Mister Csquare

STEAM is god of our time

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@VusiThembekwayo Rwanda

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

The reason you have an MTN in Africa today is not because a poor boy from South Africa got VC funding and became a billionaire. I know some others try to force a similar narrative but it is not true.

People gained experience, put together plans, and then got investors. No magic. Each base station was built one site acquisition and equipment deployment at a time. Financing was tough but they hired the best to get it.

You just have to work or create work. It is in the creating work that we end up building the things that likely become venture scale. Scale builds upon scale and we have very few things already at scale. Scale is not built upon dreams and wishes but upon solid ground first.

I remember my observations the first time I visited America. My cofounder Salil previously told me that America runs like a well oiled machine. Femi Edun also told me that they build scale by dumbing things down to the basics. I saw that both descriptions were true. The infrastructure exists to sell at scale and you dumb things down to sell more.

According to Ogilvy “we sell or else.” America always sells or else it is not America anymore. To be able to sell, there has to be a market to sell to. They created that market in many ways. Infrastructure, education, and advertising.

You can’t sell when you haven’t built. Prospecting for gold in California led to the great railroads. Mining solid minerals in Congo and Nigeria have only led to wars and terrorism.

In Africa, we build, or else…

Let us build and then sell. We can’t sell what we haven’t built yet. Building on cloud infrastructure far away and trying to provide services to those who don’t have access isn’t building.

The day it dawned on me that payments in Africa wasn’t a startup opportunity but an infrastructure play was the day the scales fell from my eyes. PayPal got licenses in 50 American states and not 50 countries before it started making a lot of money.

One African country will not deliver our version of PayPal without our version of EBay which can only happen because we have our version of UPS or FedEx and the logistics that support it. That is further built on universities and a prosperous middle class.

We don’t have to follow the same trajectory but one truth is evident. Scale builds upon scale. Let’s build scale carefully. We have wasted so much time and effort on trying to create magic on a continent where illusions lead to hunger and despair.

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@ChampionsLeague 🇷🇼

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@fightpicsgohard @ufc Who won?

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@oliverjumpertz Priceless that we have people like you @oliverjumpertz on @twitter

[Harsh Makadia @MakadiaHarsh]

Google Docs has 1,000,000,000+ active users.

But only a few use the platform effectively.

Here are 12 tips that you'll wish you knew sooner:

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@The_Sebineza @cmu_africa 👊

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@The_Sebineza @cmu_africa Felecitacion Tonton @The_Sebineza

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@Wcbwasafi_ @diamondplatnumz !

[Adrian | JavaScript Mastery @jsmasterypro]

Top Amazing #React Project Ideas ⚛️🔥⁠

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[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@oliverjumpertz Thanks for constructive quick response! How would you compare the influence of web3 on consumer products vs B2B in relation to the adoption speed of the technology in each cunsumer segment?

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

#web3

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[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@sunilc_ Thanks for encouraging words big brother most of us all we need is someone like you who insists that its doable

@sunilc_ 💯

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@ANoorTM #Python

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@The_GreatBonnie How did go down like?

Btw I prayed for u

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@VusiThembekwayo @TheIconoclasts_ @patel_anks The product represent the brand in the first days of the brand and then later the brand payback by representing the product.

The perfect example attest to this, is #AppleBrand and #AppleProducts

@VusiThembekwayo

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@oliverjumpertz Interested

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@oliverjumpertz how about Web3 guide for developers?

[Oliver Jumpertz @oliverjumpertz]

2022 has just begun, time to learn more about blockchain.

Here are sixteen amazing learning resources for aspiring blockchain developers.

A thread. ↓

[Mister Csquare @mistercsquare]

@cogentgene Thanks for sharing!