Yinka Coker

Talent Architect for Global Tech Talent Acquisition. Ex-Amazon & Microsoft. All views expressed are mine. 🇨🇦

#Gooner

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

@Ssaasquatch James Hamilton, Distinguished Engineer at AWS probably lives on a boat half a year chilling until the call of duty arises as well 😂

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Technology company Plex took its 120 employees to Honduras for a weeklong bonding experience. It was a disaster from the moment they arrived. https://t.co/PrzMSHyUq3

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

@AnnikaSays Approve mine please!

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What a banger by Eze! 💥💥💥 #ARSLEV

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@AnnikaSays Yes please!

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

Watching the Oscars tonight and some of these people look like AI. Facial expressions frozen lol

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

Max Dowman! You beauty! 😩😩😩 #COYG #ARSEVE

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

@tankots @WisprFlow Wispr Flow

[Tanay Kothari @tankots]

We offered 5 people a Porsche 911 GT3 RS if they could get @WisprFlow to make a mistake

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As a part of the launch, we’re giving away 6 months of Wispr Flow Pro for free.

Like, retweet and comment ‘Wispr Flow’ to get it. Enjoy.

— Written with Wispr Flow

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

Schrödinger’s cat!

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

I don't think the industry and games journalists understand how little gamers care about what is happening to the games industry right now.

The 40-person studio that made "Expedition 33" is comprised of former Ubisoft developers. Ubisoft hasn't made a game as good as "Expedition 33" in at least ten years.

Ubisoft employs 17,000 people. If all of them lose their jobs and some of those people manage to form even a single small studio that makes a game as good as "Expedition 33," then we one more great game to play than we would have had otherwise, because Ubisoft will never make a great game. Great games are not Ubisoft's business model and that is why Ubisoft is unsalvageable.

What is happening in the games industry right now is not the destruction of anything that deserves to be preserved. We are seeing the inevitable collapse of giant corporate studios that make mediocre games that nobody wants to play.

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

Wait, how is that a City pen? The player jumped into the keeper or am I watching a different game? Liverpool just got robbed at home with a dodgy pen call. EPL refs will do anything for Man City lol #LIVMCI

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

What a beautiful weekend for Arsenal fans! I'll be sipping my coffee watching Man city at Anfield tomorrow. No pressure! 😂 #Arsenal #ARSSUN

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

Why are there no street waste bins in downtown Seattle? 🤔

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

ByteDance offered $30 million for Xiao Hong's AI startup in early 2024.

He said no.

Twenty months later, he sold to Meta for $3 billion.

The difference: He relocated to Singapore, laid off his entire Beijing team, bought out Tencent, and severed every Chinese tie before the acquisition.

100x return on geopolitical arbitrage.

The playbook is now public.

Beijing's response: "frustration" that America "is walking away with technology built by Chinese engineers."

But by the time they noticed, it was already too late.

Here's what nobody's saying: The export controls designed to contain Chinese AI may be accelerating brain drain instead.

The most talented Chinese AI founders now have a template. Build in Beijing. Exit through Singapore. Sell to America.

One startup just rewrote how Chinese innovation reaches global markets.

The exodus is coming.

Read the full story here - https://t.co/PXFlD1hiI6

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

I am seated a few metres from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the International Anti Corruption Awards ceremony which I am attending as a former winner.
He walked in without huge security, no drama, just a simple confident leader.

He is in charge of not only Qatar’s state but huge investments that the state of Qatar has overseas.

Qatar has built one of the world’s most expansive overseas investment portfolios, through the Qatar Investment Authority.
In the United Kingdom, it owns or controls landmark assets such as The Shard, Canary Wharf, and Harrods, Sainsbury’s and holds significant stakes in major companies including Barclays Bank.

In Germany, Qatar has major shareholdings in Volkswagen Group, Porsche, Siemens, and Deutsche Bank.

In the United States, it has invested heavily in prime real estate in cities such as New York and Washington, as well as in financial services, technology, and infrastructure.

Through Qatar Airways, the country holds strategic stakes in international airlines including IAG, LATAM, Cathay Pacific, and Air China.

Qatar also owns Paris Saint Germain Football Club and has invested widely in global sports, media, and entertainment assets.
Beyond this, it has long term investments in energy, logistics, ports, agribusiness, healthcare, and technology across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, aimed at diversifying national wealth beyond oil and gas and securing future generations.

This has been achieved using revenue from oil and gas alone, resources that are also abundant in Africa, so the issue is not the absence of natural wealth but the failure of leadership.

My country of birth has more than 60 known minerals, including strategic and rare minerals, yet the state struggles to provide basic painkillers in public hospitals, clean drinking water in urban homes, or meaningful employment for its citizens.

Most people are effectively unemployed or underemployed, and an estimated 2,500 women die every year from complications related to childbirth, deaths that are largely preventable in a functioning health system.

We are confronted with a tragic reality where immense natural wealth coexists with institutional collapse, because we have leaders who lack self esteem, vision, and pride in their people, unlike what we consistently see outside our continent.

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

Magnificent hat trick from Ebz! Eberechi Eze is a gem! 4-1 to the Gunners! North london remains red! #Arsenal

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Well deserved Congo. Nigeria do not deserve to go to the world cup to be honest. These boys can't string 3 passes together, playing like Stoke City 😂

[Yinka Coker @coksboy]

Nwabali is just a joke 🧤