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🚨 DID AFRICA’S 5 RICHEST PEOPLE REALLY START FROM ZERO? 💰🇦🇫 After looking into the family backgrounds of the world’s richest people, I wanted to look at Africa’s richest five. The stories are just as interesting. 🇳🇬 ALIKO DANGOTE Dangote came from a wealthy Nigerian business family. His great-grandfather, Alhassan Dantata, was one of West Africa’s most successful businessmen. Dangote received a $3,000 loan from his uncle to start trading commodities before building the Dangote Group into a massive industrial empire. 🇿🇦 JOHANN RUPERT Rupert was born into one of South Africa’s established business families. His father, Anton Rupert, built the Remgro business empire and founded the company that became Richemont. Johann later expanded the family fortune through luxury goods, investments and Richemont. 🇳🇬 ABDULSAMAD RABIU Rabiu was born into a wealthy Nigerian business family. His father was a businessman and Rabiu inherited land from him. But he also built his own business from the ground up, starting a trading company in 1988 before expanding into cement, sugar and manufacturing. 🇿🇦 NICKY OPPENHEIMER Oppenheimer was born into one of Africa’s most powerful business families. His family was historically connected to De Beers and the diamond industry. He later inherited a major fortune and expanded his wealth through investments. 🇪🇬 NASSEF SAWIRIS Sawiris comes from Egypt’s wealthiest family. His father, Onsi Sawiris, founded the Orascom Group, and his brothers Naguib and Samih are also billionaires. Nassef went on to build his own fortune through construction, chemicals and investments. The point? Africa’s richest people did not all start from the same place. Some inherited wealth. Some inherited assets. Some grew up inside established business empires. Others received family support but still had to build massive businesses of their own. Their stories show that becoming extremely wealthy is not always a simple story of starting from nothing. Where you start matters.
🚨 DID THE WORLD’S 5 RICHEST PEOPLE REALLY START FROM ZERO? 💰 I looked into the family backgrounds of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Dell. The stories are more complicated than “they started with nothing.” Here’s what the records show: 🇺🇸 ELON MUSK Musk grew up in an affluent South African family. His father, Errol Musk, was an engineer, businessman and property developer. Claims about an emerald mine are disputed, but Musk’s family was financially comfortable while he was growing up. 🇺🇸 JEFF BEZOS Bezos did not come from a billionaire family, but his parents had enough savings to put $245,573 into Amazon when he was starting the company. That was a significant amount of family capital. 🇺🇸 LARRY PAGE Page grew up in an academic and technology-focused household. His father was a computer science professor at Michigan State University, while his mother taught computer programming. Computers and technology were part of his environment from childhood. 🇺🇸 MARK ZUCKERBERG Zuckerberg was raised in a comfortable professional family. His father ran a dental practice and his mother was a psychiatrist. He also had access to computers from a young age. 🇺🇸 MICHAEL DELL Dell’s father was an orthodontist and his mother worked in money management. At 19, he started PC’s Limited from his university dorm with about $1,000. The point isn’t that their parents simply handed them billions. They didn’t. The point is that the starting line was different. Some grew up wealthy. Some came from financially comfortable professional families. Some received substantial family capital. Others had access to education, technology and networks that gave them opportunities most people never had. They still had to build companies that created enormous wealth. But their journeys did not begin with nothing. Their family backgrounds and early opportunities played a role in giving them a head start. The biggest lesson? Don’t let someone else’s success timeline make you feel behind. People start from different places, with different resources, opportunities and support systems. Build your own path, focus on your progress and understand that success doesn’t happen on the same timeline for everyone.
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The “OS for work” part is the real shift. AI is moving from answering questions to actually doing the work.
We’re building Copilot as a new OS for work that spans every model, every form factor, and every task. Today, we’re announcing our biggest update to Copilot to date, bringing four things together: · Autopilot: proactive and long-running agent built for the enterprise · Code: build apps with Copilot, hosted inside your company’s tenant · Home: Chat + Cowork together · Office: now fully embedded in Copilot (and Copilot embedded in Office, of course!) Plus, you can invoke Copilot in Teams, and we’re introducing Today, a proactive experience that surfaces the most important information from across M365 without needing to ask for it. The way we work is changing and so are our workflows. This update brings AI into that flow, from answering a question, to building an app, to getting work done on your behalf.
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🚨 DANGOTE IS TAKING HIS REFINERY MODEL TO KENYA 🇳🇬🇰🇪 Aliko Dangote hosted President William Ruto at his $20B refinery in Lagos. Now, Dangote Industries is preparing to build another 700,000 barrels per day refinery in Lamu, Kenya. Dangote’s planned Lamu refinery is expected to become Africa’s second largest refinery after the one in Lagos.
🚨 THIS IS WHAT $20B CAN BUILD IN AFRICA 🇳🇬 The Dangote Refinery in Lagos, Nigeria. A massive 700,000 barrels per day refining complex built at a scale few African industrial projects have ever reached. And now Dangote is taking the same refining ambition to East Africa. 🇰🇪
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🚨 MICROSOFT IS TURNING COPILOT INTO AN AI WORKER 🤖 The new Copilot can handle multi step tasks and work directly with apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. AI assistants are becoming AI agents.
