Financial modeling consultancy & trainer focused on the investment banking industry. 20Yrs -Trained 50K+ in 30 countries.
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David Brown retweeted
โ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.โ - Executive Director, (FMI)
Well that's what happens when DBC is in charge of the welcome!
#AFMS2026
David Brown retweeted
We are now counting down the hours to the first ever financial modeling summit in Africa brought to you by dbrownconsulting and the Financial Modeling Institute (FMI)!
The summit holds tomorrow by 9AM and you can register to join us here: bit.ly/AFMSUMMIT
See you there!
David Brown retweeted
We are bringing Ian Schnoor, closer to the finance community in Lagos, Nigeria! ๐คฉ
REGISTER HERE ๐ forms.cloud.microsoft/r/6DHgโฆ
#FinancialModeling #FinancialModelingInstitute #FMI #AFMS2026 #dbrownconsulting
David Brown retweeted
A 25-year-old housewife in Chennai, India, earns โน250/hour ($3) just by doing her normal housework. These first-person videos get sent to AI companies.
She's part of a growing economy where thousands are filming everyday life to train the robots of tomorrow.
David Brown retweeted
"There are two kinds of thoughts: those that think 'AI is going to take my job,' and those that think 'AI is going to create plenty of work, business, and opportunities.' Yes, it may take part of my role, but Iโm going to add five more roles because I can do ten more things."
Speaking at the Learning and Development Network International 2026 @CtdConference, David Brown, LDM, President of LDNI, highlighted the organisationโs efforts to build a stronger foundation for a more connected and innovative professional network
Watch full Highlight: youtu.be/AM1ngg2r_mM
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in 11days join some of Africaโs leading experts on talent development in Lagos. @dbrownAnalyst @ldni_nigeria @ColEdebiri @banjo_victor @chizzywhizzy @enmichael @atd @cipmnigeria
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David Brown retweeted
Anthropic hired this engineer at $250K-$750K/year because he can build knowledge graphs for multi-agent systems
In this 15-minute workshop, he shows exactly how to build one with loops from scratch
step 1 โ start with the Claude Agent SDK - loop, context, and sandbox are already handled
step 2 โ split the brain from the hands - reasoning in one place, tools in a sandbox, ~60% faster to first token
step 3 โ run it server-side and log every step - close your laptop and it keeps going, crashes resume from the log
step 4 โ make failure cheap - retry dead sandboxes and replay lost context instead of starting over
step 5 โ turn yesterday's logs into new memory and skills - it wakes up smarter
Anthropic calls this "dreaming"
Most people spend weeks wiring this by hand
You don't have to
Watch it, bookmark it, then read the full graph guide below โ
David Brown retweeted
Downstream oil and gas for instance runs on very low margins 10% ish, so $50m, $35m reinvested, $15m ditrubuted amongst shareholders in dividends yearly.
But then the shareholder that gets $1.5m goes to buy a second hand accidented Rolls Royce from America gets mobile police, gets one small flat in Banana Island and is christened as a Nigerian billionaire.
Even before the GREAT devaluation of 2015, Nigeria had only about 40 companies generating more than $500m in annual revenue.
After years of currency devaluation, that number is probably about 20 in dollar terms.
So when people casually talk about Nigeria having hundreds of โsecretโ or โinvisibleโ billionaires, I genuinely wonder where these fortunes are supposed to be coming from.
Remember the SI unit of billionaire is US dollar,
David Brown retweeted
Hey You ๐
Registrations are OPEN!
Enroll now into the Financial Modeling Academy and take the next step in building your financial modelling skills.
Click here ๐๐ผ bit.ly/FMARoutes OR Hit the link in our bio to get started!
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David Brown retweeted
Big Herbert Energy is having a non-stop motor and a social battery that simply never runs out. It is the drive to show up in person, no matter where in the world you have to go or how tired you are. Instead of making excuses, making phone calls from an office, or sending someone else in your place, you get on the plane, sit across the table, and look people in the eye. You show up to every single meeting because you know that being in the room is what actually moves things forward.
What makes this approach special is how much energy it holds for people. Most people get exhausted when they try to keep up with too many contacts, but this mindset handles hundreds of real relationships at the same time. It means remembering the small details, picking up the phone late at night, and checking in on people. It isn't just about making quick business deals; it is about keeping a huge circle of personal connections warm and active all at once.
In short, it is choosing to put your entire body and mind into the work. It means trading a calm, quiet life for constant movement and deep human connection. You win simply by out-moving, out-meeting, and out-caring everyone else around you.
