Access to the Frontier
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Sep 15, 2022
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206 & 207
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Emanuel/Binance Africa
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Intro
Today’s Guest is a passionate leader, Chief Executive Officer Bundle Africa since July 2021 & Director Binance Africa since April 2020 (started in 2019), Emmanuel Babalola
Binance has been able to cement itself in all our hearts because it provided a gateway of entry
Binance Questions
Intro
- You got started quite early on in the space, give us a quick overview of that journey leading up to where you are today - being a CEO of the largest crypto company in the world is no small feat ✅
- Why quit your job for crypto?
- There are these groups of innovators scattered across the continent, but so few of them, why is that? ✅
- Is your young self proud that although you did not become a hacker as you wanted, you are now Director and CEO of two revolutionary innovations on the continent ✅
- Has it been an easy experience for you to get into tech and crypto in this fully immersive way, what have been the setbacks of the journey? ✅
- You are very intentional about teaching and training people, are these already showing results? ✅
- Nigeria is of course the 6th most populous nation in world with 218 million people
- How do you decide where to build and develop location wise? ✅
- Launching initiatives like the ‘Zero-fee’ charges in South Africa on the heels of the banks being encouraged to participate in crypto, is this the continuation or a beginning of expanding yourself across the continent? ✅
- Offramping is becoming much easier, it is spreading much faster than one could have expected
- We are lacking in quite a bit of infrastructure, we are still at our earliest stages when it comes to developing and participating in these technological shifts, but something seems to have shifted in us, in how we now approach technology
- What’s changing now? Is it crypto that’s doing this or more a delayed onset of skillful application on our part? ✅
- Its often said that the educated ones leave the continent and never want to come back once they have seen better, the pandemic slows that down a little, and more people seem more intent to develop the continent, how has this shifted how Binance recruits these innovators and radicalists across the continent ✅
- The Freezone that you are in talks to create with the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority - evidence of reputation 🤔
- How does this relate to the ban that is currently in place in Nigeria? ❓
- In closing, be sure to catch next weeks episode where we will talk more on bundle and the social revolution it is bringing about. ✅
Bundle Questions
- This is the second part of last week’s conversation with Emmanuel Babalola, Chief Executive Officer Bundle Africa since July 2021 & Director Binance Africa since April 2020 (started in 2019), today he speaks to us as the CEO of Bundle
- What is Bundle and how did it come about? ✅
- When will you be looking to expand from Nigeria & Ghana to other countries? ✅
- Africa is of course more focused on peer to peer transactions versus technical defi ✅
- Terms like web3, and crypto have become interchangeable, talk us through the definition of these two words ✅
- Affiliate program - trying to just increase user or is there more to it? ✅
- How does the bundle leveraged token work? ✅
- Africa the largest continent but we never get the sense that there is an actual movement about the applicable use cases of crypto, but in places like South America we see and hear just how much they are building towards this frontier, where is the breakdown here? ✅
- Where does one find the builders? ✅
- We cannot deny that it is not easy to get started as a result of lack of access, which is where infrastructure comes in
- What does this say about where we are going as a continent?
- In closing off this double segment, 3 words on how you feel about the entire crypto, blockchain and/or web3 space ✅