Hi there! Just in case you're wondering, my last name is pronounced (oh-yay-day-G).Thank you for arriving here. I’ll start from the most recent thing I’m doing, then I’ll go back over the years.Currently, I’m building a new platform that I can’t publicly name yet. When that platform comes out, I’ll update this section.Before then, from 2022 to 2025, my wife and I co-founded Silky Mat, an e-commerce brand that sold reusable liners (that replace parchment paper and aluminum foil) for oven, air fryer, and toaster ovens. Silky Mat made over $85,000 in sales during that timespan, and helped make cooking (and cleaning) easier in many kitchens.Also, starting in 2022, I sometimes make how-to videos on YouTube on topics like getting your free business email with your domain name. My YouTube tutorial channel currently has over 15,000 subscribers.From 2020 to 2023, my wife and I co-founded The Mo Better Life, where my wife makes plant-based recipes that we enjoy eating. During that time, I also started a 100,000-word online marketing blog (which won't be named). My goal for the blog was to rank highly on Google, provide value, and earn passive affiliate income. It didn’t survive because my SEO marketing skills weren’t on par yet. Talk about irony!From 2016 to 2020, I started a website called Unstripped Voice, which featured rare Black history videos that were not taught in schools. Unstripped Voice’s Facebook page had over 500,000 followers and had a total of 2.25 million comments across all posts shown during that period.Due to the popularity of that platform, 2 major online petitions were made:1. In 2017, a petition asking the NFL to reinstate former NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick to come back to the NFL, titled #NoKaepernickNoNFL, was made. That petition had over 200,000 signatures, and I spoke to news outlets like TIME about it.2. In 2018, a petition asking fans to boycott the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show in response to the NFL banning Colin Kaepernick was made. Maroon 5, Travis Scott, and Big Boi (from Outkast) were set to perform for that show. The petition had over 100,000 signatures, and I spoke to news outlets like The New Yorker and Billboard about it.In case you’re wondering what happened to Unstripped Voice’s Facebook page, in mid-2020, I posted a video from ESPN+ that showed how NBA players stood up to NBA owners right before the 1964 All-Star game. This single act led to the creation of the NBA Players Association. Disney (which owns ABC, which owns ESPN) didn’t like this video, alerted Facebook, and that’s all she wrote. Facebook deleted our page for good shortly after.From 2017 to 2019, I built my first real startup, an online course platform called Dubata (a play on the words “do better”). I was in over my head at the time, so the platform ultimately didn't work out.I did use Dubata to connect with Y Combinator’s startup school during that time, which introduced me to people like Sam Altman and Paul Graham. I learned invaluable game about how startups work, which benefited me years later.From 2015 to 2017, I started a sheet music company called Hitsheets. Think Spotify for sheet music. Hitsheets was one of the first online subscription platforms to offer top radio hits in sheet music format for all band and orchestra instruments. Our main promotional channel was on Facebook, where the page had over 50,000 likes.Unfortunately, we didn’t clear the songs to get them posted online. Yes, even sheet music versions have to be "cleared" to get published online. So publishing companies like Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) and Sony issued a cease-and-desist, and UMPG also alerted Facebook about Hitsheets.As a result, Facebook banned Hitsheets and my personal page from accessing Facebook for 2 1/2 years. I couldn’t even create a new account that was remotely close to my name. I was on their whitelist. Fortunately, I had other accounts with random names at the time that were used to access pages like Unstripped Voice, so that’s how I made it during that period. Still, I learned to steer clear of music labels and publishers.In 2015 and 2016, I was a QA Analyst (a software tester) at Xerox and at a smaller tech company called Solu Technologies, both located in Webster, NY. Webster is a suburb of Rochester, NY, which is where my wife attended medical residency at the time. Becoming a QA Analyst and joining the tech industry was the first time I earned real money. It actually helped me pay for my portion of our wedding expenses in 2016. Because before then – in a previous life…Before 2015, I was a saxophone artist and music producer. When I started playing the saxophone in 6th grade back in 1996, my whole style was to play saxophone over Hip-Hop, R&B, Gospel, and African beats (what we now call Afrobeats). My artist name was Mr. VSax. I released 9 sax albums from 2010 to 2014. Also during that time, I had a band called V-Sax and the Crew that opened up for major Nigerian artists like Flavor N’Abania and 2Face Idibia.As a music producer and mix engineer with my own home studio, I produced or mixed approximately 500 songs for artists in the Texas and Oklahoma areas from 2000 to 2015. And I was a church keyboardist, choir director, and sound engineer at various times during that period. My music life as a saxophone player lasted from 1996 until 2015, when I retired after 19 years to reinvent myself and go into tech as a QA Analyst.And that’s the gist of it.I was born and raised in Houston, Texas, with my parents, Gabriel and Susan Oyedeji, 2 brothers, David and Alex, and 2 sisters, Ennie and Hannah. I graduated from Elsik High School in 2003 and received my Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University in 2009, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.I currently live in Durham, North Carolina, with my wife, Dr. Charity Oyedeji, and our daughter, Melody.Charity is a Hematologist and medical researcher focused on providing better care for patients with sickle cell disease at Duke University. You can catch her TikTok and Instagram here.And here’s my Instagram and LinkedIn pages. If you are a techie, check out my GitHub to see all the mini projects (web apps) I coded before I got into the world of using AI.Take care!