I’ve been keeping this a secret for a while, but earlier this year I made one of the biggest bets of my career & this time it's not in Silicon Valley or New York. It's in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
I'm proud to officially announce that I'm an investor & advisor to @higgsfield
Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won't want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.
If you're good, you'll be copied. If you're great, you'll be copied badly.
I've lived this in wilder ways than I can tweet. The only real defence is to keep being the best version of the thing they're imitating.
Stay the best at what you do while you do it, and the copies become free marketing.
Vibe coded a web app 14days ago, started marketing 8 days ago.
Result: 6,673 users
Revenue: 10m
Deposit count: 1,352
I’ll say am an elite marketing strategist when it comes to scaling app and software.
Somewhere out there, someone has decided they’re done with life and want to commit suicide but they’re waiting for the next season of their favorite show first.
You never know what someone is holding on for.
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Our ambition is bigger than technology parks.
We are positioning Nigeria to become Africa’s premier destination for digital innovation, technology investment, high-value services and knowledge industries, in the way Delaware and Silicon Valley serve companies in the United States.
We want African companies to be incorporated in Nigeria, financed here and governed from here, while serving markets across Africa and the world.
I want a young Nigerian in Kano, Enugu, Warri, Minna, Maiduguri or Ibadan to be able to work for a global company without leaving home, and I want our founders to raise capital globally while their companies and intellectual property remain in Nigeria.
When these businesses grow here, they employ Nigerians, use Nigerian professional services and retain more of the value they create in our economy.
“There is no monopoly unless it is protected by law. Nobody says you cannot establish a refinery. If you can raise $22 billion, go through what Aliko went through and build one, you are welcome.”
He further added: Do not sit down, invest in Switzerland, France or England, and complain about monopoly. Sell those assets and invest in Nigeria.”
— Emir Muhammad Sanusi II