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I am a business developer, sales professional, and FinTech strategist who strives to make an impact and change the world. For the better.

Although I have a bachelor's degree in Economics (with a major in Economics and Politics), I have been actively following and/or working in the Financial Services field since the very first year at university.

Because of the early start of my career and given opportunities to try myself out in different roles and different players in the world of finance (I worked at Western Union, Danske Bank, Norne Securities), quite quickly and easily I found myself being the most passionate about Financial Technology and its enormous potential to reinvent conventional finance and change the world for the better.

Now I am working in FinTech for more than 6 years, and every day I try to be a bit better and learn something new (and there are lots to learn!).

Currently, I am a part of Flutterwave, where I am scaling the business and leading company's expansion into Europe. Flutterwave is a Mastercard, VISA, Greycroft, Y Combinator, and Worldpay FIS-backed payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco. We're simplifying payments for endless possibilities. Flutterwave is trusted by leading companies like Uber, Facebook, TransferWise, Netflix, Jumia, Azimo, Binance, among other 90,000+ businesses. We were recognized as the #2 Most Innovative Company in Africa in 2019, according to Fast Company. We're part of 50 Future Unicorns🦄 according to CB Insights & Fast Company. Also, CNBC has included us in the Upstart 100, which lists the brightest, most intriguing, young startups promising to become the great companies of tomorrow. I am super excited to play an important part in the Financial Technology revolution, and having the ability to move the financial disruption forward.

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All the biggest people in AI and tech… united in one tiny dorm room… plotting the future of the world 😳

That would be incredible.

Except none of this is real.

This picture is 100% AI generated using Google’s newest model: Nano Banana Pro.

A model so good it can recreate a $10T “strategy summit”…
with a $12 IKEA lamp, tangled chargers, and a pizza box on the floor.

Masterpiece.

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All the biggest people in AI and tech… united in one tiny dorm room… plotting the future of the world 😳  That would be incredible.  Except none of this is real.  This picture is 100% AI generated using Google’s newest model: Nano Banana Pro.  A model so good it can recreate a $10T “strategy summit”… with a $12 IKEA lamp, tangled chargers, and a pizza box on the floor.  Masterpiece.

Brilliant: This is the actual tech stack holding up the global economy 👏😂

The middle couldn’t be more accurate:

↳ Unpaid open-source devs holding everything together with duct tape.
↳ AWS + Cloudflare doing 95% of the heavy lifting.
↳ AI bolted on like an afterthought.
↳ Microsoft, just… vibing aggressively.

But the bottom is where the entire plot twists.

ASML.

One Dutch company.
One machine.
One supply chain.

→ The foundation of ALL modern computing.

If ASML stumbles…

Nvidia breaks.
AI stalls.
Cloud collapses.
Finance panics.
Civilization reboots.

The funniest part?

This isn’t a meme.

It’s the closest thing we have to a global single point of failure.

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HSBC just dropped the most brutal AI report: OpenAI needs to raise at least $207 billion by 2030 so it can continue to lose money 😳

HSBC just published a 33-page analysis on OpenAI, and the takeaway is savage:

Even in their most optimistic scenario, OpenAI ends up with a $207 billion funding hole by 2030 🤯

Not because the business is collapsing.

But because the cost of intelligence is colliding with the laws of physics.

In essence, OpenAI isn’t a software company. It’s an industrial-scale energy and infrastructure project masquerading as one.

According to the HSBC model:

→ $250 billion committed to Microsoft
→ $38 billion committed to Amazon
→ 36 gigawatts of contracted compute (yes, gigawatts)

That’s enough power for a mid-sized country.

And the bill is up to $620 billion per year in data-center costs once everything goes online.

But here comes the wildest part.

HSBC assumes nearly everything goes right.

↳ 3 billion users
↳ 10% conversion to paid plans
↳ Massive enterprise adoption
↳ AI Ads
↳ AI Agents
↳ Jony Ive’s hardware moonshot
↳ 2% of the global ad market
↳ Zero competitive erosion

Even then… it’s not enough.

OpenAI still comes up short by $207B, and that’s even before adding the $10B safety buffer.

The report even hints that OpenAI may eventually need to “walk away” from parts of its cloud commitments because “less capacity is better than a liquidity crisis.”

But this isn’t just about OpenAI. This is about the entire AI economy.

If the leading company in the world - backed by Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Silicon Valley’s deepest VC pockets - can’t make the math work under ideal conditions, what does that say about everyone else? 🤔

It says the AI boom isn’t a software revolution.

→ It’s an infrastructure arms race.
→ It’s GPUs, power plants, cooling towers, land, water rights, grid upgrades, transformer stations, and supply chains.
→ It’s the biggest capex cycle since the industrial revolution - disguised behind a chat interface.

And suddenly the industry’s real bottlenecks become obvious:

Not talent.
Not models.
Not data.

Energy. Efficiency. Economics.

