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Dream actualizer. Game Developer. ChelseaFC fan

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·17 Haz

🚨 New 3D shooter game added to my portfolio! Built in Unity with no dedicated GPU 💪 Learned so much: 🧠 Finite SMs for AI 🎮 New Input System 🎭 Blend Trees + Rigging 🧱 Object pooling + procedural level gen 🛠️ Event-driven code 🎥👇 Check it out! youtu.be/UTx0VcXH42s?si…

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·2d

@aakashgupta How was Whatsapp making $10.2 million in annual revenue before the acquisition?

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Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·3d

The story of WhatsApp is wild. In 1992, a 16-year-old named Jan Koum immigrated from Ukraine to Mountain View, California with his mother. They survived on food stamps. She worked as a babysitter. He swept floors at a grocery store and taught himself to code from donated books at a used bookstore. Koum got hired at Yahoo as an infrastructure engineer. Spent nine years there. Met Brian Acton. They both quit on Halloween 2007, backpacked through South America for a year playing ultimate frisbee. Both applied to work at Facebook. Both rejected. Koum bought an iPhone in January 2009 and saw what was coming. He built WhatsApp in a week with one idea: free messaging, no ads, no games, no gimmicks. The first version was so buggy he almost killed it. Acton talked him out of quitting, put in $250,000 of his own savings, and became co-founder. Sequoia Capital was the only outside investor. Ever. $60 million total across three rounds. No other VC touched the company. The app hit 200 million users with 50 employees. Zero marketing spend. Zero PR staff. 72% daily active rate when the industry standard was 10-20%. A million new users installing every single day. By February 2014, Google and Facebook were in a bidding war. Google offered $10 billion. Zuckerberg invited Koum to dinner at his house and offered $19 billion for a company generating $10.2 million in annual revenue. 55 employees. The largest acquisition of a venture-backed company in history. Sequoia turned $60 million into $3 billion. A 50x return. The part nobody talks about. Koum drove to the Mountain View welfare office where he used to stand in line with his mother for food stamps. He signed the $19 billion deal on the front door of that building. Today WhatsApp has 3.1 billion monthly users. Estimated valuation north of $138 billion. Seven times what Facebook paid. Ellison is right. Zuckerberg didn't overpay. He got the deal of the century.

Startup Archive@StartupArchive_

Larry Ellison: “When WhatsApp sold for $19B, a lot of us were shocked… until we thought about it” In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp and their 450 million MAUs for $19 billion. “A lot of us [in Silicon Valley] were shocked — until we thought about it and understood the value of having access to that many consumers,” Oracle founder Larry Ellison says in this interview that took place a few months after the acquisition closed. Ellison points out that you have to take into consideration how much traditional businesses (e.g. cable TV companies) pay to acquire customers: “This is not the place to debate how much you can get through WhatsApp — $1 per year per customer is not going to do it — but I believe there will be opportunity to sell these same customers other things as they join your ecosystem.” He continues: “There was quite a battle between Facebook and Google over that property. It wasn’t that one guy did something really silly with a lot of money. Mark Zuckerberg won an auction over Google and paid a high price but got a very valuable asset in the 21st century.” As of 2025, WhatsApp has approximately 3.1 billion MAUs globally.

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Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA): Important Lessons For Founders

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·3 Nis

@Werewolf268 Check DM my guy

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@bobokan01 Bro! I'm banned till infinity. Been awhile. Hope you're chill. Slide into DM, let's share contact please

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·22 Mar

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·22 Mar

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·22 Mar

Aston Villa is playing West Ham this Sunday (22-03-26) at Villa Park by 2:15 pm (UTC). Both teams need points (West Ham the more desperate as they could relegate). West Ham has been struggling to score points these past weeks and have been relatively successful about it...

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Ride (by Fiamma) 🦙🔥@onRide_·13 Mar

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·15 Mar

@Ayoelesho You sabi their net worth?

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Ayo-Elesho@Ayoelesho·14 Mar

Give me 1 BTC and the Ferrari and I’ll get the other two for free.

naiive@naiivememe

You can only spend $50

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·15 Mar

@AmodaOgunlere @TheGrandmaBoy Ckay is creative o

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Comrade Àmọdá 🦇@AmodaOgunlere·14 Mar

@TheGrandmaBoy Ibos do not have any form of creativity. No braiin power to do it. They are just good at imitations

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THEGRANDMABOY@TheGrandmaBoy·14 Mar

An Igbo guy named Chibueze Chukwu went and stole the name "OLODUM" and registered it as a music company, using the abbreviation Yoruba name for "OLODUMARE" to sign the Afrobeats artist CRAYON. Now, there is an Afro-Brazilian group called OLODUM in Brazil who were inspired by the Yorubas, as they got the name "OLODUM" from OLODUMARE in Yoruba, meaning the Supreme Being or Almighty God. This Igbo guy did not even make an effort to tweak their logo and name, he basically copied and pasted everything about them. Afrobeats artist Crayon released his new song under that record label.

