My Entrepreneurship Journey

Austin Avuru’s My Entrepreneurship Journey is better read as a narrative of “how to build, grow and sustain an upstream oil company”, than as a mere memoir on building businesses. The book abounds with the usual stories of becoming, but its key strengths lie in its rich anecdotal material about dodging regulatory bullets and understanding how government officials think in a rentier sector like oil and gas, especially in the Third World. The author allows us to connect the dots from the privatization of government owned enterprises, which began in the mid-80s, with the wholesale take-off of the largest class of homegrown African oil and gas producers between 2002 and 2022.

Austin Avuru took the tide at the brim. This compelling story of how a geoscience graduate from the crannies of the impoverished Niger Delta established two hydrocarbon producing companies and took one to the main board of the London Stock Exchange in the course of a decade at the helm, is more than a masterpiece of economic and business analysis
Toyin Akinosho, Publisher, Africa Oil and Gas Report

This book is about entrepreneurship and provides a fascinating peek at the tools and philosophies that have helped the author become a successful entrepreneur in a business sector that is dominated by multinational companies. It will be a useful toolkit for anyone contemplating on starting a business, particularly in an emerging market.