This is why the next breakthroughs won’t just be better models - they’ll be cheaper models.

Sparse architectures. TPU-scale alternatives. 20–60× efficiency gains.

AI that uses less, not more.

Because unless costs collapse, the race to AGI won’t be won by the smartest lab.

It will be won by the AI lab that can pay its power bill the longest.

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HSBC just dropped the most brutal AI report: OpenAI needs to raise at least $207 billion by 2030 so it can continue to lose money 😳  HSBC just published a 33-page analysis on OpenAI, and the takeaway is savage:  Even in their most optimistic scenario, OpenAI ends up with a $207 billion funding hole by 2030 🤯  Not because the business is collapsing.  But because the cost of intelligence is colliding with the laws of physics.  In essence, OpenAI isn’t a software company. It’s an industrial-scale energy and infrastructure project masquerading as one.  According to the HSBC model:  → $250 billion committed to Microsoft → $38 billion committed to Amazon → 36 gigawatts of contracted compute (yes, gigawatts)  That’s enough power for a mid-sized country.  And the bill is up to $620 billion per year in data-center costs once everything goes online.  But here comes the wildest part.  HSBC assumes nearly everything goes right.  ↳ 3 billion users ↳ 10% conversion to paid plans ↳ Massive enterpri

AI is about to change forever: Google may have just revealed the biggest shift in AI since the Transformer, and almost nobody is paying attention 😳

Google researchers just dropped something called Nested Learning, and if it works the way early results suggest, it might be the biggest shift in AI since the famous “Attention Is All You Need.”

- Not another bigger model.
- Not another trillion-parameter arms race.
- A completely new learning paradigm.

The core idea is beautifully simple yet mind-bending:

What if AI didn’t learn once but learned continuously? 🤔

- Not just updating a few temporary attention states.
- Not forgetting everything outside a 1M-token window.
- Not freezing after pre-training like it’s stuck in amnesia.

Nested Learning reframes an AI model as multiple learning systems stacked inside each other, each operating at its own speed - some adapting instantly, some slowly consolidating long-term memory.

Exactly like the human brain does.
Fast for experience.
Slow for wisdom.

And Google didn’t just theorize it. They built it 🤖

The proof-of-concept model - HOPE - already beats Transformers and modern RNNs across language modeling, reasoning, and long-context tasks at only 1.3B parameters.

- It retrieves information from massive sequences with ease.
- It resists catastrophic forgetting.
- It evolves during use.

This is not a bigger hammer. It’s a different physics.

→ Instead of stacking more layers, it stacks optimization loops.
→ Instead of making context windows larger, it makes memory smarter.
→ Instead of freezing intelligence, it lets intelligence grow.

If this trajectory holds, Nested Learning could push us closer to something that actually resembles AGI:

↳ Systems that don’t just perform but improve.
↳ Systems that don’t just store knowledge but develop it.
↳ Systems that don’t just follow rules but learn new ways to learn.

And that’s the part people aren’t ready for.

Because once AI models can rewrite their own learning processes, the frontier stops being about scale and starts being about self-improvement.

And that changes everything.

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AI is about to change forever: Google may have just revealed the biggest shift in AI since the Transformer, and almost nobody is paying attention 😳  Google researchers just dropped something called Nested Learning, and if it works the way early results suggest, it might be the biggest shift in AI since the famous “Attention Is All You Need.”  - Not another bigger model. - Not another trillion-parameter arms race. - A completely new learning paradigm.  The core idea is beautifully simple yet mind-bending:  What if AI didn’t learn once but learned continuously? 🤔  - Not just updating a few temporary attention states. - Not forgetting everything outside a 1M-token window. - Not freezing after pre-training like it’s stuck in amnesia.  Nested Learning reframes an AI model as multiple learning systems stacked inside each other, each operating at its own speed - some adapting instantly, some slowly consolidating long-term memory.  Exactly like the human brain does. Fast for experience. Slow

Incredible: Google may have just pulled off the quietest power move in AI, and almost nobody seems to grasp its significance 😳

Google’s latest AI model Gemini 3 Pro is now sitting at the top of the major leaderboards.

Not by a little, but clearly ahead on LMArena, WebDev Arena, and Vision Arena - in a year where the frontier is brutally competitive.

But here’s the part that actually matters:

Google trained it entirely on TPUs.

No NVIDIA.
No GPUs.
No external silicon.

Sure, that’s not new, as Google has used TPUs since Gemini 1.0…

But this marks the first time a TPU-trained model has matched and, in some areas, surpassed the strongest GPU-trained systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI in the same generation 🤯

Most importantly, it validates something Google has been quietly betting billions on:

Custom silicon + mature software + vertically integrated infrastructure can compete at the absolute frontier.

In other words, you don’t need Nvidia to build a world-class frontier AI model anymore.

Turns out, the next Google is Google.

