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“Look, I'm gonna be honest, and maybe it's a little bit of a controversial point of view, but it's the emasculation of black men. That is just a fact, right? It is a big topic. It is something that, that we talk about. Black men simply have not been empowered b…”

“University education in Africa and most parts of the world Is a waste of people's money. Especially in, in countries where the incomes are not large enough and the state is not rich enough to be able to afford, you know, to educate people just for the sake of …”

“All African currencies, forgive me, colored paper backed by the US dollar.”

“Cause it was very different from what I saw at the United Nations. You know, people, you know, they want to take a coffee break at 12 and then at two o'clock they disappear. It's the most hilarious place to work.”

“In fact, just in the next 15 years, Africa is already majority of the world's working population.”

“When you have a society that runs on the word of God, it works better. I mean, this is what Israel proves to everybody.”

“You know, we've had a very tough time in Nigeria-Israel relations, I'll say you know, partially because of the regime in power is mostly Muslim.”

“So I'm like, look, if I was building this thing today, I'll just build USDC and be like, yeah, do whatever you like on the ground.”

“You could actually build Great stuff. Make money, but also do a ton of good in the world. More good than you would ordinarily do otherwise. And I think that became the foundation of my own journey in tech, because for me, it became a superpower for getting thi…”

“Because by the end of the century, right, Africa is the majority of the world's population.”

“The most valuable company on the continent.”

“You know, it's unique on the continent, because you don't have that many successful investors. A successful entrepreneur is becoming investors. It's not yet a thing on the continent, because you barely have any successful entrepreneurs. How much more? So most …”

“You cannot think about investing in African startups the way you would think about investing in Silicon Valley today, right? It's not gonna work because we're stuck in the seventies.”

“Because the globalization of the dollar, maybe this is a political statement, is the best hedge against the feds.”

“They're literally adding ten million kids a year.”

“First fund, you know, One million dollars. I just used my money and we did 22 times. We returned 22 times on that. We distributed nine, nine million.”

“Nigeria is very quickly becoming the hair capital of the world.”

“You know, we built an incredible company called Move simply on the back of a little bit of equity and a lot of debt.”

“My goal, personal goal, is if God helps me. Africa today produces three percent of global GDP. How do I get that number from three percent to 30%? That is what I wake up in the morning and think every day.”

“Even though the accusation was done wrongly, at the end of the day, they did have legitimate grievances about, kind of, the environmental destruction in Niger Delta, although I think they should have gone about it more legitimate ways.”

“Nigeria's median age is 19, meaning half the population is under the age of 19, half the population is over the age of 19. And to make matters worse, there's not a lot of university education. So, 12% participation rate.”

“And that was the day I figured, well, if these people can do anything, why not teach them stuff that actually makes them money? Why not teach them how to work on the internet? And that was the day that this flipped, the switch flipped for me, and then, you kno…”

“So we lease the car to drivers, but not forever. They only lease for 30 months. 4500 rides, roughly. And then they own the car.”

“Car ownership is two percent.”

“At the time when I was growing up particularly in my high school years, he was working for Royal Dutch and he was negotiating the release of hostages from pirates.”