There's really only one rule in startups, everything else you can fudge or make up.

Seems we all lived the same lives😭

Spent all of yesterday on set with award-winning actor Bobby Ogbolu & our incredible production crew @altschoolafrica, trying to tell an important story.

Can’t wait to share the Final Cut 🥺

After the $1B was okayed. Mark personally negotiated the deal with Systrom (Instagram founder).

Mark told him, remove your eye from $2B, we can only offer you $1B… initially Systrom had rejected $500M, saying he was going to consider from $2B upwards.

They were casually

Stop posting imaginary scenarios of what founders used money to do. It reeks of attention seeking!

If you ask me, startups should go back to 2007 vibes. Just the founders and hardcore engineers who only care about engineering and non engineering interns who are just happy to be here all optimistic, excited and dogged like what they are building actually matters. All living in

Cut a deal with my landlord to let me pay rent monthly as I couldn't gather a lump sum.

In the midst of this, they casually added an extra N1M to said rent. 😅 Then I got a “you go do or you no go do” email.

Lee was due to resume pre-shool too.

I started walking 20K steps just to beat myself to a pulp in the hopes that I would be so tired and fall asleep easily.

Took a consulting(read teaching gig) just to keep body and soul together.

I will go to bed and my eyes will be wide open till 6 AM. I will wake up, and carry on like nothing happened.

This went on for a couple days, got knocked down by a terrible headache. My blood pressure was a mess.

June 2019, wiped out my entire savings to do this too. We were expecting a baby the next month.

Missed my rent too(needed to cover payroll.) We were going to be homeless.

Got plunged into a stupid legal tussle. Thank God for Edmund Onigbese of the Big Bag. I ran to him this period.

I have sold cars, land, buildings and other assets to make monthly payroll/OPEX in 7 African countries.

For 4 years now, I have spent $millions of my own cash doing this.

I am a mad man. And I’m surprised my wife has not left me.

A great triumph requires a great sacrifice.

Dr Aloy Chife The war is real. Waking up at 3am trying to figure out how to make payroll is some'n founders are familiar with. Yes, we choose it & if it works, everyone wins but the path there is brutal & outcome nonguaranteed.
That said, many that join us do so in exch for job/comp stability.

Makes perfect sense Chowdeck (YC S22) and shoutout to dem chowdeck champions!

This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine ✨ 💡

I don’t know if it’s peer pressure or Sexy Suya Burgers 🍔 is just so good, but I don order suya burger and asun pasta make me sef use hold body after I saw this tweet.

My attention has been drawn to the media interview of the speaker of the Niger state house of Assembly, Barr. Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, concerning the marriage plans of 100 orphan girls

I have been in touch with the speaker, the local government chairman, some of the girls, the

I am incredibly proud to be part of M-KOPA who has been listed as one of Financial Times Africa's Fastest Growing Companies 2024. This makes us one of 17 companies to be recognised for the third consecutive year.
Our growth trajectory has been incredible. We have expanded our

🚀 #BackedbyVP Welcoming Maad.io 🇸🇳 to the VP portfolio 🚀

We are excited to have led the $3.2 million seed round investment in Maad, a tech and logistics platform transforming the retail landscape in Francophone Africa.

Launched in 2021, Maad has quickly become