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Incredible: Google may have just pulled off the quietest power move in AI, and almost nobody seems to grasp its significance 😳  Google’s latest AI model Gemini 3 Pro is now sitting at the top of the major leaderboards.  Not by a little, but clearly ahead on LMArena, WebDev Arena, and Vision Arena - in a year where the frontier is brutally competitive.  But here’s the part that actually matters:  Google trained it entirely on TPUs.  No NVIDIA. No GPUs. No external silicon.  Sure, that’s not new, as Google has used TPUs since Gemini 1.0…  But this marks the first time a TPU-trained model has matched and, in some areas, surpassed the strongest GPU-trained systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI in the same generation 🤯  Most importantly, it validates something Google has been quietly betting billions on:  Custom silicon + mature software + vertically integrated infrastructure can compete at the absolute frontier.  In other words, you don’t need Nvidia to build a world-class frontier AI

End of an Era: "The Big Short" Michael Burry, the man who called the 2008 crisis, just placed a bet against AI… and then disappeared from public markets 😳

Michael Burry just made the most controversial move of the AI decade.

He spent $9.2M buying 50,000 Palantir put options expiring in 2027 - a bet that could pay up to $240M if AI hype cracks.

And right after placing it, he liquidated Scion, deregistered with the SEC, and went completely dark.

Exactly like he did before the 2008 crash.

Why is he doing this? 🤔

Burry believes the AI boom is being held up by a structural accounting illusion.

Hyperscalers are extending the “useful life” of GPUs and servers - from 2–3 years to 6-10 years - making earnings look far stronger than reality.

He estimates this inflates profits by $176 billion through 2028 🤯

Lower depreciation.
Higher EPS.
Sky-high valuations built on sand.

Palantir? Trading at a 287× forward P/E - nearly 10× the sector norm.

To Burry, that’s not innovation. That’s 2007 energy in GPU form.

The stakes are super high here.

→ Big Tech’s 2025 AI capex: $200B+
→ Key segment growth rates: <20%
→ Data center power demand: 1% of global electricity by 2027

Something doesn’t add up unless AI delivers massive productivity gains - fast.

Burry’s question: What if it doesn’t? 🤷‍♂️

There are 2 possible futures ahead.

1️⃣ The Bubble Burst

→ AI stocks drop 20–50%
→ Nasdaq loses trillions
→ Hyperscalers take massive write-downs
→ GPU supply chains buckle
→ Startups that rely on subsidized compute collapse

Burry wins big.
AI survives - but leaner, focused, forced to produce real value.

2️⃣ The AI Super-Boom

→ Productivity spikes
→ Enterprise adoption explodes
→ Capex compounds
→ AI becomes the next electricity

Burry’s puts expire worthless.

But most importantly, we need to understand what Burry is actually betting against.

Not AI itself.
Not the technology.
Not the future.

He’s betting against the story.
He’s betting against inflated earnings, manufactured EPS, and infinite-growth narratives built on depreciating silicon.

It’s the same pattern he saw in 2007: Everyone believes until the math breaks.

My takeaway is this:

Love him or hate him, Burry is doing what he always does:

He exits the stage right before everyone else sees the smoke.

The AI era is definitely not ending, but Burry thinks the first chapter is.

Buckle up.

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End of an Era: "The Big Short" Michael Burry, the man who called the 2008 crisis, just placed a bet against AI… and then disappeared from public markets 😳  Michael Burry just made the most controversial move of the AI decade.  He spent $9.2M buying 50,000 Palantir put options expiring in 2027 - a bet that could pay up to $240M if AI hype cracks.  And right after placing it, he liquidated Scion, deregistered with the SEC, and went completely dark.  Exactly like he did before the 2008 crash.  Why is he doing this? 🤔  Burry believes the AI boom is being held up by a structural accounting illusion.  Hyperscalers are extending the “useful life” of GPUs and servers - from 2–3 years to 6-10 years - making earnings look far stronger than reality.  He estimates this inflates profits by $176 billion through 2028 🤯  Lower depreciation. Higher EPS. Sky-high valuations built on sand.  Palantir? Trading at a 287× forward P/E - nearly 10× the sector norm.  To Burry, that’s not innovation. That’s 2

You don’t need a co-founder anymore - you need an AI stack. These are the exact tools solo founders are using to hit $1 million ARR in 2025:

🧠 Cursor → Code like a dev
🔍 Perplexity / Gemini → Market research
✍️ ChatGPT / Claude / Grok → Write & plan
🎨 Midjourney / Figma / Canva → Design & brand
⚙️ Zapier / Calendly / Tidio → Automate operations

That’s an entire startup.

No team. No office. No funding.
Just one person and ten tools.

And it’s working:

→ 78% of solopreneurs say AI has transformed their business
→ Generative AI spend is up 76% YoY to $644B
→ Dozens of $1M+ solo startups already proving it

But here’s the truth nobody tells you:

AI replaces tasks, not taste.
Automation builds speed, not belief.

The tools are your leverage. But You are the edge.

