@pmarca Exactly - more jobs, more productivity, more services delivered. More ideas, more wealth, more millionaires.
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Iain Usiri
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Iain Usiri
@iusiri
CEO @ Ramani (YCW20) | Stanford CS | Finance Marketplace for SMB | Credit | Emerging Markets | Embedding AI in African finance 💪🏾
San Francisco, CA เข้าร่วม Ağustos 2015
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Iain Usiri รีทวีตแล้ว
And so the myth of technology-driven unemployment dies once again.
Nick@nickcammarata
everyone I know is working more than they’ve ever worked, or at least in many years, it’s so fun and the leverage is so high, can do more interesting research in an hour than in days 3yrs ago… per tab. my avg friend is working 7 days a week now. too much opportunity cost
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Exactly!! It’s a game changer!
MeekMill@MeekMill
Like recover all business controls ... tracking royalties ... locating money ... finding reg flags ... planning ... organizing years of information ... creating family office structure... business navigation ... I've been waiting my whole life for tools like this!
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Iain Usiri รีทวีตแล้ว
Sorry to see Granola @meetgranola going closed. They encrypted their local db, no local and no cloud API. In a world where notes are managed by agents, the app now has zero value.
Any recommendations for good alternatives? What are you switching to?
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The answer to this …. is the beginning of wisdom.
Bellamy🇹🇿@bellamy__cc
Tanzania has millions of entrepreneurs, yet most businesses are just copies of someone else’s business. Why? Do we lack innovation?
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Iain Usiri รีทวีตแล้ว
Sequoia’s @JulienBek says many of their founders are now wondering if they’re “just an iteration away” from AI labs destroying their business.
He says the most defensible companies - and potentially the next trillion-dollar company - will be “a software business that masquerades as a services firm.”
“If you sell tools today, you’re really in the line of sight for the models and you’re effectively competing with the next generation that they’re going to launch.”
“Whereas if you sell the work, you’re actually benefiting from what the models are doing and all the billions of dollars that are going towards AI.”
Julien Bek@JulienBek
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@Benji_Fernandes Yeah my LinkedIn inbox is already overloaded with spam now … outbound marketing will stop being effective
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I think marketing spam is going to blow up 12 months from today.
email spam, sms spam, whatsapp/telegram spam.
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This is a wonderful idea!! So impressed by the first milestone of developing a programming language (no easy thing) -
now let’s teach our kids to solve more problems! Amazing!!
ignas Kamugisha 🇹🇿@ignasxv
We* built the first ever Turing-complete Swahili programming language — Nuru. And we just secured a $40,000 contract to bring it to 5,000 learners in Swahili-speaking classrooms. And I know what you’re thinking: Why build a Swahili programming language?Aren’t there already a dozen “better” languages than Nuru could ever be? Yes. “You’re absolutely right!” Now buckle up and hear me out! As AI systems get stronger, the “how” is getting “cheaper” every year. Implementation details are being trivialized. The real advantage shifts to the “what”: knowing what to build, why it matters, and having systems understanding at a high level. The winners won’t be the people who can write the most syntax from memory, they’ll be the people with strong fundamentals and the confidence to build. That’s why we believe the programming language of the future is going to be the one you already speak.... For the millions of us from the so-called “3rd world countries”, that language is Swahili! When we started teksafari.org, one thing became obvious fast: integrating into public schools in Tanzania would be hard. Most technical learning is delivered in English, but for many young Tanzanians—especially outside big cities—English is a third language. We don’t really do excuses. And we couldn’t sit around waiting for policy to catch up to the urgency. So we built the Nuru Playground, on top of the Nuru language that @AviTheDev had been working on, so we could finally deliver our technical programs in Swahili-speaking classrooms without the translation tax. We have already reached hundreds of students with a couple schools on our waitlist. Read the full article -> linkedin.openinapp.co/65go2 The future remains exciting 🫡 CC @costechTANZANIA @Said_Hozza @Afruturist @VenturesSahara
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Resharing this post - now that YC has asked for AI-Native agencies!
This is the time for African startups!
TAM expansion means that once unprofitable business models are now possible. AI-Legal, AI-Insurance broker, AI-Accounting... you name it
Iain Usiri@iusiri
African customers don’t value software that much. Their low willingness to pay compresses TAM for traditional Saas. It’s why many African startups turned to fintech (willingness to pay). But with AI you go from selling software to selling a service...
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Iain Usiri รีทวีตแล้ว
Y Combinator just released their latest Request for Startups, and there’s a fascinating focus on AI-Native Agencies.
The thesis is simple: Historically, agencies were hard to scale because growth required a 1:1 increase in headcount.
AI changes that. Instead of selling "hours" to help customers use software, the new breed of agencies uses their own proprietary AI tools to sell the finished product at 100x the efficiency.
This deeply aligns with what I’ve been seeing and building in the ecosystem. The real power move right now isn't just building another wrapper; it’s combining high-end services with proprietary IP.
A few reasons why I think this is the "Golden Era" for this model:
• Software Margins, Agency Results: You can finally achieve SaaS-like margins by automating the "boring" 80% of the work.
• The Feedback Loop: Unlike pure SaaS companies, an AI agency is "in the trenches." You see exactly where the AI fails in real-world scenarios, allowing you to iterate on your internal IP faster than any competitor.
• Vertical Integration: We’re moving from "selling a tool" to "selling the outcome." Clients don't want a seat on a platform; they want the legal doc, the ad creative, or the code delivered.
It feels like we are finally moving away from the "billable hour" trap toward a model where your value is tied to your tech stack and expertise, not your clock.
Tomasz Karwatka@tomik99
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Love this! I struggle with my Swahili accent - can’t wait for them to add that! 😃😊
Michael Seibel@mwseibel
This Startup Is Putting an Accent Coach in Your Pocket inc.com/maria-jose-gut…
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@KennedyMmari @grok compare the gdp per capita of Benin with Tanzania
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BTW, Benin is an agrarian country. 70% of its workforce is employed in agriculture, with cotton contributing nearly 40% of its 28 billion dollar GDP (equivalent to the GDP of Dar es Salaam).
𝕏 Ghana 🇬🇭@xghana_
IShowSpeed just unlocked the world’s eye on the beauty of Benin 🇧🇯
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there are only 60 publicly traded DaaS companies in the world and almost all of them were started over 40 years ago
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The tax of incompetence is paid in silent suffering.
Mrusha Jones@mBongo
Politics in #Tanzania supersedes meritocracy to showcase same, example @ifakarahealth use of high-tech against #Malaria; -Drones for mosquito surveillance -AI for malaria detection & diagnostics -AI for predicting malaria outbreaks Read: malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles
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You can still do so much with the life you still have left!
Andrew Brownhill@AndrewBrownhil
Rio Ferdinand reading out Sir Alex Ferguson’s text message to Ravel Morrison is heartbreaking. Ravels response is even more so 👇 🗣️“If I could go back in time I would change 90% of my life.” 😢
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Is the writing style a result of the fine tuning stage? The people at OpenAi may have biased to that format for some reason
Paul Graham@paulg
Presumably ChatGPT is trained on corpora of things written by humans, and yet it doesn't sound like any human I know. Is there a population somewhere of people who write in chirpy bulleted lists that I've somehow managed to avoid?
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