Simon S (@simonsallstrom) 's Twitter Profile
Simon S

@simonsallstrom

Social impact founder enabling the next gen of African tech leaders @directeddev, #buildinginpublic Also photography IG@wusallphoto

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Why am I lurking around RSAC (biggest cybersecurity event of the year)? Well, cybersec is one of the big bets we want to make in 2025! Draper University x Cardano accelerator day 14! #buildinpublic #buildinginpublic #impactstartup #rsac #rsaconference2025

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The African Blockchain Championship is now live! Builders from across the continent are already rolling up their sleeves and turning bold ideas into real-world solutions. If you’re building with Midnight , here’s what you could win! 🥇 $4000 for 1st place 🥈 $2000 for

The African Blockchain Championship is now live!

Builders from across the continent are already rolling up their sleeves and turning bold ideas into real-world solutions.

If you’re building with <a href="/MidnightNtwrk/">Midnight</a> , here’s what you could win!
🥇 $4000 for 1st place

🥈 $2000 for
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Agreed and that's why the The African Blockchain Championship was made to focus on "Blockchain for Development" Real problems Real solutions Grateful for the partnership with Teodor P. and his team the UNDP AltFinLab where we got problem statements from them!

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Givinf bribes and kickbacks to win contracts? Any founder working in emerging markets is inevitably going to face this. But I don’t see a lot of content online on this elephant in the room So here are my honest thoughts on this… Recorded March 30, Kigali airport, Rwanda 🇷🇼

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Cardano × Draper University from San Francisco #11🇺🇸 本日のインタビューはDirectEd DevelopmentSimon Sさん!教育とブロックチェーンを組み合わせた革新的な取り組みについて伺いました🎓🌍 At Draper University in San Francisco, 20 projects are taking on a 5-week challenge! Reporting

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The AI startup whose AI raised $8M for them (!) today, we had Boardy.ai’s “Human in Loop” Nick Lebesis share his journey with our DraperU cohort! What surprised me was just how fast Creandum decided to invest after the entire team (internally) had decided to use

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So a friend of mine lives in Mark Zuckerberg’s 2004, just as he had dropped out of Harvard This garden where Peter Thiel gave Mark the first $500k check Here is where he met Daniel Ek and Mark Zuckerberg (which explains Spotify x Facebook collab many years later) Apparently,

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To avoid being mistaken for being ai I find myself actively editing messages to remove “-“ Isn’t that kind of dystopian somehow?

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I just try things a lot But probably need to build a system for deciding on what to try And increasing the amounts of tests per year

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Big peaks in dopamine that do not require much effort to access = long periods of lack of motivation & blues, especially if you try to exit that rut with low effort activities. This is not stoicism, it’s not psychology. It’s the biology of dopamine circuit dynamics.

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50% of young men aged 22-29 are not in touch with another human for more than 5 seconds most days of the year anyone want to take the other side of this bet?