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A nineteen-year-old drops out of Berkeley, moves to Lagos with $7.3 million and a super app thesis. I'm eager to see whether capital and commitment can do what the wall has stopped everyone else from doing.
A nineteen-year-old drops out of Berkeley, moves to Lagos with $7.3 million and a super app thesis. I'm eager to see whether capital and commitment can do what the wall has stopped everyone else from doing.
The gap between what is known and what is applied kills people in every society. Here is what happens when you run that gap through an environment specifically designed to extract from everything that passes through it.
Every country has an operating environment with its own friction and its own relationship between effort and outcome. Here is what Nigeria's looks like, and what it costs to build anything inside it.
Nigeria's National AI Strategy is an impressive document about intentions. But understanding a landscape and building something that changes it are different activities.