Unstoppable: Challenge Accepted

by Tariku Bogale

Overview

THE GREATEST SUCCESS STORIES can spring from the humblest of beginnings.

 

Such is the case with Tariku Bogale. From his early days raised in poverty to funding his own education and becoming the CEO of numerous companies, Unstoppable: Challenge Accepted tells Bogale's story of success, struggle, and determination.

Sprinkled with a dash of international intrigue and high stakes risk, Unstoppable: Challenge Accepted details Bogale's journey through South Africa to Switzerland, New York, Hollywood, and beyond.

 

Driven by the search of innovative and greasy ideas, and unceasing in his drive to achieve the unthinkable, Bogale experiences the worlds of politics, prison, business, real estate, entrepreneurship, and more.

 

Unstoppable: Challenge Accepted tells Bogale's foray into diverse fields of business and his social entrepreneurship will inspire any reader, seeking innovative and fresh ideas while giving back to their community.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940179927594
Publisher:	Dual Publisher
Publication date:	05/01/2024
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

The greatest success stories can spring from the humblest beginnings.

 

Such as the case with Tariku Bogale, a Serial Entrepreneur, Author, Ghost Leader, Trusted Advisor, Film Producer, Actor, Writer and Philanthropist.

 

A strong believer in the power of education, Tariku self-taught and funded his own education, furthering his studies in South Africa, Switzerland and United States and enrolling without a first degree in a Master's in Business Administration (MBA), Master's in Law (LLM) and an Advanced Master's in Leadership International Economics Law.

 

From his early days raised in poverty to becoming the CEO of numerous companies, Bogale is unceasing in his drive to achieve the unthinkable, experiencing the worlds of politics, prison, business, mining, filmmaking, tourism, real estate, and entrepreneurship across Africa, Europe, and the United States. 

 

Tariku has been nominated as an African Pioneer for the Black Business Awards, the 2016 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion Strategy Award, the 2017 Top Empowered Business of the Year Award, the 2018 Business Excellence Awards, Winner of Literary Titan Book Award and New York City Big Book Award.

 

Unstoppable: Challenge Accepted is his first book and is seceded by Be Unstoppable, his second book.

Editorial Reviews

2017-09-13
An entrepreneur's debut memoir takes him from the wilds of Ethiopia to the neon lights of Hollywood.In 1986, Bogale's parents were told he'd died in utero, so they traveled to the closest hospital, almost 250 miles from their home in Ethiopia's Amaro Mountains. After discovering that he was, in fact, alive, they rejoiced and named him "Tariku," or "the story." The joy ended, however, when Bogale's father divorced his mother within a few years and took him away to another village. (Later, when Bogale was living alone, he took in his impoverished mother and siblings.) As a teen, he enrolled in computer classes and started a company called Advanced Computer Technology. The memoir's action-packed first part is by far its most engaging, painting a vivid picture of the author's early hardships. After being arrested for faking a Tanzanian passport at 16, Bogale spent months in a nightmarish prison. He finally made it to South Africa, where he hired a white man "to negotiate sometimes," because local racists didn't want to pay a black man. Undaunted, he ventured into several other businesses and became rich; he also got married, which didn't last. Part II is also intriguing, detailing how Bogale built a shopping center after fighting corrupt, powerful forces. In spy-thriller fashion, the memoir takes the author to Switzerland, where he ran afoul of immigration authorities, met an attorney and former model named Naomi, and found that his jackets kept getting stolen. In Part III, Naomi's doppelgänger (or possibly Naomi herself) reappears in New York; after several rambling pages, however, she simply leaves. Part IV, however, will appeal to fans of lavish Hollywood lifestyles; the author seems extremely label-conscious (he doesn't just drive—he drives a Mercedes-Benz SL550) and drops famous names, such as director Steven Spielberg's. Still, Bogale's friendly narrative voice always emanates confidence: "You might say that I have the heart and the senses of a lion, noble in its bearing, attuned to the sounds and smells of his environment, and able to pounce with great ferocity to make his killing."A high-speed, energetic tale of a sometimes-bumpy ride from rags to riches.

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