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Come and Master the Physics of Pricing at Tekedia Mini-MBA

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A business model encapsulates the essence of a firm by providing the compass on how to create value in the company. It is the logic of a business and when you commit to one, you have committed all the factors of production in that business to a destiny. And as you execute that model, creating value in that firm, pricing becomes critical.

At Tekedia Mini-MBA, we have eminent pricing faculty to guide you. Yes, our Faculty members understand the physics of pricing, and how an efficient pricing playbook can unlock growth in a business.

Go here and register for the next edition of Tekedia Mini-MBA and get our early bird discounts with our free books. Do it and let us co-learn in Africa’s largest business school for entrepreneurial capitalism.

How To Look for a Job on LinkedIn

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LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking platform, is not just a place to connect with colleagues or update your resume. It is also a powerful tool for passive job hunting. In this context, Passive job hunting means keeping an eye on job opportunities when you are not actively searching or unemployed.

This approach allows you to explore new career options without the pressure of a full-scale job search. Did you know you can do this on LinkedIn, too? Here are some tips to try out.

Optimize Your Profile

Your LinkedIn profile serves as your online resume. Ensure it’s complete, up-to-date, and showcases your skills, experiences, and accomplishments. Use a professional photo, craft a compelling headline, and write a summary highlighting your career goals and achievements. The more complete and appealing your profile is, the more likely you attract opportunities. You will find a lot of helpful videos and articles on the internet about how to optimize your profile for better visibility in your industry.

Connect and Network

Networking is a crucial aspect of passive job hunting on LinkedIn. Connect with professionals in your industry, including recruiters, HR managers, and colleagues. Engage with their content, participate in relevant discussions, and contribute valuable insights. Building a strong professional network can increase visibility and open doors to hidden job opportunities.

To bare the truth as it is, there are opportunities you will never come across until you get into certain circles. And the way to get into these circles is by connecting and engaging in conversations within the industry you want to be seen.

Follow Companies and Industries that you like

LinkedIn allows you to follow companies and industries you’re interested in. This keeps you updated on their activities, job postings, and industry trends. Following companies also signals to recruiters that you are interested in their organization, potentially making you a more appealing candidate. Of course, as you follow, engage and make meaningful contributions to conversations.

Engage in Thought Leadership

Share your knowledge, experience, and expertise by creating and sharing valuable content on LinkedIn. Write articles, share industry insights, or comment on relevant posts. Establishing yourself as a thought leader in your field can attract job offers from organizations looking for experts.

Update Your Skills As You Go

Continuous learning and skill development are essential for staying competitive in the job market. And expectedly, you should be learning and honing your skills on your job. As you do, ensure to update them to your LinkedIn profile. Also, add any certifications you obtain and showcase your expertise. A well-rounded skill set can pique recruiters’ interest in searching for candidates with specific skills.

Monitor Your Inbox

Recruiters often reach out to potential candidates via LinkedIn messaging. Keep an eye on your LinkedIn inbox and respond promptly to inquiries. This should not be when you leave messages unattended in your inbox for days and weeks. Engaging in conversations with recruiters can lead to job opportunities you may not have found on your own. And remember to let these conversations flow smoothly, without tension or undue expectations.

Use the “Jobs” Feature and set Your Job Preferences

LinkedIn’s “Jobs” tab is a valuable resource for passive job hunting. You can set up job alerts based on your preferences, allowing LinkedIn to notify you when relevant job opportunities arise. You can also explore “Suggested Jobs” to discover roles that match your profile.

LinkedIn allows you to signal your interest in job opportunities without actively applying. If you want, you can enable the “Open to Work” feature, which adds a green frame around your profile photo, signaling to recruiters that you’re open to job opportunities. You can specify your job preferences, including the type of job, location, and preferred start date. This helps recruiters match you with relevant job openings.

Summary

Don’t wait till you are actually out of a job. Keeping an eye out for other job openings can also enlighten you on what skills are currently in demand within your industry. That way, you can upskill while still on your job and add more value to your company. This would also put you in a better position to request a promotion or a raise.

LinkedIn is a dynamic platform that, when used strategically, can help you discover new career opportunities and skills while maintaining your professional image and reputation. Leverage the passive job hunting and watch the opportunities come to you.

ChatGPT’s Sam Altman, the Power of Voting Rights and the Illusion of “Co-founder” Title

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Still on OpenAI’s firing of its CEO, Sam Altman, who is a Co-founder, but with no equity! OpenAI is the creator of ChatGPT, the most exciting digital product of this decade: “Sam Altman’s missing equity. Altman had a board seat and was the best-known OpenAI personality. Aside from a small investment through a YCombinator fund (Altman was formerly its president), he doesn’t have any equity in the company. And that meant he didn’t have much control if anything turned against him.”