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You don’t need a co-founder anymore - you need an AI stack. These are the exact tools solo founders are using to hit $1 million ARR in 2025:  🧠 Cursor → Code like a dev 🔍 Perplexity / Gemini → Market research ✍️ ChatGPT / Claude / Grok → Write & plan 🎨 Midjourney / Figma / Canva → Design & brand ⚙️ Zapier / Calendly / Tidio → Automate operations  That’s an entire startup.  No team. No office. No funding. Just one person and ten tools.  And it’s working:  → 78% of solopreneurs say AI has transformed their business → Generative AI spend is up 76% YoY to $644B → Dozens of $1M+ solo startups already proving it  But here’s the truth nobody tells you:  AI replaces tasks, not taste. Automation builds speed, not belief.  The tools are your leverage. But You are the edge.

Epic: an AI detector just flagged the 1776 Declaration of Independence as 99.99% AI-written 👏😂

Either the AI detector doesn’t work, or the Founding Fathers were time-travelling prompt engineers...

And the wildest part?

These same tools are still used to expel students, flag employees, and trigger academic investigations - all based on vibes masquerading as science.

Meanwhile, millions of people are trusting software that can’t tell Jefferson from AI with life-changing decisions.

Peak 2025 risk management.

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Epic: an AI detector just flagged the 1776 Declaration of Independence as 99.99% AI-written 👏😂  Either the AI detector doesn’t work, or the Founding Fathers were time-travelling prompt engineers...  And the wildest part?  These same tools are still used to expel students, flag employees, and trigger academic investigations - all based on vibes masquerading as science.  Meanwhile, millions of people are trusting software that can’t tell Jefferson from AI with life-changing decisions.  Peak 2025 risk management.

Insane: GeoSpy AI can locate an image using just a few pixels from a reflection. No metadata is needed 😳

The craziest part?

Everything you see here is run in real time and not sped up at all.

RIP privacy.

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Jeff Bezos just made his biggest move since Amazon, and almost no one is ready for what it means 😳

He’s co-running a new AI startup, Project Prometheus, backed with $6.2 billion on day one.

Not for chatbots.
Not for apps.
For computers, cars, and spacecraft - the physical world.

In other words, he’s going after Tesla, NVIDIA, and SpaceX at the same time 🤯

Prometheus has already hired nearly 100 researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta - people who actually know how to build robots, materials systems, and real-world AI.

Bezos is not chasing the “AI that talks.” He’s chasing the AI that builds 🤖

The one that can design, test, manufacture, and improve machines at superhuman speed.

That’s the real prize. The trillion-dollar one.

And when you zoom out, the picture becomes clear:

→ Musk has xAI + Tesla Optimus Bot.
→ Zuckerberg is building embodied Llamas.
→ Google is rebooting robotics.
→ And now Bezos steps in with a war chest the size of a sovereign fund.

That’s beyond just a rivalry. This is the final boss round of tech:

AI that runs factories, ships products, builds infrastructure, and eventually… builds itself.

Whoever gets there first doesn’t just win a market. They win the physical world.

And that’s exactly why Bezos came back from retirement.

He’s not here to compete. He’s here to end the game.

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Wild: The Reverse Turing Test just happened in China 😳

XPENG just unveiled a humanoid robot so realistic that people thought it was a human in a suit.

Seriously, the CEO had to go on stage, grab a knife, and cut open its leg live to prove it wasn’t human.

Metal. Wires. Actuators. Not flesh 🤖

Welcome to the Reverse Turing Test Era, where machines are now so lifelike, we doubt they’re machines.

In case you missed it, XPENG’s Iron has:

→ 82 active joints
→ Synthetic muscles for fluid motion
→ 3 custom AI chips handling vision, language & action
→ Can walk, gesture, and even dance like a human

XPENG plans mass production by 2026, focusing on factories, malls, and homes.

Once, we built machines to imitate humans.

Now, we’re building humans who make us question if we’re still real.

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“Your startup is just an OpenAI wrapper”.

But everything is a wrapper…

→ Startups are venture capital wrappers.
→ VCs are rich people's wrappers.
→ Rich people are wrappers of wealth.

Zoom out far enough, and everything you build - from startups to AI - is basically just sand, reimagined.

Innovation was never about creating from nothing.
It’s about wrapping what already exists in ways no one else dared to.

That’s how every revolution begins - not from zero, but from a better wrapper.

So next time you think you need a new idea, remember: the world doesn’t need new atoms - just new wrappers for old ones.

Everything is a wrapper.

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“Your startup is just an OpenAI wrapper”.  But everything is a wrapper…  → Startups are venture capital wrappers. → VCs are rich people's wrappers. → Rich people are wrappers of wealth.  Zoom out far enough, and everything you build - from startups to AI - is basically just sand, reimagined.  Innovation was never about creating from nothing. It’s about wrapping what already exists in ways no one else dared to.  That’s how every revolution begins - not from zero, but from a better wrapper.  So next time you think you need a new idea, remember: the world doesn’t need new atoms - just new wrappers for old ones.  Everything is a wrapper.

