Nigeria, every mention
12 scenes (2018) · ← back to Nigeria
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every year 2018 anyone Craig Cannon 13Shola Akinlade 11Jesse Pollak 2Satya Nadella 1Ryan Petersen 1Reham Fagiri 1Patrick Collison 1Kat Manalac 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Nigeria comes up
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.