Afropolitan 🅰️🌶
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Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives.
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Tonye Cole couldn't win a contract in Nigeria as a 27 year old Nigerian. So he and his partners invented a white boss. Registered a company in the Isle of Man, gave it a European name, and walked into Lagos offices pretending to be his staff. Worked for 3 years. That company became Sahara Group. New episode. Out now
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶183,718 просмотров • 14 дней назад
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. Preston Timeyin Preston Ideh, CEO of Stears, breaks down the data Africa keeps refusing to look at.
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“Tinubu by the age of 35 was presidential candidate material.. Same thing with Peter Obi. Built a bank. Who in our generation owns one? …We are a generation of influencers. So people are trained to perform not to build. People want to perform building a company. Perform entrepreneurship. We’re just different versions of Davido” Iyin on the Afropolitan podcast
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“Everybody who’s invested in Generative AI needs to regret it in 20 years, if I’m successful Elon has trillions of dollars to build generative AI, my job is to make sure the economics are so deflationary, you get better quality for cheaper. ..To basically disrupt silicon valley, with Human AI. Thats where we’re going. How do we make young Africans human beings with robot capabilities..” Iyin breaks down his longterm vision to disrupt the economics and future of AI on the Afropolitan podcast
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“When I hear some people say how can their wife be the one paying I say, better let her pay for now. I don’t think I would’ve been able to achieve all that I did if I did not have that confidence somebody was watching my back and providing Today, I can afford everything, my wife is enjoying the money, she doesn’t have to work. The compounded interest worked beautifully.” Tonye Cole speaks on the role his relationship played on his journey to success on the Afropolitan podcast
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Vusi Thembekwayo speaks on the growing tension between South Africans and Nigerians
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“You get rich, in one of 3 ways— one, by producing the cheapest product two, by selling the most expensive product three, by the government forcing everybody to buy from you. every billionaire fits one of the three..” Iyin speaks on the three ways to get (really) rich on the Afropolitan podcast
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“If you’re a Black person investing in SpaceX, you have to ask yourself: how does this align with the things that matter most to me? …Dangote Refinery has put us on the map. I’ll probably buy one share—not because it’ll make me rich, but as a symbol of African industrialization.” …Elon is building for his own world. He’s not building for you”. Iyin Aboyeji on the Afropolitan podcast
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David Oyelowo's mother lived in one bedroom in Lagos with 5 people. Dreamed of her Mercedes for decades. Got a brain aneurysm the day they moved into their Hollywood home. She prayed Selma into existence. Never saw him become MLK. This is timeline grief, when success arrives after the witness leaves.
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Being “too much” is a real dating filter—and Eni doesn’t shrink to fit. Two Ivy League degrees, a law career, and 400K people watching her every move. She opens up about what it looks like to be a successful woman navigating modern dating. Do you think being “too much” actually limits your options, or just filters for the right ones?
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶72,320 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Juice featuring Maleek Berry was still playing in every club. ZAHEER! wasn't making a dollar from it. Then he got diagnosed with bipolar disorder, disappeared for 4 years, and came back with the most honest interview he's ever done. New Afropolitan 🅰️🌶 podcast. Link below.
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶30,973 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
$700 for a brand deal. Her management renegotiated: $7,000. Same creator. Same brand. 10x difference. Eni Popoola went from Harvard → Columbia Law → Big Law → full-time creator. We talked about why culture is the leverage Black people keep undervaluing. New episode 🎙️🔗
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Venture Capital is adventure capital. You send 10 ships out and expect some to never come back. Private Equity says every ship comes back with gold. Most African founders raised the wrong one for the business they were actually building. Which game are you playing?
Afropolitan 🅰️🌶10,970 просмотров • 20 дней назад
“One thing I miss about the older times was that yes you needed to have a level of considerable finances to push music but if you didn’t have those finances, you could get down and dirty to do the work yourself I sold CDs in traffic but now they’re asking for N200m ($150k) to push one single.” Ycee on The Afropolitan podu
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