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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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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. In software, it's really hard to get enough woman applying for development roles but we've made it work in the past and want to continue doing our best to push this in the future.

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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

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. And then, once that curve was low enough, governments could dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus was eradicated or we developed a working vaccine. billion people?