Stephanie Mau-Asam

Posting this for the person scrolling who's close to giving up. You're not done yet. Keep going 💙 open.spotify.com/track/7BguG…

An Official Statement ​I have been silent. I have not been absent. ​Following a particularly difficult period, I made the decision to temporarily step back from the public eye to focus on my recovery, while continuing to work behind the scenes on the future and development of our projects. ​During this time, our team has continued working to strengthen the business model and build a roadmap focused on the project's stability, continuity, and growth. ​Additionally, we are individually reviewing and addressing outstanding issues raised by certain users, aiming to handle them in an orderly and responsible manner. ​I will not engage in speculation, accusations, social media narratives, or public disputes. Any relevant information regarding the project and its progress will be communicated through our official channels. ​To everyone who has supported us, believed in what we are building, and stood by our side during this period: thank you. ​We are still here, we are still working, and we are still moving forward. ​With love and gratitude, Stephanie

The older I get, the less I believe in lone success. I used to think drive was enough. That if I worked hard enough, cared enough, pushed hard enough, the rest would follow. And drive matters, but it has a ceiling. You hit a point where what you build depends entirely on who you've chosen to build it with. I've been lucky. The people around me are loyal when loyalty isn't convenient. They're honest with me even when it's easier to just agree. They show up, fully, for work that asks a lot and promises no guarantees. That kind of person is rare. You don't find them through a hiring funnel or a clever pitch. You find them slowly, and when you do, you hold on. I don't take it for granted. Surrounding yourself with genuine people, people of real character, real trust, real loyalty, is the single best decision a builder can make. Better than any strategy. Better than any amount of capital. To the people who stand beside me: I see it, and I'm grateful for all of it 💙

Important Update: I’ve kept quiet until the proper steps could be taken, but I need to inform my friends and partners that I am currently the target of an organized blackmail and extortion campaign. This involves false accusations and fabricated evidence against me and my partner. This matter has been officially reported to law enforcement, and we are awaiting their action. Additionally, we reported everything to X, and they have confirmed the suspension of all accounts related to this organized criminal group. Please do not believe or engage with these malicious claims. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us over the past few weeks.

Europe is bleeding its best builders abroad, and we have done nothing to stop it. For thirty years, every ambitious European who wanted to build at the  frontier had the same conversation with themselves: stay, and accept the ceiling, or leave, and carry the cost of leaving. We have lost a generation of founders that way. We have lost the people who would have started our Stripes, our Anthropics, our Social Media platforms. They built those companies somewhere else. And we're tired of watching it happen. For this reason, we're building Samavi Innovation Center, a Mediterranean Silicon Valley in the province of Alicante, Spain. A working software studio with residences above it for the next generation of founders and technical engineers. A real place. With real people. Where the next decade of European software gets built. This is infrastructure Europe has been missing, the place where the most ambitious people on the continent can stay, build, raise families, and make work that matters without leaving their language, their food, their history, their parents, their soul. Why this. Why now. → European technical talent is leaving London and the US. We are building the place they relocate to. → EU Inc. is finally giving European founders the legal infrastructure to compete with Delaware. The next 10 years favour Europe. → Costa Blanca property is at structural inflection. Alicante province appreciated +14.8% last year alone. → The studio is already shipping. The campus is the multiplier. I am looking for the right people. Qualified investors, real estate partners, builders, anyone who has been quietly waiting for this kind of place to exist in Europe, and is ready to stop waiting. Are you ready to build the European Silicon Valley with us? samavicenter.com/

Huge congratulations @usithetalk! 🍀 Having had the pleasure of meeting again at Token2049 Singapore, your vision was already clear, users come first, always! Exciting to see how your leadership shapes the future of @MEXC. The best is ahead 🙌

I'm very impressed with X's recent updates. My TL has improved a lot. Thank you @elonmusk @nikitabier

It's never enough...

With Claude 🧡🥺 The precision of the reporting outputs, complete with dynamic color coding and structured formatting, is genuinely impressive. This is the kind of tool I wish had existed during my academic years. Still exploring the agent capabilities, and as we restructure and rebuild, the potential here is remarkable. A real shift in how we work. Thank you @AnthropicAI. We're moving faster than we could ever imagine 🙏

I'm very much in love...🥹 (Not professional but very true)

Eid Mubarak 🌙

EU Inc. is the announcement I've been waiting for as a founder in Europe. 🇪🇺 I was told multiple times to incorporate elsewhere. I stayed in Spain anyway, not to dodge anything, but because I actually live here and didn't want to pretend otherwise. Building here means navigating too much regulation, too many costs, too many hurdles before you even reach your first customer. The burden is real. If this is a genuine step toward one legal + tax framework that finally makes sense for founders who actually *stay* in Europe, that's huge. Here's hoping it's the real thing. 🙌

I read a post yesterday about the stark contrast in fundraising: how grueling it is to secure capital in Europe while funding seems to fly around effortlessly in the US. But this disciplined environment comes with a massive hidden advantage, it forces you to build a sustainable business, not just a pitch deck. Building the foundation of Nige from scratch, optimizing for real user value and solid economics rather than chasing early hype, has been the most demanding challenge of my career, but easily the most rewarding. When you are forced to focus on actual revenue and impact from day one, you don't just build a startup, you build an unbreakable ecosystem. GNige! 😊

There is a simple rule that changes how you operate in business: if something terrifies you, make it your syllabus. Early on, I realized that whenever I was intimidated by a new technology, a complex market, or a difficult conversation, the fear was really just a lack of data. The moment you sit down and aggressively study the exact thing that scares you, it stops being a threat and becomes a strategy. In leadership, the antidote to anxiety isn't blind confidence, it is education. Don't run from what you don't understand; research it until it works for you 🙂

Working on @nigeofficial Support tomorrow as well! 💙 So many great feedback today, we keep improving and growing

Just reposting some of our own tweets in case anyone is still doubting 😊

For all the new members of our community, please read this article from september 2024. I've seen some comments about people saying they heard me say "Nigerians are all scammers"? Funny.