Christopher Ajufo MD

Enterpreneur, Medical doctor. Naija wey go foreign. Now I dey do big things.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

George Johnson, a hair-care magnate who rose from a sharecropper’s cabin to found the first Black-owned company listed on a major American stock exchange, and who made a fortune on products like Ultra Sheen and Afro Sheen, died has died at 99. https://t.co/zGYqxwquBM

[Americana Aesthetics @AmericanaAesth]

Coke Cola Ad for 1976's Bicentennial

[Christopher Ajufo MD @anikwe]

It was originally meant to refer to the non aligned countries during the Cold War.
1st world: US, Western Europe
2nd world: Russia, communist Europe/world

Unfortunately, overtime, the term 3rd world acquired the racist and derogatory tone it is known by today

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[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soared above $150 on its first day of trading. https://t.co/bq5ARi7rgB

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

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.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Hard truth:

The real reason 99% of people buy an expensive car is so strangers at stoplights think they’re successful.

No one who’s already wealthy needs a car to show it.

[The Real Estate God @TheRealEstateG6]

People who haven't stuck with a business for 5+ years have no idea how easy it gets

You will start getting the easiest money-making opportunities of your life. Almost feels illegal

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: "I also want to remind everybody that the United States government is not a charity. We are not here to play social worker, we are here to win."

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Pattern Recognition is also the form of intelligence that causes the most stress.
You will see things that others do not.

You'll feel crazy.

Things will be *so obvious* to you, and others will just deny it.

[Christopher Ajufo MD @anikwe]

@nwoko_greg62705 Rabies can cause involuntary spasms of throat muscles, resulting in vocalizations that are sometimes interpreted as “barks”.

[Robbie Hendricks @robbiehendricks]

Key pitfalls to avoid in business, investing, and real estate:

• Legal - Never toe the line. Consult attorneys often. Jail and lawsuits are real and they happen way more than you think - either can destroy you, your marriage, your biz, your reputation.

• Tax - Get a monster CPA. Pay your taxes. Period. Don't get cute on this.

• Insurance - Do not buy off the shelf insurance. Find a boutique firm and get a robust umbrella policy. One bad break could crush you, protect yourself.

• Partnership - Bad partners not only kill good deals, but they end in drama and lawsuits. If you’ve got a weird feeling, walk.

• High-Maintenance/Strings Attached Investors - Trust me. Find other capital or pass on the deal if it’s your only option.

• Comparison - Kills happiness. Follow your own lead, compare only to yourself. You’re running your own race. There is nowhere you're "supposed to be".

• Deal Obsession - Do not want a deal (or any investment) to work so badly that you adjust your criteria or numbers to make it work.

• Doom Obsession - If you are paralyzed by what could go wrong, you’re lost…it’s impossible to move if your belief in the future has died.

• Spending As If It Never Rains - Cash up. Keep more dry powder than feels reasonable. Don’t buy stuff with the income you haven’t yet earned in the assumption that the party never ends…rain is inevitable, keep several umbrellas.

• Being Cheap - Will destroy you. Never cheap out on insurance, attorneys, accountants, staff, consultants, or education. Being cheap will eventually cost you 100x than doing it right the first time.

• Don't Romanticize Gurus - Never meet your heroes. You'll very frequently be disappointed.

What did I miss?

[Akíntúndé Babátúndé @olorunwababs]

One of the most uncomfortable realities about migration is that many people do not leave home primarily to pursue ambition; they leave to stabilize their lives. That distinction matters because it shapes how risk is understood for years, sometimes decades. A person migrating from an unstable economy often prioritizes predictable income, legal security, family obligations, remittances, healthcare, housing, and long-term stability. In that context, success naturally becomes tied to safety.

This explains why many immigrant communities become extraordinarily successful within existing institutions while remaining less represented in ownership-heavy sectors that require prolonged uncertainty and speculative risk. The difference between becoming a highly paid surgeon and building a billion-dollar medical technology company is beyond intelligence or work ethics.... It is often the difference between surviving and scaling.

Professional careers offer stability, prestige, immigration security, and immediate upward mobility, but building large companies or institutions often demands years of uncertainty, tolerance for failure, access to capital, and confidence that one bad year will not destroy an entire family structure. For many first-generation migrants, especially from developing countries, that confidence does not exist. The pressure to support relatives, secure immigration pathways, and avoid downward mobility creates a rational preference for stable excellence over high-risk entrepreneurship.

This is why immigrant success can sometimes appear like a paradox. Many groups become disproportionately represented in medicine, engineering, academia, consulting, and other elite professions, yet remain less dominant in ownership of globally scaled firms.

It also means conversations about “mindset” are often incomplete. Culture matters, but structure matters too. A society that consistently produces high-achieving professionals but struggles to produce globally scaled institutions may not have a talent problem as much as a compounding problem. Institution building requires reliable infrastructure, patient capital, policy predictability, trust networks, and environments where failure is survivable. Without those conditions, many talented people rationally remain in maintenance mode for long periods because stability itself becomes the achievement.

Historically, many immigrant communities in the United States moved through phases. The first generation focused on survival and stabilization. The second generation accumulated networks, familiarity, and confidence within the system. Later generations often became more willing to pursue ownership, scale, and institutional power. The transition from professional success to institutional dominance is usually over generations, not immediately.

This is also why debates about brain drain are often too simplistic. The deeper question should go beyond why talented people leave but whether systems exist that allow them to build durable institutions, capital, and infrastructure wherever they are. In many cases, most people are ambitious, but survival responsibilities absorb the resources, stability, and risk tolerance that large-scale building usually requires.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

A powerful electrical motor propels bacteria in virtually every gut and puddle on Earth. After 50 years, it has finally been understood. @nattyover reports: https://t.co/nAvtH7Jrqv

[Christopher Ajufo MD @anikwe]

It was an honor to have trained under him.

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

Dr. Howard Tucker has been awarded the record title for the oldest doctor ever after working until the age of 103.

He was continuing to work as a neurologist until just two months before his passing on 22 December 2025.

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

What's especially cool is that the flagellar motor exploits the indivisibility of 5 by 2 to run on a fuel of rising entropy as protons diffuse into cells. For me as a physics and math person, this is biology at its best. https://t.co/TBAP5H3vR3

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️