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“We prefer the risk of lost opportunity to that of lost capital.”
— Seth Klarman
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At Facebook, I coined a term called Filipino Product Market-Fit:
Every year a product manager would observe their new product getting intense adoption in the Phillipines and proclaim their idea was working. Directors would quickly staff the team and alert their VPs of the newfound discovery—only to find out that the pattern was not reproducible in other countries.
The Philipines has one of the highest time-spent online in the world and they will try literally anything for a few days.
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Over the festive period, I took some time to pen down my thoughts on the state of our business/sector and the African tech ecosystem in 2023, some critical lessons learnt, and my general outlook for 2024 and beyond.
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We need to stop glorifying innovation. The bulk of success comes from the boring, monotonous, routine heavy lifting that keeps the lights on and the wheels turning. This too needs to be celebrated
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“You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”
Rest In Peace Charlie Munger!
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The worst mistake you can make is to try and do everything 5% of the way, rather than picking 4 and doing each of them 125%.
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“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”
— Charlie Munger
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If you want to eat well and enjoy yourself at wedding reception, ask the caterer for her business card 😂
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We are thrilled to announce our partnership with @dfcugroup to introduce merchant acquiring services that will facilitate seamless card and mobile money payments for dfcu customers.
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At #UNGA, I called on Ghanaian Reggae artiste Rocky Dawuni's music and asked, "How many roads we had to walk, just to make it to the door only to be told we were too late?"
Time is short. Yes we've made progress. But we must act now to ensure we aren't too late to save tomorrow.