The Haya people of Tanzania were producing carbon steel in the year 100 AD, nearly 1,900 years before the process was independently developed in Europe. Their furnaces reached 1,800 degrees Celsius using preheated forced-draft technology that European metallurgists did not achieve until the Industrial Revolution. When anthropologists arrived to study it in the 1970s, the knowledge only survived because a few elderly men still remembered it. Cheap European steel had already put the Haya out of business decades earlier. Africa did not need to be taught how to build. It needed to be left alone.

Who's Ruto ally in Africa, he sells our health data to Trump, loves hosting Macron and sells our infrastructure to Xi Jinping

KEMRI Is looking for 200 volunteers to be dosed with malaria at a cost of KSh 48,000 each. The study requires the volunteers to spend 24 days in hospital on daily remuneration of KSh 2,000 for the study period. Try your luck...Akinyi

我的偶像郭璨 27 岁，SpaceX 任务控制室核心工程师，火箭发动机参数实时监测她说了算，异常时直接下中止指令 最离谱的是，她 20 多岁写的代码还在优化发射控制逻辑，把流程自动化提了一大截 结果一查工资，年薪现金才 13 万美元，硅谷白菜价 但人家持股 8–15 万股，按 135 刀 IPO 价算，身价直接干到 1500 万刀 之前纪录片里那个“花臂 吊带”出圈的，就是她 难怪网友喊她星舰女王，这履历放硅谷随便哪家都是抢着要，她偏选 SpaceX 硬卷 偶像，实力真是藏不住的

Japan is facing a growing loneliness crisis. From elderly residents living alone to younger generations struggling with social disconnection, loneliness is becoming a major social challenge. Al Jazeera’s Patrick Fok reports.

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

This is the moment a customer busted two @Shell workers running the screw scam to charge gas to other customers. He told them straight: take the screws out or I’m ruining your entire company. I’m so sick of people coming to America just to scam hard-working citizens. Deport every single one running these street-level cons.

A Japanese TV crew filmed the CEO of a 7 billion yen fast food chain for a feature on Japan's humble corporate culture. His head office in Shinagawa had 3 desks and cost 103,000 yen a month in rent. The office was that small because a Claude agent did the procurement, pricing, and contract work that normally fills three floors. The crew showed the office. Two desks. One printer. Three employees. A rice cooker in the corner. The TV banner introduced him as the entrepreneur whose chain of snack shops sources rice directly from 312 farmers across Japan. At 0:43 he says the word fleet. He says it once. He says it without looking at the camera. The crew kept the line because they thought he meant his delivery vans. He did not mean delivery vans. He meant the fleet of Claude agents that runs every part of his company that does not require a human signature. The two desks at headquarters are for him and the CFO. The third employee is there to answer the phone. One agent reads daily yield data from 312 rice farmers and sets the next morning's wholesale price for each variety. A second agent routes 47 stores worth of inventory based on the previous day's POS data. A third agent drafts every franchise contract and every supplier renewal. He signs every morning before the office opens. Japanese commercial law is satisfied. Someone pulled the company's filings on the Tokyo commercial registry. Every contract filed in the last 14 months had been timestamped between 5:47 AM and 6:03 AM. Every supplier renewal used the same boilerplate clauses, written in slightly different prose each time. The morning shots in the TV segment showed an empty office because the agent had already done the work of 40 employees overnight. Six months ago a 14 year old in Shenzhen pushed an AI agent to GitHub. Judges said no real world application. 3,100 forks later. The CEO had been one of them. He still flies to rice paddies every spring. He still personally tastes every new variety before it gets a code in the system. He still tells investors the head office rent is 103,000 yen because it builds trust. He still has not told the farmers that the agent decided who got the new orders last quarter. The TV crew thought the rundown head office was a story about a humble entrepreneur. It was actually a story about how many employees a 7 billion yen company does not need when one CEO signs what one Claude agent writes.

