Journalist: “…you are a very humble man…usually when people are rich, they tend to flaunt it. I speak here from experience.”
Dangote: “which experience?”
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How do you get $3.5 billion raised in just 90 minutes? Well, one source casually pledged $800 million.
Here’s how the @GPforEducation replenishment “harambee” in New York went down
HAPPENING NOW: THE USMC SHOW CHINA HOW IT IS DONE!
@POTUS and Xi Xinpinng participating at the White Houses's MILITARY in review. The USMC putting on a remarkable display of might!
Africa must be a builder of the technologies defining this century and a contributor to the rules that govern them.
At the High-Level Convening on the ‘Accra Reset’ during the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, I affirmed Kenya’s leadership of the MasterKey Corridor, connecting trusted African skills and credentials to opportunities across borders.
Our task is to organise Africa’s capabilities at scale, strengthen our technological agency and translate innovation into greater productivity, new enterprises and opportunity for our people.
The Accra Reset provides a practical platform to advance this ambition and ensure that technological progress delivers shared prosperity.
I don’t think I want to build one successful startup and call it a day.
I want to become the kind of person who can repeatedly turn an idea into something real.
That’s the skill I’m actually chasing.
Compelling insights that convinced World Athletics to award Nairobi the World Championships 2029:
▪️Kenyan fans ranked fourth highest on World Athlteics's social media channels
▪️Kenya is the single most interested market in Athletics with 68% of Kenyans rating their interest against the 38% global average.
▪️Kenya has highest net promoters score of any market.
▪️Athletics is the second most followed sport in Kenya
I Had My First Private Jet at 22, But Now I Can Even Fly Commercial. I had to spend 30 minutes to get a parking space at Abuja airport because of the number of private jets at the airport and I wish they were factories
~ Billionaire Aliko Dangote says
I asked my friend Patrick from Geneva why he put $15M into a SpaceX private placement after they lost $4.6B in Q1. He said: “I’m not investing in SpaceX. I’m investing in Elon Musk’s brain.” With $15M? Yes, he said. It will be good later.
- Aliko Dangote
When a Kenyan company is looking for a CEO, the one mandatory minimum requirement is MASTERS DEGREE or higher! This has forced many Kenyans to acquire Masters Degrees even when they don’t know what Thesis they wrote as it was sub-contracted to their Professors.
And therein lies the tragedy. With all the Degrees, Kenyan companies have been unable to dig themselves out of holes.
In the US, Apple has just appointed John Ternus has its CEO. Ternus has only one Degree. Apple is valued at us$5Trillion … bigger than the entire GDP of Africa.
Of US 500 biggest companies, 188 don’t have any university degree.
We have put too much premium on Masters Degrees even instead of cognitive intelligence. We end up with charlatans as Ministers, PSes, CEOs & Presidential Advisors!