The great thing in life is when you are tested for your creativity and ability.
A young Nigerian, computer engineer and entrepreneur goes by the name David Obasiolu , put up a challenge with founder and CEO of leading hotel-booking platform Hotel.ng, Mark Essien that he can build hotel and booking platform within 2 days.
@markessien you’re a lucky man making hotels.ng when I was only 16. I would have made that in 2 days and pushed you out of business lol.
— David Obasiolu (@Obazzy_Dave) April 12, 2016
and a reply from founder & CEO of Hotels.ng, Mark Essien
Why not start now, you could be done by weekend https://t.co/SZhWgseEeV
— Mark Essien (@markessien) April 13, 2016
The interesting about these tweet exchanges between Mark and David is that he spent the next few days to build a hotel-booking platform named Afrivac.
@markessien challenge accepted, I’ll start right now. watch out for my tweet on Sunday!
— David Obasiolu (@Obazzy_Dave) April 13, 2016
Here the details of the domain serve and hosting on April 14, a day after the exchange… 8595t
Have try to check, whether there is any foul play in the process. Though I think the website design is based on popular bootstrap template (still unconfirmed).
@markessien it’s still Friday on my end, so I guess it was a 2 day patch job with no sleep. one can say https://t.co/PTBYwS8UST will pu…;)
— David Obasiolu (@Obazzy_Dave) April 16, 2016
Afrivac Beta – will soon be available for hotels, rentals and tour companies. https://t.co/4pfqgpYLNb
— David Obasiolu (@Obazzy_Dave) April 16, 2016
Mark Essien was impressed with this young man audacity and offered him a job at Hotels.ng
@Obazzy_Dave Very nice. Come and work for us!
— Mark Essien (@markessien) April 16, 2016
Interesting, David turn the offer down to compete in hotel and booking market.
@markessien thanks for offer, but I just want to compete 🙂
— David Obasiolu (@Obazzy_Dave) April 16, 2016
Mark further say that job is still available for him for second time.
@EghosaO @Obazzy_Dave Yes, I was impressed. If you ever reconsider, always happy to have you our team!
— Mark Essien (@markessien) April 17, 2016
David have started ing investors for his latest idea… 5n4d1e
@TonyOElumelu what will it take to get rolling a smart and intuitive travel/hospitality platform focused within Africa today!
— David Obasiolu (@Obazzy_Dave) April 16, 2016
@TonyOElumelu https://t.co/xNTd928pjM is what I came up with in the last 2 days.
— David Obasiolu (@Obazzy_Dave) April 16, 2016
@EghosaO Can I get your take on https://t.co/xNTd928pjM? I feel there’s a clear shot at the travel and hospitality market right now!
— David Obasiolu (@Obazzy_Dave) April 17, 2016
@EghosaO permit the flaws on https://t.co/xNTd928pjM, I just came up with it 2 days ago after mark challenged me and I’m still working on it
— David Obasiolu (@Obazzy_Dave) April 17, 2016
Photo Credit: Tech Cabal
