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Senior Full-Stack Engineer (5+ yrs) | Co Founder @pritmahealth | Building AI, revenue-driven SaaS & systems. Startup-CTO mindset. Lagos to global!
Lagos, Nigeria Katılım Ağustos 2019
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yess like mad. hustle trades time for money. generational wealth is built on assets that make money while you sleep, equity, land, systems, intellectual property.
The hustle gets you in the room. It does not build the room.
The shift is simple but brutal: stop selling your hours, start owning things. A percentage of a business. Land. A product. Recurring revenue. Something that outlives your energy levels.
Nigeria makes this harder because the system is designed to keep you in survival mode, which looks identical to hustle culture from the outside. But surviving and building are not the same motion.
You cannot hustle your way to generational wealth. You have to think your way there and hustle in service of that thinking, not instead of it.
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you cannot hustle your way into generational wealth
𝓫𝓸𝔂𝓡𝓲@Boyravee
First sentence of chapter 1, so na for London him start him life? Na once i close the book oh😭
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@DemolaRewaju Second term African leaders don’t negotiate. They consolidate.
Ask Mugabe. Ask Museveni. Ask every APC stakeholder who thinks loyalty now buys safety later.
The man you’re helping win 2027 is not the man you’ll be dealing with in 2028.
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The version of Bola Tinubu to be afraid of is not this one currently scheming - he needs APC big names to help justify the numbers he wants to write for 2027.
The version to fear is a 2nd Term Tinubu that needs no electoral validation anymore.
APC stakeholders should be wise.
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Lmao some of our bigger tech overlords raise a bajillion dollars and then go on a poaching spree. They are always throwing crazy offers at my team trying to get them to switch.
They rarely do.
And on the rare occasion they switch, many of the team members often come back to tell me that what we have at @risevest is far better than what many try to build with money.
No be brag. Some have actually switched back, when there is room.
But even that is also extremely hard to do. One of my PMs spent 3 years trying to return before we all agreed to move on.
I also don’t try to fight it, imagine paying someone x and then someone offers them 5x.
That’s an opportunity to discover there are more important things than money, and I cannot deny them that.
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The wealthy don't underpay you because they can't afford you. They underpay you because they can. Understanding the difference will change how you negotiate forever.
A man spending ₦420k on dinner doesn't see ₦400k as money. He sees it as a signal. "You will accept what I offer."The moment you accepted, he filed you under one category: Controllable.
Notice how the reduction came in layers. Assistant filtered first. Then Oga called personally. That's not negotiation. That's a system, designed to exhaust your confidence before the real conversation starts. By the time he reached you, you were already tired.
Rich people don't haggle over things they respect. He paid $80/yr for a domain without blinking. No invoice. No callback. No assistant filter. Because a domain felt like infrastructure. In his mind, you didn't.
The goal was never to save money. It was to establish the power structure early. Cheap first invoice = cheap forever. He wasn't buying a website. He was buying your compliance.
Your price is not just a number. It's a positioning statement. When you fold, you don't just lose money, you lose the frame. And recovering the frame with that client is nearly impossible.
The most expensive thing you'll ever do in business is convince a rich man you're affordable. Because he will never unsee it.
Know your worth. Price it clearly. Hold it calmly. The right clients won't flinch. The wrong ones will negotiate, and that's your first answer about who they are.
Don't let access to wealth make you discount the value you bring to it.
Tomilola Oluwafemi@tomilola_ng
I was going to build two websites for a multimillionaire. I am sure his business was making around 50 million a month. I sent an invoice of 1.8 million, but his assistant reduced it to 800k, saying Oga wouldn’t pay. When the invoice reached him, he called me personally and asked me to lower it to 600k, saying it was too high. I stood my ground, and we agreed on 400k for just one of the sites. On the day we launched the site, I joined their team celebration dinner. It lasted less than two hours, and the restaurant bill was 420k. He literally paid for a one-night dinner that cost more than what he paid me for three weeks of work When we wanted to buy a domain, the one he liked was $80, he paid for two years upfront, that's over 200k I realized he wasn’t concerned about the money; His goal was to keep me small.
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@tomilola_ng It was never about ₦400k. It was about making sure you never internalize your own value. A man who spends ₦420k on dinner without blinking, but negotiates a builder down to ₦600k, is not managing costs. He's managing people.
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I was going to build two websites for a multimillionaire. I am sure his business was making around 50 million a month.
I sent an invoice of 1.8 million, but his assistant reduced it to 800k, saying Oga wouldn’t pay.
When the invoice reached him, he called me personally and asked me to lower it to 600k, saying it was too high. I stood my ground, and we agreed on 400k for just one of the sites.
On the day we launched the site, I joined their team celebration dinner. It lasted less than two hours, and the restaurant bill was 420k.
He literally paid for a one-night dinner that cost more than what he paid me for three weeks of work
When we wanted to buy a domain, the one he liked was $80, he paid for two years upfront, that's over 200k
I realized he wasn’t concerned about the money; His goal was to keep me small.
David Hundeyin@DavidHundeyin
I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all. The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all. At. All. The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you. So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable. Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen. That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing. If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7. Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist. Them no really send any part of your papa at all.
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tbh, on paper I go with sharafadeen alli. He carries what appears to be Tinubu's backing, and the consensus model being pushed mirrors what was done in Lagos and Ogun. In Nigerian politics, Presidential endorsement isn't decoration, it's infrastructure.
But the ground is messier than the endorsement suggests.
