Bright Okereke didn’t choose product management. A missing grade did. 

Bright Okereke didn’t plan to become a product manager. A missing biology exam changed everything. 

In 2013, Okereke, fresh out of secondary school, was hoping to study Electrical and Electronics (Computer) Engineering at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) in southeastern Nigeria’s Imo State. He had spent most of his teenage years obsessed with computers.

“I got…