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the inspiring story of Paul anwanibe an African business magnet he is the CEO of landmark Africa
group and The Man Behind the first in-city premier privately owned beachfront in Lagos Nigeria
Paul on one eBay is best known as the CEO of landmark group
an African-focused real estate company with offices on five continents so join
us and let's learn more about who he is and where his journey began
I'm the founder and group chief executive of Landmark Africa
I'm a father of Two and a happily married man I was born in London in London England I grew up
in in London I went to Primary School in London my father being very Nigeria Centric decided to
send me to boarding school in Nigeria that was my first taste of Nigeria the age of 10. um so I went
to Federal Government College Lagos made some great friends and the truth is if I didn't do
that I wouldn't probably be in Nigeria or Africa today I did quite well in January the University
of Nigeria and that's how I went into architecture what made him think about coming back to Africa
this company was never meant to be in Africa it was I built it for Europe
so I opened offices in in Brussels and Belgium and Paris and France and London and in England
um in the Czech Republic in in Prague in New York it was reasonably successful but we knew
it was a good idea and a good friend of mine came to to England and I hosted him and then
he says it will work in Africa and I said okay let's let's think let's think about it so he's
invited me over I came back so I hadn't been to Nigeria for a long time came back and realized
that you know what this is a different country at the time Africa with the globalization Trend
Africa was now becoming a lot more thought about because of minerals and things like that and
um so I thought you know what this is a good idea but if I wouldn't do this in Africa I
want to do in the four corners so I opened up four offices simultaneously one in Lagos
and for the west of Africa one in Johannesburg for the South one in Nairobi to the East and I
won in Cairo for the North and I said yeah let's press the button let's go right so
um it was a long day any from from there and we had to we had to tweak many things um and I'm
not even going to pretend that this is me right um I had a dream and you've got to find people
to execute your dreams like being a president yes and if the countries run well it's because
you've chosen good people it's romantic because you haven't chosen good because it's full stop
architecture just like any other business has its ups and downs let's find out what keeps him going
saying to me that you don't appreciate thoughts onto your code and you don't
appreciate tall until you're short right and it's the same thing with
success and failure you could never appreciate success unless you failed
apart from his many business ventures Paul also stars as a cut-through investor in Lion's Den
Nigeria's edition of the world-famous investment reality show the Shark Tank
the company is seven years time you can sit down with me again and we can have a
conversation about your contracts with the company do I have a handshake with it yeah
many people consider Paul a great success so let's find out his secret to success
the main thing I think that always encourages people to succeed is they
feel or failure right and I just wanted to make sure whatever I did I succeeded it
this video was courtesy of the landmark Channel you can find more interviews and
more of his great work there so be sure to check it out thank you for watching today's
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