Idc how far they go, Morocco 22, Algeria 14...none of those match the feeling of Ghana 2006 and 2010. Nostalgia tax but man this is Africa's eternal team. Long live the Black Stars
most startups have good ideas but fail to figure out how to package them into a successful product
so they mostly exist to feed ideas to the companies who have figured this out
remember that time the guy who invented homebrew was furious he got turned down for an eng job so he posted about how this company turned down the guy who invented homebrew, then everyone was like dude homebrew sucks
Truly ambitious people, have very few 'peers.'
You will not relate to a lot of people,
And they will not be able to relate to you.
The lonely road is real.
The hardest problems are rarely solved by adding more complexity to the solution -- they are solved by reframing the question until a simpler, clearer answer reveals itself.
One thing you don't realize till you have haters is that haters are also stalkers. They're obsessed with you, and in practice this obsessiveness is more disturbing than the nastiness of what they actually say. It's so creepy.
Something I told 14 yo: Good math tests have some problems to test whether you truly understand the subject. Often they'd take impossibly long to solve mechanically, but are easy once you see some trick. So if you encounter an apparently impossible problem, look for the trick.
It seems a mistake to call oneself a "non-technical founder." You're treating not knowing how to do something as a part of your identity. Surely it's better just to fix that.
Hot take: a lot of people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference if they were randomly routed between gpt-5.5, opus-4.8, or fable-5 for their day to day work