Abdulrahman Bello

Building the operating system for creators @oryzonhq | Creative Economy | AI x Startups | Breaking down big tech, startups and building tools

[Aidan Gold @MrGoldBro]

In order for consumer AI to truly be useful, it needs context.

- The home needs cameras.
- All hardware devices need to be connected.
- The digital world needs to be tracked.

This creates tremendous personal data, which requires extreme privacy.

Only the consumer and their AI should have this data.

No company should have access to it without permission and anonymization.

The future is where everything is tracked + private.

[Aidan Gold @MrGoldBro]

We can’t let there be just a few AIs that run the whole world.

There needs to be billions of different AIs that keep each other in check.

It’s the only way to protect against authoritarianism and tyranny.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

@_mtchy_ @nippyyhq You did received an SMS?
Do other founders?

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

@_mtchy_ @nippyyhq Not at all. It was just a mail.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

@_mtchy_ @nippyyhq All right. Just checked my mail, I can find mine as well.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

Half your open rate isn't human.
It's Apple pre-loading messages before anyone reads them. The metric that built the newsletter boom quietly broke.
What's replacing it: creators earning 3x more once they stop selling one subscription and start owning ads, products, memberships.

[Oryzon @oryzonhq]

Creators spent a decade building distribution meant to sit outside platform control.
The platform holding that distribution now is running an algorithm of its own.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

I scored 13/20 (130 pts) on Guess the Product 🎉

Africa Is Building https://t.co/UywOhTThBT

[Dammie Ololade 🌍 @dammieololade]

Today, we’re relaunching UniversityX 🎉

After 2 years, we’ve learned that talented Africans don’t need more courses. They need real work, proof and a clear path to opportunity.

UniversityX builds skills. GetHiredX connects talent to opportunity.

https://t.co/G9rtp184ir

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

TIME's Titans list just lost its biggest names.
MrBeast, Khaby Lame, Kai Cenat, all cut. The creators who stayed didn't have more followers.
They had more equity underneath them. Reach is the entry fee now.
Ownership is the business.

[Oryzon @oryzonhq]

TIME dropped its most-followed creators this year and kept the ones who already own equity, which is the real reason the big keep getting bigger.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

A $50 sale feels good. It hits once.
A $10 subscriber changes everything. It compounds.

One proves someone wanted something. The other proves they trust you enough to keep paying without being asked twice.

Followers show reach. Subscribers show trust.
Build for the second one.

[Oryzon @oryzonhq]

Selling once proves someone wanted something.
Getting paid monthly proves they trust you enough to keep paying without being asked twice.

[Dammie Ololade 🌍 @dammieololade]

Please help me retweet

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

Iron Lung made $52M.
Budget: under $5M.
No studio.
No distributor.

Financing, casting, distribution used to be the moat. That moat is gone.
What's left is the only thing that was never for sale: an audience that trusts what you make next.

That's the real business now.

[Oryzon @oryzonhq]

Markiplier proved a movie doesn't need a studio, just fifteen years of an audience willing to trust you into a new format.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

IShowSpeed just performed at the World Cup. Six years ago, he had 10 viewers in Ohio.

The real growth driver was two years spent building audience in 80+ countries before anyone noticed.

At @oryzonhq, we build the same way: for the market you want, not the one you have.

[Oryzon @oryzonhq]

IShowSpeed's World Cup run proves the biggest streamers no longer win by platform reach, they win by owning global culture.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

@SahilBloom @ElizabethSBloom All right, All right.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

It's now very obvious,
Platforms don't compete for creators.
They compete for attention hours.
The algorithm is just the weapon.

Creators who understand this stop chasing reach and start building audiences platforms can't touch.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

Most don't realize Email personalization at scale isn't about using someone's first name.
It's about sending the right content to the right segment at the right time.
Most creators skip this. Then wonder why open rates die.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

African startups raised less in 2023 than 2022, continued to 2024 but rebounded last year.
Most founders blamed the macro.
The real issue: too many built for foreign capital, not local revenue.
When global VC retracts, distribution moats protect you. Dependency doesn't.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I used to think my 20s were my prime. Then I realized my prime is whenever the hell I say it is. You are in control. You don’t have to consent to the arbitrary timelines and comparisons that the world hands you. Normalize never hitting your prime.

[Abdulrahman Bello @babthedev]

Mental clarity isn't a personality trait.
It's an output.
When your schedule is overloaded, your thinking gets noisy.
The best founders I know protect white space the way others protect revenue.
Space is where judgment lives.