Jossy9th

Activist. Convener #EndSarsNow Show Promoter, Event Management

[Jossy9th @GucciJ9]

@bosuntijani Mr Bosun i will like to start a Tech Hub in Benin City, where can i read up the days of your humble beginning, i need to see the starting point and what is required, the battles and victories you've gotten. Please i need a response I'm currently watching the platform @pastorpoju

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

If you don’t have transport to go to church today

i will be giving 2k to 5 people for transport money

Just Follow like and comments your account number now

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

But this company ended up doing quite well. In fact you've probably heard of it, but under its new name, Twitch.

The key to starting a successful startup is to understand some group of users so well that you can make exactly what they want. If you're young you can, and should, use the hack of making something for yourself. You understand yourself. But this is just an instance of the more general rule. Only by understanding users very deeply can you make something they love so much that they tell their friends about it, and only that can get you the exponential growth you need to make a startup really successful.

There are other ways to get rich than by starting startups. Some of those do require you to exploit people. But startups are the most common way to become really rich, and if you want to start a successful startup, the key is not exploitation but empathy. What do users really want? What could you do for them that would make their lives dramatically better? That kind of empathy is what we look for in founders, and what we cultivate in the ones we accept.

How people become rich in your society is one of the most important things to understand about it. You can't let your beliefs about this be determined by ideology, or movies, or historical examples that are centuries old. You must look at the world around you and see how it's actually done. If you want to do it yourself, obviously you'll be forced to understand how it's done. So I don't worry too much about you. The ones I worry about are the future prime ministers. You need to remember this talk. So for you I'm going to summarize the key ideas.

There are two numbers that determine how big a startup gets, and thus how rich its founders become: the growth rate and how long it continues. You get the first by making something users like so much they tell their friends. You get the second by being in a big market. If you grow exponentially into a big market, your startup will become valuable, and you, as a shareholder, will become rich. You not only don't have to cheat to make this happen, it will happen automatically if you just keep making customers happy.

Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Jared Friedman, Jessica Livingston, and Garry Tan for reading drafts of this, and to Arwa Elrayess and the Oxford Union for hosting me.

https://t.co/vUliEUEEdo

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

So how, exactly, do you make something people like so much that they tell their friends about it? The problem with market economies, and also the great thing about market economies, is that it's hard to make something customers want that they don't already have. As soon as a new, satisfiable need is discovered, people rush to satisfy it. So you're going to have to discover a need that no one else knows about yet.

How do you do that? By feeling the need yourself.

You're young, and usually young founders should make something that they themselves want. You don't have enough experience yet to know what other people need. But at the same time your own needs are uniquely valuable, because your needs predict future demand. You're the age when people start using new things. Whatever you and your friends start using now, everyone is going to be using in ten years. Since your intuitions about other people's needs are usually a crap signal, and your own needs are an especially valuable one, you should usually listen to the second signal; you should make something you and your friends want.

Making something you and your friends want doesn't mean you have to build a consumer product. Maybe you and your friends are molecular biologists, and there's something cool that could be done now to DNA that everyone else has overlooked. Maybe you and your friends are into drones. The idea doesn't have to have a wide appeal. It literally just has to appeal to you and your friends.

Don't worry about the second number, the market size. Since you predict future demand, the market will grow. And it's always possible to expand into adjacent markets. All you need is a beachhead in the territory of unsatisfied need that you can expand from.

How do you get an idea like that? The answer is one of the most counterintuitive things about startups — which is saying something, because there are a lot of counterintuitive things about startups. But the way to get the very best startup ideas is not to look for startup ideas. If you're consciously looking for startup ideas, it will make you too conservative. You'll lop off the outliers. Because the very best startup ideas tend to sound so lame, at first, that you'd reject them if you were consciously looking for startup ideas. That's what has prevented them from being discovered.

Imagine what a bad idea Apple or Facebook or Airbnb seemed at first. How many people are going to want their own computers? How is a company going to make money from undergrads stalking one another online? Who's going to pay to sleep on an airbed on someone's floor? We know how these ideas turned out, so it's easy to rewrite history, but I remember very well how bad Facebook and Airbnb sounded at first. We funded Airbnb, and we thought the idea was bad. The reason we funded them was just that we liked the founders.