Jonathan Wener 分享用自己的信用金卡刷了一栋 6500 万美元的大楼。 30 天账期带来的资金浮动本身就值 1%，再加上 1% 返现，又多赚了 130 万美元。 资金体量大了真是从哪都能抠个 A8 出来😇

Luigi Aponte lascia circa 40 miliardi (il valore della sua società) ai dipendenti e non ai famigliari. Perchè ai dipendenti ? "Perché hanno costruito questa azienda insieme a me, e se lo meritano" in una breve intervista per La Repubblica che ha superato i 2 milioni di visualizzazioni ed è diventata virale sul web. "I miei parenti non riceveranno nemmeno una singola azione delle società", ha dichiarato Aponte in direttaa. — Gianluigi, ha appena detto che i membri della sua famiglia non riceveranno azioni della società. Dice sul serio? — Assolutamente sul serio. Sono stanco dell'ipocrisia. Negli ultimi dieci anni ho osservato come facevano piani per un futuro in cui io non ci sarò più e loro saranno ricchi. Ho 85 anni e molti problemi di salute. Non ho intenzione di fingere che vivrò fino a cento anni. Ho deciso di essere onesto: ecco cosa vi aspetta, preparatevi. — Come hanno reagito? — Hanno rifiutato di parlarmi per tre settimane. Dopo un mese hanno capito che non avrei cambiato le condizioni, e allora si sono calmati tutti. — Ci parli delle sue aziende. Qual è il loro valore di mercato? — Sono il fondatore della Mediterranean Shipping, un operatore con una flotta di circa 800 portacontainer. L'azienda, con sede a Ginevra, attracca in oltre 500 porti in tutto il mondo. Controlla anche MSC Cruises, la più grande compagnia di crociere al mondo a capitale privato, e possiede la quota di maggioranza della Terminal Investment, società di gestione portuale. Al momento il mio patrimonio è stimato in circa 50,3 miliardi di euro. — E non trasmetterà a sua moglie e ai suoi figli nemmeno una quota? — Nemmeno una. L'azienda distribuirà le azioni ai dipendenti attraverso un programma di azionariato. Il 70% delle azioni sarà ripartito tra i dipendenti che lavorano in azienda da più di 15 anni. Il restante 30% andrà a una fondazione per il sostegno all'istruzione imprenditoriale. — Perché proprio i dipendenti comuni e non i familiari? — Perché hanno costruito questa azienda insieme a me, e se lo meritano. Ho studiato come capitano di lungo corso e in seguito ho guidato traghetti che trasportavano turisti facoltosi verso le isole; solo grazie alla mia esperienza e alle mie conoscenze oggi MSC controlla circa un quinto delle capacità di spedizione mondiali. — E cosa riceveranno sua moglie e i suoi figli? — Le cose che contano davvero. La mia collezione di auto d'epoca, circa 120 esemplari, la maggior parte dei quali Jaguar, la tenuta di famiglia a Ginevra e la mia biblioteca di letteratura economica — circa 2.500 libri. Se non apprezzeranno questo, significherà che ho fallito. — Mi scusi, ma sembra un insieme di cose irrilevanti rispetto a miliardi. È tutto qui? - No. C'è qualcos'altro — un conto su una piattaforma di investimento dove ci sono soldi veri. In questo momento ci sono 150 milioni di euro. GiovanniZibordi

The billionaire founder of the Aviator crash game reveals the game does 400,000 bets every minute "I am founder of Aviator, the biggest game in the world. You know, we have 77 million master players. We have 400,000 bets every minute. It's the biggest game in the world. Number one in the world"

【衝撃】売上高70億円のおむすび権兵衛の本社、家賃10万円ちょい すごいな。本社がボロい会社は信用できるというのは定説だけど、さすがにここまでくるとエグい。

I was in Monaco few years ago. Really nothing special. Bunch of old dudes, trust fund babies and gold-diggers. What people don't understand, especially in USA - Europe has GENERATIONAL WEALTH. I am talking money that has been piling up for centuries. France, Italy, Spain, UK, Portugal, there are literally families who owned slaves and cotton-fields, ships, docks, export-import licences. They were the ones producing goods with no labour cost and exporting it to America. They were the ones who were buying Paris land plots for pennies back in the days that are now worth billions. Most of them really just fell on super-accumulated wealth over big period of time. Few of the people will achieve this wealth for their lifetime. Very few. Most of the people I've met there are really born into money. It's normal for them, as it was normal for their parents. I never found it cool cause I just don't belog there even tho I am very well educated and raised and I made a very, very affluent life for myself. The truth is - you will never belog there if you don't come from money. The true, dynasty money. This is also what US people don't understand. European old money doesn't respect the hustle and motion, they find it silly and amusing. You are a lower-status poor child they were thought not to take seriously. You know the girl you meet one summer. She thinks you are cute and loves that you are street smart, and bend the rules. She will party with you, hang out, fuck you and have her romance, but she will marry someone from her class. This is literally how most of the true aristocratic European circles still look at world. I also never found old money cool other then aesthetics and arhitecture - and for that they have the best one. In my books most of them are useless spoiled kids who just won in life by chance and they have no respect for anything cause they haven't done anything themselves most of the times. They think we are savages and we think they are pussies. Find a place you belong in buddy and make a world a better place then you found it. Even if you do stumble in those echalons of society, you will always be a gaijin.

