Babatope Awotona is a billionaire entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Calendly LLC.
His exact birth date is unknown at this time, but Forbes (in 2022) reported that he is 40 years old.
What is Calendly?
Calendly is a company that specializes in making meeting and appointment scheduling easier. It has grown at an exponential rate since its inception.
With approximately 10 million users, Ancestry.com, Lyft, Indiana University, and La-Z-Boy are among its customers.
In its most recent funding round, OpenView Venture Partners and Iconiq invested $350 million. The startup is valued at slightly more than $3 billion as a result of the funding round.
Tope Awotona is one of the wealthiest immigrants in the United States, ranking 2076 on the Forbes List of Billionaires (2022).
Furthermore, Forbes predicted that with the company’s perseverance, its revenue would double in the coming years.
Babatope Awotona’s Education
Tope received his primary education in Lagos before moving to the United States with his family.
He then went to Wheeler High School in Marietta, where he completed his high school education and graduated at the age of 15.
He was accepted to university after graduation, but his mother, taking into account his ability to adjust to college life at that age, enrolled him for his junior and senior years.
Babatope was accepted into the Computer Science department at the University of Georgia when he was 17 years old.
Tope dropped out of computer science in the middle to finish his business degree.
Babatope Awotona’s Career
Calendly may be Awotona’s most well-known startup, but it is far from his first.
His first foray into the industry was a failed dating website called “Single To Taken.”
Following the success of Single to Taken, Awotona launched ProjectorSpot, a projector sales platform, and YardSteals, a platform for home and yard equipment. Neither was successful.
Awotona has previously worked for an Internet travel agency and as a door-to-door alarm set salesman in Atlanta.
Later, he went to work for IBM in Atlanta as a Tivoli Software Sales Rep.
Awotona worked as an Enterprise Software Sales Rep and Account Manager at a storage company from 2012 to 2014, selling enterprise software systems to large corporations such as Coca-Cola, Aflac, Equifax, and Blue Cross and Shield.
He previously worked as a National Account Manager for Vertafore, a software company, from 2010 to July 2012.
Finally, in 2013, he established Calendly, an entrepreneur coworking space in Atlanta Tech Village. He paid for it with his 401(k) and credit cards. However, by the end of 2013, it had become a viable product with no money left.
Calendly was funded for years by Awotona before receiving a $550,000 seed investment led by Atlanta Venture.
