[Music]
so I was born in the University of
Binney teaching hospital you bthe you
know I was born to a single mother so my
mother is book my mother my father and
she is 100% the reason why I’m
successful today so this is the school I
attend that some of you would notice
this is what a fake group of schools not
so far from here okay so this way I
attend at school my formative years were
here and while I was in school I was a
pretty great student you know I was
never first well waste second third
fourth you know near the top of the
class but really these are really my
formative years when it was time to
choose between science class art class
such as ants class being a straight-a
student of course I picked science class
when it was time to choose a discipline
to go to university I was given a very
limited set of options just like most
kids my age so you know I was told you
ever become a doctor a lawyer an
engineer an accountant or an
embarrassment I didn’t want to become an
embarrassment so I became a doctor so I
got admitted into the university of Bini
to study medicine at age 16 which was
great for me medical school was was
pretty easy
the first three years were a breeze I
passed my first clinical professional
exams I got two four-year clinical class
and when I got to four years something
happened something changed
I became disenfranchised I became
disillusioned I became I had a certain
level of discontent right because
suddenly I felt that I wasn’t doing much
with my life and this actually coincided
with the you know rise of social media
at the time so I remember joining
Facebook and Twitter you know at the
time and
through social media I could see what
people my age we’re doing all around the
world you know with innovation and with
technology I talked to myself this is me
in a very tiny little corner in Benin
City just being happy being a man
medical students I wasn’t satisfied so
right then I started to change so I got
involved in other things I was very
involved in my medical student
Association at the time I became the
editor-in-chief of the Association
because I could write I released the
Association’s journal organized medical
outreaches held rallies I was happier
because I felt that I was doing more but
still that feeling of discontent that
feeling of you know Charles what are you
doing with your life he never really
went away by find out yeah and one of my
classmates we became really close
Emmanuel Ubu dr. Emmanuel no and we used
to talk about routinely talk about
technology and innovation and how we can
use technology to change healthcare you
know in Nigeria in Africa we should see
I mean I cast me she’s talking about
crazy right why don’t you just read your
books and pass your exams and you know
do all that stuff of course so it was
time to graduate it was final here and
you know this was graduation day in June
of 2013 seemingly my shiny suit and you
know we did the whole induction ceremony
Vegas where the Hippocratic oath and
everything so it was great mommy was
proud finally Charles is now a doctor
but I was still not content that feeling
of this content was still there
but four months ago something happened I
really changed everything so I was
selected to attend something in Kuala
Lumpur Malaysia called the global
startup Youth so gsy
it was a gathering of 500 young people
from 90 countries all around the world
and I was one of only three nine drawers
were selected and for the first time at
gsy Malaysia I was intimidated by other
young people I got there and I saw other
young people who
17 year olds already had businesses 21
yellows that were already you know
shaking the world I looked at myself and
said the only thing I have is just that
I’m a doctor there’s nothing special
about that but after the initial
intimidation I discovered that the
reason I was there was because I and
these guys will different what made us
different was that we had different
ideas of tackling a jeweled perennial
problems so that was when I began to see
the value of being different the power
of being different so it was here I
interacted with my fellow participant
and I was made friends with this guy
Rama and the guy on the left and the
black shirt he was a software developer
from India very smart guy that’s the
first time I saw that people actually
did something called could’ right so
this is me you know looking into a
computer where he’s writing code and I
told him about this wonderful ideas that
my friend Iman alanine Andrea had been
you know talking about and how we can
use technology to solve you know
healthcare issues and he was really
excited and he wanted to work with us
and it was really great this was really
the life transforming event in my life
so I went back you know seeing the value
of being different the only reason I was
selected with all these people was that
we all had the common factor was that we
all had a different a unique way of
solving a jewelled perennial problems
right so we weren’t different if you can
see this figure here right which one
strikes you the most the one on the
right some simple reason it’s a
different color and it’s away from the
other two
so he’s different or she it’s different
from the other two so that’s what
happens when you are different when you
