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@bolarindesamso1 Happy birthday Big Engine

Happy birthday to me

@mreazi @rasheed_saminu Love this 👏👏

Chief @rasheed_saminu dm

Never underestimate how much time and effort you can waste by trying to automate a process you do not understand manually.

@asemota 2. of growth. Like you mentioned sir, Google acquires those products because they already trust and know those who found them and they are part of their system. When a talent gets to a point where they can train another, start looking for another talent to learn under them.

People were ALWAYS going to leave. A pipeline focused on learning and knowledge transfer addresses that. My worry is that product companies are complaining so much when most of the learning was supposed to be embedded in the product and the processes around it, making it easier for people to pick up when those before them inevitably leave. There is a deeper foundational organizational design problem here that has not been adequately addressed. I went through this for a decade and was getting burned out with training people for others until @JosephBFuller cracked this for me at a course at HBS. There is ZERO equity in services. You MUST productize EVERYTHING to keep knowledge within the organization. These companies' complaints are a symptom of a wider problem: a lack of products within the general ecosystem. There are many things you shouldn't have people keeping in their heads. There is room to build many things beyond the payment products you are building, and you should invest in them. Google is my go-to on this. Amazon turned its people into products, and they got AWS from it.

@asemota This is what I was about tweeting. You can't expect people not to leave. In fact that's to show your organization is building people unless they leave due to negative reasons. When you invest in people they either decide to keep working or decide to move to attain another level

The gap is still there, and it's still massive. And I'm not even saying this because I'm a "traditional developer" and I'm scared of AI. I use AI a lot to code, but you can always see the difference in the quality of work between someone who has the expertise and understands what they're doing versus someone who is just...well...vibing. We have seen it over and over again on this app, from slop UI to data leaks to crazy vulnerabilities. The gap is still there.

@akinkunmi Well for me, build out first and add feature-gating and billing. Build out first helps the flow and helps you understand the point the freemium users get to before the gate is locked to the premium world.

When working on SaaS projects, do you build out all the features first and then add feature-gating and billing, or do you build with gating from the beginning?

@elitethedev You can't just change what users see as the norm and then expect them to stay. You don't just change the playground if others are not ready to do the same you will be putting yourself in a hole

users prefer your site to work the same way as all other sites they already know. - Jakob Nielsen

@darasoba "Talent growth within the organization" This is something most companies don't want to engage in, they only want to plug the ripe fruit they don't care about those that are yet to become ripe. Well we will all be alright

How many Nigerian startups have a growth strategy for their employees and heavily invest in it? I was speaking with a friend who was a top senior product manager before he left Nigeria for the UK on his job search there. He said he had to start applying for junior roles and stripped his LinkedIn profile of senior titles, suggesting that our seniors here are not close to being senior there. That’s the UK; I imagine what the US would say. Many of our friends have similar experiences. Tosin may be wrong or not, but the truth remains that the education system for tech skills needs to be better. It’s a laborious thankless job, but it needs improvement both in education and talent growth within organisations.

I should update my older thread on this topic. Talent was always going to be the battleground, and I said this a couple of years ago. You have to build a pipeline that adapts to your needs, rather than fighting in the same market as the rest of the world and complaining when people make optimal choices. Doing it this way is costly and brutal. Citibank, Nigerian Breweries, and Shell discovered this talent quality problem as far back as the 90s and decided to build a process to take “average people” and turn them world-class. This process in Nigeria and Africa has focused mainly on coding with Andela and others when coding skills were in high demand globally, but AI changed everything. Demand is still there but it shifted gears. Coding skills are NOT everything a startup needs. In Nigeria, we lack experienced operators in many areas because there aren't many places for them to learn. One of the things people fail to realize about Japa is that it provides learning and advancement opportunities. You need to create learning opportunities for people as an investment. This has always been my problem with the so-called “tech investment” in Africa. People are funding the output of a broken pipeline rather than investing in fixing it. They invested in companies skimming from the top rather than building from the bottom up. Google and others did a lot better from the bottom in Africa. We need company academies again and partnership with educational institutions. I was able to do my undergrad project research because of a lab in UNIBEN partly funded by Shell. This current model we have is unsustainable. I will write more. This is just a rant.

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@_KingNath Happy birthday chief

Just turned 23🎉 Spent it at my fav war museum. My only wish is that I never get tired

@outlandervc @kseniam0s @PrecursorVC @HustleFundVC @BoostVC @actionscapital Where can I send my pitch

@kseniam0s @PrecursorVC @HustleFundVC @BoostVC @actionscapital We’ll even invest in a 5-day old company with the right founding team! And to us, that doesn’t mean logos. It’s just uniqueness of insight, clarity of vision, and that proven grit to execute.

Finding pre-seed capital shouldn't feel like searching for unicorns in a haystack. These invest first $500K checks - @PrecursorVC (San Francisco, CA) - @HustleFundVC (San Francisco, CA) - @BoostVC (San Mateo, CA) - @outlandervc (New York, NY) - @actionscapital (fka K50 Ventures) - @redbudvc (Columbia, MO) - @2048vc (New York, NY) - @forumventures (New York, NY) - @Boldstartvc (Miami, FL) - @GoAhead (Menlo Park, CA) - @rightsidecap (San Francisco, CA) - @ldvcapital (New York, NY) - @ChargeVC (New York, NY) -- Most of these want to see some early traction, but they'll move fast when they see something they like.

“Someone” is too vague. 20-30 years old: Find a very good job in a place where you can get leverage to buy assets. Get married, save together. The other option is to start a business early but know that 99% of the time, it will die but the experience will be valuable. 30-40: Start thinking of starting a business from what you have learned. Find partners, mentors, funders. 40+ Enter politics. Seriously, after 40 wealth is more about connections than effort. This is the time you cash in on relationships built over time. Wealth is about relationships and compounding the benefits of those relationships. No matter how brilliant you are, nothing will bring you wealth if you don’t build relationships. Friends have always opened the doors for me and recommended me to rooms where I made money from.

"My husband lost his job right before our second baby was due. For six months, he sent out hundreds of applications—nothing. I watched this proud man crumble, depression setting in. One morning, he left for another interview wearing his only suit,

You are 30 so don't want to go for a 5 yr course because when you finish you will be 35. Whether you go back or not, you will be 35 in 5 yrs

@saheedniyi_02 The platform with hidden users 😂

You seem so conversant with the Pornhub website.

@claudeai what's my offense? Been trying to generate just this doc for almost 3 days now and everytime I hit continue it always hit the time limit 😫 please naw. Don't make me go back to my ex gpt. I have started loving you.