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Samuel Ekpe

3 months

TINY Architecture is all we need. LLMs are too big and computationally expensive, SLMs are more efficient but the future is TINY - Extremely lightweight Thought/Logic based models. Here’s my proposal of how it looks.

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3 years

@Delaney7Meg @RexChapman Emphathy is 100%. He’s communicating what should be done and what he would have done

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

My prediction: Next step will be for @travisk to get Uber Eats as customer of CloudKitchen and aim for profitability. Then Uber will offer $15bn to buy 20% stake in struggle to survive and become profitable after poor performance; and @travisk will return to steer the ship as CEO

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5 years

Travis Kalanick has now sold his entire stake in Uber. All of it.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

9 months

@Suhail does the White House know what floating point operations or what 10`26 is? someone is feeding them the information- regulating behind the scenes.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

Tencent folks said Opay was setup to compete directly with Jumia, Opay> JumiaPay Olist>JumiaHouse Omarket>Jumia Marketplace Otravel>Jumia Travel Ostay>Jumia Hotels, Omove (Oride, OBus, Otride) >Jumia Open Logistics Ofood>Jumia Food

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5 years

OPay should be renamed OperaLabs. They are doing amazing consumer internet experiments on Nigerian streets at the moment. I think this lack of fear to experiment is what the local ecosystem needs. Anyone else with $50m to test things? You can form a consortium.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 months

@ID_AA_Carmack I agree! The best programmers don’t like to code, they want to oversee, orchestrate and manage execution. However, I believe that a new marketplace will exist for Human expert to guide AI to build for clients - democratizing software creation. That’s what we’re building @grupa_io

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 months

We are launching platform at @AGIHouseSF hackathon to enable hackers to showcase what they built and get VC to reach out and invest.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

1 year

@terronk Fast micro environment

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

What is Capital ? - Human capital - Knowledge (& Wisdom) - Relationship & Network - Character - Money

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

10 months

“Disagree with the people that are okay with the status quo.” A Pompliano

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

@APompliano

10 months

Founders are the people most likely to change the world. We should embrace free market capitalism, encourage ambition, and empower the people insane enough to try to build solutions from scratch to solve our problems.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

Have a challenging idea, and seeking to build iteratively?.Kindly reach out to @Grupa_io (), to spin off innovative engineering teams on demand

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

7 years

@NPR this is all to distract us.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

@rabois It’s amazing how @peterthiel mastered the art of consistently picking great talent.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

7 years

@BBCWorld Game of thrones in Action!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

9 months

@vkhosla “there are two kinds of people, those who extrapolate the world and there are those who invent the world they want”. #invent_the_future

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

@paulg Character is the operating system of people

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

@paulg Here’s where to find the correct data:

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

@paulg @atadewunmi Yes, I believe Nigeria will lead the next wave of innovation globally

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

I had a really interesting conversation with @FrancisSuarez . He was compelled about @grupa_io and our vision to democratize access to innovation and I was sold on Miami as the future of capital. @FrancisSuarez thanks for inviting me back for caffecito. Will be back in 2 weeks

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

It was such an amazing soccer game today; thanks @zebulgar @connor_pohl @thegeorgberger and everyone who played with us. Not to forget @pearlychen and all friends who came to support us. @rabois thanks for scoring the equalizer. So much fun!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

I was with Tencent folks this week and they studied the Rocket internet model and books. Recruited the best folks and said the Opay was an MVP, they are not started yet.

Osaretin Victor Asemota

@asemota

5 years

Are Chinese the new Rocket Internet in Africa? I mentioned sometime ago that big money was coming. Most of it hasn’t even landed yet. We will soon see single investors dropping $100m+ I worry about how they’re going about it. No pretense at all. At least give us dinner first😭

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

The future of work is flexible work mode not remote: permutations of which are (remote, onsite or distributed). Remote work only provides talent/accessibility and cost arbitrage. But location, ownership and control is still inherently valuable for businesses

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

3 years

There’s a WAR for talents not just here in Silicon Valley but Globally, fast growing startups are held back due to bottleneck in scaling their product engineering teams, meanwhile there’s surplus teams in FAANG companies who are underutilized and looking to become Angel investors

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

My Prediction: [thread] Massive layoffs is coming to the tech ecosystem in the US, this is due to the slow growth of venture backed companies, lack of follow on funds, and investors risk appetite. Companies will downsize their product, design, and engineering teams by 75%.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

8 months

@alexcarliera Imagine this integrated into Zoom. No need for video calls again!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

“There’s a light of only we are brave enough to see it and bold enough to be it” Amanda Gorman

CNBC Make It

@CNBCMakeIt

4 years

Amanda Gorman, the Youth Poet Laureate of 2017, delivers her poem “The Hill We Climb,” at President Joe Biden's inauguration. #InaugurationDay

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

7 years

@hotelsng Instead use this $74,000 to sponsor 5 students on tuition free scholarship. Life should be about adding value to people who can't pay back!!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

@hardmaru He will Change the world

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

@KateClarkTweets Interesting: “to spread the wave of goodness across the planet”

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

Imagine getting Google Engineers to build your product? Well with Grupa you can!. Grupa helps innovators access world-class product engineering teams to build their products. We just launched @Grupa_io on @ProductHunt .

