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Builder. Founder of @thecondia and Convener @tbebycondia

Joined August 2012
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Abandoned my startup to do this. Let's go!
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Haha, I saw one of our African tech brothers, @iChuloo, on @lennysan's "How I AI" show. And I smiled. Some eight years ago, we were battling for international recognition of our tech and SW dev ecosystem. Today, we globul! Links in thread.
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"Take someone stuck on a ₦500k job. You decide to stack ₦500k, ₦400k, and ₦300k jobs, and you earn ₦1.2M. Someone else builds excellence in his ₦500k job, gets promoted, and eventually earns ₦2.5 million while you are still at ₦1.2 million." You can skip every other thing and jump straight to this response thecondia.com/feranmi-ajetom…
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I will make one important clarification here, “promotion” is not only in that company. Often, one poaching incident multiplies your income in ways that traditional job-hopping cannot.
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I really enjoyed reading this interview with Feranmi. Maybe it's cause we are at similar stages in our careers, but it has the benefit of hindsight. So many, many gems. Maybe I'd do a thread. But here's one on giving your career time, as it's a marathon
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The roadshow to IPO is so beautiful to watch. He’s been everywhere. I wish Revolut a blast on the stocks exchange(s) See you in 2028!
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😂 This always happens.
This week, we had our competitors signup. Not sure they know but we're happy to support them on their cost savings journey.
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If you hire a full-time staff and agree a target they don’t come close to, fire them. They are not thinking enough. Possibly because this is their nth simultaneous job
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Why Casemiro come resemble SS2 green house boy?
Friday looks good on us. 🎩😎
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The curse of running a media org is this:
we’ve been self-funding NoteSphere for 3 years + but people would still be mad that we have a rate card lol.
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The gospel of dadaben, according to Grok
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Why did Flick take Raphinha off last night? I have a guess, but want to hear from my fellow comrades
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Don’t associate with malice, what is simply business.
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To build savings product no easy o 😂 Good reminder that fintech is 90% ops, 10% others
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Should be exciting!
📅 TODAY: Join our Publisher @DadaBen_, @IfeJohnseen and @samuel_biyi as they discuss the prospects of an on-chain future in Nigeria. Nearly 4% of retail investment (₦800M+) in the Dangote Refinery IPO happened on-chain. For a first, we do not yet know what to make of that piece of data. Nigeria is constantly cited as one of the world's top adopters of crypto, which leads to more people offering such solutions to the market. What is the public missing that institutional players like @getBusha and @juicywayhq are seeing? Given the fact that they themselves have invested in launching yet another naira token and an exchange, respectively. Join us for an exciting conversation this evening on the prospects of an on-chain future in Nigeria! xitter.cf/i/spaces/1mdAybNWanXzv…

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Can’t wait!
Today at 7:00 pm WAT (6:00 pm UK, 9:00 pm EAT), I’m speaking at @thecondia’s virtual event ‘Building Nigeria’s On-Chain Future’, alongside @samuel_biyi. @DadaBen_ is moderating. We’ll talk about crypto and stablecoin adoption in Nigeria and the opportunities and challenges for businesses building on-chain. I’ll also share what I believe tokenizing real-world assets can mean for capital formation and liquidity across asset classes in Africa. Register for free here: luma.com/ssfejmb7
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Lezz goooo, my doki!
Join me and @IfeJohnseen tonight. Discussing the future of Nigeria’s on-chain future with Condia’s @DadaBen_ . luma.com/ssfejmb7
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1. I have the rare privilege of hosting two leaders in Africa's stablecoin space for a conversation about our On-chain future: Dr. @samuel_biyi and @IfeJohnseen Context: Dr Samuel's Busha recently launched @ngnbtoken, and Ife's Juicy Global launched an exchange, Eko Securities
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2. A lot of it is new territory for the uninitiated and a black box for the initiated. By 7 PM, I will ask all my dumb & informed questions about what a crypto/blockchain-powered economy looks like in Nigeria. What's real, what's hype and timelines that we can hold the ecosystem leaders to, so that we know if we are truly on track. Come with your questions!
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Make Arsenal just absorb Man U at this point
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