Adia Sowho @adiaspeaks
ex VP https://t.co/LROiVuzb1P | ex CEO @thriveagric (~$100M rev) | CMO @mtnng (~$4B rev) I design, (re)build and scale tech ventures….and I tweet about the journey so far. adia.substack.com Lagos Joined April 2012-
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Anybody can be an analyst if you get 3 things: What’s the trend/pattern? - A break in pattern reveals a change What’s the causality? - Find and address causality
Just watched a young Nigerian run 100m in 10.82 seconds in Calabar. His future is bright. 💫
May God bless the inclusive souls that brought this to life.
May God bless the inclusive souls that brought this to life.
Team disagreements forge stronger strategies. Just have high-quality disagreements
You can say that again.
Yup. Saw this when I was interviewing MBAs. Massive difference in grit and energy level.
Yup. Saw this when I was interviewing MBAs. Massive difference in grit and energy level.
But….can they not just mine it and go? Stay and create industry…..
So let the founders go and sell na. It’s very simple. It’s smart and less egotistical to reward people to do things one doesn’t know how to do rather than demean it and them.
So let the founders go and sell na. It’s very simple. It’s smart and less egotistical to reward people to do things one doesn’t know how to do rather than demean it and them.
“That there is a gap in the market does not mean that there is a market in the gap” lol @OtunbaSho
What an amazing description of akara. Well done @CharlotteIvers
What an amazing description of akara. Well done @CharlotteIvers
Omni-channel presence, not omnipresent chaos. Please and thank you.
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This is the most BDE energy email I have ever seen.
YouTube is a ticket to the extraordinary One (really good) video turned Harvard student Wesley Wang into the youngest director in history to set up a movie at a major studio
If @MKBHD decided his initial videos were "barely reviewable" instead of posting and iterating, would he be where he is today? 🤔
NEW VIDEO - Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable youtu.be/ddTV12hErTc This is the pinnacle of a trend that's been annoying for years: Delivering barely finished products to win a "race" and then continuing to build them after charging full price. Games, phones, cars, now AI in a box
@adiaspeaks Was he being chased? I feel like he was being chased
Bars!
What is this relative to? - Any number by itself, means nothing. 1 only means something if you’ve come from 0; 10 only means something if you’re comparing it to 1.
Literally @Mochievous if she wasn’t a baby in the 90’s
On this Day April 30 1994, same day same time, only difference 30years ago. Nigerians in long fuel queues lamenting, 30years later they are still lamenting. And In another 30years will still lament, why? Because patterns don’t lie.
Come for the podcast, stay for the ads
Favorite type of Slack message award goes to @CausalHQ 🏆
My 21yr old niece told me that her coffee shop coworker was telling her about this new tool she was using ( @NotionHQ ) and struggling with, and my niece was like, funny you should say… check out my aunt’s YouTube channel 😆
Hippocratic Oath, but for football coaches
Ancelotti: "I am very clear that there are two types of coaches: those who do nothing and those who do a lot of damage. I try to be in the first. The game is for the players and you can tell them a certain strategy, convince them, but then the decisive thing is their quality and…
One more exit in a few years and I can finally retire to Ipetumodu to be drinking Palmie and smoked Bushmeat under palm tree and playing gangan or Bass guitar behind liveband at local joints 😃
I am super excited to announce that we have raised a $2.5M Seed Round to optimise on-demand delivery service in Africa. Huge thanks to our investors - @ycombinator, @JuneAngelides, @hoaqclub, @shollsman, @0x, and others for joining us on this journey! For our over 500k users…
THANKS, EVERYONE! >10 months, countless meetings spanning 4 continents, tonsssssss of DD (ọmọ, I wan die)...Finally got it over the line. Ministry moving gently and firmly to the final destination 😂🚀🚀 We thank God for his mercies. We are nothing but pencil.
Exclusive: BuuPass acquires QuickBus, a bus ticketing platform, in a cash and stock deal: BuuPass, which raised $1.3 million in 2023, wants to expand its African footprint with the acquisition of QuickBus, a rival travel booking platform based in Nigeria… dlvr.it/T6CSNy
@adiaspeaks Finally oh, my Leader. I can breathe small. 😅
This portable MRI machine could change how we study brains.