Historic: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has just successfully landed its New Glenn rocket booster, becoming only the second company in history to land a rocket booster after SpaceX 😳

Yesterday, Blue Origin finally did the thing nobody thought they’d pull off:

New Glenn landed its booster on a droneship.
First flight.
First try.
Clean landing.

And with that SpaceX’s 10-year monopoly on reusable heavy-lift rockets is over.

For a decade, SpaceX was the only company on Earth that could launch something big… land the booster… and fly it again.

That meant cheaper launches, higher cadence, and total dominance.

Blue Origin just broke that dominance.

This is the moment competition returned to space.

The space race is officially back 🚀🌎

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West’s WeChat Moment: OpenAI may have just launched the single most important feature for the future of FinTech, & almost no one seems to realize it 😳

OpenAI just added group chats functionality, and with that, unlocked a new distribution layer.

Up to 20 people.
Planning, building, debating - all with AI inside the room.

A small feature on paper, but a paradigm shift in practice.

Because once you add social coordination to an AI interface, you’re no longer a chatbot.

You’re a platform. And platforms change everything.

For 18 months, OpenAI has been quietly assembling the components of an Everything App:

↳ Apps SDK → native apps inside ChatGPT
↳ Atlas browser → conversational navigation
↳ Sora → video + creator ecosystem
↳ Stripe integration → agentic commerce rails
↳ Now: group chats → social layer + collaboration

One interface.
One identity.
One behavioral loop.

This is the Western equivalent of WeChat’s expansion but built on intelligence, not messaging.

And the timing is perfect as ChatGPT already commands ~800M weekly users.

But here’s where it gets interesting for finance.

AI agents inside a social environment fundamentally change how people:

→ discover financial products
→ compare options
→ ask questions
→ make decisions
→ transact
→ and coordinate with others

When discovery → recommendation → decision → transaction
all happen inside ChatGPT…

Why would users jump to 12 different fintech apps?
Why would banks spend millions on customer acquisition?
Why would comparison tools survive?

That’s why OpenAI is constructing a world where the interface becomes the aggregator, and everyone else becomes a plugin.

Just like WeChat.
Just like iOS.
Just like Android.

Winner-take-most dynamics. Except this time, the OS is intelligence.

My takeaway is this:

FinTech spent a decade unbundling finance.

OpenAI is about to re-bundle all of it - inside one conversational layer.

We’re witnessing the birth of a new financial OS in real time.

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West’s WeChat Moment: OpenAI may have just launched the single most important feature for the future of FinTech, & almost no one seems to realize it 😳  OpenAI just added group chats functionality, and with that, unlocked a new distribution layer.  Up to 20 people. Planning, building, debating - all with AI inside the room.  A small feature on paper, but a paradigm shift in practice.  Because once you add social coordination to an AI interface, you’re no longer a chatbot.  You’re a platform. And platforms change everything.  For 18 months, OpenAI has been quietly assembling the components of an Everything App:  ↳ Apps SDK → native apps inside ChatGPT ↳ Atlas browser → conversational navigation ↳ Sora → video + creator ecosystem ↳ Stripe integration → agentic commerce rails ↳ Now: group chats → social layer + collaboration  One interface. One identity. One behavioral loop.  This is the Western equivalent of WeChat’s expansion but built on intelligence, not messaging.  And the timing is

Buffett is officially buying into the AI Revolution: Berkshire Hathaway acquired 17.9 million shares of Google parent Alphabet for $4.3 billion 😳

The man who sat out the entire dot-com boom.
The man who said “tech is outside my circle of competence.”

The man who built his entire career on avoiding hype, and he’s now making Alphabet one of his biggest holdings at age 95.

After the stock is already +90% since April 🤯

Warren Buffett finally said the quiet part out loud:

Google isn’t getting disrupted by AI.
Google is the disruption.

The world spent two years yelling “ChatGPT will kill Search.”
Buffett looked at the data, the distribution, the cash flow, the moat, and said:

“Actually, this might be the Coca-Cola of the AI era.”

→ Google touches billions of people every day.
→ It trains on the richest dataset in existence.
→ It embeds AI into Search, YouTube, Android, Workspace, Cloud. At the planetary scale.

Because in AI, Data + Distribution is everything.

And Google has both at an absurd scale.

Most importantly, Buffett doesn’t chase trends. He buys inevitabilities.

And today he told the world something very simple:

If the biggest tech skeptic of our time is buying Google now, maybe the AI revolution is just getting started.

