We were lucky to catch up with Ugochukwu Obed recently and have shared our conversation below.

Ugochukwu, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Your ability to build a team is often a key determinant of your success as a business owner and so we’d love to get a conversation going with successful entrepreneurs like yourself around what your recruiting process was like -especially early on. How did you build your team?

At first, the organization Sabi Programmers never had a team, it was mainly just me.

However, with the mindset and idea I originally had about building Sabi Programmers, I knew it was not something I’d be able to do alone – I needed a team. Because that’s what Sabi Programmers is at the end of the day – a dedicated team of individuals!

We started mostly as (and we are still known as) a Tech Educational Organization. We mostly teach and mentor people on different areas of tech and ICT. So I got my first set of team from my first set of students. After graduating my first set of students, I looked at some of them that displayed great potentials and I made them an offer to join me in building Sabi Programmers. Most of them agreed!

From they Young Programmers Club we run (which is a community that tends to teach coding free to different secondary school students) to the different trainings we run in the office, and other projects we have at hand, I needed a dedicated team to build and run those. And that is what those group of individuals provided, and I appreciate them every single day!

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I actually ventured into tech and programming out of curiosity.

Back then in the university, a good friend would always talk about recent tech and ICT development, coding, website development, and all those things. All of which tickled my curiosity. And in the next holiday following a discussion we had, I decided I was going to learn this “web development” thing. I was in my final year at the university at the time.

Since then, it has been a whole new discovery for me.

After I graduated from the Bootcamp I enrolled in at the time, I began building some personal projects and I was also looking for projects I could do for people.

A few years down the line, the idea of Sabi Programmers came about, which is a team of dedicated computer programmers aimed at building software and applications for businesses and organizations thereby helping them solve one problem or the other as it pertains to their business.

From Ecommerce applications to school management applications to business and personal portfolio websites, etc

Apart from building, training is also one of our main focuses here at Sabi Programmers. We train, guide and mentor individuals who which to pick up one tech career or the other. Our training cover, Web development, Data Science, Data Analysis, UI UX, Cybersecurity, Digital marketing, and more to come.

Here at Sabi Programmers, we also run a community known as the Young Programmers Club (YPC). YPC is a community that tends to teach programming free of charge to different secondary school students here in our city.

How’d you meet your business partner?

Being a tech educational organization, most of the people coming to us are mainly people wanting to learn or up grade to one skill or the other. We however see some potentials in some of them that could lead to greater partnership ahead, so we eventually find a way to align our goals and work together.

Attending business meetings and conferences is also one of the ways I’ve met people we’ve partnered with for one business project or the other.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

We focus on training and producing quality students. We pay close attention to each student’s needs and try our best to explain concept in the best ways they can understand. That has always helped us build a strong reputation for building quality software engineers.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://sabiprogrammers.com
• Instagram: @sabiprogrammers
• Facebook: @sabiprogrammers
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/83053353
• Twitter: @sabiprogrammers