David Okoroafor

SWE, building @SproutInno

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

Ready for the fight, send good vibes

[Real Madrid C.F. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @realmadriden]

👋 Welcome, Mourinho 👋

[NotADeepDive @readnotadeepdve]

MTN just announced another video streaming service. For those counting, this is the company’s fifth attempt.
The timing is odd because “video streaming is dead” has basically become a continental cliché. Showmax is being folded away and Netflix and Amazon pulled back from

[Chukwuedozie Nwa Charlie @TheCharlesIsidi]

Email [email protected], you will get it for half.

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

🫶🏾

[Fengming Lu @FengmingLuPE]

Why did private firms, not state-owned enterprises (SOEs), come to dominate China’s EV sector?

My new @ChinaJournal article (co-authored with Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex) challenge the "top-down industrial policy" narrative.

The real engine? Strategic alliances between local governments and private capital. 🧵

Based on 3+ years of fieldwork, 60+ interviews (with officials, entrepreneurs, and engineers), and rich first-hand accounts, we show how strict central regulations inadvertently drove local states to bet big on private EV players.

Here is the story: (1/15)

[Uche @Havilah2]

Most founders don't struggle because they lack ambition.

Many struggle because they want outcomes that pull in opposite directions.

They want:

lifestyle freedom and venture-scale growth

certainty and exponential upside

control and outside capital

predictable income and

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

RUN IT BACK

[David Okoroafor @korafdavid]

@LewisHamilton Another day another podium❤️

[Karan @karankendre]

CEO waking up to a $500M Claude API bill

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

Some folks dream of the open road... me, I've been thinking about the open water and the open sky-preferably at the same time.
Now sure, dreams like that don't come cheap-anywhere from about $230,000 to $450,000 depending on how fancy you want to get.
You're buying early morning takeoffs, quiet landings on glassy water, and stories your grandkids will swear you made up. 😃

[Ewgi @Ssaasquatch]

For a long time, I couldn’t hear very well with my left ear. One day at MFM Youth Church, the pastor who had never met me before described my exact condition from the pulpit. As he prayed, I suddenly felt a rush of air pass into my left ear, and in that exact moment, my hearing was restored. Since then, my conviction in the existence of God has been unshakable.

[Furqan Rydhan @FurqanR]

If you're a student and want to be a founder, this is your summer to make it happen.

[Oreoluwa 🌹 @0xoluwa]

Imagine waiting 2 weeks+ just for one PCB prototype you don’t even know you'll get right away from China.

That's the exact problem that pushed me to start making my own PCBs at home. We urgently need this manufacturing infrastructure in Nigeria.

[BuildersCabal @builderscabal]

We’re excited to announce our partnership with FoundersFriday🚀

This is the start of something new for founders, operators, advisors and investors building tech companies in Africa

An event is happening this Friday and you want to be in the room. Look out for our next tweet.

[Uche @Havilah2]

EduTech represents one of the SSE ecosystem’s clearest structural contradictions. Despite accounting for roughly one-sixth of all startups in the region, the sector attracted just about 1% of total disclosed funding.

@winexviv this'd interest you.
#SSEStartupEcosystemReport

[ajanwachuku. @ajanwachuku]

“I haven’t failed, I just haven’t figured out how to make it work yet” is such a great mindset to have.

[Uche @Havilah2]

Abia recorded the strongest startup share growth in the SSE, rising by 4.1 percentage points between 2023 and 2025. Beyond improved ecosystem visibility, the surge may also reflect growing founder optimism around governance, infrastructure, and Aba’s renewed commercial momentum.

[Brendah Njiru @brendahnjiru]

Who's investing in robotics? 🤖

We're building humanoid robots for at-home senior care and currently shipping into homes. https://t.co/ssVaOEFOOF

DMs and email open
[email protected]

[Benedict Dayas Toks @BenedictDayas]

Meet @j03yilla, the founder building a venture design studio in Africa

@Knesstconnect is a prominent technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship venture based in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Visit: https://t.co/gmKpUi1C1R