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Scaling a startup across Africa is no child's play (iafrikan.com)
2 points by iafrikan on Nov 2, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Sub-Saharan Africa is deeply humanistic, in a way that is close to unfathomable to Westeners. Scaling or "going viral" requires painstaking building of human connection. Models that have worked elsewhere don't necessarily work. I believe that this has a lot to teach us about how to fight the dark scourge that inhabits Facebook and other social media, in which "scaling" is simple, cheap and so easily corrupted




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