Ola

4.1K posts

Ola

Ola

@__Ola_____

Katılım Ağustos 2016
1K Takip Edilen67 Takipçiler
Ewgi
Ewgi@Ssaasquatch·
@DamilohunA Alright I can do this. Remind me f you don’t see it later today
English
26
0
129
11.7K
Wofai Eyong
Wofai Eyong@phaibooboo·
If speaking up at work is hard for you, borrow these 6 sentences. They would help whenever you are stuck 1. Clarifying before you start “Just to confirm, the goal is ____, and ‘done’ looks like ___, right?” 2. When you’re blocked “I’m blocked on ___. I tried ___ and ___. Can someone help with the best next step?, How do i move this forward?” 3. When you’re unsure where to begin “I might be missing something. what would you do first if you were approaching this?” 4. Raising an issue early “I’m seeing ___ which may impact ___. Can we confirm the owner / next step?” 5. Disagreeing respectfully “I see the logic. One concern though, if we do ___, could it lead to ___? Should we consider ___?” 6. A confident status update “Update: ___ is done . Next: ___. Blocked by ___. I’ll share another update by ___.”
English
1
1
3
141
Johnson Taiwo 🇬🇧
Johnson Taiwo 🇬🇧@Johnsontaiwo_·
If you’re a Data Analyst, CRM Analyst, or aspiring Marketing Analyst who wants to move from Junior into senior-level commercial impact in the next 12 weeks, read this. 👇👇 You don’t get promoted for building dashboards. You get promoted for influencing revenue. Most analysts stop at reporting: - CTR. - Conversion rate. - CPA. Senior analysts answer: Where should we scale? What should we cut? Why did revenue move? What do we do next? That’s a different level of thinking. So I built a 12-week practical roadmap designed to move you from metric reporting to commercial decision-making. No theory-heavy fluff. No passive courses. No random portfolio projects. Just 7 real-world builds using real datasets: • Campaign ROI & budget reallocation • Conversion prediction (lead scoring) • A/B testing with statistical confidence • RFM segmentation for retention strategy • Churn risk analysis • Cohort retention modelling • Marketing mix & incrementality thinking By the end, you’ll have: • 6–8 commercial case studies • A strong public portfolio • Clear KPI fluency • Interview-ready impact stories This is how you transition from “analyst” to revenue operator. If that’s your goal, reply ROADMAP, REPOST, and I’ll share it to your DM.
Johnson Taiwo 🇬🇧 tweet media
English
597
397
910
52.5K
Wofai Eyong
Wofai Eyong@phaibooboo·
I stopped posting… because I was struggling to live what I used to teach. I haven’t posted since June 2025, and I’ve thought about coming back a lot. Truth is, I didn’t go quiet because I ran out of ideas. I went quiet because I was overwhelmed at work, and embarrassed that I was “working hard” but still not delivering the way I knew I could. It looked like this: - I’d get a task and freeze because I wasn’t fully clear - Instead of asking, I’d go into “figure it out myself” mode - Hours would pass… sometimes days And then I’d feel even more behind, more ashamed, more quiet. And the painful part? It wasn’t that I lacked skill. It was that I was scared of asking “stupid” questions and speaking up. A friend said something that shifted everything for me; 'Clarity isn’t weakness, it is professionalism' It was an AHA!! moment. Now, i follow a simple rule before I start any work; i ask 2 questions 1. What do you want? 2. What does “done” look like? Take it from me, silence doesn’t protect you. It delays delivery, increases mistakes and quietly damages confidence. So I’m back, and I’m going to document this journey honestly. Not motivation. Not vibes. Practical systems. If you’re early–mid career and you’ve ever struggled silently at work, you’re not alone, and i know, we are many 😆
Wofai Eyong tweet media
English
3
2
12
507
Ola retweetledi
Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Social Capital put $10M into Groq’s seed round in April 2017 when the company was worth roughly $30M post-money. That single check bought about 33% of the company. Then they doubled down with $52.3M in a 2018 convertible note. Total deployed: $62.3M. Here’s where it gets interesting. Groq raised $300M at $1.1B in 2021, then $640M at $2.8B in 2024, then $750M at $6.9B in September 2025. Each round diluted early investors. But Social Capital had board seats and likely maintained some pro-rata through the convertible. Conservative math: They own somewhere between 15-20% of Groq today. At $20B, that’s $3B to $4B in value. $62M in. $3-4B out. That’s a 50-65x return in 8 years. For context, this single investment is worth more than Social Capital’s entire fund size in 2015 ($1.1B). One bet. Eight years. 50x. The timing is the wildest part. Chamath invested in custom AI chips in 2017, years before ChatGPT made inference compute a thing. He sat on the board until 2021, then stepped back right as the company was entering its growth phase. Now Nvidia is paying $20B in cash because they need Groq’s LPU architecture for inference at scale. Jensen is essentially writing Chamath a check for being early on the inference bottleneck. Say what you want about his SPACs. This one makes up for a lot of Clover Health bags.
Boring_Business@BoringBiz_