Young People, being a co-founder does not mean you hold a voting rights power  in a company. In short, you can be given 1 share in a company with 1,000,000,000 units, to make you a legal co-founder. But you can check the difference between 12 and a dozen, with 1 unit in 1,000,000,000 units of shares!

If you visit the old career page of Rocket Internet, the creator of Jumia, they used to have many co-founders’ jobs. Simply, they hire you, give you a role to start something in your country, with the title “co-founder” and loads of cash. Your indigenous  citizens think a home-boy is starting the next big thing, and come out to support.

But watch, over time, they replace you, and take over the management of the business. I have written about this “Co-founder as a Service” here https://www.tekedia.com/hiring-co-founders/. There are many co-founders in the world who are just employees, but are used to gain market positioning, by using their [you fill them] to advance into new markets and territories.

Of course, Sam is not complaining because he is a big boy; just trying to help someone on how capitalism plays on titles to advance missions.

ChatGPT-maker Open AI fired its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman on Friday.

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Comment 1: Thank you for sharing this insightful perspective on co-founder dynamics. As an ecommerce consultant, I’ve seen similar patterns play out with direct-to-consumer brands.

Titles alone don’t confer decision-making power or equity. Doing proper due diligence on the operating agreement and share structure is so important.

Have clear goals and expectations set from the beginning on vision, governance, exits. Misalignments down the road causes major headaches.

Comment 2: I love your write up but I believe that a CEO’s best job security is his vision. Yes majority vote decides who get to be the CEO but it hardly decides what the profit will be. Sam Altman just like Steve Jobs before him knows how to monetize AI and he will get new suitors soon. As for founders, it will always be good to have equity, this will help the organisation in having stability in the early days. Profit maximization is the primary objective of organisations. If you have the skills to increase the organisation’s bottom line even if you lose out due to politics you won’t be out of job for long.

Comment 3: Cofounder  is not necessarily co-owner ?. Know the difference.

Comment 4: It is truly ironic how the principal person to lost his job to AI was actually the Co-founder of ChatGPT, a product of Artificial Intelligence itself. Well, but that’s on a jovial note.

On a serious note, I expected nothing less from Enterprise Capitalists. They actually don’t care about the morals or ethics, just the figures.

Seems the board members wanted more revenue, and Sam couldn’t provide that or doesn’t have the model yet. Thus, the next best alternative was to fire him. Hopefully, just like Apple did ran to Steve Jobs for help, let’s see how far they can run without Sam and Greg.

3 Bites of the Cherry – Not all Web3, but another 6 blocks for the price of 3 darts!

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SIGNS ETH MAY BE ON THE SLIDE, DESPITE INTENT ON ETF PRODUCTS

Analysts equate the $2k threshold on Eth with the $35k threshold on BTC. Recent positivity around the approval of new types of ETF saw lift in both BTC and ETH.

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of pooled investment security that operates much like a mutual fund. We’ve previously made an aside to different types of ETF, so we won’t do that here…

Sufficient to say that institutional investors getting further down the road with the SEC on approval, is positive sentiment for the relevant coin, but institutional product availability and the actual movement of coin prices are two different things.

Eth reached a periodic $2121.30 high on 9 November but has slipped back under the psychological $2k line and is now trading in the low $1960s representing an 8% drop.

Profit taking has seen BTC at $36589, which is 3.5% off its 15 November periodic high of $37885, though this is less than half the collapse of ETH, and comfortably above the psychological $35k line.

Analysts however have no empirical evidence to support why ‘psychological’ thresholds are what they are!

META DISBANDS ITS RESPONSIBLE AI (RAI) DIVISION

According to Binance, Meta has disbanded its Responsible AI (RAI) division.

The RAI division was dedicated to regulating the safety of its artificial intelligence ventures during development and deployment.

AI safety, and guarding against misuse has become a priority for many of Metas peers. In July, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI formed an industry group with AI standards as a focus.

Some of Metas displaced RAI staff have been redistributed to other parts of the group, however, there have still been some layoffs.

KRONOS HACKED FOR AROUND $25M

Kronos Research, a Taipei-based trading firm, market maker, and VC fund, was hacked after an attacker gained access to Kronos’s API keys.

Blockchain researcher ZachXBT mapped wallet outflows, adding on a Kronos X post, that it seemed like $25 million of ETH was stolen.

Kronos said the loss was “not a significant portion of our equity.” (The Block)

WAS THERE INSIDER TRADING ON REDDIT MOONS?

