Michael Trojan Okoh is a 22-year-old creative developer, co-founder and CTO at The Peer.
The Peer is a technology company with a bold mission—to help businesses and Apps enable business-to-business transfers for their customers with their API infrastructure.
In this video Trojan as he is fondly called, talks about learning to code at a young age, his early influences, how he got the name “Trojan”, his work experience and what he is currently doing at The Peer.
1:56 - Trojan shares his background, childhood
4:29 - Defining Period of interest in Tech
5:57 - When he Solidified his love for Coding
8:28 - Getting into University, Becoming good with Coding
12:04 - Graduating and getting a DevOps job
13:15 - Meeting with Abeg Co-Founders, Freelancing, Heartbreak, Failed Startups
16:15 - On what makes a Good Engineer
17:07 - ThePeer story
21:14 - The difference between Leading ThePeer and Projects done in the Past
25:24 - What to expect from ThePeer
26:43 - How past work has affected the ease of ThePeer
31:58 - Advice for young people seeking to build something
35:04 - Trojan shares what he does when he is not working
36:22 - Top Favourite places in Lagos
37:40 - Wildest Dream
38:27 - Who he is outside work
40:31 - Something he has learned as a Startup Founder (Regulations)
42:06 - Parting words
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