Victor Mapunga

Serial Entrepreneur| Founder | @shona_tech Authorized @Starlink Retailer | StakeStreet | StakeTrade | StakeBoss
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[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

Got to visit @SpaceX HQ 🇺🇸. This is the greatest company in human history!

It's a privilege to be working to bring @Starlink across Africa through Shona Prince Technologies.

Starlink is the most revolutionary technology to grace the continent since the smartphone! Let's go 🚀

[Forbes @Forbes]

SpaceX’s Reported IPO Price Would Make Elon Musk The World’s First Trillionaire https://t.co/lvqDOOWRMI (Photo: Martin Schoeller; Photo illustration: Jamel Toppin)

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

Shona Prince Technologies is now the largest Starlink retailer in Africa! Operating across:
Botswana
Kenya
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Mozambique
Rwanda
Lesotho

Every store we open changes lives.

Students get online.
Businesses go digital.
Communities get connected.

Let's partner!

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

@xdNiBoR I wish there was a way Starlink’s users, supporters and business partners especially in developing markets could participate in this IPO. @elonmusk

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

@_makakaseni @PenzuraWacho Just generate a virtual card with https://t.co/LjqlzEgPd7

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

@SawyerMerritt They should have just given us a V12 version of this.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@IterIntellectus Harnessing even a millionth of the Sun’s power, which is extremely difficult, results in an economic value far more than a million times than that of Earth’s current entire economy

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

@elonmusk @Teslaconomics @IterIntellectus This will be a manufacturing project pretending to be an energy project.
Crack trillion-scale cheap collectors + autonomous orbital assembly, and “the economy” stops being Earth-sized. The first civilization to crack that doesn’t just get energy. It gets Kardashev leverage.

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

@wenyu_wevhu Email: [email protected]

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

We've built a platform that allows even a street vendor to sell you access to global financial markets and stocks like Apple & Tesla!

Yes, you can literally buy or sell any major digital asset from $1 from the street corner with https://t.co/LjqlzEgPd7.

True financial access.

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

@its_Dreamu Email: [email protected]

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

Starting next week, you'll be able to walk into any Shona Prince store across 7 African countries & participate in the global Prediction Markets with cash!

Better yet, register to become an agent on https://t.co/LjqlzEgPd7 & start selling your own vouchers for commission!

[Vinny Lingham @VinnyLingham]

The annals of time have been kind to me so far...

My take on SpaceX is that it's something unlike anything we've ever seen before. It is unlocking a frontier (Space), that humans have never had the commercial ability to monetize, and now we do. What's it worth today? Who knows - maybe $2trn or maybe $1trn. What's it's worth in 20 years time - absolutely multiples of that ($50trn+).

If you can stomach the volatility and have faith in the greatest entrepreneur and industrialist of all time, it's probably the safest bet you can make on a 20 year time horizon.

[OK Then @okaythenfuture]

Within twenty years you will see masses of westerners and even Asians desperate to live in Nairobi.

Nairobi is basically where 1980s Bangkok was, a huge UN hub city that was a delicious secret for UN workers and geriatric tourists.

Eventually the word got out.

I don’t like this,

But it’s going to happen.

It’s going to become one of the global superstar cities for remote wealth/money.

[willard shoko @WillarShoko]

Starlink 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Views made possible by Starlink

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

@iomisawa45090 @StakeStreet_ You unlock float loans automatically when you hit certain transactional tiers. The more you sell vouchers, the more you increase your chances of getting an advance on your liquidity.

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

Actually this is exactly what we do at https://t.co/LjqlzEgPd7,

@StakeStreet_.

A vendor on the street can sell you any digital asset for cash. You can redeem it instantly in your wallet and trade as you please.

[Slim @onu_slim]

If Dangote successfully sells shares through POS terminals, it does not just democratise investing.

It begins the death of apps like Bamboo, Trove, Chaka, Risevest, and Vest.

Access was their entire moat. Their pitch had always been simple….you do not need a stockbroker, just use us.

The moment a POS agent on your street can sell you shares in Africa’s largest refinery, their market strategy is gone.

OPay and Moniepoint have more agents than all those apps have users combined. Dangote pays dollar dividends, which was their last real edge.

If this works, every major Nigerian company planning an IPO will follow the same playbook.

Why pay to acquire users on an investment app when POS infrastructure already reaches 50 million Nigerians?

The apps do not die on IPO day. They die slowly, every time someone buys their first share without ever hearing their name.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@romlib_ Crypto is a legit and indeed inevitable technology. Usually such things are net positive.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

There will also ultimately be >100k V3/V4/V5 satellites for Starlink broadband and direct to cellphone connectivity.

If growth continues, Starlink will one day carry the majority of Internet traffic. At that point, it is the Internet and everything else just connects to Starlink.

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

@tiem_zw You can buy for yourself or buy to resell as an agent, all acceptable and easy. You can engage with Prediction markets yourself or sell Prediction vouchers for a commission. 😎

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

We've built a platform that allows even a street vendor to sell you access to global financial markets and stocks like Apple & Tesla!

Yes, you can literally buy or sell any major digital asset from $1 from the street corner with https://t.co/LjqlzEgPd7.

True financial access.

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

The problem is unemployment and the informal economy. Most of these people aren't rushing to some office park, which is why this form of transportation is convenient for them. Scheduled trains and buses don't change much when the passengers have no schedules to begin with. There's a lot of loitering in African CBDs, most folks have nothing to do there except hustling & meandering.

[Victor Mapunga @victor_mapunga]

@SawyerMerritt We've done our best to populate Southern Africa with Starlink at Shona Prince, built the first ever dedicated retail chain just for Starlink:

https://t.co/NUnnofrWtu