My father was a hopeless intellectual but he kept that part of him to himself and his family. Together, we’d spend hours obsessing over President Obasanjo’s Globalisation push or debating on the message in Kofi Awoonor’s Songs of Sorrow. Years later, I’d wonder why school fees weren’t paid or why the rent was overdue. If he knew so much, why did we lack so much?

2 years ago, I had just moved to Lagos. My best friend and I joined forces and launched our food business in 2021. We spent long nights cold calling and packing boxes of plantain chips, first from her flat in Lagos before we got our own place and hired others.

Was that enough? Barely!

To scale, we needed a real gateway into the market. We needed CONNECTIONS. No matter how excellent our products were, we needed people and we didn’t have that.

I understood my dad better now, he had the talent but he didn’t know the people. Today we have built a business that helps talented people, people, companies, small businesses, anyone at all, network smarter and better.

We built Yola, to help businesses and individual send their contact details with a single tap. Conquering the hurdles of exchanging old, boring paper cards.

To build Yola, we had to put oursleves in the shoes of builders; you.

If you get up everyday to build your dreams and make things happen in spite of the odds. If you go out everyday and fight off obstacles in order to build that hustle, fuel that dream and walk the talk. If you think you are the greatest and you are the best person to build that product, to broker that deal, to win that job. We built Yola for you.

We built Yola for Doers.

Welcome to the new dispensation of smart business cards.
Welcome to Yola. I hope you love it.