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19 Apr, 10 tweets, 5 min read
“Gojek Co-CEO to Head App Giant After Merger With Tokopedia.” Nicely done. Essentially an acquisition of Tokopedia by Gojek, combining the biggest commerce tech venture with the biggest fintech venture in Indonesia. Interesting! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Interesting from the perspective of this tweet👇 now aging well, like fine wine. (I expect the trend and deals like this to uptick in the frontier markets 2021-2025.)
And I expect Social verticals to join in the fray before that 2025.
These considerations went into our design of the @PayPeckerHQ BPFI product, which enables us to act as commerce infrastructure company to the ecosystem, via our O2O-API, abstracting real-time offline inventory positions of retailers/restaurants for exposure to online aggregators. Image
This’d enable many interesting use cases e.g. imagine combining @Carbon’s BNPL offering into a seamless realtime integration via @PayPeckerHQ that allows their BNPL offering to extend to BOTH online purchases and walk-in customers at retailers—and in realtime o!
Or an integrated @gtbank MarketHub being able to marry a BNPL offering from their #737 instant loan to purchases happening on Markethub (+monetize the payment flows), not just for online, but also for walk-in customers at physical outlets of those same Hub retailers/restaurants.
Summary: @PayPeckerHQ provides software infrastructure that allows FIs & fintechs in the ecosystem to embed their fintech and finance offerings deeper, in REALTIME, into places commerce really happen in Naija/SSA—whether online or OFFLINE, which is where mostly happens. Anyway!
P.S: we’ll also enable an ecosystem of new commerce fulfilment models via @PayPeckerHQ’s APIs in Naija/SSA that they never had need for abroad. Fulfilment was already a solved problem b4 dawn of ecommerce, abroad: we’re building African solutions to African problems. Stay tuned😎 Image
We will able to enable experiences being delivered by new commerce-enabled fintech startups👇🏻 in Nigeria and SSA, not only to online retailers, but ALSO offline ones! Which are then enabled to plug-in their store/inventory directly online real-time!!! weav.co/blog/welcome-t…
Imagine if all retailers & restaurants in Africa had *real-time* online direct connection of their stores/inventory to ALL channels they could POSSIBLY sell on?! Yep! @PayPeckerHQ wants to abstract that data to API form & expose it to fintechs, commerce & logistics aggregators Image

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29 Apr
Just imagine, that ALL these entities👇 with the highest traffic in Naija wanted to host commerce & fintech-enabled experiences WITHIN their apps (aka SuperApp)?

@PayPeckerHQ APIs is the infrastructure that links their high demand/traffic aggregation heft👇to THAT world! Image
So, you’re making a bet on @BetKingNG and you remembered you need cornflakes? Right, within the @BetKingNG app, add cornflakes and the cornflakes is delivered to you from the nearest retailer closest to that has the best fill-rate for your request—FREE + WITHIN 10 minutes! YES!!!
Oh! You don’t have the money to pay now? Not a problem, select @get_carbon’s Zero as payment option and native their BNPL offering is made available to you—NATIVELY and seamlessly!!! There are TOO MANY use cases I can’t even think about or yet fathom. But this should be BIG!!!
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10 Dec 20
“Squire’s revenue went from zero in March, when all barber shops closed, to $10m-$20m in ARR...10 months later....The growth indicates how the next wave of barbershops will be built...’We just took off like a lightning bolt,’ co-founder Dave Salvant says.” techcrunch.com/2020/12/09/squ…
Hopin’s business took off. Unsolicited offers from investors started pouring in. Hopin raised a fresh $40m from VCs...and w/out even building a deck, the company garnered a further $125m, valuing it at $2.1B, 77x up from 1yr ago!

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... And still, Mr. Boufarhat said, “investors are reaching out almost daily.”

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10 Dec 20
I came out of semi-retirement to start this my present venture journey in mid-2012, as a grocery ecommerce endeavor to capture the vertical opportunity in the rapidly expanding ecommerce landscape in Nigeria & SSA, which I founded a month b4 Konga/Jumia & launched 2 months after.
And we were on track @Gloo_ng in this regard, until the recession of 2016/17 landed that essentially took out every single ecommerce company of that era—except Jumia and us....
The most enduring lesson I took from those first 5 years of this journey was that physical products-based *consumer* tech startups in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa would be losing—or at best, middling—venture-backed propositions for at least the next 10years, or thereabout.
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9 Dec 20
A good example of below tweet is this👇🏻 The startup behind it is commoditizing the B2C game for its B2C competitors by unleashing legacy competitors bigly into the space through providing them an API that allows them deliver this JTBD, which is now a pain for the middle class.
Those who are familiar with my DMQA understand this is what one would call “a cross-quadrant move.”

Do you know any other founders/ventures executing “cross-quadrant moves,” generally from the left side of the DMQA to the right? Please share.
What is interesting is that a lot of our tech and financial biggies too are gonna be making “cross-quadrant” moves—but in the opposite direction! Interesting!
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22 May 20
There’s this perfidy in Nigeria that people try to push about how being a tenant is seemingly a bad thing. Startup version is when they push for folks to start their own business like sth’s wrong w/ being an employee. Error in these thought tricks is apparent from 1st principles.
It leads to young people making very suboptimal decisions w/ the little networth they’re able to generate early in life. Guys listen, there’s FAR more to life than not paying landlord rent. Good test of IQ of this way: “what %age of businesses own office they operate from?”
It was when I attempted buying a house in cash that it dawned on me how very little N180m is. And how financially stupid it’d really be to take that line of action. God saved me from this perfidy of parents+peer pressure. The house money in networth can buy >40 of same house now.
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12 May 20
“DO’s Magic Quadrant for Africa,” aka DMQA Framework(clean vrsn). Next quadrant for deep dive into its characteristics is the “Anything Can Happen” quadrant. Stay tuned.
So, here goes the deep dive for the "Anything Can Happen Quadrant," or Quadrant D by implication. The general attributes of this quadrant are the following:
Business Model Characteristics:
Pure Software/Software Heavy: software products that A.) require little to no agency of any human being from the company in order for the consumer to interact with, either in the way the consumers...
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