Eche Emole 🅰️🌶
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Co-founder @Afropolitan | Building the first digital nation for the African diaspora. Tech, culture & sovereignty—without borders.
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2009
If you’re building in Africa, this is required listening. Ticketmaster doesn’t work in Nigeria. Eventbrite can’t keep up. Even Flutterwave and Paystack have limits. So Dayo Ayoade built his own payments engine—capable of 2.2M transactions per second—just to power concerts like
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RT @nzisakiilu: Humble brag…They won’t believe a little girl from Kenya built the orchestration engine for this, but I did!.
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definitely a must watch.
Olu’s podcast with Afropolitan should be everywhere. Really !!.
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500,000 people spent close to $1 billion in Nigeria last year. On what?.Not fintech. Not crypto. CULTURE. Afrobeats. Fashion. Tourism. The billion-dollar opportunity everyone's sleeping on 🎵.@theafrovc of @OuiCapital breaks it down
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RT @konvashon: Thank you @afropolitan every episode have been a hit. Amazing host, amazing guests, amazing set, amazing topics amazing ever….
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RT @TAGbyOuiCapital: In @afropolitan's recent podcast, our Director, Olu Oyinsan shared key insights from our Afrobeats report on the genre….
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RT @TAGbyOuiCapital: With the right investment, structure, and global partnerships, Afrobeats can go beyond culture and become a long-term….
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RT @TAGbyOuiCapital: There’s potential for Lagos’ nighttime economy to be a billion-dollar industry, and Afrobeats is at the center of it.….
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"Did the founder go to Stanford?".That was the first question a $100M+ fund asked about Moniepoint @moniepoint. They said no. Fund passed. Moniepoint is now worth $1 BILLION. @moniepoint .The fund? "Waiting to die.".This is how bias can cost billions. @theafrovc @OuiCapital
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Happy Birthday @theafrovc and thank you for giving us a masterclass on the Afropolitan podcast.
“Did the founder go to Stanford?”. That’s what a $100M fund asked when @theafrovc pitched Moniepoint @moniepoint. They passed. Today it’s a $1B company. That fund? “Waiting to die.”. This Afropolitan Podcast episode is a masterclass in:.— Backing underdogs early.— Spotting
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RT @afropolitan: “Did the founder go to Stanford?”. That’s what a $100M fund asked when @theafrovc pitched Moniepoint @moniepoint. They p….
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RT @videtteadjor: In 2019, I interviewed with the company that bought @sortedchale in a 7 figure acquisition, and my offer was retracted be….
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RT @AutismCapital: 🚨 HUNTER BIDEN: “I don’t know anyone where if you took Stephen Miller, and you played a clip of the things he says, and….
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"What we recognise in a man, we also irritate in him. Therefore be on your guard against the small ones! In thy presence they feel themselves small, and their baseness gleameth and gloweth against thee in invisible vengeance".
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RT @Echecrates: I may not always get it right. But I’m never pretending I don’t know what right feels like.
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A lot of men haven’t just stopped approaching,.they’ve quiet-quit the dating game altogether. Social media, fear of cancellation, and the loss of healthy masculine initiation have created a generation of men more comfortable in the DMs than in real life. This clip explains why.
Why are so few young men approaching girls now?. Massive shift underway where you have 8-9s yearning to be chatted up. They get dressed up to go out, but all for nothing.
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