are different the world takes note of
you they actually listen they stop and
look right so right the ideas were in
Malaysia I saw that the only way to go
forwards was to be different and not be
ordinary and that’s what I made up my
mind
and said this I’d rather be dead than
ordinary I had very deep convictions as
a very young age that I didn’t want to
be mundane or ordinary or be no I wanted
to be different I wanted to actually do
stuff that matters right so that’s what
happened so I go back to Nigeria I told
the man I said I met this guy and that
thing we’ve been talking about are gonna
be looking like you know our heads are
in the clouds let’s actually start it
you know if it doesn’t work it doesn’t
work at least we started so in 2014 we
started putting things together to build
a simple app for maternal and child
health care and in 2015 we launched this
company called MOBA cure in generate
2015 just fresh out of medical school
MOBA cure for us was the company a
mobile health company that would use
mobile technologies to solve real
healthcare issues and of particular
interest to us what we’re really
passionate about was Madonna and Child
Health and this is why so this is not
these are not just my statistics in
Nigeria 2300 children under the age of
five die every single day we are the
second largest contributors to the
deaths of all the women our children in
the world after India that is the facts
right so and most of these deaths are
preventable and that the result of a
chronic lack of access to medical
personnel and quality health information
so basically that’s why we started and
then we built this up it’s called Oh
mommy
so Oh mommy is it you’re about where
that means my child right we really
created something that we thought would
be every mother’s dream I know mommy
does really two very simple things the
first is that only connects mothers to
doctors in real-time and the second
thing is that only provides these
mothers with specific useful and
life-saving maternal and child health
information on the go and what started
as a very literal idea very silly idea I
mean my classmates used to laugh at us
very foolish and has grown to you know a
platform that is you know being used by
tens of thousands of women all around
the world
Emory currently has 40,000 women
using it worldwide now most of these
users in Nigeria and 50% of our Nanjing
users are from Edo State and Legos which
is great and this was because of because
we were different because we decided to
tackle our problems differently and that
can only happen when you are different
on the inside obviously so a few months
ago we also launched this this app right
so it’s called my party basically it
provides young people with anonymous
access to sexual and reproductive health
information in the go and actually
connects young people to counselors as
well as doctors in just a few months we
already have 5,000 young people on this
platform right again showing the value
of being different
so wherever I am anywhere in the world
so and I’ve been around the world right
so I’ve lived in Benin but I’m usually
not always in binning so I’ve been
everywhere from Bogota to Apollo to
Marrakech to Nairobi Johannesburg Cape
Town Washington New York the only reason
they called me to these species because
I’m different because I’m a doctor a
million other doctors no one cares about
that but the reason is because I’m
different I’m doing stuff that actually
matters I’m tackling a problem in a
different way in a unique way that’s the
value of being different so that’s why
I’m no less places and I always say from
being in city to the world right I’m
proud of where I’m from right I’m proud
that you know it is a place of rich
culture and heritage but it’s also
because where I’m different
so I want to leave you with something
today I want to dare you to be different
so I’m I’m from a distance and I can be
real with you
right the average I do meal right I mean
the goal is to beautiful flats right I
used to hear that and used to really
make me hungry how can your goal in life
to be to own four flats so that I can
collect rent from three and staying well
that’s foolishness right
I mean most people just want to you know
and get married have kids have a nice
guy I have all of those but it’s not
enough
all those things I just said there’s
nothing concern you know that people
it’s just yourself and it’s not enough
right you you have to make the world
better than you met it I know you’ve
heard that before basically the truth
and that can only happen if you are
different you’re different on the inside
and that different projects on the
outside I’m not just being different for
different sake
when I say dare to be different it’s
being different because you are using
the difference in you to create
something for the world so I leave you
with this final thought this is from
this guy Robert Novak he’s is a young
kid in the u.s. been privileged to meet
Obama I’ve been to the White House on
all of that and he say something in his
videos is really striking he says what
would you create that will make the
world awesome as a result of your being
different
what would you create that will make the
world awesome so be different but unique change the world thank you very much
so I was born in the University of
