Father, Founder, Investor | CEO at smile.id
Joined August 2007
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Jun 2
10/ If the world of abundance is real — and I believe it can be — the rails that protect its distribution will be the next critical infra for emerging markets.
In the age of AI we have to solve for the abundance of fraud first.
Full essay: smile.id/blog/protecting-hum…
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Jun 2
Wild.
All the more reason why safeguarding the rails is existential to ever achieving "abundance."
We are still very early in this game.
New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal.
Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI:
404media.co/hackers-simply-a…
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Jun 1
A thread on humanity in the age of AI..
1/I just got back to Silicon Valley after weeks of travel.
I look forward to the post-AI abundance that the market is forecasting, but right now the era of fraud is hitting Lagos, Manila and Joberg before the era of abundance...
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Jun 2
9/ The way for banks (and others) to defeat fraudsters is through Shared Intelligence.
Every fraud signal we catch, every bad actor we flag, every synthetic ID we block — that data protects all who connect to our network.
Breadcrumbs from each attempt become collective defence.
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Jun 2
10/ If the world of abundance is real — and I believe it can be — the rails that protect its distribution will be the next critical infra for emerging markets.
In the age of AI we have to solve for the abundance of fraud first.
Full essay: smile.id/blog/protecting-hum…
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May 17
First post on @X in a long time.
Just spent a week in the Philippines.
Met lots of local people in tech.
I’ve traveled a lot but PH was perhaps the friendliest, most welcoming country I have ever been to.
Mabuhay! 🇵🇭
Excited to come back.
Thx @SproutHRTech & #SaaSconPH !
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25 Sep 2025
Pleased to announce our new partnership with @Mastercard
mastercard.com/news/eemea/en…
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14 Sep 2025
Been thinking about Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination & the increase in recent political violence.
I am reminded of the 1st principle of free speech: I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
This is core 2 what makes us American
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11 Jul 2025
Exciting News! I'm hiring Senior Sales Execs to join our team in East Africa & Francophone Africa 🌍
East Africa
Apply here: lnkd.in/e4Kd6SUs
Francophone
Apply here: lnkd.in/ebdxAEGZ
Tell us why you're the best person to scale Enterprise Sales in these markets🚀
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3 Jun 2025
Many people have told me our marketing at @usesmileid is quite good and we have built a recognizable brand synonymous with ID verification in Africa.
While I hope that’s true & @peaceitimi and her team deserve credit,
We have some really exciting things planned next….
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3 Jun 2025
Now we have an exciting new strategy, shared understanding across the team & some cool AI tools ⚒️ with a lot more data to work with.. we’re just missing 1 thing.
You! 🫵
A Director of Marketing w/
- ABM experience
- strong KPI track record
- creative flair 4 product marketing
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3 Jun 2025
If this sounds like you and you have a culture of urgency around customer needs and excellence around execution.
Come join us!
wellfound.com/jobs/3301866-d…
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