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storytelling with data podcast: #87: the founder’s journey: From Lagos to Zurich to AI-Powered Insights

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Insight7 analyzes calls and interviews at scale, transcribes them, and pulls out themes, quotes, and reports.

Randy opens by welcoming Odun Odubanjo to the Founders series. He introduces him as someone he has known and worked with for many years, and the conversation reaches back to where they first met in Zurich after Odun’s earlier life in Lagos, Nigeria and an internship at Google. The tone stays warm throughout. Odun says Randy was open, approachable, and easy to talk to, which is how the relationship began. Insight7 is the center of the interview. He describes it as a business intelligence tool built to help people make smarter decisions faster by using the conversations already flowing through a business. The product starts with calls and interviews. It transcribes audio and video at scale, then analyzes those conversations to pull out themes, quotes, reports, and other material a team can actually use. The use cases widen over time. What began with a few early users expands to research teams, go-to-market teams, and then to adjacent work like quality assurance on calls. Randy pauses on the obvious question. He points to the familiar line that a call may be recorded for quality assurance and asks what companies really do with all of that material. Odun answers with the product in hand. Insight7 turns that stored conversation data into something practical instead of leaving it sitting there. The first customer came quickly. Odun says the first paying customer arrived in a couple of months, which forced the company to be product-led from day one. That constraint becomes part of the story. He ties the speed of the early win to the reality of being an immigrant founder without a large ready-made network. The conversation closes on a simpler note. Odun tells listeners to stop using excuses as a substitute for action, follow the thing they actually want, and avoid arriving at older age with regret.

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An immigrant founder story that turns product-led grit into a clear lesson about building from real conversations.

The episode traces Odun Odubanjo's route from Lagos to Zurich to Insight7 with a clean founder arc that stays grounded in product. Randy brings out how a Google internship, an early warm connection, and a push toward product-led growth helped shape a business intelligence tool…

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A founder story that moves from Lagos to Zurich and into a product you can picture using.

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