Biyi

Quite an unfortunate story. A founder mentioned it to me this evening . Basically, Kled is a data marketplace app that pays people to upload data photos, documents etc to train AI Models. Some sharp guys found it early and signed up in huge numbers. But instead of uploading real, useful data, they started uploading junk black screens, duplicate images, AI generated pictures etc. At one point, 95 out of every 100 uploads from Nigeria were fraudulent. Ie the company was paying out money for worthless data and fake identities. As a startup, Kled couldn’t absorb that loss & additional compliance cost so they pulled the app from Nigeria and blocked the country. The real cost to us isn’t the app leaving though . It’s the cumulative reputational damage that raises barriers for every legitimate Nigerian founder trying to access foreign capital, every developer trying to get approved on international platforms, every user trying to do KYC on a global product. I hope our behavior changes soon.

d4vd has been arrested for the murder of Celeste Rivas. He was arrested by the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide division and is being held without bail.

SEMIFINALS VAMOS!!!! ❤️🤍

We fought until the end.

He may be old, but he still loves to dig a hole on the beach