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Buffett is officially buying into the AI Revolution: Berkshire Hathaway acquired 17.9 million shares of Google parent Alphabet for $4.3 billion 😳  The man who sat out the entire dot-com boom. The man who said “tech is outside my circle of competence.”  The man who built his entire career on avoiding hype, and he’s now making Alphabet one of his biggest holdings at age 95.  After the stock is already +90% since April 🤯  Warren Buffett finally said the quiet part out loud:  Google isn’t getting disrupted by AI. Google is the disruption.  The world spent two years yelling “ChatGPT will kill Search.” Buffett looked at the data, the distribution, the cash flow, the moat, and said:  “Actually, this might be the Coca-Cola of the AI era.”  → Google touches billions of people every day. → It trains on the richest dataset in existence. → It embeds AI into Search, YouTube, Android, Workspace, Cloud. At the planetary scale.  Because in AI, Data + Distribution is everything.  And Google has both

Nailed it! This has to be the best illustration about Enterprise AI 👏😂

Everyone wants AI Agents, but nobody wants to admit their data looks like a crime scene.

What execs think AI Agents will do:

→ Fix workflows
→ Boost margins
→ Turn the company into a machine that prints EBITDA

What actually happens:

→ 37 data sources, none agreeing with each other
→ Compliance sweating harder than the GPUs
→ Agents hallucinating because they’re feasting on chaos

And the uncomfortable truth is this:

AI agents aren’t failing. Your data strategy is.

You can’t expect intelligence from an ecosystem held together by CSVs, legacy systems, and hope.

That’s not innovation. That’s an expensive science fair project.

Fix the data first, and only then implement AI.

That’s when AI Agents stop being a demo and start becoming your competitive advantage.

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Nailed it! This has to be the best illustration about Enterprise AI 👏😂    Everyone wants AI Agents, but nobody wants to admit their data looks like a crime scene.    What execs think AI Agents will do:    → Fix workflows  → Boost margins  → Turn the company into a machine that prints EBITDA    What actually happens:    → 37 data sources, none agreeing with each other  → Compliance sweating harder than the GPUs  → Agents hallucinating because they’re feasting on chaos    And the uncomfortable truth is this:    AI agents aren’t failing. Your data strategy is.    You can’t expect intelligence from an ecosystem held together by CSVs, legacy systems, and hope.    That’s not innovation. That’s an expensive science fair project.    Fix the data first, and only then implement AI.    That’s when AI Agents stop being a demo and start becoming your competitive advantage.

AI is going back to the basics: ChatGPT’s Android beta app code just confirmed that OpenAI is launching Ads 😳

Not rumors.
Not speculation.
Hidden strings in the Android beta: “search ads carousel”, “bazaar content”.

This was only a matter of time because OpenAI is burning cash at a rate no startup in history has ever survived.

HSBC’s recent model showed the brutal truth:

→ Up to $792B in cloud + compute costs by 2030
→ $620-702B in annual data-center bills
→ $207B funding shortfall even under optimistic assumptions
→ Only 5-10% of users pay today
→ Growth = more usage = more loss

In other words, the free tier is a money pit.

So ads were never optional. They were inevitable.

The recent leak simply shows the moment the company stops pretending otherwise.

But here comes the interesting part.

OpenAI thinks ads could be a multi-billion-dollar revenue line.

↳ 2% of the global ad market.
↳ Integrated into shopping assistants.
↳ Invisible to paid users.

A Google-style engine inside ChatGPT.

And that’s the real shift.

AI isn’t just becoming the new interface. It’s becoming the new advertising surface.

The ironic part?

OpenAI is quietly turning into Google while Google is turning into OpenAI.

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AI is going back to the basics: ChatGPT’s Android beta app code just confirmed that OpenAI is launching Ads 😳  Not rumors. Not speculation. Hidden strings in the Android beta: “search ads carousel”, “bazaar content”.  This was only a matter of time because OpenAI is burning cash at a rate no startup in history has ever survived.  HSBC’s recent model showed the brutal truth:  → Up to $792B in cloud + compute costs by 2030 → $620-702B in annual data-center bills → $207B funding shortfall even under optimistic assumptions → Only 5-10% of users pay today → Growth = more usage = more loss  In other words, the free tier is a money pit.  So ads were never optional. They were inevitable.  The recent leak simply shows the moment the company stops pretending otherwise.  But here comes the interesting part.  OpenAI thinks ads could be a multi-billion-dollar revenue line.  ↳ 2% of the global ad market. ↳ Integrated into shopping assistants. ↳ Invisible to paid users.  A Google-style engine inside

Wild: Google just launched Gemini 3, and it might be the first AI that actually feels smarter than you 😳

It’s no longer just a “better chatbot.” It’s more like a thought partner.

A model that doesn’t just answer - it understands, reasons, builds, and creates.

Here’s why everyone’s freaking out:

↳ 1. It sees the world like a human.

Gemini 3 can watch a full-length video (hours of it) and understand plot, style, intent, and emotion.
Then remix it into something new.

Nothing else can do this.

↳ 2. It codes like a senior engineer.

Record-breaking performance on coding benchmarks.
Long refactors, messy codebases, multi-step planning - no sweat.

