Constant Cap

Urban Planner & Researcher | Rugby Referee | Mountaineer | Cyclist | Blogger | Laikipia (Kenya)-Flanders(Belgium).
'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent'

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

They share the National Crate...

Sorry, I meant Cake.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk: There are no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table.

“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.

There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.

At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.

We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.

And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”

New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

We know you guys!

[Yusef Torts @TortsT]

@lynn_ngugi1 Is the withdrawal from registered mpesa agent illegal? 😂no. Is getting paid by mpesa illegal? No. 😂 if you have money in mpesa n u asked to wthdrw is it illegal? No. Is having transaction record bad? No😂so where’s the problem?

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

....acheni ijulikane kwamba South C is moto. ...Ogopa ...yabamba🤣🤣🤣

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

I honestly don’t think we’re ready for this Eastleigh conversation.

Few Observations,.

You buy something in the majority of those shops and they want cash. If you don’t have cash, they have their own MPesa agents they tell you to withdraw from. They then make a quick call to the agent to confirm the withdrawal before releasing your goods.

That way, they never have to explain their cash flow, but you may one day have to explain yours to the taxman.

We’re talking about a multi billion shilling industry with very little transparency, accountability or visibility into how money moves.

And as long as they remain the middlemen, pay zero tax, sell “counterfeit goods” the government is comfortable

But how dare you use the same business model, open your own wholesale operation and bring your own goods through the port?…..

[R @AlphaWizarDD]

Jeff Bezos bought a superyacht.

Mukesh Ambani built Antilia.

Zuckerberg built a Hawaii bunker.

Elon sold all his mansions, lives in a 375 sq ft prefab box worth $50,000 near a rocket launch site in Texas.

And just became the world's first trillionaire.
Consumption vs Creation.

The builder always wins.

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

@DoozyWombat @tetsuoai @yesnicksearcy Spot on!

[Mistake by the Lake @CLEBrownsfan84]

@tetsuoai

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

We Are Belgium. 🇧🇪

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

Even in Nairobi you can always tell a Congolese - always in a unique dressing style. 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩

[Presence is not submission @ImbayiK]

The Congolese are the people who own sapeur as a movement yet people are wondering why their team is looking dapper

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

@ImbayiK I am surprised that people are shocked...
When it comes to 'Elegance' you cannot beat them.

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

I always wonder where his classmates are now and what they are doing.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire, but with an American citizenship and an American portfolio.

His success is a mirror that reflects South Africa's absolute failure.

Elon Musk's historic milestone proves that wealth, progress, and monumental breakthroughs are created through merit, relentless innovation, and visionary execution.

They are not created through bureaucratic gatekeeping, red tape, and ideological obsession. South African politicians hate him because his mere existence exposes their profound failure to build anything of lasting value.

Elon Musk's story is the absolute opposite of the South African story.

Had the environment allowed it, he could have built SpaceX in South Africa. Decades ago, the country possessed a first world military space and missile infrastructure.

Instead of being nurtured into a global commercial aerospace hub, it was dismantled and collapsed under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and political patronage.

We cannot even talk about Elon Musk freely investing his billions back into South Africa. Despite being born in Pretoria, race based economic policies and restrictive BEE ownership mandates have historically locked out global builders who refuse to bend to political dictation.

The South African story has become a tragic tale of what could have been, tainted by toxic governance, race politics, and destructive economics.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire, but with an American citizenship and an American portfolio.

His success is a mirror that reflects South Africa's absolute failure.

Elon Musk's historic milestone proves that wealth, progress, and monumental breakthroughs are created through merit, relentless innovation, and visionary execution.

They are not created through bureaucratic gatekeeping, red tape, and ideological obsession. South African politicians hate him because his mere existence exposes their profound failure to build anything of lasting value.

Elon Musk's story is the absolute opposite of the South African story.

Had the environment allowed it, he could have built SpaceX in South Africa. Decades ago, the country possessed a first world military space and missile infrastructure.

Instead of being nurtured into a global commercial aerospace hub, it was dismantled and collapsed under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and political patronage.

We cannot even talk about Elon Musk freely investing his billions back into South Africa. Despite being born in Pretoria, race based economic policies and restrictive BEE ownership mandates have historically locked out global builders who refuse to bend to political dictation.

The South African story has become a tragic tale of what could have been, tainted by toxic governance, race politics, and destructive economics.

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

@EricNjiiru A country with many States.

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

Nice to see @KeNHAKenya investing in pedestrian infrastructure - good pedestrian path on Uhuru Highway leading to @Mwendas_Pub 😃

Customers are happy, Urban Planners are happy, Pedestrians are happy - now we need Cycling Infrastructure 🥁

[dennis ombachi OLY @ombachi13]

If you’re around Sarit center today, come say hi as I will be on the ground floor just opposite java for a live cooking demonstration with the Royal Thai Embassy.

You’re welcome to either stop by Java and try my Guest Chef menu, or join us for the free sampling of authentic Thai cuisine from 12:00AM to 4:30 PM.

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

Suspects in the mob killing of national rugby player Sydney Gongodyo have arrived at City Hall Court in Kampala to be charged formally. Gongodyo, 27, was killed by a mob in the Kampala suburb of Bukoto on June 5, 2026.

#MonitorUpdates
📹@abubakerlubowa

[Rugby Africa @RugbyAfrique]

🚨 Africa Men’s Sevens postponed in Mauritius.

No Ebola cases reported — precautionary step to protect all involved.

Not cancelled. New dates soon. 🏉

https://t.co/L6VMy9AOai

[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.

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

These days one needs special skills to walk here.

[Duke of Gatanga @dnkariuki]

When Nairobi was clean, neat and quiet.
Not anymore. If it’s not a boda driving on the wrong side, it’s an open manhole, a pothole, a parking boy, a hawker…..
it’s a concrete Amazon jungle

[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

@NathanNgumi Yes, when citizens were privileged to have a functional city council.
@coachyawe