I stopped believing in “passion” the day I saw how easily it’s used to underpay people.
If you love your work, they’ll drain you.
If you’re grateful, they’ll delay you.
If you complain, they’ll replace you.
Passion is only respected when it’s already profitable.
There are too many startups in Nigeria solving nonsense problems.
This is a country with massive insecurity.
People are hungry.
Transportation is a daily struggle.
Over 20 million children are out of school.
Healthcare is broken.
Power is unreliable.
Jobs are scarce.
Why are there so few startups solving fundamental Nigerian problems?
And why are so many chasing problems that barely exist here?
Technology is not about writing code.
Technology is not about buzzwords.
Technology is not about sounding smart on pitch decks.
Technology is simply a better way of solving real problems.
If your solution cannot meaningfully touch:
•security
•education
•transportation
•healthcare
•food systems
•jobs
•cost of living
then maybe it’s not innovation, maybe it’s just noise.
Nigeria does not need more cool startups. Nigeria needs useful ones.
Let’s go back to basics.
Have you noticed that the people at the very top of every industry in this world knew each other from way back?
That’s because they all had a single unfair advantage that most people ignore.
Think about this:
In 2023, the founder of Altschool said that he noticed that 80% of the people dominating the tech space in Nigeria at the time were people hanging around CChub circa 2011-2013.
In 2023 as well, tech cabal released an article called the paystack mafia. It was an article outlining several tech founders doing incredible things, raising funds and building. They were all at the company around the same time.
If you read up the PayPal mafia, you see the exact same pattern. How that the founders of YouTube, LinkedIn, Tesla, Palantir, Space X were all together at some point.
Let’s leave tech.
Coscharis. Ifeanyi Ubah. Ibeto. Inosson.
All billionaires in Nigeria. They all come from the same community. Nnewi.
They all started the same - trading spare parts.
The money used to settle coscharis from his apprenticeship was given to him by Okeiyi ( Chisco ) who was serving at the same time.
I promise you:
An unfair advantage that will remain the differentiating factor for the top 1% forever is something called community.
I don’t know how to explain it but something magical happens when people of like minds and similar vision come together in a confined space. No matter how small they start.
It’s like energy is coming together and something has to emerge as a result. It can’t be result-less.
The reason you’re already thinking “how do I get into communities that will help me grow?” Is because you’re not sincere with your desires.
You’re looking for already-made groups. They won’t accept you into their circle.
I won’t as well. I don’t trust you.
Start where you are. One. Two. Three friends that are simply hungry pursuing diverse dreams bound by a genuine desire to change their lives…you will shock yourself in a few years.
Rooting for you. Like mad.
❤️⏰
I’m a Liberian and I’m here to tell you this is exactly how Liberia war started… it was all term as political propaganda when the rural areas were being captured by rebels… the day the attack hit Monrovia was the the day the elites accepted that the country was at war
Today is another day to remind a Nigerian patient that referral to a tetiary Centre e.g UCH, LASUTH, LUTH, UBTH, OAUTHC ain’t a “death sentence”.
We are simply passing the baton to where you can get better care and see specialist for an affordable fee .
#MedNorms#MedTwitter
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