Francis Agoda, more commonly known as I Go Dye, was born in the late 1970s in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. He attended the Ighogbadu Primary School, then for his secondary education he moved to the College Of Commerce in Warri, Delta State, where he became the zonal project manager of Junior Engineering Technical Society (JET Club). At an early age, he invented a flying helicopter, a hover craft ship, a radio transmitter and a battery table fan, which earned him a scholarship to study structural engineering at university in New York. However, he declined the offer, a decision that was frowned upon by his family.