Alex Dobyan

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

@IanECox @flyethiopian KIS doesn’t have any premium demand, and ET doesn’t have a good sized aircraft for the route. Wouldn’t say never but doubt it’s a priority for ET.

[Tim Hirschel-Burns @TimH_B]

The Norwegian Viking Row is objectively cool.

But this type of mass, coordinated fan activity depends on having lots of fans who could get visas and afford exorbitant tickets.

Countries like Senegal have fan culture that’s just as good. But we don’t get to see it

[KYK 🇰🇪 @Kijanayakabras]

Captain Joseph Ririani is a former Kenya Airways pilot who founded the Kenya School of Flying in June 1992 to create an indigenous flight training institution owned and operated by Kenyans.

Frustrated that most Kenyan pilots had to train expensively in South Africa, he quit his job at KQ in 1996 to fully manage the school, which has since become one of Kenya’s leading flight training schools.

In 2025, Ririani made headlines when he chained himself to an aircraft at Wilson Airport to protest land encroachment and developments around the airport perimeter, calling for safer training grounds for students.

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

A new day with new challenges but we shall not relent. We demand the release of Kabatila Munyithya!!!! We remain undeterred!

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

@LawSocietyofKe Anything you can do to help find Kavat? #RutoMustGo

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

So many people in the US are just on the hedonic treadmill of consumption. We are a country with no perspective

https://t.co/1Pl9JbMRUi

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

@nepo_sahil Ja over Pau!?!?

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

@VIIctoriuos @anthonyocampo Berkeley is comparable.

Not sure about Haas specifically but full professor in econ = $350k

You can look it up, state employee salaries are a matter of public record in CA

Think other UCs are not in same tier

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

When did the knish die as a staple of NYC food culture?

5 years ago? 10?

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

@nepo_sahil I feel like that's the case if you have table service, but never known it to be the case w/a walk-upbar? It's a big continent though

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

Living outside the US, where tabs are not a thing, has definitely increased the cognitive burden of being a normie at a bar

It was not that long ago that going out to Europeans meant a freaking coin purse

[willy 🌜💧 @willystaley]

At the bar last night, the Zoomers were all paying with credit cards and closing out on every round. This is psycho behavior. Someone needs to teach these children how to go to the bar.

[willy 🌜💧 @willystaley]

At the bar last night, the Zoomers were all paying with credit cards and closing out on every round. This is psycho behavior. Someone needs to teach these children how to go to the bar.

[Maya @CaddleMaya]

African fintech: I will bank the unbanked

Also: launches iOS app

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

@Kdenkss Why Mombasa?

I do think there is an opportunity for a coastal Kenyan county to create a human capital hub. But it's happening in Kilifi (at small scale) more bc of cultural scene. Mombasa the city is unpleasant w/rentseeking gov't so the white-collar beach crowd goes to Kilifi

[Fendika Cultural Center @FendikaCulture]

Selam selam I just received the news that the Mayor of Addis Ababa has listened to our voices and has given us the permission to keep Fendika, because of what Melaku has done for the country. Thank you all in Ethiopia and all around the world for standing with us and your love!

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

@nepo_sahil Anything other than the standard sandwich + waffle fries is heresy

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

@JaxiroKe Should be dark side of working for crypto grifters, not Kenyan startups

Some of this is startup life (you're going to work weekends sometimes)

Rest is what happens working @ firms w/poor governance and outlook (ahem, crypto), & can happen in any sector or geo. Vet the founder!

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

People laugh but the Ugandan "great food at a cheap price" ecosystem is much more highly developed than the Kenyan one

[micheal k. gemera @dexxe]

After three days of coming into Uganda, I asked where I can get great food at a cheap price, and everybody tell me it’s impossible.

Here's how I created a startup that solved this 🧵

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

@TonyNatif @NyegeNyegeFest @NyegeNyegeFest is about the music, not about business
Copycats don't have 10 years of skin in the game supporting artists, running an int'l record label, or building cachw with discerning music fans. Watch these guys try to get Berliners (!) to fly to Kenya for a rave, no chance

[Alex Dobyan @alexdobyan]

Am I the only one who thinks "sportswashing" is *not* the goal of the Gulf moves into sport?

They aren't trying to make us forget human rights. No one has. They want to change our perception of the Arab World as sheikhs & goat herders - to convert $ capital to cultural capital