Olugbeminiyi Idowu

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[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

@DadaBen_ 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Here for this!! Makes so much sense

[Benjamin Dada @DadaBen_]

Abandoned my startup to do this.

Let's go!

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Dan Burn ahead of Harry Maguire is absolutely baffling. On grounds of form, experience, leadership, penalty-taking. Baffling.

[Demotivational Speaker @OdunEweniyi]

“lower-value human capital” is insane work

[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

Three Talking Drum clients in the top 12 fastest growing companies in Africa 🚀🚀🚀

😊😊😊

[Talking Drum Communications @TalkingDrumComm]

Huge congratulations to @remedial_health (#8), @AfrichangeHQ (#11) and @rankapp__ (#12) on their inclusion in the @FinancialTimes’ 2026 “Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies” list.

[Babájídé @Babajiide]

This app is wild !

So Tosin who built moniepoint isn’t a scaler lol 😂 ! Person weh build unicorn isn’t a scaler because people who have blue tick on X say so lol 😂

Bonkers !

[Lesilo Rula @kay_mahapa]

We’re watching Bayern and PSG go band for band, attack after attack. Enjoy this football while you can because tomorrow it will be like we’re watching a different sport.

[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

I won’t even comment on the inaccuracies in the article. It’s just a shame that we are still pushing these ‘there is no x in Africa’ narratives when they have been repeatedly discredited.

[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

Hmm… I’ve actually pitched multiple >$10m+ funding announcements to this same publication and the rounds were apparently ‘not big enough’ for them to cover.

At one point you start to question whether it’s inconsistency or something more sinister.

[WeeTracker @weetracker]

📣Execs and devs often preach about "touching grass." At Chowdeck, they actually do it.

Peculiar Erhisohwode is a founding engineer. She's built features used by millions. She also competes with her CEO, Femi Aluko, on the company's quarterly delivery leaderboard.

Yes, delivery. From street to street. With food in a bag.

At this Nigerian startup, every staff member keeps a rider profile.

New joiners complete 30 deliveries as part of onboarding. Annual delivery targets range from 15 to 30 per quarter. Even the C-suite.

Why? Because "delivery is not someone else's job," Aluko says. "Operational reality is often messier than the clean version you see in a dashboard."

The practice has birthed real product features. It has also surfaced uncomfortable truths about what data hides.

Read more⬇️

🔗https://t.co/ZpLsXWEMBC

[FergieStandards @FergieStandards]

Reminder that Lisandro Martinez was sent off for “violent conduct” just 6 days ago for touching someone’s hair bobble… @FA_PGMOL

[Talking Drum Communications @TalkingDrumComm]

We recently updated our website with new case studies, recent accolades and some more information about what we've been up to.

You should take a look: https://t.co/1BgnU88DHh

#TechPR #Innovation #AfricanTech

[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

All of this to go and lose to Spurs.

Amorim deserves all every punishment you can think of!!

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

We had to bring this back on the anniversary of Man United's memorable extra-time comeback against Lyon 😅🎙️

[Black Jaguar @A_Feranmi]

Fintechs are being robbed. Not by hackers, but by their own first “users”. I watched one lose $20 million despite heavy compliance.

I teamed up with @fintechiseasy to explain how and what to do about it.
https://t.co/e01DQ4jyAa

[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

@_Chapter54 Great to catch up with you all!! See you soon

[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

I’ll always remember the moment I heard that Chowdeck team members were delivering orders themselves.

I’ve seen/heard a lot about African tech companies. This is one of the most remarkable.

In that moment, Chowdeck’s success started to make a lot more sense.

[Femi Aluko @LordBinary_]

Just saw this while scrolling through our old chats. Pecs actually delivered so many meals and competed directly with me and Kunle for the highest number of staff deliveries quarterly.

She also has a hard time sleeping if her feature isn’t live 🥹.

Again, you can’t really be exceptional at something you don’t care about.

This is the ginger I actually need going into Q2.

[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

The tried to put this guy in the same convo as Ode and ESR 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Premier League @premierleague]

Service from Bruno Fernandes 🍽️

🔴 @ManUtd

[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

Africa’s innovation model is a masterclass in market creation!

Following last week's UK-Nigeria state visit, I shared some insights with @EntrepreneurUK on what the UK business community can learn from the continent's entrepreneurs.
https://t.co/ns74yq4YpN

[Olugbeminiyi Idowu @mr_bemi]

@julianaolayinka Happy birthday 🎉🎉🎉