Everytime I travel, I look up how much that country makes from tourism yearly.
International tourists bring 50M euros to Italy every year. It saddens me how much Nigeria leaves at the table because we can't figure out our shit.
On my Taormina trip, this cable car cost me 6 euros. We were 12 in one cable car. 10 cable cars at once. Bi directional trips at once. A trip was 4 mins from the top of the mountain to the beach side.
Every 4 mins, this station pulls in โฌ1,400. Per hour, that's 21K easy.
In a day's work, that's 500K - half a million.
Every month, this singular station pulls in 15M euros. One tiny station in a remote city that's managed to magnet the world yearly.
The world has left us behind. We just dey fool dey go.
Our star boy, Egejurum Onyedikachi, decided to participate again today in the International STEM Olympiad finale, science category, unprepared.
Listen to his experience.
We are rooting for him to win double gold.
one of my favourite quotes of all time is this
"the purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things"
libra was the first great thing that defeated us
we set out to do for money what the internet did for information, and we did not get to ship it
so we went and rebuilt everything from the ground up to finally build what we wanted the first time, the most advanced rails the world has ever had for payments and finance
we built it and we had some really huge wins, but some huge challenges too
and it is supposed to be hard and challenging
you do not get to attempt something this big and have the world hand it to you
there have been setbacks the whole way, and there will be bigger ones ahead, because we keep aiming at bigger things
and that is the whole point
you do not grow by winning small. you grow by taking on what could beat you and sometimes it does
then you get back up, you win, and you go again
so here is the thing in front of us rn
make sui the network the world moves its money on, and nothing is going to make us stop until it is done
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
Imagine being mentored by a 23-time Grand Slam CHAMPION ๐คฏ
Victoria Mboko is loving life with doubles partner Serena Williams ๐
โณ HSBC Championships. Live & On Demand.
#StanSportAU#WTA#HSBCChampionships
The G.O.A.T is BACK ๐
@serenawilliams is officially returning to the stage ๐
Watch Serena's return at the #HSBCChampionships, Queen's Club from June 8th!
We often think patriotism is about flags, anthems, or politics.
But one of the highest forms of patriotism is productivity.
A teacher teaching well.
A mechanic working honestly.
A farmer growing food.
A doctor saving lives.
#CivicValues#Patriotism#Productivity#Nigeria