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My company is set to pull in £100k from TWERKING this year after I left my dream job at Google
A YOUNG woman's TWERKING company is set to pull in £100,000 this year after she decided to quit her dream job at Google to pursue her own business.
Bami Kuteyi, 28, had just finished uni when she was hired to work at the tech giant.
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The London-born entrepreneur had initially been keen to take up a role in her home city - but was taken on as a digital marketing executive in Dublin instead.
She told : "Getting a job at Google was fun.
"I remember telling all my friends from university and feeling like I was doing amazing - I never imagined getting a job at Google straight out of university.
"Once I got to Google though, I found it hard to assimilate and find my voice in a place I didn't really feel included. I was the only black employee on my team."
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Bami, who was born in Edgware, began dreaming of building her own company instead.
And both of her businesses - dance workshops and Twerk After Work - began while she was still working for Google.
She said: "I wanted to create a safe space for everyone to just come and have fun.
"We had lines out the door of people wanting to take part, people peeking through the windows and it became the most popular employee-led thing at Google campus. I killed it at Google.
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"Thanks to social media as well, it grew bigger and I started gaining more attention. I started doing classes all over the place, it was amazing.
"I started feeling like there was a demand within me that wanted to help more people, to do better work and people asked me to come to other countries.
"We became a community where people could just come and be themselves.";
The high-energy dance workshops became so popular that in 2018, she decided to leave Google and become her own boss.
Bami said: "I miss Google for the free lunches and dinner but apart from that, I'm so happy to be doing what I'm doing.
"I feel so much freer and in control of my own time and I'm seeing the direct impact of my work.
"For me, I'm just living my life but it's cool to know I'm actually having an impact as well.
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"Now, my business is expected to turn over £100,000 this year. It feels so surreal to think that.
"To know my business is going to make that, makes me think, 'Like wow girl, you really did that' and I'm only scratching the surface."
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