Mr Gyan’s decision to forego an assignment as a reporter at the time, to rather follow an unknown man he did not know from Adam, set him on the path to the IT world -a path to greatness. The man introduced him to web development. Through personal practice, he learnt how to code and program.

“I spent days and nights in internet café and taught myself how to program and how to be a digital person and today the story is different. In Ghana, I have trained over 25 people and my company is doing very well.

“For me, if you are looking at investing in young people, my life is evidence of the fact, that investing in digital technology is the way to go,” he said with smiles on his face.

The 25-year-old man’s persistence and strive for success, will later help him get his first big job. 

“I go to hotels and places, write my number on pieces of paper [to] tell them I can build a website for them. They will give me their numbers, I will call them and they won’t pick others too will snub me, for a whole year I didn’t get a single job.

“One day I went to a church in Accra I knew the rich people will be there. I met a man, I told him I could build an app and he gave me his card and said call me. He was the Country Director of Dell at the time. He gave me my first job”.   

Jacob Kwaku Gyan gets many invitations to speak on various platforms where he uses his story to motivate and empower young people to push to get to the top of the ladder.

“Let’s take action, let's believe in young people, let’s give them a chance. Give us the opportunity and help us because the future indeed belongs to young people,” he concluded.