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Big news 🎉 @KopoKopoInc is now a licensed Digital Credit Provider in Kenya, approved by the Central Bank of Kenya. This is a big step in our mission to empower Kenyan businesses with accessible and responsible credit. Read the full story on our blog: bit.ly/kopokopo-licen…

Kenya stand up 🇰🇪🏀 BWB Africa 2022 Alumni Madina Okot was drafted 13th overall by the Atlanta Dream in the 2026 WNBA Draft 🌍 Join us in celebrating this incredible achievement 🇰🇪

People have asked me how I feel about Udemy’s sale to Coursera. Honestly, I’m kinda pissed about it. I want to be clear - I’m grateful for the opportunity to start and benefit from Udemy’s success. It changed my life. But there’s another side to Udemy. A story of what could have been. After our Series B, founders owned less than 30% of the company. Our investors took over and installed their own CEO to run it. We all liked this new CEO and honestly, for years it looked like a brilliant move. The company kept growing and growing. They launched B2B and built a $500M ARR business. Eventually, the company IPO’ed for $3B. Yet all along there were clear cracks under the surface. Over Udemy’s history, there have been 7 CEO’s. The board replaced the second CEO with dud after dud. I’d often try to meet with the board or the new CEO, and was completely ignored. Eren had influence as Chairman of the Board but Oktay and I were so ignored they didn’t even invite us to the IPO. LOL WTF. There are like 50+ people invited to these things and nobody thought: “oh maybe we should invite the people who fucking invented the thing we’re all celebrating.” It shows how little respect they had for founders and for product innovation as a discipline. I think they wanted a CEO they could control, a buttoned-up suit instead of a brash founder/CEO that is risk-taking, visionary, but a bit of a pain. For awhile, it looked like it didn’t even matter who was CEO - the company was run by the incredibly talented team that reported to them anyways. Well, it worked until it didn’t. The company made no major product innovations for 15 years. Instead, they took the original idea (video-based courses) and sold it in every place imaginable. It got us to $800M run-rate. That’s no joke; that takes serious execution and a great team that hustled hard to win the market. But eventually the consumer business stopped growing. The B2B business has now flattened out as well. Meanwhile, Coursera was catching up. Original Coursera was a far worse product than Udemy, but it got a ton of press. Learning ivory tower bullshit from academics doesn’t get you a real education, but it does create prestige. They raised from better investors on better terms, and had better leadership. Udemy to this day has more revenue than Coursera, but Coursera won the court of investor opinion. They got higher multiples from both private and public markets. Coursera innovated heavily. They added corporate courses to their university catalog, built fully-online degree programs, and offered a B2B competitor that kept Udemy on its toes. Still, the Udemy B2B business (and team) out-performed and so the two companies were deadlocked. Coursera was better at B2C, Udemy at B2B. A merger was inevitable. But WHY IN GODS NAME did we sell to Coursera instead of the other way around? Why are the combined companies under $3B in market cap? Three reasons: First, edtech didn’t live up to its promise. While these two companies had solid revenue and cash positions, their growth slowed, and public markets balked. This meant compressed multiples and significantly lower valuations. Second, the companies stopped innovating. They are selling a product to businesses that their customers don’t love. They were category leaders, but they lead the category into mediocrity. They captured a significant share of learning and development (L&D) spending, but L&D as a whole actually lost budget within their organizations. That’s Udemy’s fault, and it doesn’t even realize it. That brings me to my final point: I personally believe Udemy traded upside opportunity for downside risk. Us founders were unproven and young. We made lots of mistakes, including fighting amongst ourselves. A good investor would have supported us through it because they believe founders drive the highest long-term returns. Instead, they brought in outside CEOs to replace us. I sometimes wonder if they recognize this error; everyone makes mistakes and maybe they learned from it. Either way - the consequences are real. By ignoring the founders, Udemy failed to innovate, which led to slowing growth which led to mediocre public market results. Furthermore, they don’t have a good evangelist and public markets don’t like a headless horse. I sold my Udemy stock awhile ago. I think the merger was critical for both companies’ survival. Now, though, the new combined entity needs to innovate again. On B2B, Coursera needs to help L&D become the heroes of the AI era so the entire market starts growing again. On B2C, they need to build the most educational AI product on the planet. (I’d focus on the former, since the latter is a lot harder and riskier). Coursera can still achieve our original vision and likely build a $10B+ company in the meantime. Even though I’ve got no stake in its future, I’m mission-driven and I REALLY hope they figure it out. The current education system sucks and the world deserves something better.

@KBCChannel1 Older than the atomic bomb

This is Anniversary Towers right now. #TukoKadi

“Why are you being emotional” is a weapon always used against women when they ask questions. @SakajaJohnson shame on you. @KoinangeJeff shame on you too. You lack empathy and you don’t know how to read the room. Giggling like idiots after more than 40 people died.

