KXNG BONZO

Visual, and Sonic artist.🎨. Creator @lucidjungles ENTER THE JUNGLE.🌴 🎮

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@asemota You should do this shit!

[50cent @50cent]

My new idea is so big, I don’t have time to be distracted I’m practicing abstinence, I have been meditating and focusing on my goals. I hope this New Year helps you excel to the next level • https://t.co/jnbpt4Vpb3

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Never complain. Never explain. No room for Shalaye in 2024.

#NoGreeForAnybody

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Catching up with family at the end of the year, my brother-in-law, Nana, asked me a question whose answer was obvious. Do billionaires make money every minute round the clock? He is rich, but he wants to make a different kind of money. He currently trades, but shops close.

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@J3nnie_C 💔

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@asemota @FoundersPodcast @Calendly @eldivine Reading your threads feels a lot like being in your mind. I might be wrong, but the way your weave these tweets together to get to your desired end blows my mind every time. It’s amazing how the words connect, reminds me a lot of my art teacher in high school creating a piece.

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Shazzy and Mide.🥹

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

The best friends are genuinely interested in helping you grow your net worth and not competing with you. Those who try to size you up to have conversation material are not your friends. Stay far away from them. My conversations with @kenju254 are only about growth; I value them.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I don't understand people dumping on this. I would like to do this with my kids and show them the way my grandma showed us. Plus this will be a lot more hygienic. I am very particular about clean garri. I don't buy from just anyone anywhere.

[Para Boy @Delkrapht]

This is @KxngBonzo …whom I randomly met at @Josh_egesi House Therapy 1.0. The first thing that crossed my mind when I laid eyes on this dude was that he looked so much like a cartoon character in real life and that’s how I came about this piece.

[KXNG BONZO @KxngBonzo]

Very very apt!

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Screw it, let me write it.

If you are a black African, without a cofounder who is not black (as I had), and trying to sell to enterprise software or services to people in Africa who are black, you will crumble fast without playing stupid games. Find foreign clients first to validate.

It is a sad fact that we don't trust our own until someone else has validated it. I have been using Calendly to drive impact (and get some income) in the last few weeks and each of the people I spoke with had products that could have potential global reach and I asked a few of them why their minds are still stuck in Africa where you can't even ascertain proper market size? Why can't you build for the world like Tope?

If @TopeAwotona had built for Africa, he would have long been history. I have met several Israeli founders who have this global mindset from day one and their ecosystem supports it. More importantly, they build bridges to those markets. We now have the bridges but they are still looking back home. WTF?

Anyway, back to my original gist. You will crumble if you don't hack the African enterprise market by validating elsewhere. That adage of “nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM” is very true in enterprise. Someone here rightly said that the goal of enterprise SaaS is to make people in enterprise look good and not get fired. That is the simple goal.

I won't say don't play in it because the global enterprise market is massive. If you must in Africa, get a foreign cofounder or you will end up in the mother of all rabbit holes. I lost a lot because I didn't belong to the right clubs or belonged to the wrong nationality and ethnic group. Meanwhile, my Indian competition didn't need to do any of that shit.

They showed workings in other markets and charged double. They were also not above corruption. I couldn't do corruption because I didn't want to and also because it would have been a self fulfilling prophecy. The Indians used Africans to do corruption for them. Those Africans became quite rich.

A caveat, don't use fronts and don't deceive people but know that when you are thinking of building for the world, the world has to trust you. Unfortunately, they don't trust us enough yet and sadly we have to either keep using props or build products 100x better. Both are possible and not mutually exclusive.

Getting foreign enterprise partnerships in Africa is the dream but it is also comes with a lot of compromise. You know they are bullshitting and you play along because you have mouths to feed. I know people playing that game now for decades but I opted out of it. Why? I went outside and saw these same companies hustling and in decline.

Africa is a frontier market that they are bleeding until Africa awakens. The few places worth building for are compromised but more are growing to become big enough. The awakening won't happen because of small startups. You have to go outside to form a Voltron of African enterprise products.

A word is too much for the wise.

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@AnthonyAzekwoh Have you seen Scavengers reign?

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Blockchain is just an encryption model, nothing more.

You lots building in the space need to take information security classes fr!

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I hate that crypto has become a gimmick, and NFTs a joke all because of greed and blockchain wars.

The end users doesn’t care what blockchain you build on or those stupid hackathons, they want real products with real utilities ‼️

[Ben Goldhaber @FishStix]

Just finished watching Scavengers Reign on Max.

This is the BEST show you've never heard of. One of the best I've watched in years.

Criminally few people know about it, and that needs to change.

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@FishStix Ooh you totally felt it too!! Best show ever by a long mile! The creativity is out of this world 🔥

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@J3nnie_C Amen oo 🙏🏾

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@freddiejacobart @layiwasabi Amen 🙏🏾

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@asemota Truth is you can build and validate any idea with 100k to 300k USD if you truly get creative and grind.

But clout is a different kinda drug, and everyone wanna do those useless press announcements about raising millions.

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@Chioma_xoxoxo You welcome 😌