Dangote still dey find money o

Dangote, Dangote
Dangote still dey find money o

I guess almost everyone has heard the great song by Burna Boy. Well, I think its also good you watch “Aliko Dangote’s conversation with Mo Ibrahim”. Many might not be aware of the impact of Mo, but quoting from “The Prosperity Paradox”, here is Mo:

“It’s not an easy thing to be laughed at by serious people. And serious people laughed at me when I told them I wanted to build a telecommunications network in Africa twenty years ago. They told me all the reasons the project would never succeed. Somehow I just kept thinking, I know there are challenges but why can’t they see the opportunity? — MO IBRAHIM”

Many believe Burna’s song about Dangote, is for only HUSTLERS, well I think it’s for both HUSTLERS AND CONTRIBUTORS. I think you should watch the discussion on YouTube, it’s really informative. Let me summarize quoting from “The Prosperity Paradox”:

But Ibrahim, to his credit, saw things differently. Instead of seeing just poverty, he saw opportunity. “If you live far away from the village where your mother lives and you want to talk to her, you might have to make a seven-day journey,” Ibrahim recalls now. “If you could just pick up a device and speak to her instantly, what would be the value of that? How much money would you save? How much time?” Notice that Ibrahim did not say How will millions of Africans, for whom three meals a day is often a luxury, afford a mobile phone? or How can you justify the investments in infrastructure for a market that does not exist? He focused on the struggle to accomplish something important for which there were few good solutions. For Ibrahim, struggle represented enormous potential.
So, see things differently.

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