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OP-ED 📰 Bitcoin needs institutional stability to mainstream. But that stability requires exactly the gatekeepers it was designed to circumvent. MicroStrategy now owns 2% of all Bitcoin. The revolution is now Wall Street collateral. #TechTidesTuesday africantechroundup.com/bitcoin-sells-…

2/2 📧 Sign up for the African Tech Roundup email list, so you never miss a thing 👇🏾 #TechTidesTuesday africantechroundup.com/#/portal/signup

1/2 📩 #TechTidesTuesday drops Wednesday this week (G20 hangover delays 🥴). 📰 Bitcoin sells out? From peer-to-peer currency to Wall Street collateral. Email subscribers already read it. 📫 Everyone else gets it tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) via @busrep & @africanroundup. ⌛

In case you missed it… watch @MasukuAndile’s 3-min #TechTidesTake video on all this “AI bubble” talk that’s swirling at the moment. Are you worried, or nah? 🤔 #TechTidesTuesday

It's #TechTidesTuesday! 📰 The agency owner who told me to save myself the embarrassment in '14 was right about the barriers to going consultant, but wrong about them staying impenetrable. Humbled by his read, but grateful he couldn't see how fast things would shift. Wild. 👇🏾

2014: "Save yourself the embarrassment. Stay in your media lane." 2025: Kenya leads global ChatGPT usage at 42.1%. McKinsey processes 100bn tokens whilst laying off staff. The barriers protecting consulting's oligopoly are crumbling. 📰 #TechTidesTuesday africantechroundup.com/op-ed-ai-is-di…

In this #TechTidesTuesday article... 📰 Microsoft has NVIDIA GPUs collecting dust. They work fine. There's just no power to run them. AI's bottleneck shifted from compute to gigawatts. Africa has untapped energy reserves. The land-grab has begun. ⚡️ 🌍 africantechroundup.com/op-ed-gpus-to-…

1/2 📰 It's #TechTidesTuesday! Dusted off a '16 pod with Oliver Fortuin (then BT Sub-Saharan, now Airtel Business Africa CEO) and realised his "content will disrupt telcos" prediction kinda sums up this moment we're living in ways I'm not sure he anticipated back then. Get it! 👇🏾

NEW #TechTidesTuesday 📰 Gen Z abandons social media's "brainrot" for meaning even as Africa builds intenet connectivity at scale. 915M mobile users by 2030. $77B in infrastructure investment. Will Africa import yesterday's engagement playbooks? 🤔 africantechroundup.com/op-ed-africas-…

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1/4 📰 Recently, two LinkedIn posts caught @MasukuAndile's attention. One celebrating academic publication. Another hinting at fundraising frustration. Together, they expose the same dysfunction: the intermediary trap. Read all about it. #TechTidesTuesday africantechroundup.com/op-ed-what-do-…

3/3 📰: ICYMI - This #TechTidesTuesday article covers how SAG Ventures’ Purchase Pal (underwritten by @sanlam) tucks funeral insurance into everyday grocery purchases. No forms, no intermediaries, no premiums. Real "invisible" value. africantechroundup.com/op-ed-embedded…

1/3 🎧: NEW POD - Prince Nwadeyi tells @MasukuAndile that corporates commissioned the insights but wouldn't take the execution risk. So, he quit selling research and started building businesses serving 🇿🇦's R600bn informal economy. #TechTidesTuesday 🎧👉🏾 pod.link/1152011645/epi…

It's #TechTidesTuesday! 📰 African founders are studying M-KOPA's profitability moment & realising that the game's not (necessarily) about building exactly what you promised... It's keeping your narrative tight while surviving long enough to find what actually works. Get it! 👇🏾

2/3 📰 Patient capital bought M-KOPA time to pivot. But when "energy access for the poor" becomes "consumer credit infrastructure leveraging the payment behaviour of the poor" how do we account for the gap? @MasukuAndile interrogates... #TechTidesTuesday africantechroundup.com/op-ed-m-kopas-…

It's #TechTidesTuesday, and turns out you can learn a lot by standing in a queue to buy a hype-drenched consumer product in Tokyo. 📱 Get the low-low in my article this week via @africanroundup and @BusinessReport. 📰 👇🏾

FRESH ARTICLE 📰: "What can standing in an iPhone 17 queue in Tokyo reveal about digital power and control? Plenty." 🇯🇵 🌍 This week's #TechTidesTuesday op-ed by @MasukuAndile unpacks what Japan's telecom battles reveal about Africa's tech sovereignty. africantechroundup.com/op-ed-what-can…

3/3 📰: ICYMI - This #TechTidesTuesday op-ed distills key career and entrepreneurship lessons from Long's journey from receiving President Xi at 23 to building a fintech at 35. africantechroundup.com/op-ed-the-educ…

1/3 📝: NEW POD - April Long tells @MasukuAndile that she thought serving SMEs would transform Africa-China trade. Instead, she nearly bankrupted Pyxis chasing impact dreams whilst clunky bulk traders quietly moved $286bn in goods. #TechTidesTuesday 🎧 👉🏾 pod.link/1152011645/epi…

Love how this tweet practically solves for something I wrote about in a recent #TechTidesTuesday piece... You know when AI search engines do that annoying thing where they won't just answer your question? Like a shop assistant fishing for your intent or trying to upsell instead…

#TechTidesTuesday: Why "asset-light" business models often fail in Africa 🌍💡 Read more on adapting business models for African markets: ✅ africantechroundup.com/unpacking-the-… 📝 Featuring insights from 🇩🇿'n Abderrahmane Chaoui's 13-country research: - Africa's unique challenges - The…

