Timileyin Olaifa UX 🦄

Building stuff at @energylucidhq |
Product Architect & Founder building digital infrastructure for Africa’s energy and complex markets.

[Timileyin Olaifa UX 🦄 @timiolaifa]

I wrote about how AI can transform elections in Nigeria, drawing insights from @perplexity_ai’s success and highlighting @inecnigeria's role in building transparent, trustworthy elections.

https://t.co/jZffvVL1An

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#AI #Elections #INEC #Election2024 #NigeriaDecides

[Timileyin Olaifa UX 🦄 @timiolaifa]

@AkinMoses1 Yes boss. A good product isn’t the one with the most cool features, it’s the one people can use easily to solve their problem.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

A founder kept saying "if only we had money we'd do X."

Money is not the fire. Money is gasoline you pour on a fire that already exists.

You don't have a funding problem. You have a "people don't want it yet" problem. Go make the first fire.

[UG🇵🇹 @UgwunnaEjikem]

If you get an opportunity to reinvent your life, to evolve for better, don’t fuck it up.

[Timileyin Olaifa UX 🦄 @timiolaifa]

@YoriOlajide Oh! I don't fly first class. Yet.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This is what the older generations should try and do more often

[Marc Lou @marclou]

10 years as an entrepreneur and 1 takeaway:

Don't you dare give up.

[Niyi @theniyifagbemi]

Ojude Oba 2026! 🇳🇬

Shot by me 📸

[Naval @naval]

You aren’t starting a company. You’re laying bricks in the foundation of a skyscraper.

[Name cannot be blank @hackSultan]

Let’s all be having the fear of God.
Java is not like other languages, it’s not like a library of a framework. It’s a foundational language. And your budget for a senior with up to 10 years experience is 400 - 900k per month?

I understand that sometimes, startups don’t have hiring budgets like big companies, the solution to that is to budget like 1M for a part time senior java dev. Not offer 400k for a full time senior java engineer.

[Neto @docneto]

Scaling to $1 million in ARR is hard but nothing prepares you for going from $1 million to $10 million. You have to transition from building products to building the machine that builds the products and that's a different skill set that's made harder by talent scarcity.

In my industry of health tech, for instance, only 6 startups have raised a Series A in Nigeria. This means there are only a handful of operators with experience scaling, so you often have to hire newbies who will figure things out by trial and error. This translates to slower growth and a longer arc towards ultimate success.

Anyone doing a startup in Nigeria is literally building from scratch. Kudos to everyone in the trenches; it's hard but valuable work. Keep pushing.

[Fola Olatunji-David @folasanwo]

Road Safety by the airport stopped my driver today.

Driver called me panicking that he can’t find the fire extinguisher and C-Caution and the officer is hassling him. I remembered the post from a few days ago about the cost of the charges being around N3-5k.

I spoke to the officer, told him even though I knew it’s somewhere in the car, he should please issue us a ticket and let him continue my errand. He was let off with a warning.

Please help me tag that tweet I want to see the actual costs and RT for awareness. 😀

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

"Some women are making life difficult for other women."

- Lady says

[Chris Long @chris_nectiv]

Big SEO News: Google has officially posted an "LLMs.txt" page to the Chrome Developers site.

"Without this file, agents may spend more time crawling the site to understand its high-level structure and primary content."

[Samuel C. Okanume @sammychrise]

One of my favorite movies ever. Still hits every time.

🎬 Pursuit Of Happiness

[Michael Jackson jr @Majellachi8g]

Went to see the Micheal Jackson movie and loved it.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

this exterior design in Vietnam.

[Simon Thazhigilla Simon🇳🇬 @Thazhigilla_]

Dear Nigerians,
The word is Akara, not "spicy bean cake"
The word is Garri, not "roasted cassava flakes"
The word is Moi-moi, not "steamed bean pudding".

Your name is Thazhigilla, not "Thaz".
Your name is Ekendirichukwu, not "Kendi".
Your name is Anjolaoluwa, not "Anjy".

The Italians don’t call Pizza "flat dough"
The French still call it "Croissant"
The Japanese still call it "Sushi"

Stop gentrifying our food and your beautiful names to sound "posh". Be proud🇳🇬✊🏾

[Ewgi @Ssaasquatch]

The US is a whole different world entirely bro. The most valuable Nigerian company is worth $14bn meanwhile Anthropic just raised at $965bn.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.”

— Jeff Bezos

[Perseus @PerseusLeGrand]

Je parle souvent du orange, mais le vert est aussi une couleur exceptionnelle.