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How We're Hiring at Receeve

Babbling VC

I couldn't care less whether you're in the office or working from Tanzania. This doesn't allow for a distributed team, or at least not at the beginning. At the same time, we want to be able to trust our teams blindly and let them learn by making mistakes if necessary. . We also don't adhere to conventional work environments.

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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

YoungUpstarts

In Kenya and Tanzania, over 25 million people use the M-Pesa mobile payments platform, operated by Safaricom and Vodacom, with money sent via text message. Governments around the world are looking at mobile money as a way to distribute subsidies and collect taxes without corruption and loss of funds to graft and pilferage.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. And the stakes are huge, because here we're talking about Kenya and Tanzania and all these countries, but what about India, 1.2 billion people? If they get it wrong and they go for herd immunity, what happens with 1.2