Leveraging Talent Around You with Chinedu Enekwe, Co-Founder of Nandi Labs

Joining Apollo today in the first official interview of The Achievement Index is Chinedu Enekwe, Co-Founder & President of Nandi Labs, the new creative economy for black digital art and culture. It feels like Chinedu has lived 10 different lives in the span of one, but there’s still only more opportunity and success in his future.  

With a score of P, L, and E last, Apollo explore the ways in which Chinedu identifies common threads across experiences to get to the bigger picture, leverages technology and relationships to create positive feedback loops with those around him, and values execution, despite it being his lowest score. 

Additionally, Chinedu takes advantage of the opportunities placed in front of him, crediting much of his success to his insane networking abilities. He talks about how he would take one step forward, someone would recognize that step, and then give him something that challenged him even further, allowing him to rise even higher. 

Remember to find out your own Achievement Index to see how you compare to our guests!

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Guest PLE Score

• Prioritize - 13
• Leverage - 11
• Execute - 1

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Guest Bio

Chinedu Enekwe is Co-founder & President of Nandi Labs. He’s a creative producer, organizing the NXT.ART Pavilion at AfricaNXT, co-producer of the musical FELA! on Clubhouse and podcasts distributed on Black Enterprise and Business Insider Africa. 

He's The CEO of En Garde Media, an award winning global media platform focused on uplifting Black voices reaching over 20 million monthly viewers. He began his creative journey as a performance poet and recording artist before joining the venture capital firm, Exponential Creativity Ventures as a principal investing in creative tools.

He left that role to launch his own fund as the general partner at Passbook Ventures & Studio, an early-stage venture capital firm & startup studio focused on solutions for the global African community. Passbook invests in US immigrants building tools for the future of commerce for the next generation of internet users and builds culture driven startups that tap into the creator community of African descent.

He’s a Moonshot Fellow of the Kravis Lab for Social Impact, founding member of the Forbes Impact Community and serves on the advisory board of Impact Entrepreneur Magazine. In Chinedu’s previous professional experience, in development finance at the at the World Bank and OPIC, investment banking at Merrill Lynch and fund formation and corporate securities law at Weil Gotshal and Manges.

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Guest Quote

“If you are the resource, you're not an entrepreneur, right? If you are the one investing your own time, your own talent, your own treasure, you are not the entrepreneur. You are the resource.” - Chinedu Enekwe

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Time Stamps 

*(2:20) Chinedu’s Achievement Index

*(6:51) Don’t lose your balance

*(11:11) Learning from an early age

*(14:44) Leveraging technology 

*(19:31) Why networking is critical

*(24:19) Recognizing patterns that work

*(31:37) The elephant in the room around execution

*(36:22) Stick around to see the sausage get made

*(40:05) Apollo’s takeaways 

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Links

• Find out YOUR Achievement Index
• Connect with Chinedu Enekwe on LinkedIn
• Learn more about Nandi Labs
• Connect with Dr. Apollo Emeka on LinkedIn
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