We all remember HW's work ethic. But the existence of people like Herbert Wigwe does not prove that every intelligent, relentless operator can force every institution to scale.
But when you take that Big Herbert like energy to a massive project or business, you are far more likely to achieve scale.
However, hard work/grind/grit itself, its a massive risk. Because if you go all out and fail, its completely different from living a ''balanced life'' then failing.
Total commitment is an unhedged bet. If you go all-in and fail, the personal cost is fundamentally different than failing while living a balanced life.
David Brown retweeted
We all remember HW's work ethic. But the existence of people like Herbert Wigwe does not prove that every intelligent, relentless operator can force every institution to scale.
But when you take that Big Herbert like energy to a massive project or business, you are far more likely to achieve scale.
However, hard work/grind/grit itself, its a massive risk. Because if you go all out and fail, its completely different from living a ''balanced life'' then failing.
Total commitment is an unhedged bet. If you go all-in and fail, the personal cost is fundamentally different than failing while living a balanced life.
David Brown retweeted
๐๐ป ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐, ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฅ
Over 5 intensive days, weโre going from a completely blank spreadsheet to a rigorous, deal-ready model.
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David Brown retweeted
Firstly, Lebanese have a more entrepreneurial culture.
In a Fiscal Policy Institute analysis of ACS data, 11% of Lebanese-born immigrants in the U.S. labor force were small-business owners, versus 3.5% for immigrants overall. Nigerians were nowhere near that high.
David Brown retweeted
๐จ In 1992, a MIT lecture quietly revealed more about product and sales than most 2-year MBAs ever will.
Most people have never seen it.
It came from Steve Jobs and instead of teaching theory, he broke down how great products actually win.
Watching it today feels unreal.
He explained that people donโt buy products they buy meaning. The best products arenโt just functional, they connect with how people see themselves. Thatโs why some ideas spread effortlessly while others die, even if theyโre technically better.
He also made it clear that marketing isnโt about features. Itโs about clarity. If you canโt explain why your product matters in simple terms, it wonโt matter at all. Complexity doesnโt impress it confuses.
And his biggest edge? Obsession with experience. Not just what the product does, but how it feels. The small details, the simplicity, the story thatโs what separates good from unforgettable.
Thatโs why this MIT lecture still hits hard.
Because while most people are building productsโฆ
Very few understand why people actually buy them.
David Brown retweeted
๐จBREAKING: ANTHROPIC CEO JUST ENDED OPENAI
@sama
After getting blacklisted by Pentagon, Dario sits down and writes the most unhinged CEO memo in silicon valley history:
>calls openai's pentagon deal "safety theater"
>says trump admin hates them because they haven't "given dictator-style praise to Trump (while Sam has)"
>names greg brockman's $25M trump super PAC donation by name says they supported AI regulation
>"which is against their agenda"
>says they "told the truth about AI policy issues like job displacement"
THE PALANTIR EXPOSร:
>reveals palantir's actual pitch to anthropic during negotiations
>"you have some unhappy employees, you need to offer them something that placates them or makes what is happening invisible to them, and that's the service we provide"
>palantir's pitch wasn't safety. it was CONCEALMENT
>palantir offered a "classifier" to detect red line violations
>dario: models get jailbroken, monitoring only works in a few cases "maybe 20% real and 80% safety theater"
>says palantir offered openai the same package
>openai accepted it
>says Altman is "peddling narratives" to his own employees
>calls openai employees "sort of a gullible bunch" due to "selection effects"
>says the "attempted spin/gaslighting" isn't working on
>the public or media but IS working on "some Twitter morons" rofl
>says his main concern is making sure it doesn't work on openai employees too
BTW near the end of negotiations the pentagon offered to accept ALL of anthropic's terms if they deleted ONE phrase:
>"analysis of bulk acquired data"
>anthropic refused
>same surveillance clause pentagon said they didn't even want to do
>meanwhile Altman told his employees: "you don't get to weigh in on that" ๐
ITS OVER.
ANTHROPIC WON, DEAL WITH IT
David Brown retweeted
A senior partner at KPMGโs Australian arm has been penalised A$10,000 after using generative AI tools to complete a mandatory course on responsible AI use.
The firm disclosed that over two dozen staff were also caught relying on AI during internal assessments this year. CEO Andrew Yates said regulating AI misuse in training remains challenging, as companies tighten controls amid growing scrutiny from regulators including Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Source: Financial Times
