#107 Nas/Will Smith investing in fintech's, Free scholarships/grants and opportunities, What Rihanna's wealth means for us and many more
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5 websites to learn more about the no-code movement — Maker Mag
Whole heap of people doing this no-code movement
Makers
Coding kinda feels like a super power sometimes. Thank you to all who've helped
Words of encouragement from someone who explored coding.
P.S. Coding is not for everyone and people are exploring no-code options
Episode 1 – Alfie Darko – Kunle Ogunjimi
Tell us about your journey to becoming a Software Engineer? So around 2 years ago, me and my friend wanted to make some money & we got the idea to start a cleaning company as an in-way to eventually get into property management. We needed a site and being that I had some experience putting…
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Culture Chat
Black Engineering Director sticks his neck out by using Slack’s IPO as an opportunity to say there are other people like him doing well in this space that don’t get funding opportunities and they should.
1/ Today @slackhq went public. Many people of color, including myself earned some financial breathing room. I want to acknowledge the hard work they did to put themselves in this position. However I feel very empty after $WORK #SlackIPO #Slack
Episode 1 – Alfie Darko
Alfie Darko shares his story of learning to code, joining Makers academy and his motivations to make money and the opportunity to learn on his employers time. Interesting read
Hip Hop moghuls getting jiggy with it
Nas and Will Smith have both put up money in an investment round led by Stripe to back a company called Step - mobile banking for teenagers. It’s another FinTech, similar to Monzo they also had a waiting list. The plan to use the money to build their first product and are working closely with MasterCard and have worked with Visa
Mims - Nice documentary of this work in black tech
Big thanks to Andy for sharing
Mims speaks his truth about how he overcome the loss of both parents before the age of 13 and how music was his way out. He chose a label that wasn’t as mainstream as the others thinking it would work for his positioning but despite that he felt like the label chewed and spat him out (he didn’t quite say that, but I’m saying it for him).
Not one to stay lying down, he decided to explore other places that sparked his interest such as tech and music. Watch his insightful interview here
Nigerian CTO shares his advice
Emotu Balogun is the Co-founder and CEO/CTO of Sendbox; an online platform that provides delivery, escrow payments and authentic reviews for people who use social media platforms for e-commerce. He started teaching himself how to code in secondary school. Growing up, he wanted to be an artist (that draws).
What Rihanna's wealth means for the culture
Dope article shared by my friend Mas