1/2 🏦 @KCBInKenya builds on 'Gov-preneurs' groundwork in Ethiopia as banking liberalisation accelerates - @MasukuAndile's analysis via @africanroundup & @busrep reveals strategic architecture behind historic market opening #TechTidesTuesday 📷: Fanuel Leul

🧵 1/2 "VC funding is strangling perfectly good African businesses" - Sona Mahendra warns. The issue? We're forcing venture capital onto companies that don't need it. Africa needs real wins, not just potential. 💸 📰 Mahendra's hijack of @MasukuAndile's #TechTidesTuesday column

1/2 🚨 NEW #TechTidesTuesday | "Claude, Deepfakes, and the Death of ‘Real’" @MasukuAndile reflects on Anthropic's alarming report on AI-powered influence operations and Claude's weaponisation to orchestrate 100+ fake social personas targeting multiple countries. 🤖

1/3 ⛓️ "Funding Plus: Why Strategic Partnerships Are the Secret to Scaling 🌍'n Innovation" - PAWA Africa's Alesimo Mwanga reveals in @MasukuAndile's #TechTidesTuesday column how startups like @realvitruvianmd & FloatPays succeed through strategic partnerships. 📷: PAWA Africa

2/2 ⏳ Next week: @thumezahq founder @Gugusiso takes over the #TechTidesTuesday column to share insights from her pivot-filled logistics tech entrepreneurship journey across multiple African markets. Don't miss it! 📷: Gugulethu Siso spotted in the wild. | Image credit: Thumeza

1/3 🤔 The question that haunts every entrepreneur. In her fourth and final Field Notes piece for @africanroundup, Sona Mahendra hijacks our #TechTidesTuesday column & turns the microscope on herself, exploring what it truly means to be a "strong" founder in this brutal market.

📡 INFRASTRUCTURE INSIGHT: Can 🌍's telco sector teach us a new way of building? While many chase quick wins, Google's Equiano cable landing in Togo reveals a different path. Here's how a "routine weekend trip" transformed into groundbreaking infrastructure. #TechTidesTuesday

1/2 📝In this week's #TechTidesTuesday article: "AI efficiency gains are creating an alternative path for solopreneurs that might actually benefit from the retreat of traditional accelerators and VC models." - @MasukuAndile 📷: @santesson89

1/2 📡 Paratus Namibia wants your customers, whoever you are - @MasukuAndile's latest op-ed via @africanroundup & @busrep reveals how traditional telecoms boundaries are collapsing across Africa #TechTidesTuesday 📷: Andrej Lišakov / Unsplash

1/3 🎲 "Meta has decided to invest in AI capability even if it doesn't yet have a precise revenue generation mechanism like Microsoft" - Money & Moves founder and writer @tmukogo examines Meta's AI gamble in this takeover of @MasukuAndile's #TechTidesTuesday column

1/3 📰 FRESH OP-ED: Digital Banks Reset The African Fintech Playbook In this week's #TechTidesTuesday column in @busrep and @africanroundup, @MasukuAndile explores how 🌍's digital banks are pioneering a fresh path to sustainable growth.

1/3 🤖 @MasukuAndile recently reposted insights on LinkedIn from @mer__edith's @sxsw warning about AI agents. This week's #TechTidesTuesday op-ed expands on those concerns - examining how AI's impressive efficiency gains might mask deeper privacy and autonomy trade-offs.

It's #TechTidesTuesday! 📰 🤔 Is fintech truly solving the challenges of poverty and inequality, or are we just scratching the surface? Let’s grapple the complexities together. ✅ lnkd.in/d8ecUNTZ #FIGS2024

It's #TechTidesTuesday, and as I ease back into full work life, I'm stoked to share my podcast conversation with @Mashstartup. 🎧 We talk practice frameworks and candid personal & professional lessons from my eclectic 20-yr career. #ThisIsConnectivity ▶️ pod.link/1269174438/epi…

Hijacking my #TechTidesTuesday column this week is @signorabraham— Nigerian researcher, writer, partner at digital economy research lab trendAf, former @TechCabal journalist and current Comms & Programs Lead @norrskenEA. VC bullishness is building around the African climate tech…

It's #TechTidesTuesday! This week, my @busrep column features insights from a recent investor mixer hosted by @FoundersFFA, @_dreamvc_ & Jozi Angels (joziangels.co.za). Even as global economic challenges swirl, it's open season for VCs seeking well-priced African…

1/3 📝: NEW POD - April Long tells @MasukuAndile that she thought serving SMEs would transform Africa-China trade. Instead, she nearly bankrupted Pyxis chasing impact dreams whilst clunky bulk traders quietly moved $286bn in goods. #TechTidesTuesday 🎧 👉🏾 pod.link/1152011645/epi…

It's #TechTidesTuesday 📰 ⚰️ My @busrep column this week features armchair reflections on the demise of the Kenyan B2B retail distribution startup @MarketForceHQ, co-founded by @Mesongo & @teshmbaabu. Spoiler: Failure is brutal but... ✨ Get it: ✅ iol.co.za/business-repor… 👈🏾

We love how much thoughtful engagement @MasukuAndile's op-ed on unlocking innovation through investing in connectivity has sparked. ✨ In case you missed the article, it's linked below. 🔗👇🏿 Subscribe to our weekly #TechTidesTuesday email to keep up: ✅ africantechroundup.com/#/portal/signup