We had the pleasure of hosting Samar Hasan, the Founder of Epiphany, for an exclusive to-day #Pitch Deck Development and #Practice Workshop at #NICF. 🚀
Incredibly dishonest to pretend that the formal lenders were any less of loan sharks. They were literally lending at 500-1,000% APR but hey, it was done digitally!
Also, using the "foreign investment and tax" card is straight out of tobacco lobby and honestly, really desperate.
We were fed the same bullshit about microfinance as well, of the conventional wisdom about the rates coming down "automatically". Unsurprsingly, it didn't happen and the rates continue to remain high, with virtually no change in opex.
Math of nano loans: https://t.co/4l33UiBqUY
So much has changed since @mamoonha and I last shared a stage discussing startups & VC in early 2022. Excited to have a wide-ranging conversation with him again on the major shifts in tech & VC landscape, this Saturday Nov 4, at the @opensv Annual Forum. Join us if in Bay Area
My wife, Khadijah Shah, an innocent Pakistani citizen, has been imprisoned for 5 months. She wrote this heartbreaking open letter from jail. We did not make it public so far, hoping she’d be released after bail, but now the authorities aim to involve her in another false FIR.
Palestinian artist Ezz Lulu, whose house has been bombed by lsraeli warplanes in Gaza, depicts the suffering of his people and says, “They may have bombed my house, but they will never stop me from delivering my message in art.”
Tomorrow Israel will erase Gaza, its people, land and history. I am so ashamed of the West who sanctioned this slaughter and then cowardly banned Palestinian protests. I am heartbroken by the world we live in.
Despite the 24/7 propaganda of corporate media in the United States, manufacturing consent for Israel’s massacre of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, thousands came out in support of Palestine🇵🇸 in Seattle