He grew up in Leeds with money and his dad played professional football in England. Money to him is what water is to fish, he knows how to be himself inside it.
Nigerian-American engineer & Harvard grad Yinka Ogunbiyi built HaloBraid, the world's first braid-assist robot, easing strain on stylists & saving salons time. $7M raised, 7,000+ salons waitlisted. American innovation, global impact. #AmericanExcellence in action.
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In 2004, CNBC interviewed two young founders in the same segment.
One was a 19-year-old from Harvard who said his site had "maybe 100,000 people" and he hoped to "make something cool."
That kid was Mark Zuckerberg.
Nobody remembers the other founder. Not his name. Not his startup. Nothing.
Same show. Same age. Same shot.
Why?
Most African founders are building for a customer who can't afford them.
Nigeria's GDP per capita? Around $1,000 a year. Down from over $3,000 a decade ago.
But the pitch decks still price like it's San Francisco.
@TimeyinPI Preston Ideh, CEO of @StearsData, breaks down the data Africa keeps refusing to look at.
What Messi did to England in his career will forever leave them crying on his name, he won three of his four UCL trophies by beating them and at the end of his career he ended the only hope they had of reaching the World Cup final. He’s their biggest nightmare