An Assortment of thoughts
I just graduated.
But rather than make my usual self-congratulatory post, I want to use this opportunity to pay it forward. This year I’m giving $2,000 to two students to help them pay for their education.
Apply here: https://atila.ca/scholarship/s/ademidun
I’ve named the two scholarships in honour of my parents and grandparents.
Excited to share that I’m officially a published author of an Ivey Business School Case.
I wrote a case with the help of Professor Frank Li on Elon Musk and Tesla’s acquisition of Solar City.
The story of how this happened is quite interesting.
This article is a submission for the Budding Writers Scholarship Contest Instructions- Personal Essay.I won the Personal Essay category.
You can find the original submission on Scholarship@Western including the PDF of the article.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably not racist. But you might be complicit in racism.
I’m not saying this to judge anyone because:
Your anger is the media’s opportunity
(My riff on Jeff Bezos’ famous aphorism: “Your margin is my opportunity”)
Two years ago, I was travelling to a developing country to do some charity work. My bags were packed, flights were booked, and my hotel was ready for check-in. Unfortunately, immediately I arrived at the airport, I had to cancel my trip.
I asked Professor Janssen, if anyone in my 9:20 Sales Foundations class wanted to switch to the 3:50 class.
Since this is the Sales Foundation class, he suggested that if I wanted to switch I would have to make a pitch.
Lebron Inc. by Brian Windhorst is about how Lebron has built his business empire from his Freshman year in St. Vincent St. Mary’s in Akron in 2001 (tk verify Lebron high school freshman year) to his new team Los Angeles Lakers in 2019.