Binney teaching hospital you bthe you
know I was born to a single mother so my
mother is book my mother my father and
she is 100% the reason why I’m
successful today so this is the school I
attend that some of you would notice
this is what a fake group of schools not
so far from here okay so this way I
attend at school my formative years were
here and while I was in school I was a
pretty great student you know I was
never first well waste second third
fourth you know near the top of the
class but really these are really my
formative years when it was time to
choose between science class art class
such as ants class being a straight-a
student of course I picked science class
when it was time to choose a discipline
to go to university I was given a very
limited set of options just like most
kids my age so you know I was told you
ever become a doctor a lawyer an
engineer an accountant or an
embarrassment I didn’t want to become an
embarrassment so I became a doctor so I
got admitted into the university of Bini
to study medicine at age 16 which was
great for me medical school was was
pretty easy
the first three years were a breeze I
passed my first clinical professional
exams I got two four-year clinical class
and when I got to four years something
happened something changed
I became disenfranchised I became
disillusioned I became I had a certain
level of discontent right because
suddenly I felt that I wasn’t doing much
with my life and this actually coincided
with the you know rise of social media
at the time so I remember joining
Facebook and Twitter you know at the
time and
through social media I could see what
people my age we’re doing all around the
world you know with innovation and with
technology I talked to myself this is me
in a very tiny little corner in Benin
City just being happy being a man
medical students I wasn’t satisfied so
right then I started to change so I got
involved in other things I was very
involved in my medical student
Association at the time I became the
editor-in-chief of the Association
because I could write I released the
Association’s journal organized medical
outreaches held rallies I was happier
because I felt that I was doing more but
still that feeling of discontent that
feeling of you know Charles what are you
doing with your life he never really
went away by find out yeah and one of my
classmates we became really close
Emmanuel Ubu dr. Emmanuel no and we used
to talk about routinely talk about
technology and innovation and how we can
use technology to change healthcare you
know in Nigeria in Africa we should see
I mean I cast me she’s talking about
crazy right why don’t you just read your
books and pass your exams and you know
do all that stuff of course so it was
time to graduate it was final here and
you know this was graduation day in June
of 2013 seemingly my shiny suit and you
know we did the whole induction ceremony
Vegas where the Hippocratic oath and
everything so it was great mommy was
proud finally Charles is now a doctor
but I was still not content that feeling
of this content was still there
but four months ago something happened I
really changed everything so I was
selected to attend something in Kuala
Lumpur Malaysia called the global
startup Youth so gsy
it was a gathering of 500 young people
from 90 countries all around the world
and I was one of only three nine drawers
were selected and for the first time at
gsy Malaysia I was intimidated by other
young people I got there and I saw other
young people who
17 year olds already had businesses 21
yellows that were already you know
shaking the world I looked at myself and
said the only thing I have is just that
I’m a doctor there’s nothing special
about that but after the initial
intimidation I discovered that the
reason I was there was because I and
these guys will different what made us
different was that we had different
ideas of tackling a jeweled perennial
problems so that was when I began to see
the value of being different the power
of being different so it was here I
interacted with my fellow participant
and I was made friends with this guy
Rama and the guy on the left and the
black shirt he was a software developer
from India very smart guy that’s the
first time I saw that people actually
did something called could’ right so
this is me you know looking into a
computer where he’s writing code and I
told him about this wonderful ideas that
my friend Iman alanine Andrea had been
you know talking about and how we can
use technology to solve you know
healthcare issues and he was really
excited and he wanted to work with us
and it was really great this was really
the life transforming event in my life
so I went back you know seeing the value
of being different the only reason I was
selected with all these people was that
we all had the common factor was that we
all had a different a unique way of
solving a jewelled perennial problems
right so we weren’t different if you can
see this figure here right which one
strikes you the most the one on the
right some simple reason it’s a
different color and it’s away from the
other two
so he’s different or she it’s different
from the other two so that’s what
happens when you are different when you
are different the world takes note of
