Before Bisola Animashaun
was managing one of the largest shortlet portfolios in Nigeria, she was
delivering cooking gas.
She started Gasurgently at
21. The idea was simple enough, cooking gas delivered to your doorstep in
Abuja, but the business punished her. Logistics costs kept eating the margins,
and after three years of fighting for every single delivery, she took a decision
most entrepreneurs never talk about publicly. She shut it down.
“People think the story starts when things work. Mine started when they
didn’t,” she says. “Gasurgently taught me operations, customer service, how to
survive when nothing is going your way. I didn’t know it at the time but I was
in training.”
Today, Bisola and her sister Bukola Animashaun run Luxury
Shortlets Abuja, a property management and booking agency with more than 1,000
shortlet apartments across Abuja and Lagos. The company has hosted over 10,000
guests