We’re finally moving from autocomplete to competence.

↳ 3. “Vibe coding” is the cheat code.

Say: “Make an app that feels like rainy Tokyo nights.”
Gemini 3:
→ designs it
→ animates it
→ scores it
→ builds it.

No specs.
Just vibes → product 🤯

↳ 4. The context window finally works.

Drop in a full codebase, a giant doc dump, or a 3-hour meeting.
Gemini 3 stays coherent.

Most importantly, it stays smart & useful.

My takeaway is this:

Gemini 3 probably marks a line in the sand.

The models before it feel old, while the models after it will feel dangerous.

And somewhere in between, the future of AI just arrived early.

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Jeff Bezos just said the quiet part out loud: “Human progress will demand moving heavy industry off Earth.” 😳

Factories.
Data centers.
All of it - in space.

Using endless solar energy.
Mining asteroids for raw materials.
Leaving Earth as the home we protect.

“There’s no Plan B. This is the good one” - Jeff Bezos

It sounds wild. But it’s also… inevitable.

AI’s energy demands are exploding.
Data centers could soon eat 8% of global electricity.
Grids are cracking. Cities are overheating.

So what if the next data center isn’t in Texas but in orbit? 🤔

Projects like Google’s Suncatcher, Starcloud, and Blue Origin are already testing it.

→ Solar power with no night or weather.
→ Cooling powered by the vacuum of space.
→ Asteroid resources worth quadrillions.

Bezos’ speech just connected the dots:

AI → Energy → Space → Civilization shift.

If it works, we unlock a future of abundance:

↳ Infinite clean power
↳ Restored ecosystems
↳ Trillions in new industries
↳ Jobs no one’s imagined yet

If it fails, well, we’ve just wasted decades chasing stars while Earth suffers.

Either way, the question isn’t IF anymore.

It’s WHEN energy becomes too scarce, and who moves first.

Brilliant: This is exactly what it’s like to watch AI fixing a bug 👏😂

AI won’t take your job but it might rewrite it, refactor it, and break it before lunch.

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Stealth Mode

On a mission to change perception of people towards the content and creators of UP & Bihar, and showcase the richness of the culture & language to the native and diaspora.

Completely bootstrapped, currently having ~20K user base, growing 3X month-on-month, and with support of 500+ truly vernacular talented creators, we are firmly on our path to have 1M+ highly engaged users from Bihar & UP alone by the end of 2024.
 
If you want to build a brand narrative in UP & Bihar, through focused end to end brand collab creator campaigns (specifically creators and NOT influencers), reach out to us at hello@reevoly.com

We have worked with some of the leading FMCG, Travel, Retail, Pharma, and FinTech brands on their brand building, product integration, brand visibility and CTA oriented campaigns so far.
 
If you are a potential client, partner, investor or mentor for us, please inbox me. Let's Chat

Co-Founder

Creator.co

Mentor & Advisor

Puruaa

Managing the strategy, partnerships, and promotions for Puruaa - a crowdfunded production house aimed at improving the image of Bhojpuri entertainment, through quality short films and music videos. That's the least we could have done to give back to the community. Scaled it to 5M+ Youtube views for the channel in just 3 years without any budget - strategically utilizing the freely available channels. We have produced 100+ videos including 8 short films and multiple music videos so far.

Founding Member

Invact Metaversity

Building both the supply (user acquisition) and the demand side (onboarding companies for placement of students) of the ecosystem for Invact, for their upskilling course in Finance. Unlocked couple of very high intent user acquisition channels for them, at almost zero CAC. Exploring other growth avenues for them at present.

Consultant/Advisor, Growth Strategy

VerSe Innovation

Building Dailylearn - with a mission to provide easy access to quality education across the length and breadth of India, impacting ~300M+ K12 students. Ideated, built and scaled to 100K+ registered users, ~5K paid users, and INR 1 Cr+ ARR in just over a year with minimal resources. Produced ~10 District Toppers from Bihar Board. Tied up with Super 30 faculties to provide a seamless learning experience to the state board students. Shut it down with unfulfilled dreams after we could not raise funds.

Head (Dailylearn)

Driving the product and content strategy in the Education segment for Dailyhunt & Josh. Ideated and building Dailylearn, the true blue EdTech platform for the students of Bharat. Hit me up if you are equally passionate to bring an impact in the lives of millions of students through affordable access to quality Education for all.

Director, Product & Content Strategy (Education)

Inflection Point Ventures

Angel Investor

Knimbus.com

On a contractual role, helped them shape up the B2C Online Learning business from scratch. Also partnered with Google for integrating G-Suite for Education with Knimbus platform.

Knimbus is a comprehensive digital library solution that integrates multiple e-resources on a single platform, enabling libraries to build their online presence and meet the demands of the users who are migrating online to consume knowledge content. 

