Monday, 22 July 2013

Apple buys Nigerian Chiedu Echeruo's Map Start Up for a possible $1billion

Amazing news for start-up Entrepreneurs! Apple Acquires Nigerian Entrepreneur Chiedu Echeruo’s Map site, Hopstop.com, though the amount involved is undisclosed we believe it won’t be anything less than $50million from a modest estimate, though based on Google’s recent acquisition of Waze an isreali based Map site for $1billion, the figures might just be higher. We’ll definitely keep you posted once the exact figures are released.

Chinedu Echeruo grew up in the east, and attended Kings College in Lagos. He completed his bachelor’s degree from Syracuse university and went on to Havard Business School for his graduate studies.

He founded HopStop.com after working for several years in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance groups of J.P Morgan Chase where he was involved in a broad range of M&A, Financing and Private Equity transactions. He also worked at AM Investment Partners, a $500 million volatility-driven convertible bond arbitrage hedge fund.

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