Moons is a rewards token connected to Reddit’s Community Points program, introduced in 2020.  The program rewarded users for their activity on the platform, such as receiving significant upvotes on comments or posts.

Reddit announced it was sunsetting the feature last month.  On-chain data indicates at that at least two moderators linked to the Moons ‘Subreddit’, liquidated large amounts of them before Reddit publicly announced the end of its Community Points program.

On the announcement, Moon token’s value plummeted from $0.25 to less than $0.04 in a few hours.

JAKE FRIEDS NORTH STAR DIGITAL ART COLLECTION

Jake Fried’s “NORTH STAR” is a presale collection of hand-drawn animations with the unique feature of interchangeable artwork through the Doppelgänger contract. With 42 pieces left at 1 ETH each, this collection offers dynamic art that evolves over time, showcasing Fried’s signature ink and white-out animations that have been celebrated worldwide.

“NORTH STAR” represents a novel exploration of art within the digital space. Fried has meticulously created a 120-frame animation loop that extends for 5 seconds, complete with an auditory experience crafted by the artist himself. (nftculture .com)

WHEN YOU ARE HOT PROPERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT IS MEASURED IN HOURS AT MOST.

It’s now old news that Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI following a decision of the board.

Earlier today, ‘Currency Analytics’ reported that Charles Hoskinson, the Founder of Cardano, was in talks with him about a position there. There has been much speculation on what the role may be, but no concrete reports.

As I was writing this, an alert from ‘The Verge’ announced that Open AI are back in contact with Altman again, trying to get him back. Rumours are that investors Microsoft Corp.,Thrive Capital, and Tiger Global Management, put pressure on the board to hasten his return!

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Ride-Hailing Platform inDrive Launches Venture And M&A Arm to Invest up to $100M in Startups

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inDrive, an international internet aggregator of passenger, freight, and intercity transportation services, has launched a new venture and merger and acquisition division named New Ventures, to invest up to $100 million in startups within emerging markets over the next few years.

The new venture arm comes four months after inDrive in July this year, announced its official launch in South Florida, the company’s first U.S. market. inDrive disclosed that it chose South Florida as it is a market eagerly seeking better transportation alternatives.

According to inDrive, the newly launched investment is focused on several aspects. This includes, Challenging Injustice: A mission-driven approach to improving lives Local to Global: Investing in startups with potential for global expansion, Post-Seed/Pre-Series A: Backing companies with proven product-market fit, Rapid Organic Growth: Focusing on startups with flourishing economics and cash flow.

Announcing the new venture, the company wrote on X,

“We’re excited to share a great initiative in our journey towards a more just and innovative future! Today, we proudly unveil our latest initiative – New Ventures, an M&A arm set to invest in trailblazing startups that champion the cause of challenging injustice.

“Investment Focus:

• Challenging Injustice: A mission-driven approach to improving lives.

• Local to Global: Investing in startups with potential for global expansion.

• Post-Seed/Pre-Series A: Backing companies with proven product-market fit.

Rapid Organic Growth: Focusing on startups with flourishing economics and cash flow.

“Our mission is to not just invest but to foster a community of impactful startups. With the backing of New Ventures, companies gain more than just financial support – they tap into a global customer base, access cutting-edge technology, and leverage our go-to-market expertise”.

InDrive will be investing vertically and horizontally in the ride-hail industry, with an eye toward either acquiring or using the services of those companies.

The company’s New Ventures unit is dedicated to helping investee and acquired companies scale quickly across its platform. These companies are set to gain a competitive edge by tapping into inDrive’s global multi-million customer base across 45+ markets, and access to the company’s go-to-market know-how and technology.

The New Ventures unit will largely provide capital to post-seed/Series A-stage companies that can demonstrate substantial year-over-year growth exceeding 2-3x. inDrive says its New Ventures unit will help its portfolio and acquired companies scale quickly across its main ride-hailing platform.

inDrive, which originated in Russia, was recognized as the world’s fastest ride-hailing app in 2022. The app achieved rapid growth in 2022, with an 88% year-on-year increase in gross revenue. The company’s country count reached 47, up from 37 in 2021, as it expanded its team by 1,000 in 2022 to reach 2,700 employees located across 17 offices worldwide.

About inDrive

inDrive is a global mobility and urban services platform headquartered in Mountain View, California. With over 150 million downloads, the inDrive app is the second most downloaded mobility application in the world. In addition to ride-hailing, inDrive provides an expanding list of urban services, including intercity transportation, cargo and freight delivery, task assistance, delivery, and employment search.

inDrive operates in more than 700 cities across 47 countries, where it supports local communities via its peer-to-peer payment model and its community empowerment programs, which help advance education, sports, arts and sciences, gender equality, and other vital initiatives.