Knimbus curates learning content from 500+ national and international publishers, covering 70,000+ journals (full text+abstracts), 5 million+ e-books, 1,50,000+ online courses & learning videos and 10 million+ research articles covering all subject areas such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Arts, Science, Commerce, Medical etc.

Knimbus helps 500+ libraries in India, UAE and Sri Lanka, to increase their online user base by building a comprehensive mobile app and E-library for them. Their client list includes Niti Aayog, VTU, NIT-Suratkal, Sharda University, CREDAI, RAKMHSU UAE etc.

Director, Strategic Initiatives & Growth

Testbook.com

Growth Hack through strategic alliances and partnerships. Helped identify and execute a win-win business model for us and our partners.

~50K to 1 lakh new users on-boarded per month through strategic alliances at zero cost, leveraging various innovative channels of growth hack.

Also helped expand the Franchise business for Testbook. Scaled it to 100+ new Franchise centers across 7 states in 3 months.

Testbook is India's topmost online test platform for Govt Job preparations. ~75 lakh students have taken ~1.5 crore tests on their web and mobile platforms covering 70+ Govt Job exams

Vice President, Strategic Alliances & Offline Business

dailyhunt (Versé Innovation Pvt Ltd)

Led the ExamPrep business for Dailyhunt. Helped build the ExamPrep business from scratch and scaled it to 50K DAUs.

Led various functions in the journey - Product Roadmap, Publisher Acquisitions, Content Conversion, Storefront Management, New user acquisition, User retention and engagement, Push notifications, business analytics and broader level business strategies. 

Dailyhunt, our flagship product is the most downloaded and used mobile application in India by an Indian Company (as per AC Nielsen Survey), providing news & e-books to the end users; with more than 15 Crore user base, and 300 Crore + page views every month.

Dailyhunt Exam Preparations is one of India's topmost competitive exam preparation app, with current affairs updates, exam alerts, study notes, e-books, online tests, mock tests, and other content helpful for the aspirants, for exams such as Bank PO, Clerk, Railways, UPSC, UGC, TET, LIC, NDA, CDS, State PSCs, IIT, NEET, CLAT etc. 

Download it from Google Play store - 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.dailyhunt.examprep

Deputy General Manager, ExamPrep Business

Informatics (I) Ltd.

I worked here in varied roles simultaneously:

1. National Marketing Manager - responsible for streamlining and strengthening a marketing function within the firm and its publishing partners. The role included campaign management, web marketing, event marketing, exhibitions/seminar participation, alliance management, market research, training to team and end users, preparing marketing collateral etc..

2. Product Marketing Manager (e-books, India Business Insight, InfoBooks) - responsible to market and achieve the targeted subscription sales of a portfolio of e-books by publishers such as Knovel, IET, EBSCO, Cambridge University Press, Pearson etc. Also responsible for subscription sales of India Business Insight (a unique Indian Business database tailored to meet the needs of faculties and students for their case studies & projects); and InfoBooks, an e-book hosting, marketing and selling platform, which aggregates e-books from leading publishers, and market & promote them in local and global academic and corporate market.

Key responsibilities:

Coordinating with the publishing partners; and planning & strategizing their targeted content subscription sales within academic institutions and corporate

Managing the sales team across the country to achieve targeted sales of e-books portfolio

Planning and executing the inbound, outbound e-mails, social media and event marketing campaigns for lead generation.

National Marketing Manager, Product Marketing Manager (E-books, India Business Insight)

17 yrs of exp. with first 6 years in Strategic Research, and last 10+ years in building & scaling EdTech businesses across almost all possible segments such as K12, Govt Job, Higher Education and Upskilling.

Was incubated by Dailyhunt in my second stint, building a Tier 2-3 specific K12 EdTech platform Dailylearn. Was also driving their Product & Content strategy for Education. 

Previously worked with Knimbus (a Digital Library Platform) as Director, Strategic Initiatives & Growth, primarily building their B2C online learning business from scratch. 

Was with Testbook as VP Strategic Alliances. Led their Franchise & Offline business, enabling offline user acquisition from Tier 2-3 cities. Helped Testbook open ~100 offline franchise centres in 3 months. Built scalable processes for the same.

In EdTech, previously worked with Informatics, and Dailyhunt ExamPrep managing functions such as Product Roadmap, Growth, User Engagement & Retention, Store Front Management, Content Partnerships, Marketing, Push Notifications, Monetization etc. Scaled Dailyhunt Exam Prep to 50K+ DAUs.

In Strategic Research & Consulting, worked with Evalueserve, MarketsandMarkets & Genpact - on projects such as Industry Assessment, Risk Assessment, New Market Entry, Due Diligence, Market Sizing, Benchmarking Studies, New Product Launch, Product Mapping, Feasibility Study, GTM Strategy, Process Optimization, etc.

Visiting Faculty at "Maharani Lakshmi Ammani College for Women".

Also engage with multiple startups and consulting councils as an EdTech consultant and Advisor.

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