The list of the most powerful, impactful and wealthiest Black Americans for 2024.

Adebayo Ogunlesi

A native of Nigeria and now a U.S. citizen, Ogunlesi is a cofounder of New York-based private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). In October, GIP was acquired by BlackRock for $12.5 billion in cash and shares, with Ogunlesi remaining chairman and CEO of GIP. Today, Forbes estimates Ogunlesi-who earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford, a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School-has a net worth of $1.7 billion. After clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the early 1980s, Ogunlesi worked as an attorney at the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Prior to cofounding GIP in 2006, Ogunlesi spent more than 20 years as an investment banker at Credit Suisse.

Tope Awotona

Awotona is the founder and CEO of the scheduling software startup Calendly, which private investors valued at $3 billion in 2021. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Awotona moved to Atlanta when he was 15, and studied computer science at the University of Georgia before switching majors to business and management information. After working as a salesman for several tech firms and launching a few failed startups, Awotona cashed in his 401(k) in 2013 to found Calendly because he was frustrated with the number of emails it required to schedule meetings.
After bootstrapping the company for several years, in 2021 Awotona raised $350 million to further scale Calendly. Today, he is worth an estimated $1.4 billion.

Wemimo Abbey

Abbey is cofounder and co-CEO of Esusu, a New York fintech startup that helps renters build their credit histories and scores by reporting rent payments to credit bureaus. More than 20,000 properties currently offer Esusu's service and some 1.8 million Americans have used Esusu to record a rent payment. The startup also recently launched a direct-to-consumer product, MyEsusu, through which consumers can build credit and monitor their credit scores. In early 2022, Esusu raised $130 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation. Before founding Esusu, Abbey, who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, worked as a mergers and acquisitions consultant at PWC and cofounded a non-profit and a data analytics startup.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jabariyoung/2024/12/19/forbes-blk-50-2024/

https://nairametrics.com/2024/12/20/adebayo-ogunlesi-2-other-nigerians-make-forbes-50-wealthiest-black-americans-list-2024/

Yorubas to the world

If I wasn’t Yoruba I’d be jealous of Yorubas

I’d be jealous of their language

I’d be jealous of their creativity

I’d be jealous of their ingenuity

I’d be jealous of their wealth

I’d be jealous of their unity

I’d be jealous of Lagos

God bless all the Yorubas doing us proud

God bless the legitimate hustle of every Yoruba person

yoruboid:
Yorubas to the world

If I wasn’t Yoruba I’d be jealous of Yorubas

I’d be jealous of their language

I’d be jealous of their creativity

I’d be jealous of their ingenuity

I’d be jealous of their wealth

I’d be jealous of Lagos

This is a big deal. 3/50 is something spectacular considering the fact that the population of Nigerians (Yoruba) in the USA is nothing compared to blacks and other African ethnicities in USA.

There are like 2 other Nigerians (Yoruba) guys in USA that will make that list in 2 years time. They are also doing fantastically well.

Am proud to be a nigerian and of yoruba culture

yoruboid:
Yorubas to the world

If I wasn’t Yoruba I’d be jealous of Yorubas

I’d be jealous of their language

I’d be jealous of their creativity

I’d be jealous of their ingenuity

I’d be jealous of their wealth

I’d be jealous of Lagos

Real billionaires with valid business not audio billionaires with questionable wealth. The so called youngest billionaire on Forbes some years ago was later caught last year or so, as a yahoo boy. Most of this under 30 or early 30 are yahoo boys. Ogunlesi is dominating in USA and UK. He is the owner of Gatwick airport and others.

Audio billionaire. No be the same Forbes published Invictus the fraudster as a billionaire? If I need my name there with my LinkedIn profile as a billionaire it will cost me only a few thousand dollars but I detest such chest beating show offs

Niger Delta oil

Now we all can see that it's not by noise or crime

To d useless fools, how many drugs u think say u fit carry to reach here?
How many crimes u think say u fit commit to reach here

All the noise of "we are d richest" n flaunting online with crime proceeds


Nobody see u

Odingo1:
Niger Delta oil

a

rinzaugustine:
Audio billionaire. No be the same Forbes published Invictus the fraudster as a billionaire? If I need my name there with my LinkedIn profile as a billionaire it will cost me only a few thousand dollars but I detest such show offs

u wey never buy your mama wrapper

U can see the noisemakers aren't there n it further solidifies d claim that empty barrels makes d loudest noise

The noisemakers who believe they are richer than everyone in d world n make useless noise

Ariwo ko ni music

Am waiting for that guy that says , a lot of shop owners in Aba are richer than Elon Musk

lamentor78:
Am waiting for that guy that says , a lot of shop owners in Aba are richer than Elon Musk

those one na craze

They are empty noisemakers

kedeojo:
Real billionaires with valid business not audio billionaires with questionable wealth. The so called youngest billionaire on Forbes some years ago was later caught last year or so, as a yahoo boy. Most of this under 30 or early 30 are yahoo boys. Ogunlesi is dominating in USA and UK. He is the owner of Gatwick airport and others.