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

1 month

@dncandia Congrats! I got into the MIT entrepreneurship program too but couldn’t afford to make it. Great story

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

@NaijaFlyingDr “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

@aditishekar Instant is default experience in emerging market: we should go learn from them

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

3 years

Epic Learning Thread from My conversation with Marty Cagan today on clubhouse. People buy products because of what's different not whats the same. On MVPs MVP is grossly misunderstood, first because of lack of knowledge, mindset and tools.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

1 year

@Suhail Wow; I saw someone enabling AI to run a startup and giving it $100 seed money

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 months

@wbhub Lifestyle activities account for most health related issues; drug is prescription that doesn’t solve underlying issues. Prevention is better than cure; but if we must cure, let’s not treat symptoms

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

People don’t buy products: they buy progress! Shift your thinking from job to be done to progress to be made. To invent the future: Build progress not solutions!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 months

@deedydas I wrote about this couple of months ago;

Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

3 months

TINY Architecture is all we need. LLMs are too big and computationally expensive, SLMs are more efficient but the future is TINY - Extremely lightweight Thought/Logic based models. Here’s my proposal of how it looks.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

9 months

This weekend, I will be mentoring teams building the future with AI at @StartupWeekend San Francisco, Looking forward to pushing the veil of ignorance backward and innovation forward.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

1 year

@amasad @Outsideness The obsession to automate is the force that drives capitalism

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

1 year

@abcampbell @bradneuberg He’s baiting, threatening and flattering them at thesame time. Classical game theory

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

@ankitkr0 Story is the operating system of the world

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

Super honored for @grupa_io to be voted the favorite company after pitching at @Stonks_dot_com demoday by investors like @m2jr and @ethankurz . We had over 1.6M interest & 53k wired in less than 15 min. Thanks @ali_moiz & @john_at_stonks for hosting! and everyone who invested

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

@areogunboy The Hausa people understand democracy, they vote for personalities not parties. They voted for Buhari and voted out their APC governor

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

@docolumide Nigeria is up there with internet coverage but most of the sales happen offline, only about 4% is online

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

1 year

June last year; I went to host a soccer game in Miami with friends like @zebulgar and got to meet @FrancisSuarez . Ive always loved 🇺🇸 and wanted to build in the greatest country in the world. That week, i got miraculous approval for L1 visa: Till this day, I’m grateful to God!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

H1B is broken! it needs to be fixed. We need more flexible and dynamic work visa for immigrants. People should not be tied to 1 employer or have to be put in impossible situation where they have to struggle to find a job in short time (compromising) or return under short notice.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

@NWischoff Dropped you a DM

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

10 months

@HumzaElahi_ @DavidSacks There’s a video of the Hamas thanking Ukraine for selling them weapons. I believe in potential corruption there

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

11 months

AI paper: Context and Understanding is all you need. This will pioneer the new wave for AI and change how LLMs work with a breakthrough architecture

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

7 years

@TheAnonJournal Israel PM was like , wtf is wrong with this guy?

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

Excited about our progress so far at @Grupa_io . As we move on to the next chapter, we are seeking to get a CTO on board to join us on the mission to create an ecosystem where internet platforms are built. If you’re interested please shoot me an email: samuel @platohub .com

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

3 years

@mikekarnj Read The Goal- a process of ongoing improvements by Eliyahu

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

8 years

@ABC Nigeria will welcome you with open hands and treat you with respect and dignity. We are loving and caring.!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

Flutterwave did it before the Nigerian government

Osaretin Victor Asemota

@asemota

5 years

“This means that all our merchants can accept or install Alipay as a payment type to accept payments from its billion users,” Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola — aka GB — told TechCrunch. Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

Grinding till 10pm. Building the next big thing @grupa_io

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

3 years

@HarryStebbings Congrats

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

@slow @KevinColleran @lessin @wquist @mmlightcap @yrechtman @crabbylions Congrats

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

Let’s go… now in private beta

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

9 months

@pitdesi , @bchesky I see what you did here Bucks Woodside!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

@Jessetheranter Lol, you need to negotiate your way in. What’s in it for the people who will help you open the door?

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

@latimes This is getting interesting. Men are saying # Metoo

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

It’s difficult, time consuming and expensive for High Growth Startups to compete for talents and building a world class product team. The alternative was to turn to marketplace platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, Toptal, Gigster or other partner with software engineering shops...

