Co-Founder @bookwikapp | We import and sell Chinese EVs | @AladiAutos
Joined September 2024
- Tweets11.6K
- Following1.7K
- Followers2K
- Likes15.8K
Pinned Tweet
Over the past few months my team and I have been building this company @Bookwikapp
Bookwik helps service-based businesses manage bookings, collect payments, reduce no-shows, and spend less time on admin.
We’re currently in the pre-launch phase and are inviting select businesses for the early access and will launch soon.
Interested in signing up for the early access? Let’s talk.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always hated waiting for my turn at the salon when trying to cut my hair.
I always thought to myself, “I wish I came here 1 hour earlier or 30 minutes later when I believed I wouldn’t need to wait as long as I had”
Back then waiting that long for a haircut was tolerable because I was a teen/uni student without many commitments taking much of my time outside school.
But now as an adult, having to wait 1hr+ for a haircut is unacceptable, and that’s why I built Bookwik so I would be able to schedule my haircut with my salon and pay ahead of time so when I arrive at the salon, I don’t have to wait for anyone, all I have to do is get in, sit down and get taken care of.
If you’ve had this problem, check us out at bookwik.app
We also have a referral program where you get 3,000 naira for every business you onboard.
Terms and conditions apply.
Ify Aladi retweeted
It's really happening! In ten days I'd be curating the first edition of Out of Bounds mixer and i'm really grateful for all the founders supporting this.
It's strictly by invitation for now but i can tell you we have a few spots open, so tell your builder friends 💛
Ify Aladi retweeted
Well-meaning Nigerians, Obidients, and Kwankwasiyas, ONE THING IS CERTAIN:
With Peter Obi as President and CEO of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for four years, NO HUMAN BEING ALIVE WOULD BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE NIGERIA: FOR GOOD ONLY.
Everyone, past, present, and future, agrees with this position.
Don't mind what they say now after they have eaten the accursed corn.
WITH YOUR PERMISSION, LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU ALL:
Ify Aladi retweeted
You're free to disagree but let me say this.
The Igbo tribe does not vote for tribe, they mostly vote for the persons they believe will deliver a better result.
Fact check these:
1. In 1999, about 89% of igbo voters voted for President Obasanjo.
2. In 2003, about 65% of Igbo voters voted for President Obasanjo.
3. In 2007, about 90% of Igbos voted for the late President Yar'Adua.
4. In 2011, about 98% of the Igbos voted for President Jonathan.
5. In 2015, about 93% of the Igbos voted got president Jonathan.
6. In 2019, about 98% of the Igbos voted for Atiku.
7. In 2023, about 89% of the Ignos voted for Peter Obi.
Please note that, Ojukwu was one time a presidential candidate within these years.
Despite his fight for the secession of the Igbos, the same Igbos didn't vote for him, massively?
Is it now that the Igbos and all well meaning persons from other tribes are supporting Peter Obi, that it has become a tribal war?
When you're ready to tell yourselves the truth, you'd respect the Igbos and give them their overdue recognition towards nation building.
That's why they're still the richest by spread, and arguably the most educated and enlightened.
Despite never been in power since 1966.
And suffered from a war where their wealth and dignity were significantly eroded.
End.
Shutting down in less than 2 months after raising $8M is crazy
We just raised an $8M seed round to kill AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Introducing instacloud.com, the agent-native serverless cloud.
Your team is shipping code like never before. But you're getting caught up in manual, tedious DevOps work trying to deploy it.
InstaCloud provides the serverless compute that lets your services autoscale, with all the infrastructure managed for you.
Agents branch into complete replica environments when working, keeping prod safe and iteration speed high.
And of course, it all works seamlessly with agents through MCP/CLI.
Get off the traditional, legacy cloud.
Start deploying your services on InstaCloud today.
125
Ify Aladi retweeted
one of the most underrated things we've built at @cencori is Monetization.
you can track how much AI each customer uses, set limits, apply your markup and bill them.
if you're building an AI SaaS, look into this.
cencori.com/docs/platform/bi…
Ify Aladi retweeted
Reminds me of a celebrity who sent “hi.” I didn’t reply, expecting more, only for him to text again asking why I hadn’t responded, saying he wanted to discuss my football career (in a messiah tone), calling me a “funny boy,” and wishing me good luck.