Other than pesa ya Elon, we also need to talk about how much some of us actually make from offline engagements with twitter folk. I got this gig simply by @Eng_Ngure tagging me on @johnnjenga post. Made some real good $ from architectutal design fees, but also gained valuable friendships on this job. ( From Client to Estate managers to the contractor) Msidharau offline engagements and income juu hii ya Elon ni pesa ya cushioning against fuel hike ya #WANTAM. youtu.be/d5Cnnzu5Kg0?is=iNhJ…

“There is a building material that does not burn, that does not rot” “In 1937 the US Government made it a crime to grow the plant it comes from”

So, collapse your emotions, good or bad about the 2 presidents. This is a masterclass in strategic communications by Cyril Ramaphosa. He doesn't mention Ruto or his decision to bend to the USA on Ebola. He doesn't criticize the decision but instead, expertly demonstrates a better strategy deployed by RSA. He doesn't need to say "We are concerned that Kenya blah blah blah." But with Ruto standing right there he gives case studies of South Africa's pan African response to Ebola - financial investment, sharing expertise and must importantly, protecting those on African soil from the pandemic. The opposite of what Kenya is doing. And he highlighted this contrast emphatically by focusing on what RSA is doing. Nice example for a strategic comms lecturer to use. How do you expose a disagreement without saying "You are wrong and I disapprove of your methods." Nice.

Warren Buffett had a heck of a good year in 1968. It was interesting how Berkshire’s original securities portfolio sat mainly in Bonds (88%) in 1966, then he went on a buying spree and succeeded at ridiculous rates (77.5% return in 67’).

Paul Njuguna, a retired technical manager at the Agricultural Development Corporation, invested Ksh 16 million in 2019 to set up Elgon Pine, a refined oil and animal feed plant in Eldoret. At its peak, the plant processed 90 tonnes of canola, sunflower, and soya annually, with capacity for 300 tonnes. Njuguna contracted about 100 farmers who supplied raw materials, while he also farmed 10 acres himself. The business also produced poultry feeds and soap from crop by-products. The venture collapsed after Kenya Power slapped him with a Ksh 400,000 bill in August 2021, compared to his usual monthly bill of about Ksh 30,000. Njuguna disputed it as an error and filed a complaint, but Kenya Power claimed underbilling and refused to adjust. When he failed to pay, Kenya Power disconnected electricity to both his plant and home. Though EPRA ruled in his favour and ordered reconnection, the power was never restored, forcing him to shut down operations. The shutdown affected the entire value chain - contracted farmers, suppliers, and employees - all of whom lost income. Njuguna now questions whether the disconnection was deliberate sabotage and why Kenya does little to protect small industrial ventures. His case has raised concerns about how utility billing errors and slow dispute resolution can destroy promising local businesses and the livelihoods tied to them.

It’s a real epic adventure! British travelers Robbie, Josh, Jasper, and Ivo (Tuk South project) bought two tuk-tuks in Kenya 🇰🇪 about five years ago and drove them all the way to Colombia 🇨🇴. They headed south through Tanzania and across Africa, shipped the tuk-tuks across the Atlantic, then continued through South America. The 10,000 km journey faced rough roads, borders, deserts like Chile’s Atacama, wildlife, and breakdowns — while raising awareness and funds for Kenyan conservation (e.g., Big Life Foundation — @biglifeafrica.) Follow their mods, challenges, and stories on Instagram (@tuksouth), TikTok, and YouTube. An impressive feat turning basic Kenyan taxis into global explorers. 🛺🌍

Dana White reveals he won so much money gambling he messed up a casino’s quarterly earnings Dana White: My strategy is always let me bet as much as I possibly can let’s say it’s a $300,000 hand you win two or three hands and you leave” Shannon Sharpe: You do realize that you could potentially mess up their quarterly report Dana White: it just happened yes I do realize that and it just happened Dana White: I’ll show you the quote during their earnings call that this just happened in the month of April I fucked up their entire quarter