Hi guys
The Google Play team is currently collecting feedback from developers in Sub-Saharan Africa on challenges they experience when publishing apps, particularly regarding organization verification, DUNS numbers, and related account requirements.
If you're a Kenyan Android developer, founder, startup, agency, or organization that has experienced:
โข Challenges obtaining a DUNS number
โข Organization verification delays
โข Additional costs during the verification process
โข Delayed app launches
โข Publishing through a personal account instead of an organization account
โข Using a partner or third party to publish apps
We need data that can help Google better understand the impact these processes have on developers in our region, to better address them.
If you've experienced any of the above, please take a few minutes to share your experience through the survey.
Make it as detailed as possible. Also, share this with other Android developers and product teams across Kenya and SSA.
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Elon Musk personally recruited Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI, telling engineer Jim Keller he was "arguably the number two guy in the world in computer vision after Ilya Sutskever."
Russia sold Elon Musk three broken rockets for $8 MILLION and laughed him out of the room. He went home and built SpaceX. It went public today at $1.8 TRILLION and made him the first trillionaire in human history.
โ In 2002 Musk flew to Russia to buy an old ICBM missile to send a greenhouse to Mars.
โ The Russians thought he was a joke. They quoted him $8 MILLION per rocket and dismissed him entirely.
โ On the flight home he opened a spreadsheet and calculated he could build the rocket cheaper himself. He had never built a rocket in his life.
โ SpaceX was founded with $100 MILLION of his own money from selling PayPal.
โ Most of the aerospace industry gave it two years before it collapsed.
โ The first three rockets exploded. By 2008 he was nearly bankrupt. Tesla was also failing at the same time. He had one launch left.
โ The fourth rocket worked. NASA noticed. They handed SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract within months.
โ Today SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share targeting a $1.8 TRILLION valuation.
โ The largest IPO in human history. Bigger than Saudi Aramco. Bigger than anything.
โ Musk's net worth crossed $1 TRILLION today. The first human being in history to reach that number.
โ He controls over 82% of SpaceX's voting power post IPO and cannot sell a single share for one year.
โ The same Nasdaq that has listing rules waived them specifically for SpaceX, dropping it immediately into index funds.
โ Millions of people's retirement savings now own SpaceX stock whether they chose to or not.
The Russians who laughed him out of that room in 2002 work for an economy worth $2 TRILLION.
The company he built out of embarrassment is now worth $1.8 TRILLION on its own. He did it in 24 years starting with a spreadsheet on a flight home.
Czech Republic and South Korea, I believe you understand the assignment. Two more matches, with the entire Africa behind you, and South Africa will be on the first flight out of North America to protect their jobs back home. ๐
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South Africa ๐ฟ๐ฆ should be the first team to be eliminated from the World Cup because they have duty to protect their jobs from other Africans . Let them go home and continue protesting.
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