I replied, “Thank you very much for your kind wishes,” and that was it.
This is one of many cases where people talk to me as if they’re doing me a favor and I won’t amount to anything otherwise.
I am not a worthless person and know I am valuable—that’s why you reached out. Trying to spin it like I am a nobody that you want to make somebody will not fly.
As the Van Gogh saying goes: “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
I am Hakeem Onitọlọ; there was never a time I was a nobody.
Ify Aladi retweeted
Finally, before I log off, when I see Nigerian gender wars, I just laugh.
You think you hate Nigerian women because they’re this and that. Women think Nigerian men are the problem. Meanwhile, na bad governance dey do una.
Everybody is in survival mode. You can barely meet someone your age, fall in love, start from nothing and build a life together anymore. Love is now competing with the cost of survival.
Women are becoming more financially dependent on men because opportunities for financial independence are shrinking. Men are under enormous pressure to provide in an economy where they can barely provide for themselves.
Meanwhile, the elites ’ children are still hitting all their milestones. Falling in love, getting married, buying homes, having children and building their futures.
Their children are living their lives while you’re putting yours on hold.
But instead of questioning the system making life difficult for both of you, you’re busy fighting gender wars.
Na bad governance dey do una, but una dey blame each other.
Ify Aladi retweeted
47 Simple Steps to Go From $0 to Selling Your Company (only takes 16 years to complete!)
1. Watch The Social Network on your 14th birthday, startups seem pretty cool
2. End up working at Chipotle because you don’t know anything about building
3. Finish high school early, intern at a law firm before college. On track to become good asian son
4. Hate it. Go to college to become a poet instead
5. Meet co-founder at UCSD. Remember love for startups. Convince him to build a company with you
6. Fail 5 startups in a row. Delete years of your life and exhaust all savings
7. Transition to part-time student and work at sushi restaurant to afford tuition
8. Convince random stranger on plane to invest $10k. Apparently you can just ask for things
9. Drop out of college. Startup #6 fails. Return the $10k
10. Start Jenni AI
11. Cold call 8 hours a day to hit $2k MRR
12. Get rejected by every accelerator, go completely broke, move back in with parents
13. Covid hits. Company going to die
14. Get $100k from Jason Calacanis. Immediately fly to Malaysia to extend runway
15. Run out of money again
16. Fly to Korea, win startup funding, almost go bankrupt anyway
17. Get emergency $250k investment from VC
18. Random viral Twitter thread 10x's revenue overnight
19. Pivot to EdTech, figure out how to go viral, hit $1M ARR
20. Get diagnosed with cancer
21. Get thyroid removed, cancer free
22. Get discharged, GPT-4 comes out, then Google releases AI on google docs, then Microsoft announces they’re adding AI to Microsoft word. All in same week
23. Go straight back to work
24. Hit $2M ARR on your 27th birthday
25. Hit $3M ARR 67 days later
26. Hit $4M ARR 87 days later
27. Hit $5M ARR 38 days later
28. Almost sell your startup. Change your mind at the last second.
29. Co-founder leaves the company
30. Girlfriend breaks up with you
31. One of your closest friends passes away
32. Startup stops growing
33. Feeling pretty bad
34. Retreat back into work, double down on Jenni
35. Acquire companies
36. Add key hires to the team
37. Hit $10M ARR
38. Meet Digital Science, realize they are the perfect buyer
39. Go through Due Diligence
40. Turn 30 years old
41. Spend an ungodly amount of money on lawyers and bankers
42. Jenni AI acquired by Digital Science 🥳
43. Coincidentally, Social Reckoning, sequel to Social Network, comes out 16 years later on the same week of your acquisition. Kinda crazy
44. Wire hits your bank account at 3AM
45. Stare at it for two hours
46. Text mom good news
47. Finally get a good nights sleep :)