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

@NaijaFlyingDr “Imagine if this monument was in England, USA, Germany, Canada or India? It would be the most visited place on earth, and a tourist mecca for millions of the world’s people. A money-spinner worth countless billions in annual tourist revenue.”

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

@ayooladejo @asemota Even Jack ma was given the name ‘Jack’ by a tourist and he kept it (because he had foresight of doing something global)

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

@paulg Creative work is best done in person; productive work is best done remotely. Companies will be more productive and less creative this month!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

If Apple wants to do a consumer social app and search engine : they should buy clubhouse! This way they can compete with google and Facebook!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

I am hosting founders soccer event next Sunday with @rabois , @zebulgar and friends in Miami. Any founder wants to join the waitlist to be selected to play? Here’s the link to RSVP for the soccer game

Founders Soccer in Miami · Luma

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

8 months

@philip_ruffini I love that! Who is the guy? I’ll love to work with him

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

3 years

Declaration of the @grupa_io movement

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

@domm Name: Grupa Url: Funding Round: Seed Location: SF, US Pitch: Product Innovation for High Growth Companies

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

8 years

very interesting

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8 years

319 million people and it has come down to this..

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Samuel Ekpe

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3 years

9days, 20hrs to @grupa_io private beta rollout. Pilot currently op to YC, Ondeck and a16z startups; please let me know if you’ll love to join the priority startup list; or tag someone who should get access

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

1 year

Congrats ⁦ @zebulgar ⁩ , ⁦ @VardaSpace ⁩ :

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Samuel Ekpe

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3 months

@alexrkonrad @SarahNEmerson @kenrickcai @ebakerwhite I visited them both and we know who the real founder is: Jeremy

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 months

@mrexits He said Western Europe

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

7 months

@eriktorenberg Congratulations

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

@JamesClear The dream, the grit, the Man How he built a trillion dollar company from scratch.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

@NaijaFlyingDr "While a modern Benin City has risen, the ruins of its former, grander namesake are not mentioned in any tourist guidebook to the area. They have not been preserved, nor has a miniature city or touristic replica been made to keep alive the memory of this great ancient city."

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

we just launched our beta release on product hunt; please support our launch by leaving comments, feedback and reviews

Product Hunt Hi

@ProductHuntHi

2 years

@samuelekpe FYI, you've been added as a maker of on @ProductHunt h/t @chrismessina 🙌

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Samuel Ekpe

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1 year

@kvogt @Cruise congrats! its time to normalize autonomous rides

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

3 months

@shiringhaffary @LianaBaker @markgurman lol; i said a long time ago; Humane isn't going to make it

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

7 years

@Ndxli Nice to see @lindaikeji breaking into the Media and production Industry

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

@bryce Yup: underutilized human capital is the future of work; we’re leveraging that @grupa_io

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

@rabois @rsg @alexbilz @rexsalisbury @zebulgar @petegilligan I had a chat with @FrancisSuarez today and extended my stay by a day to meet and explore the city. @rabois are you saying I’m hooked and I don’t just know it yet?

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

6 years

@NaijaFlyingDr Our problem: lack of documentation, maintenance and cross continental trade

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

1 year

How do you hire ELITE Big Tech Engineers to work with your startup on flexible schedule? How do you compensate them and align on expectations? How much should you compensate in equity and cash? How can you manage IP and other potential risks?

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

@d_problemsolver The Hausas do not vote for party, they vote for personalities

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

3 months

@tanayj can we buy it on auction and run a competition to Slack? is there a software auction platform for startups or products that are shutting down?

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

5 years

Lesson for today: it’s not about you “Build something people want and love; not something you love!”

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

4 years

Currency and location are tools; use them strategically

Dr Ola Brown

@NaijaFlyingDr

4 years

Money according to its definition should have three main functions: a. A unit of account b. A medium of exchange c. A store of value The less aligned your currency becomes to these criteria, the closer it becomes to toilet paper.

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

It was such a pleasure chatting with you @FrancisSuarez : Since Miami is the future of capital; we’re here to accelerate innovation and democratize access to enable founders build the next generation companies. PS: I love the weather, beaches and food

Mayor Francis Suarez

@FrancisSuarez

2 years

Enjoy our #CafecitoTalk with @samuelekpe , CEO and Co-Founder of @grupa_io Grupa democratizes access to innovation and connects talented engineers with founders to continue growing Miami as the Capital of Capital!

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

2 years

@FeryalFerdowsi @ericzhu105 @grupa_io Thanks for mentioning us; @ericzhu105 we’re building the ecosystem where innovative companies are built! Today we start by connecting startups with FAANG teams to work for equity and cash

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Samuel Ekpe

@samuelekpe

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