Party sources are candid that Adelabu doesn't enjoy strong relationships with key party leaders in Oyo, and his candidate lost a House of Reps by-election he personally midwifed, which is a brutal data point. But he counters with something Alli can't buy: the Penkelemesi inheritance. In Ibadan, "Adelabu" isn't just a surname, it carries emotional and historical weight that makes grassroots loyalty almost folkloric.
my take is if alli's consensus holds and Tinubu doesn't blink, Alli gets the ticket. But if it goes to a direct primary, Adelabu's name recognition in Ibadan makes him dangerous. The real question isn't who wins the primary, it's whether whoever wins can actually beat Makinde's machinery in the general.
That's the fight APC keeps avoiding having in public.
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@FotoNugget And the irony is, the commoners built the fence, paid for the lights inside, and will be asked to vote on who becomes the next bouncer.
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Nigerian politics is beginning to look like an exclusive nightclub for billionaires and godsons only. Commoners can stand outside and watch the democracy through the fence.
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Olusegun Obasanjo was sitting in Abacha’s prison, sentenced to death, counting days.
Three years later, he was sitting in Aso Rock as President of Nigeria.
The same country. The same political class. Many of the same people who signed off on his imprisonment were now calling him “Your Excellency.”
No revenge. No drama. Just power, reshuffling itself like nothing happened.
That’s Nigeria. The story doesn’t end, it just changes cast.
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~ Tell us a political power tussle story that sounds untrue but is actually true.
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@akintollgate Peacefully? In Nigerian politics, when a governor tries to force out a popular incumbent senator through consensus, “consensus” is just violence with paperwork.
Gbenga Daniel has roots in that constituency that predate Abiodun’s relevance. This doesn’t end quietly.
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Ogun Senatorial East primaries will be a case study for political science programs. An outgoing governor Dapo Abiodun looking to dislodge an establishment incumbent Senator Gbenga Daniel’s, who is widely popular in the constituency. A consensus was initially announced to pick the Governor over the senator.
How does this end. Peacefully or a lot of violence anticipated ?
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the most painful thing about a Lagos outing that never happened is that everyone actually wanted to go
nobody was lying when they said ‘yes let’s do it’
the intention was real
but between ‘where are we going’ and ‘how much is transport’ and ‘who is coming from where’
the whole thing just quietly died
and everyone went back to their individual rooms
pretending Saturday was fine
Olabode.@BodeBillions
a Lagos group chat has: — 67 members — a custom name with 4 emojis — pinned messages nobody reads — a voice note from 2026still unlistened to — ‘guys where are we going this weekend’ sent every single Friday since 2021 and has never. not once. successfully executed an outing. Lagos we need to talk
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@HS_Zarrah A man who abandoned his godfather for a new one shouldn’t be surprised when loyalty has a price. El-Rufai wrote this script. Tinubu just directed it.
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El-Rufai disrespected Northern Elders Forum because of Tinubu. He also stood against his political godfather, PMB, over the naira redesign because of BAT’s election chances.
Now, Tinubu has turned him into a political prisoner. This is beyond backstabbing.
Bola Judas Tinubu.
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@iKillCuriosity @afropolitan True. But also, if the only place you can learn how to build is from one man’s tweets, that’s the real problem.
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Listening to Iyin Aboyeji on @Afropolitan.
Twitter is a poorer place when we lose people like that. A young founder on here should be able to get random tweets about buying a bank to solve a regulatory problem, or how to build VC relationships.
I think it is a net positive.
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Akin Alabi and Skimeh are actually very smart in that Oyo State APC. Lmao.
They always observe the winning and powerful camp in the party and align, and get their tickets.
2019 - They aligned with Ajimobi (as expected) and got their tickets.
2023 - They aligned with Folarin and got their tickets
2024/2025 - When the party’s power shifted to Adelabu, they aligned with him.
2026 - They aligned with Sharafa Alli and they’ve got their tickets now.
Awon Omo olomo.
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@aderemilekun_ Tolu didn't just launder money, she understood that legitimacy is a story, not a fact. Every financial crime at scale works the same way: create a narrative the observer can explain to themselves. The pen business isn't the cover. The cover is plausibility.
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- Tolu stole N5,000 from her parents but she couldn’t just start spending it freely in school without teachers or classmates asking where she got the money from.
- So, on her way to school she bought pens and started selling them to her classmates.
- Now, the money appears legitimate because everyone believes Tolu is making money from selling pens. She can now buy food and snacks without suspicion.
leemahooooooo@hameemahhh
How does money laundering work? Educate me like I'm 5 years old
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Exactly. Makinde isn’t splitting the opposition, he’s splitting Tinubu’s homecoming tax.
“Omo wa ni” worked in 2023 because there was no credible Yoruba alternative. There is now. That changes the Southwest from a fortress to a frontline.
Tinubu may win 2027 and still lose the room he built his presidency from.
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a Lagos group chat has:
— 67 members
— a custom name with 4 emojis
— pinned messages nobody reads
— a voice note from 2026still unlistened to
— ‘guys where are we going this weekend’ sent every single Friday since 2021
and has never. not once. successfully executed an outing.
Lagos we need to talk
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Olabode. retweetledi
The paradox you’re pointing at has a name, epistemic overload. The more information channels we have, the harder it becomes to verify any single one. Abundance didn’t make us wiser, it made us faster at believing.
The real issue isn’t the armada of deceit. It’s that critical thinking never scaled with the technology. We democratized broadcasting before we democratized discernment.
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The 21st century man is the most advanced in knowledge and technology. Yet, he's the most susceptible to lies through same knowledge and technology. You can't trust what you hear on networks. You can't trust what you see on social media. It's an armada of deceit.
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Olabode. retweetledi
@gentlemanway007 Zenith has the balance sheet muscle. GTCO has the street credibility.
In politics, we say: “It’s not who works hardest, it’s who the market believes in.”
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Do you think Zenith Bank will hit 200 before GTCO?
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