about building products people love and supporting youth to become future leaders in tech. Fatima was named as '18 Inspiring Women to Watch' by Inc and listed on the 2021 Forbes 'Next 1000' list.
Listen and enjoy as Fatima talks about the COVID 19 pandemic influence on her business and shares some of her fundraising challenges.
Fatima’s Reading List
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
https://amzn.to/3BSXIMu
The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman
https://amzn.to/3Siw01f
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
https://amzn.to/3raLhVW
Show Notes
1:36 Impact of Covid-19 pandemic professionally and personally
6:34 Fundraising challenges as a founder
9:56 Background and upbringing shaping the entrepreneurial mindset
17:19 Initial team recruiting process and retaining talent
21:17 Reading list
22:06 Breakdown of Web3
27:54 Title of the book about Fatima’s life
29:12 First significant encounter with failure and lessons learnt
31:31 Importance of culture
34:40 What does being Afropolitan mean to you
The Afropolitan Podcast is hosted by Eche Emole, co-founder of Afropolitan.
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