Chamath after making $4B from a seed investment in Groq (just announced $20B sale to NVIDIA) One of the best venture outcomes of all time

English
140
288
5.2K
1.3M
Ola
Ola@__Ola_____·
😆
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation." I don't know what Agile means. Nobody does. That's why it works. I make $425,000 a year. To move sticky notes. From left to right. On a board. The board is digital now. The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress. Day one, I said "we need to break down silos." Everyone nodded. Silos are bad. I don't know why. But destroying them is a career. My career. I introduced "squads." Squads are teams. But disrupted. We disrupted the teams into teams. Different names. Same people. Same problems. But Agile problems now. Agile problems are strategic. A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing. I said, "The mindset." He asked what that means. I said, "It's a journey." He asked where we're going. I said, "Toward agility." He asked what agility means. I pointed at the sticky notes. They were moving left to right. That's velocity. We have velocity now. The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work. I said, "That's waterfall thinking." Waterfall is bad. Like silos. I don't know what waterfall is. But I know it's bad. She stopped talking. Waterfall accusations end conversations. We had a retrospective. In the retro, we discussed what went wrong. Everything went wrong. We put it on sticky notes. Then we moved the sticky notes. Into a column called "Parking Lot." The Parking Lot is where problems go to die. It's full. We don't look at it. That's agile. Velocity is up 40%. I defined velocity. I also defined the points. I also defined the stories. We're crushing it. At the things I made up. To measure. Ourselves. The CEO asked for ROI. I showed a chart. The chart went up. Charts should go up. This one did. I didn't label the Y-axis. Nobody asked. Leadership is confidence. We do standups now. Every day. We stand. For 45 minutes. Standing is agile. Sitting is waterfall. My legs hurt. But we're transforming. The transformation is now "Phase 3." Phase 1 was assessment. Phase 2 was implementation. Phase 3 is "continuous improvement." Continuous means forever. Forever means job security. I'm very secure. My contract was extended. Three more years. For "cultural impact." The culture is confused. But impacted. Agile transformation isn't about being agile. It's about transforming. Continuously. Toward more transformation. The destination is the journey. The journey is billable.

ART
0
0
0
14
Ola
Ola@__Ola_____·
😆 🤣 😂
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

ART
0
0
0
18
Ola retweetledi
🍂
🍂@Lovandfear·
After you get married, you’re going to meet ‘better’ people than your spouse. You’re going to meet more good-looking people; kinder and more romantic people; more intelligent and funny people. You will meet people who have in abundance what your partner lacks. The mushy and romanticized idea that your partner will be everything to you, and will satisfy all your needs and wants is idolatry. Contentment in marriage is a virtue not often spoken about. You must wake up every day appreciating everything your partner is to you, everything they have, their beauty and the things that made you marry them because if you focus on everything they don’t do well, you’ll always meet better people. Protect your heart! See their best part, and always remember that your commitment to marry is more of a duty than it is of mushy feelings. You have to stay committed even on the days you feel your spouse is no longer the best fit for you… -Buchi
🍂 tweet media
English
439
6.3K
48K
5.5M
Ola retweetledi
Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
I was CEO and Peter reported to me, so could not fire me. It was a palace coup by most (not all) of the exec team and most of the board, who were worried that my decisions were too risky. I was the largest shareholder in the company. There was nothing anyone could have done to take my shares away from me.
English
674
1.3K
32.1K
1.7M
Ola retweetledi
FUFUO SIKA NTƆ BENZ 🇬🇭
FUFUO SIKA NTƆ BENZ 🇬🇭@n_mandelaaa·
This is the best explanation i have ever seen, i know a million people have been wanting to ask this question too 😂😂
English
158
5.7K
15.3K
483.5K
Ola retweetledi
Mr. Czar
Mr. Czar@Mrczar_·
You will be tempted to show that you are doing well, but it is important you resist the urge to perform for an audience that don’t matter - and maybe isn’t even watching
English
83
6.3K
19.5K
418.8K