The Invictus who coined a surname similar with Nigeria’s biggest political fraudster

rinzaugustine:
Audio billionaire. No be the same Forbes published Invictus the fraudster as a billionaire? If I need my name there with my LinkedIn profile as a billionaire it will cost me only a few thousand dollars but I detest such show offs

Forbes has never posted Invictus as a billionaire, stop lying.

Show the proof that they posted him as a “Billionaire” and I will deactivate my account.

Note: He was only posted as part of Forbes 30 under 30, and those are not billionaires, they are just young people making impact in their industry. You can even be a thousandnnaire and make the list.

Odingo1:
Niger Delta oil

where u see oil for there

At least no b oil from d barren region

kedeojo:
Real billionaires with valid business not audio billionaires with questionable wealth. The so called youngest billionaire on Forbes some years ago was later caught last year or so, as a yahoo boy. Most of this under 30 or early 30 are yahoo boys. Ogunlesi is dominating in USA and UK. He is the owner of Gatwick airport and others.

Forbes 30 under 30 are not billionaires. That is false representation of what it is.

They are just young people making impact in their industry. Cuppy was once part of them. You can be very poor and still make the list if you make impact in a particular industry.

When will the most popular Nigerian billionaires be recognized na.

Everyone in that region keeps saying he is a billionaire. I no dey understand

LegendHero:


Forbes has never posted Invictus as a billionaire, stop lying.

Show the proof that they posted him as a “Billionaire” and I will deactivate my account.

Note: He was only posted as part of Forbes 30 under 30, and those are not billionaires, they are just young people making impact in their industry. You can even be a thousandnnaire and make the list.

Lol

Mind you, no be coca*ne dem carry ooo.

This shows you can be rich without committing crime

Let’s give them a round of applause.

This should be a lesson to some people

lgbosCriminals:
Mind you, no be coca*ne dem carry ooo.

This shows you can be rich without committing crime

Let’s give them a round of applause.

This should be a lesson to some people

Lol

All these kids sef and their bragging games.

None of you clowns got any share in the inheritance of those people on that list.

Go and make your own billions.

If you believe this list, then it means you are foolish. Igbos are undoubtedly the smartest, wealthiest and most intelligent black people in the world, even the United Nation assert to this fact.

jmoore:
All these kids sef and their bragging games.

None of you clowns got any share in the inheritance of those people on that list.

Go and make your own billions.

Say this without crying.

One doesn’t need to expect inheritance before you can celebrate the achievement of your own kind.

Why do you think they profile this Forbes list as Black American richest? What message is Forbes passing?

Philistine:
If you believe this list, then it means you are foolish. Igbos are undoubtedly the smartest, wealthiest and most intelligent black people in the world, even the United Nation assert to this fact.

I will take this as sarcasm

rinzaugustine:
Lol

Is lol the proof I said you should bring?

LegendHero:


Say this without crying.

One doesn’t need to expect inheritance before you can celebrate the achievement of your own kind.

Why do you think they profile this Forbes list as Black American richest? What message is Forbes passing?

You go explain tire!


Forbes did it for records.

You and your folks on this thread reposted it for banter. You can only deceive yourself.

Na people wey dey JSS dey use these things to brag. But take a look at adults who call themselves 'graduates' behaving like junior secondary kids.

jmoore:


You go explain tire!


Forbes did it for records.

You and your folks on this thread reposted it for banter. You can only deceive yourself.

Na people wey dey JSS dey use these things to brag. But take a look at adults who call themselves 'graduates' behaving like junior secondary kids.

Yes, I post it to banter and make you feel agitated just like you are doing now. Even if I never chop for 5 days, anytime I see a Yoruba person doing great feat, I suddenly get belleful.

Now increase the intensity of your tears please.

LegendHero:


Yes, I post it to banter and make you feel agitated just like you are doing now. Even if I never chop for 5 days, anytime I see a Yoruba person doing great feat, I suddenly get belleful.

Now increase the intensity of your tears please.

Only a deluded brain will be talking about imaginary tears up and down.

Go and collect your share of inheritance from those on that list.

Kids!

Congratulations to every one of them..


So what are we eating for Xmas 🎄 bayi?

jmoore:

Only a deluded brain will be talking about imaginary tears up and down.

Go and collect your share of inheritance from those on that list.

Kids!

Now you are getting more agitated. I love it.

You must vent everything so that your pain can end

I'm waiting for the person who claims that many shop owners in Aba are wealthier than Elon Musk.

Nflpmod, Seun mynd44 Dominque fergie001 let’s celebrate our own.

Nigeria to the world