i finally paid for an apartment yesterday.
it's difficult to leave everything you've built over the years, travel alone to a strange country and start all over from scratch.
but with God, discipline and obsession, anything is possible.
My hot take on uni:
If you’re born in a country like Nigeria where life is already on hard mode, going to university is a complete waste of time. It only makes sense if you’re studying outside the country.
If you’re lucky enough to figure out what you want to do early, the
be Seun:
- dropped out of Futa after 2 years
- got his first coding job in 2016
- became a Rust developer in 2018
- worked closely with the founder of polkadot at Parity Technologies
- principal protocol engineer at composable finance
- started polytope labs
- raised $105k from
Today's been really fun. It's easy to post hot takes on the internet especially when you're on the sidelines.
To everyone interested, If you're genuinely curious about what we do and want to tell our story, please lmk, would love to personally host you at the lab.
I sent this email. It’s insane what cold emails can do for you. Farza gave me the best advice ever. You can just cold email anyone.
And I’m from Nigeria haha.
Personal update:
I'm leaving my job to start my own company.
By 2025, Africa will have the youngest and largest workforce on the planet.
This is why I'm focusing on my side product @helicodexyz. An AI-powered talent platform to train, find and place world-class talent with