|#407 MWAVC| — Sunday (Tuesday) Reads🗞️🗞️🗞️🗞️
Hi,
Welcome to MWAVC, a newsletter about finance, investing, venture capital and all that jazz. My name is Ato (more about me here) and I try to write every single day. Most of it is stuff I find interesting that I’d like to share and hear your thoughts on. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on.
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Apologies for the delay, but here we are.
European Super League: 'A seismic, pivotal week in football - but game not yet over’: Welp, that ended quite quickly…🙃. Although I perfectly understand the logic behind this, may have been a better way to go around it.
Swiss Billionaire Is Said to End His Bid for Tribune Publishing: Sad end to a pretty interesting saga I followed for a couple of months.
YC-backed Kidato raises $1.4M seed to scale its online school for K-12 students in Africa: Pandemic getting folks to think a lot outside the box.
Kenya Is Becoming a Global Hub of FinTech Innovation: Some months back I asked some friends what sector each African country would be known for and Kenya came back as the leaders in fintech and agritech. What’s Ghana going to be known for.
Superforecasting: How to Upgrade Your Company’s Judgment: On making yourself a better judge of the future.
Inside Jay-Z’s Weed Lab: “Feel for you bro, we know the system don't work, take a young nigga freedom over some dirt, Yet it's legal in Colorado, yet, we deny, Black entrepreneurs, free enterprise”
These Guys Are Very Different’: Inside Andreessen Horowitz’s Rise: On becoming one of the most storied VC firms in the Valley. A16Z’s story.
Who is ‘The African Consumer’?: “In Fortune at the middle of the pyramid, we argue, among other things, that the most significant opportunity for African B2C startups lies with consumers who earn between $4 — $8 per day (if you haven’t read that essay yet, we would recommend doing so).”
Softbank backed OPay Eyes North Africa After Nigeria Success: Seen these folks wreck havoc in Nigeria. Time to take over the rest of the continent.
Atlas Mara: What went wrong at Bob Diamond and Ashish Thakkar’s bank: 🙃🙃🙃
5 months after expanding to South Africa, Nigeria’s Kiakiaprint goes to the US and Canada: Will we see more companies expanding to the West rather than through the rest of Africa?
You should say No more often: Word to Ato.
📱📱Quote of the day
“be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character–be careful of your character for your character becomes your destiny.”
Remember: “Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”
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