So how do you find startup ideas without looking for them? By working on projects with your friends. That's where the very best startups come from. Initially they're not even meant to be companies. They're just something people built because they thought it would be cool. That's how Apple and Google and Facebook all started. None of them were meant to be companies at first.

The reason this works is what I told you earlier: you predict future demand. So if you just build random stuff you think would be cool, the things you build will actually be far from random.

This is one of those cases where your unconscious mind knows more than your conscious mind does. Anything that genuinely seems to you like it would be a cool thing to build has a high probability of leading to a good startup idea, no matter how preposterous it sounds. Whatever you build couldn't possibly sound more preposterous than a startup we funded in 2006 called https://t.co/oDM0EozWGK. It consisted of one guy, Justin Kan, walking around with a camera on the side of his head, live streaming everything that happened to him.

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

How to Earn a Billion Dollars By Paul graham June 2026

(This is based on a talk I gave at the Oxford Union.)

Since this is apparently the future prime ministers' club, I'm going to tell you about something it would be good if more politicians understood: I'm going to tell you how people become billionaires. I hope this will be useful to you even if you don't plan to go into politics. Those of you who don't become prime minister can become billionaires instead.

The reason I know about this topic is that 21 years ago Jessica and I started something called Y Combinator. If you haven't heard of Y Combinator, it's a cross between an investment firm and a school for startup founders. Since we started it in 2005 we've funded about 6500 companies.

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

@cb_doge The gap between the 1st and 2nd is mind blowing, if we use the avenge between the 2nd and 3rd to 10th position, it is save to say Elon is the 1st -10th richest man in the world why the 11th is Larry Page

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

I will be doing 10 post per day and at least 50 reply per day to verified accounts

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

I want to commit to this journey of X Monetizing for the next 6 months, and see were this will take us

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

3 months to get to 500 verified followers and 5 million impression, I’m just stating out, lets go

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

X premium activated

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

This is my starting point will be reviewing this on a weekly basis’

[Joseph Oriakhi @EdoBorn22]

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[Jossy9th @GucciJ9]

@stqinless_ ‘The facts before us don’t just show he worked for Abacha - he was a willing tool in the machinery of tyranny. While every union downed tools in defiance of his illegitimate grip, he played the spoiler, breaking ranks to serve the oppressor. But that’s a tale for another day’

[Jossy9th @GucciJ9]

@LegendaryJoe ‘The facts before us don’t just show you worked for Abacha - you were a willing tool in the machinery of tyranny. While every union downed tools in defiance of his illegitimate grip, you played the spoiler, breaking ranks to serve the oppressor. But that’s a tale for another day’

[Tosan Blessing Harriman (PhD) @TosanHarrimanDr]

Obi, Ojukwu and Abacha. But God where are you? When would you show up to reveal the evil this guy did to us at June 12th. When would you arise to finally requite MKOs demise. God when would you pay for the spoke they drove through my penile shaft. I have forgiven Gen. Akilu but

[Alli-Balogun H.Lekan @allibaloo]

I generally don’t argue when “certain people “ complain that Tinubu has ruined the economy and that things have been very bad over the last two years. They are largely correct, especially if you are a banker or a treasury officers who has benefited from “second leg” ipaje or Form Q facilitation.

Honestly, the present transparency in that sector has made you poorer, and I completely understand your frustration. You have every right to complain.

However, it's important to remember that the greater good should come before personal interests.

[Jossy9th @GucciJ9]

@life_of_demian @yabaleftonline President of ur village association

[Fitila 💕🇳🇬 @Pirtim]

While Ganduje & Wike plays the game 4 relevance, BAT is operating at an entirely different level. His moves are not reactionary; they are premeditated & calculated. Unlike his political allies & opponents, BAT does not play 4 survival,he plays 4 absolute control. This is his game

[kayode okunola @TaxDoctorNG]

This is how they finished Nigeria.....

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Grok 4 feels like Artificial General Intelligence to me. It is clearly not just constructing statistically likely connections, but is drawing fairly deep insights on problems it hasn’t seen before, in ways I haven’t seen elsewhere. Here’s an example: https://t.co/n00hEEZfMJ

[Fletcher @nestaseyi]

@abdullahayofel 🤣 On Arise, the man talk say even his own family dey try collect recordings before he talk finish…..make e no go change mouth the next day 😭😭

But Obidients want us to believe this man? Abeg just listen to the question and hear the reply… Man too daft 🤣🤣