CEO @nombahq | Building Africa’s global bank. Future Industrialist
Lagos | Kinshasa | Lusaka
Joined January 2010
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Everything is hard. Nothing works the first time. It all feels pointless. That’s when you realize you’re going to have to will it into existence with every ounce of your fucking soul. And that’s when it starts to happen.
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Host a handful of journalists, and they’ll prattle on endlessly about our dear tech ecosystem. Will they debate how the media business they work in is hanging on for dear life? Don’t hold your breath.
Notadeepdive is back early:
notadeepdive.com/p/the-money…
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these trades will be settled on Nomba
The Lobito Corridor is moving from vision to implementation. The ambition is to build an integrated economic corridor — connecting export oriented trade with jobs through mining, energy, agribusiness, logistics, and much more along Zambia, DRC, and Angola.
cnbcafrica.com/media/7791261…
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I think developers are some of the hardest people to sell software to.
You can have the nicest website, the most impressive demo, and all the marketing in the world.
They'll install your tool, run one command, and know within five minutes whether you've been exaggerating.
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Excited to share that @swoopappng has averaged over 550 daily orders this week… from a single restaurant! A huge thank you to the restaurant team for making this possible and preparing over 3 orders per minute at peak times!
And we are welcoming our 2,000th restaurant partner to the platform this week as well.
We launched Swoop in Lagos less than six months ago. This rapid growth is a testament to our work to make food delivery faster and more affordable for all Nigerians. Next up: bringing Swoop to more Nigerians, starting with our first cities outside Lagos.
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Trillionaire mindset:
"I believe in my ability to figure it out more than I believe in any obstacle."
Trillionaire mindset be like: I don’t know how to do something, but I’ll figure it out. I’ll learn.
“I still have a tremendous amount to learn about chip making. I don't know how to make chips, to be clear. I have no idea how to make chips, but we'll figure it out. Got to start somewhere. I had no idea how to make cars or rockets as well.”
—Elon Musk
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Deutsche Bank AG is going long on Nigeria’s naira against the dollar and has also added the west African nation to its frontier index monitor which now features several African currencies including Angola’s kwanza and Ghana’s cedi bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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AFC and the DRC recently signed agreements to support continued development of the 25km MetroKin urban rail project in Kinshasa, and the development of the 463km Kinshasa–Matadi–Banana railway, which is expected to connect the capital to DRC’s emerging deep-water port at Banana.
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Bygones: You can't compete with Chinese manufacturing! Just stick to services!
Chinese manufacturing: We are going to Kenya!
😂😂Chesa!
Taking shape at Naivasha SEZ!
Construction is progressing at Juyons Waterproof, a Chinese SEZ enterprise establishing its operations at Naivasha Special Economic Zone.
SEZA is proud to see this investment take shape, reflecting investor confidence in Kenya and the opportunities available through our SEZ programme. Each milestone brings the enterprise closer to operations and the opportunities it will create for employment, skills development and local business partnerships.
We congratulate the Juyons Waterproof team on their progress and remain committed to supporting their journey from construction to operationalisation.
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So in fact we actually can get robots, flying cars, superintelligence, fast internet on planes, space travel, space colonies, orbital data centers, unlimited energy, likely cures for nearly every disease, and more all in our life times. Pretty great.
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We are pleased to announce that Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has been appointed Chairman of the AFC Board. He succeeds Ireti Samuel-Ogbu, who continues to serve as a board member.
Read the full announcement: africafc.org/news-and-insigh…
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🚨Breaking:
According to sources. Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor Mr. Olayemi Cardoso has been appointed as chairman of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)
Official confirmation expected soon.
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Big news!
Made a screenshot of this when I got rejected for a program I applied for to console myself. Today, I've been selected by @Google for the Google for Startups x Antler @AntlerGlobal Immersion Program.
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Honored to be speaking at moonshot later this month.
My talk will focus on the underlying philosophy driving stablecoin adoption.
See you guys there!
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3 billionaires chatting over beers.
People say way more interesting things when they forget they're on a podcast... it feels so real (even if it's a Muse ad). We need more of this!
Cheeky Pint is back! Mark Zuckerberg @finkd and Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang came to the pub to discuss their new frontier model, Muse Wonder.
00:00:24 Muse’s breakout use cases
00:07:28 The model is the product
00:14:35 Muse Wonder
00:24:56 How frontier models are built
00:48:26 Betting $100B
01:07:21 Agentic commerce
01:19:34 OpenRouter
01:20:06 Beyond the smartphone
01:27:00 Funding
01:34:06 Why AI won’t be winner-take-all
01:40:46 Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
02:08:11 Working for Mark Zuckerberg
