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Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator Sep 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:30 Jesse Pollak Like if I'm in Kenya or Brazil or Nigeria or, you know, Indonesia, we have excitement about building our own local economy on the Brazilian real or the Nigerian Naira or, you know, that, you know, kind of excitement about investing in…
  • ▶ 34:33 Jesse Pollak Whether you're in the United States, or you're in Nigeria, or you're in Argentina, or you're in Indonesia,

Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator Jun 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:23 Satya Nadella By the way, one of the other ones, since you brought it up, there was a World Bank study they did, I think in Nigeria, and now they've taken it to Peru or Chile, one of those in South America.

Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator Oct 16, 2018 · 24 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Shola Akinlade We're currently live in Nigeria, um, and we're trying to just go into other markets very quickly.
  • ▶ 0:45 Shola Akinlade I grew up in Lagos, grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:30 Shola Akinlade So like I didn't expect to get into because there was no reference, like why would the Nigerian company get into YC?
  • ▶ 9:42 Craig Cannon Man, and then, so what was it like when you, you know, I mean, I don't know nearly as much as you do about the Nigerian startup scene, but like when you were just thrown in with everyone else in January. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:00 Craig Cannon Like in Nigeria, like how much is cash? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:04 Craig Cannon Are, do you just assume that their economies function in similar ways to Nigeria's? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:38 Craig Cannon Um, so that, so many people, it seems like from Nigeria are also asking you questions. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:51 Shola Akinlade I don't have the numbers on my head, but I think in 1960, Nigeria's population was about forty-five million. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:00 Craig Cannon Do you think something like GoFundMe could work in Nigeria? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:25 Shola Akinlade Yeah, I don't know, like, um, the Nigerian music scene is really, really exciting.

Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator Oct 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:05 Patrick Collison Um, I mean, we're, we're trying to build this kind of, um, this economic infrastructure for the internet and this sort of platform for globalization and kind of, um, I don't know, sort of, uh, technological progress in the sense that, uh,…

Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator Aug 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:26 Ryan Petersen Uh, so I went to Nigeria and wrote a case study by the tech company in Africa, and that was paying me like 40 bucks an hour, and it was quite flexible, so I could like work a few hours a day on that.

Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator Feb 15, 2017 · 1 mention

Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:12 Reham Fagiri Remember, this is Craigslist, it was nine out of 10 the emails people get are spam, and people trying to, you know, get money wired to Nigeria, so, yeah.
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