you they actually listen they stop and
look right so right the ideas were in
Malaysia I saw that the only way to go
forwards was to be different and not be
ordinary and that’s what I made up my
mind
and said this I’d rather be dead than
ordinary I had very deep convictions as
a very young age that I didn’t want to
be mundane or ordinary or be no I wanted
to be different I wanted to actually do
stuff that matters right so that’s what
happened so I go back to Nigeria I told
the man I said I met this guy and that
thing we’ve been talking about are gonna
be looking like you know our heads are
in the clouds let’s actually start it
you know if it doesn’t work it doesn’t
work at least we started so in 2014 we
started putting things together to build
a simple app for maternal and child
health care and in 2015 we launched this
company called MOBA cure in generate
2015 just fresh out of medical school
MOBA cure for us was the company a
mobile health company that would use
mobile technologies to solve real
healthcare issues and of particular
interest to us what we’re really
passionate about was Madonna and Child
Health and this is why so this is not
these are not just my statistics in
Nigeria 2300 children under the age of
five die every single day we are the
second largest contributors to the
deaths of all the women our children in
the world after India that is the facts
right so and most of these deaths are
preventable and that the result of a
chronic lack of access to medical
personnel and quality health information
so basically that’s why we started and
then we built this up it’s called Oh
mommy
so Oh mommy is it you’re about where
that means my child right we really
created something that we thought would
be every mother’s dream I know mommy
does really two very simple things the
first is that only connects mothers to
doctors in real-time and the second
thing is that only provides these
mothers with specific useful and
life-saving maternal and child health
information on the go and what started
as a very literal idea very silly idea I
mean my classmates used to laugh at us
very foolish and has grown to you know a
platform that is you know being used by
tens of thousands of women all around
the world
Emory currently has 40,000 women
using it worldwide now most of these
users in Nigeria and 50% of our Nanjing
users are from Edo State and Legos which
is great and this was because of because
we were different because we decided to
tackle our problems differently and that
can only happen when you are different
on the inside obviously so a few months
ago we also launched this this app right
so it’s called my party basically it
provides young people with anonymous
access to sexual and reproductive health
information in the go and actually
connects young people to counselors as
well as doctors in just a few months we
already have 5,000 young people on this
platform right again showing the value
of being different
so wherever I am anywhere in the world
so and I’ve been around the world right
so I’ve lived in Benin but I’m usually
not always in binning so I’ve been
everywhere from Bogota to Apollo to
Marrakech to Nairobi Johannesburg Cape
Town Washington New York the only reason
they called me to these species because
I’m different because I’m a doctor a
million other doctors no one cares about
that but the reason is because I’m
different I’m doing stuff that actually
matters I’m tackling a problem in a
different way in a unique way that’s the
value of being different so that’s why
I’m no less places and I always say from
being in city to the world right I’m
proud of where I’m from right I’m proud
that you know it is a place of rich
culture and heritage but it’s also
because where I’m different
so I want to leave you with something
today I want to dare you to be different
so I’m I’m from a distance and I can be
real with you
right the average I do meal right I mean
the goal is to beautiful flats right I
used to hear that and used to really
make me hungry how can your goal in life
to be to own four flats so that I can
collect rent from three and staying well
that’s foolishness right
I mean most people just want to you know
and get married have kids have a nice
guy I have all of those but it’s not
enough
all those things I just said there’s
nothing concern you know that people
it’s just yourself and it’s not enough
right you you have to make the world
better than you met it I know you’ve
heard that before basically the truth
and that can only happen if you are
different you’re different on the inside
and that different projects on the
outside I’m not just being different for
different sake
when I say dare to be different it’s
being different because you are using
the difference in you to create
something for the world so I leave you
with this final thought this is from
this guy Robert Novak he’s is a young
kid in the u.s. been privileged to meet
Obama I’ve been to the White House on
all of that and he say something in his
videos is really striking he says what
would you create that will make the
world awesome as a result of your being
different
what would you create that will make the
world awesome so be different but unique change the world thank you very much
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