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✈️🌍 founder/ceo @joona_pay

Philly x Bamako x Abidjan Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Joe Kent@joekent16jan19·
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.
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itslova.eth 🇲🇱@itslova·
If you’re an African startup there is absolutely no reason to apply to Y Combinator anymore. Waste of time
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itslova.eth 🇲🇱@itslova·
Being a fintech founder in Africa has been the best experience of my life
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signüll@signulll·
if you've never *started* a software company from scratch & taken it from zero to launch, then you have no idea how painful that is. simply working at even early companies does not count. you can only really advise founders if you've played this role before.
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Colton@ColtonSeal·
@zebulgar @airwallex If you want API access that is alternative to Airwallex look no further than @routefusion Texas based, not giving access to CCP lol
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delian
delian@zebulgar·
This is an insane scoop @airwallex is a piece of fintech infrastructure that underpins a lot of startups money flows internationally But they move all of that data through China, so the CCP likely has access to a ton of very sensitive information for a ton of US startups. Yikes
Keith Rabois@rabois

1/ Cool growth chart. Have you disclosed to US customers like @Rippling, @Billcom, @TheZipHyouQ, @brexHQ, and @Navan that you’re quietly sending their customers’ data to China? Airwallex has become a Chinese backdoor into sensitive American data like from AI labs and defense contractors. You must already know this, but your China-based ops, infra, and investors create legal obligations to assist with CCP espionage upon request. Through Airwallex, Beijing can access: •supplier payments for AI labs •payroll data for defense contractors •personal data for employees abroad Obviously many companies do business in China, and that’s not inherently a bad thing. But your company has become a guaranteed vector for data transfer to the Chinese government, and that’s a different thing entirely. You have multiple points of vulnerability: > people (key execs and core engineering team is based in mainland China, which obligates these individuals to comply with Chinese government demands to hand over data) > legal structure (company leaders are subject to Chinese national security law) > cap table (over 20% of your company is Chinese-owned, including Tencent, HongShan, and others, which further obligates you to comply with CCP requests). What’s happening: > You route global payments for US companies in critical sectors, without disclosing that you are under Chinese jurisdiction > You moved HQ to Singapore, but your largest operational footprint is in China and hundreds of your engineers in mainland China touch production payment systems > You are subject to Chinese law that requires Airwallex employees to support CCP intelligence requests and quietly hand over data when asked > You hide this from your customers, but you are well aware of your obligations to China and that is why you insist on protection of Chinese data access in your contracts Thanks to you, the Chinese government now has direct, covert, legally enforceable access to sensitive financial information belonging to America’s AI labs, defense contractors, financial institutions, healthcare firms, and Fortune 500s. Maybe this wasn’t your intent when you started the company, but it’s clear you’ve allowed this to happen.

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Jared Zoneraich
Jared Zoneraich@imjaredz·
built a deep research claude code tool checking in on my subagents
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Osaretin Victor Asemota@asemota·
What a man!! Warren Buffett's final letter.
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itslova.eth 🇲🇱@itslova·
@mrstephendeng Unfortunately, there’s such a small pool of accelerators and investors in the region that they can offer these shitty deals.
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Stephen Deng
Stephen Deng@mrstephendeng·
African founders, I still see horrendous cap tables that are killing companies right at the beginning. Sure, bring on your friends/family/angels/accelerators in that initial round, but try to minimize the amount of capital you take on. Stop selling 10%+ of your company for under $1m in valuation. Yes, Airbnb had a legendary seed where they sold a large chunk for a low valuation. Sequoia led that round; not their local guy. If a local investor/accelerator is asking for this kind of price, really hammer them on what they'll bring to the table. Sequoia invested another $250m+ into Airbnb in the following years.
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Hubert Thieblot
Hubert Thieblot@hthieblot·
Imagine pitching your startup while debt collectors are blowing up your phone. I met that founder 2 years ago. We funded him. Last week, he raised $2M and now has a clear path toward building a generational company. This journey is both brutal and rewarding.
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Kevin Lu
Kevin Lu@kevinlu625·
You can now migrate any project from Lovable, v0, Bolt, or Github into Orchids! Anyone who imports a project in also gets free 500k in credits! There is now no reason not to build on Orchids.
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Sridhar A
Sridhar A@sridharfyi·
if you’re a founder anywhere in the world—usa, uk, eu, aus, latam, africa—building pre-seed, underestimated, or cross-border… my inbox is open. #vc #founderfirst #startups #16vc
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NFL@NFL·
Shedeur Sanders in his @Browns debut: ⌚️14/23 ⌚️138 yards ⌚️2 TD
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Andrew Gazdecki
Andrew Gazdecki@agazdecki·
Founders planning exit strategy on day 1:
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