Ahmad Salim
@ahmad_salims
ideas • strategy • business • people • politics • chief disruptor 🥷🏼
This is INSANE!!! MASSSSSIVE. HUGE. How do they make money?
Mastercard's CFO called India's payment system "incredibly painful." Translation: India just murdered a $500B industry. With FREE payments. 51.4 billion transactions. Zero fees. 49% of global real-time payments. Here's how a "developing country" made Visa & Mastercard beg for…
Driving from Eastleigh to Westlands, and the number of Boda Bodas I’ve seen is mad. All just parked, waiting. For a prompt. A delivery. A pickup. A call. Outside BBS Malls alone, over 100 bikes. Just sitting. Waiting. Nairobi is literally a city of Hustle.
In the first quarter of 2025, diaspora remittances hit $1.23B. This will now be more easier, faster, and secure as one of Kenya's top banks, NCBA, partners with MoneyGram, allowing customers to send money to over 200 countries.
Just a reminder: It’s safer to let people think you don’t know, than to open your mouth trying to prove you do only for everyone to realise you actually don’t. STAY HUMBLE. The smartest ones usually don’t need to say much.
Wueh! Who is @edwinsifuna speaking for? SG? ODM? RAO? WSR? Wueh!!!!
Braaaaaaaaah!
In Japan, Self-Heating Food Packs can heat food without a stove.
Over 70% of customers return because of how you treat them, NOT just what you sell.
A stranger is more likely to hand you a key to your success than your current circle of friends and family. Find that stranger.
Branding makes companies look rich and companies that look rich often become rich.
Firstly on a footpath is nasty business already. Add dimly lit roads, no markings, and now this giant LED cube staring into your soul at night is a hazard
How the billboard looks during the day. This is a huge leap from traditional advertising. It manages to be captivating but not distracting to motorists too.
Okay I have to say this. Why is matcha everywhere?! It tastes absolutely disgusting Blueberries + green tea have almost all the same nutrients and taste 100x better Make it make sense
Aden Duale is turning out to be the best Health minister. He has sorted most of the Human Resource For Health issues. After streamlining issues with SHA, this might be the best period for medics in the country.
Many dreams are buried beneath all that concrete. How many hearts gave up here. And yet, every morning, we rise again. As if hope is part of the smog. Nairobi… she breaks you. Then dares you to rebuild better.
Why is the world so silent about Gaza? The pictures. The videos. The pain. It’s heartbreaking. It’s horrifying. And yet… silence.
This is my Mum’s small home business. She works with prints and resin to make beautiful life long pieces from trays, platters to vases and a lot more that you can check on her ig page @raharesins Great for gifting- or personal use if you love home decor She is based in Mombasa.
ChatGPT is officially entering the search + commerce war. They’re now testing full-blown order fulfilment right inside ChatGPT. Search a product, get details / suggestions (think Google Merchant), BOOM place your order, pay and it’s delivered. All without leaving the platform.
"Unregistered ID holders" ni nini? 😂
CS Murkomen orders chiefs to trace 92,000 unregistered ID holders in Samburu. Video by Michael Saitoti