๐๏ธ Isreal Adesanya:
"I donโt chase trends. I set them"
Isreal Adesanya's @Telegram Gifts, released as part of the UFC Strike Collection sold out as fast as UFC 234 โบ๏ธ.
@whois_legend@smasithick@Mrwhosetheboss Yes o.
"With the Flexibility of Android"
Their goal was never to give you that flexibility, that's why we love Android and compatible ecosystems.
Five years is old for a token.
Young for an economy being built inside Telegram.
MTONGA has already shown 3 of 7 moves:
speed, fees, and Telegram taking the wheel.
The interesting part is not what changed.
It is that four steps are still missing.
Nokia could have invented the iPhone. Three years before Apple did, a Nokia engineer walked into a meeting in Finland with a working prototype: a touchscreen phone with full internet access. Management killed it. The device looked too expensive and too risky to sell. The same year, Nokia also rejected a proposal for an online app store. Apple would launch the same idea four years later.
In 2007, Nokia controlled 40% of the world's mobile phone market and was worth more than $150 billion. By 2013, it had sold its phone business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion. The company that defined the cell phone became irrelevant in less time than it takes most kids to finish high school.
In 2016, two professors from INSEAD and Aalto University spent years interviewing 76 Nokia executives, engineers, and consultants for a research paper. Their conclusion: nobody at the company could have an uncomfortable conversation.
Senior leaders were described as "extremely temperamental." One consultant remembered then-CEO Jorma Ollila shouting at people "at the top of his lungs" in front of fifteen other vice presidents. Middle managers learned the rules fast. Bad news got you fired, so they stopped delivering it.
The engineers knew Nokia's operating system could not compete with what Apple was building for the iPhone. One design team submitted 500 separate proposals to fix it between 2001 and 2009. Not a single one got approved. When a middle manager once suggested that a colleague push back against a top executive, the colleague refused. He "didn't have the courage; he had a family and small children."
The top managers were also afraid, just of different things. They worried about looking weak to investors. So they publicly defended the old operating system while privately knowing it was dying. The middle managers heard the demand for optimism and supplied it. For four years, the people who knew the company was sinking could not get that message to the people who could do something about it.
Researchers call this shoot-the-messenger culture. It shows up in cockpit recordings before plane crashes, in hospital records before preventable deaths, and in the investigations of the 2008 financial crisis. The cost of avoiding a difficult conversation is always paid later, with interest.
Nokia's case is unusual because the math is so clean: the silence cost roughly $143 billion in market value and an entire company. The discomfort would have cost a few bad meetings.
"The Web3 music revolution is already happening. ๐จ
Artists earning on-chain. Fans are getting rewarded. Labels are losing their grip.
If you don't know how it works, you're already behind.
SoundRig Skool on https://t.co/pcPiY0Ktoz fixes that. ๐
#SoundRigSkool #Web3Revolution #LearnWeb3
Over the weekend, @ton_blockchain's Nakamoto Coefficient reached 82, making it 41x more decentralized than Ethereum
TON gives us the best of both worlds, putting crypto in every pocket through Telegram while staying decentralized as it should be
๐ https://t.co/cPwN2XspD3
"TON - The Open Network"
TON wants to foster a decentralized future by putting "crypto in every pocket"
They have been true to their mission.
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#TON
@winexviv Before you know it,
He will likely go do his bachelor's or Masters in the US or UK,
Go on to be a great scientist in his chosen field,
Nigeria will lose another gem ๐
Because he (and his offsprings) will go contribute to another economy,
Thank you @winexviv
@Preshneuf@lorddrey Difficult for some to accept but entirely true.
You leave your house to another person's house because they appreciate you. What happens when they don't need you anymore, become abusive, hostile, where will you go?
Back to your house which you left?
BREAKING: TON Blockchain has flipped ETH by NFT Volume in the month of March with ~$40M in volume, against ~$36M in volume on ETH.
- Telegram Gifts volume: ~$23M
- Telegram Numbers: ~$11M
- Telegram Usernames: ~$5,2M
- Other NFTs: ~$300k
- Stickers: ~$134k
Itโs probably nothing, right?! ๐๐