THINK YORUBA FIRST@ThinkYoruba_1st

The famous music video for "They Don't Care About Us" by Michael Jackson was inspired by the name of the Afro-Brazilian group Olodum, whose name itself comes from Olodumare, the Supreme Creator in the spiritual tradition of the Yoruba people. 🎶🌍

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oog@oog84__·13 Mar

papa come home from hunt. empty hand. bad hunt. no meat. nothing. papa sit by fire. say nothing. face heavy. mama not ask what happen. mama not say "it okay." mama just put warm root soup in front of papa. sit next to him. close. shoulder touching shoulder. whole cave quiet. then mama say: "remember first hunt after we met? you come home with one skinny rabbit. smallest rabbit in whole forest. you hold it up like you kill great beast." papa: "...was not THAT small." mama: "hmmmm... koom bigger than that rabbit." papa mouth twitch. fighting it. fighting the smile. lose. small laugh. tired laugh. but real. mama not fix the empty hand. mama not make meat appear. mama just go back far enough in the story to find a version of papa who still believe in himself. and she bring that version forward. sit him right next to the tired one. oog watching from dark corner of cave. taking note. THAT what partner do. not fix the bad day. just refuse to let the bad day be the whole story. love, oog

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Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·9 Mar

Your brain releases dopamine before you get the reward, not after. Studies on reward prediction error show this clearly. The brain computes the difference between what you expected and what you got, then adjusts your motivation accordingly. The more certain you are that effort leads to an outcome, the more dopamine you release during the effort itself. This is why assigning a finite number to your goal changes everything at a biological level. You convert an unpredictable reward schedule into a predictable countdown. Your prefrontal cortex now has a map. The dopamine system responds to that clarity by releasing more dopamine with each step forward, including the painful ones. The default loop most people run: rejection → uncertainty about whether this will ever work → cortisol elevation → avoidance behavior → quit. The rewired loop: rejection → “93 left” → progress signal → dopamine release → increased drive toward next attempt. The people who sustain effort through rejection have attached the reward signal to the process of attempting rather than the outcome of any single attempt. When you expect the process itself to be rewarding, each step generates its own neurochemical reinforcement. The effort becomes self-sustaining. This works because it gives your brain something it desperately wants: a denominator. Uncertainty kills motivation at the level of neurochemistry. Certainty of eventual reward, even through discomfort, sustains it.

Path of Men@PathOfMen_

If you knew you were 100 rejections away from your dream, think how excited you would be every time someone told you NO

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·8 Mar

@tosinolaseinde chance men would get penalized more now

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thatvillageboy 🦙🔥☀️🍚 ⛓@bobokan01·8 Mar

@tosinolaseinde I might be reading it wrong, but, did the negative marking mean if the person didn't pick any answer it is marked wrong, but if the person picked a wrong answer it isn't only marked wrong, some points are also deducted? If it is how I see it, on average there is a higher...

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Olúwatósìn Olaseinde@tosinolaseinde·8 Mar

I spent the last 1 week at the Harvard Kennedy School and during the course, a case study was brought up that I can’t stop pondering on. Did you know that in the past, the SAT had negative marking meaning if you guessed wrong, you actually lost points. Researchers found that women were more likely to skip questions when they weren’t sure, while men were more likely to guess. On average, more men would take the chance of 1 out of 4 alternatives being correct (that is a 25% chance) than women did. This difference lowered women’s average scores even when knowledge levels were similar. What’s interesting is that this didn’t necessarily reflect ability. Instead, it pointed to differences in risk tolerance. Many women avoided guessing because the downside felt too costly. And this pattern doesn’t just show up on tests. It shows up in real life, especially in financial decisions. Being overly cautious can sometimes mean missing opportunities for growth. That’s why I want to offer a FREE financial literacy class focused specifically on understanding and managing risk. How to evaluate trade-offs, make informed decisions, and feel more confident navigating uncertainty. Pls sign up for our FREE risk management class. Happy International Women’s Day url-shortener.me/G6JI #GiveToGain