Timi

Banks and fintechs have spent a decade trying to build financial identity for Africa’s unbanked adults. It fails at scale; the high-signal data simply doesn’t exist at adulthood. @Lifeprint_Labs is the foundational longitudinal data pipeline for Human Capital AI systems; capturing 10+ years of consented behavioral, psychomotor, and academic signals per child from age 4 inside classrooms, creating the proprietary training dataset that powers accurate AI models for banking, insurance, talent placement, and ID-verification for the next 1B Young Africans. Unlike other, we do not ask for data, we get paid to acquire it through 3 products that serves as data ingestion engines. In 10 years, Lifeprint will become the default trust layer for the economic activities of the next one billion young Africans. Here is what I mean: Mary. Grade 10. Lagos, Nigeria. Mastercard queries our database for students matching their scholarship criteria; strong improvement trajectory, financial need, STEM performance. Mary's Lifeprint matches. The scholarship is disbursed directly into her Neo by Acceede account. She applies to Harvard. Harvard accesses her Lifeprint to verify her academic record; not a certificate that could be faked, but ten years of verified, platform-generated data. At the US embassy, they access the same record to confirm her identity. She arrives in the US, gets a part-time job, and AIG prices her insurance premium using her Lifeprint behavioural data. She uses her Neo by Acceede account to pay school fees for her junior brother and send some stipend to her Mum back in Nigeria. Five years later, a Tier 1 accelerator finds her through our talent pipeline because her profile matches their breakthrough entrepreneur pattern. Just sent in our @hf0 application. @boardyai, what do you think?

GenZ children on <NGN200K salary dey do office lunch from Chowdeck/Chicken Rep, wetin do Mama Put???

The will of GOD will cost you. –Min. Theophilus Sunday

Anything is possible, just not on your terms.

The good thing is, I'm not afraid of suffering.

Billion dollar company: build standard WhatsApp-based CS/Marketing/CRM tools for businesses powering African SMEs/informal sector.

When the attention monetization industry (ads) goes mainstream in Africa via WhatsApp because brands can reach consumers directly, without consent, (imagine receiving unsolicited DMs from strangers), then WhatsApp will be ripe for disruption. Till then, distribute via WhatsApp.

One day, in fact very soon, you'd see this: @Lifeprint_Labs raises $1M to build human capital A.I infrastructure for the next 1Billion young Africans. Go and write this down, or take a screenshot.

Were it not for the blood of JESUS, I'd have launched an Attonement-as-a-Service startup. Daily/weekly/monthly subscription, depending on your depravity. JESUS saved you guys, big time. Happy sunday. 😹😹😹😹😹

Saw a customer that churned today. Is this how you people feel whenever you see your ex? The churn costs me NGN750,000 per year.🥲Don't ask me, of course, I've not moved on.🥲 I beg of thee, take me back, abeg.🙏

Elon Musk is the literal definition of Zero to One; the real embodiment of American Dynamism. Damn!

As you build the business, the business builds you.

Except you're plugged into GOD, you have zero chance of fully reaching and exploring your potentials, especially intellectually.

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." –Leonardo da Vinci. Reads like what a startup/founder is.

Intelligence is very important, but the fear of GOD is more important. They can each exist independently, and often do; with intelligence, although rare, in more supply relative to the fear of GOD, which is in rarer supply. Anyone that has both is really a rare breed.

The last post made me think hard about how bad things are right now, and why “this generation are not builders” is a wrong notion. This goes against what I used to believe, but it’s not an excuse for poor performance, however let’s call a spade a spade. The main argument is: “Young Nigerians aren’t builders.” The proof? The early political revolutionaries and bank MDs were already shaking the nation in their late 20s/early 30s. The same Egbon (I love and respect him) making this argument also did too. Here’s the math: If we had started Acceede a decade ago at ~NGN200/$ when he launched and built his companies, with our current execution, we’d be doing over $250K+ in ARR. Do you think we wouldn’t have raised a multi-million-dollar pre-seed round by now? That was 10 years ago. Go back 20-30 years when today’s bank MDs launched, and it was probably 100x easier. Founder of Stanbic IBTC (Atedo Peterside) publicly said the same thing; it was way easier then, harder now. So ignore the take and keep building comrades!

I remember telling my Cofounder that were it not for the currency devaluation via floating we would confidently be doing over $100K in ARR. Imagine just 1 policy wiping out like 70% of your revenue. No founder in San Francisco/Europe is dealing with or will ever deal with that. The fundraising conversation changes completely at $100K ARR, you'd get the attention of almost any Pre-Seed VC. It is what it is. By building here you have to literally do 3X more to match your performance pre-forex float. Damn! One could run mad just from thinking about how bad it is. JESUS have mercy.