Mbagathi road currently - River Mbagathi in Singapore 😎 ⁦@JohnsonSakaja⁩ , ⁦@KeNHAKenya⁩ ⁦@KURAroads⁩

Angella Okutoyi, Kenya's best-ever female tennis player, is playing college tennis for Auburn University. This is her final year, and after graduating, she plans to join the WTA Tour as a professional. In January 2026, Angella Okutoyi shared an emotional public appeal on social media about her lack of sponsorship and financial struggles as she prepared to turn fully professional. Ministry of Sports Cabinet Secretary @Waziri_Mvurya @moyasa_ke responded directly: “I have received Angella Okutoyi’s appeal and spoken to Kenya Tennis Federation leadership. We will engage the Tennis Federation of Kenya to explore immediate support options and ensure she is well-prepared and financially supported.” The government lied, and now we must step up. @Okutoyiangella2 is the reigning African champion and the 2020 Wimbledon Junior Doubles winner. She deserves our support. mchanga.africa/fundraiser/121…

For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like. Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRBDT4mB/

Angella Okutoyi is calling on corporates to come on board. Let’s back this talent. #NoWeakness

Angella Okutoyi speaks after a phenomenal 2 weeks in Nairobi🙌🏿 🔸 Winning 4/4 titles🏆 🔸Atmosphere better than Grand Slam💥 🔸Winning after losing aunt🕊️ 🔸Preps for professional tennis career after school 🔸Cracking top 4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ ranking🤝🏿 What a tee💥 #TennisKE #AngellaOkutoyi

Warning! This will be a very long thread... 1/12 Guys, I’m trying to understand CBC better, especially now that my child is in Grade 8. I was going through her assessment books and I realized a lot of this assessment isn’t like a normal exam where you can clearly say “right” or “wrong.” It’s mainly EE / ME / AE / BE—and I’m genuinely trying to understand how that grading is decided and how it stays fair across different teachers and schools. Now, stay with me, mnielezee juu genuinely I may be the one that does not understand.

@Naftali_Kagrass @shikumungai_ @ntsa_kenya It’s just speeding and drunk driving. I don’t know how you would change the design of those roads.

@Naftali_Kagrass @shikumungai_ @ntsa_kenya Maybe the speed at which you can approach the roundabout? Bunyala is after the hill but Haileselassie also has a lot of those night accidents. Granted the Nyayo one is the worst…even the tiny lanagata road roundabout at the mortuary has cars ploughing into rumble-strips no less

All the way from western or nyanza alafu akakuja kupark hapa.😭😭

@Naftali_Kagrass @shikumungai_ @ntsa_kenya They are roundabouts. There is no excuse for cars to end up there other than over speeding or driving under the influence. That’s the root cause.

@shikumungai_ Nyayo Hse & Nyayo Stadium roundabouts have been having such accidents year in year out. I'm yet to see @ntsa_kenya's Nairobi team camping there to find the root cause.

Ay @Safaricom_Care - you might want to do something about the lads in Kamiti who are now diversifying from @ntsa_kenya scams ... As usual, it is an SMS to a link to a (mostly) functional site ostensibly to exchange bonga points for products, but whose purpose is to phish your details, like your number, Mpesa PIN, etc.

Parliament has invited your views on the Turkana Oil FDP that we are considering currently. You should pay attention because this is Ruto’s biggest scandal yet. 1. The ownership of the Company that is to produce the oil (Gulf Energy, Formerly Tullow) changed names and hands multiple times in a matter of weeks. Days even. Your lawyer will tell you thats symptomatic of attempts to mask real ownership. It is telling that the current FDP was approved by government days after the last ownership changes. 2. The Original production contract has been varied a million times. Most notably on 25th November 2025 just days after the last ownership changes, to raise the maximum recoverable cost for petroleum production from the initial 55% to 85%. Kenyans will never see any real benefit from that oil. 3. On the same day Clause 27(2)(b) was amended to expand the definition of capital expenditure to include expenditure on labour, fuel, repairs, maintenance, hauling, mobilisation and supplies and materials relating to production, development, exploration and appraisal and decommissioning costs. We may basically never see a coin from our oil. 4. Crucially, we in the Senate passed the Local Content bill which requires the oil company to utilize locally available resources including labour and supplies. They have cleverly made the current agreement with Gulf exempt from such legislation. We don’t have leaders. We have dealers in government who don’t care about anything other than themselves.

@denniskioko @kenyanpundit People don’t realize how dangerous steel rolls are and how much handling with care they need. youtube.com/shorts/qskrggN…

Look at how those rolls are secured and it passed road blocks and "crackdowns" from "multi-agency" teams posting endless safety messages

Please watch this absolute masterpiece David Munyua what a man! 🤩 🇰🇪

David Munyua bringing the vibes to Ally Pally 🕺