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🚨 DID AFRICA’S 5 RICHEST PEOPLE REALLY START FROM ZERO? 💰🇦🇫 After looking into the family backgrounds of the world’s richest people, I wanted to look at Africa’s richest five. The stories are just as interesting. 🇳🇬 ALIKO DANGOTE Dangote came from a wealthy Nigerian business family. His great-grandfather, Alhassan Dantata, was one of West Africa’s most successful businessmen. Dangote received a $3,000 loan from his uncle to start trading commodities before building the Dangote Group into a massive industrial empire. 🇿🇦 JOHANN RUPERT Rupert was born into one of South Africa’s established business families. His father, Anton Rupert, built the Remgro business empire and founded the company that became Richemont. Johann later expanded the family fortune through luxury goods, investments and Richemont. 🇳🇬 ABDULSAMAD RABIU Rabiu was born into a wealthy Nigerian business family. His father was a businessman and Rabiu inherited land from him. But he also built his own business from the ground up, starting a trading company in 1988 before expanding into cement, sugar and manufacturing. 🇿🇦 NICKY OPPENHEIMER Oppenheimer was born into one of Africa’s most powerful business families. His family was historically connected to De Beers and the diamond industry. He later inherited a major fortune and expanded his wealth through investments. 🇪🇬 NASSEF SAWIRIS Sawiris comes from Egypt’s wealthiest family. His father, Onsi Sawiris, founded the Orascom Group, and his brothers Naguib and Samih are also billionaires. Nassef went on to build his own fortune through construction, chemicals and investments. The point? Africa’s richest people did not all start from the same place. Some inherited wealth. Some inherited assets. Some grew up inside established business empires. Others received family support but still had to build massive businesses of their own. Their stories show that becoming extremely wealthy is not always a simple story of starting from nothing. Where you start matters.
🚨 DID THE WORLD’S 5 RICHEST PEOPLE REALLY START FROM ZERO? 💰 I looked into the family backgrounds of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Dell. The stories are more complicated than “they started with nothing.” Here’s what the records show: 🇺🇸 ELON MUSK Musk grew up in an affluent South African family. His father, Errol Musk, was an engineer, businessman and property developer. Claims about an emerald mine are disputed, but Musk’s family was financially comfortable while he was growing up. 🇺🇸 JEFF BEZOS Bezos did not come from a billionaire family, but his parents had enough savings to put $245,573 into Amazon when he was starting the company. That was a significant amount of family capital. 🇺🇸 LARRY PAGE Page grew up in an academic and technology-focused household. His father was a computer science professor at Michigan State University, while his mother taught computer programming. Computers and technology were part of his environment from childhood. 🇺🇸 MARK ZUCKERBERG Zuckerberg was raised in a comfortable professional family. His father ran a dental practice and his mother was a psychiatrist. He also had access to computers from a young age. 🇺🇸 MICHAEL DELL Dell’s father was an orthodontist and his mother worked in money management. At 19, he started PC’s Limited from his university dorm with about $1,000. The point isn’t that their parents simply handed them billions. They didn’t. The point is that the starting line was different. Some grew up wealthy. Some came from financially comfortable professional families. Some received substantial family capital. Others had access to education, technology and networks that gave them opportunities most people never had. They still had to build companies that created enormous wealth. But their journeys did not begin with nothing. Their family backgrounds and early opportunities played a role in giving them a head start. The biggest lesson? Don’t let someone else’s success timeline make you feel behind. People start from different places, with different resources, opportunities and support systems. Build your own path, focus on your progress and understand that success doesn’t happen on the same timeline for everyone.
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🚨 THIS IS WHAT $20B CAN BUILD IN AFRICA 🇳🇬 The Dangote Refinery in Lagos, Nigeria. A massive 700,000 barrels per day refining complex built at a scale few African industrial projects have ever reached. And now Dangote is taking the same refining ambition to East Africa. 🇰🇪
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If she’s your girlfriend, would you ever cheat on her?
Ei wow Emefa 😍
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Always do your background check on your girlfriends.
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🚨 THIS IS WHAT $20B CAN BUILD IN AFRICA 🇳🇬 The Dangote Refinery in Lagos, Nigeria. A massive 700,000 barrels per day refining complex built at a scale few African industrial projects have ever reached. And now Dangote is taking the same refining ambition to East Africa. 🇰🇪
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whatever else the day calls for. Bio says "creator," reality is the range behind it.
Everybody's bio is fiction. Quote this and tell us what you're actually doing to survive this economy.
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Hop in niggas 😎
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Chicken wey I dey train from January don dey reduce for September omoh 🤦💔
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It's time 💯😎
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Vini Jr will end up as a bench player just like Endrick This is not a joke anymore 😅
Arsenal would have made the biggest financial mistake in football history if they had spent even £15 M on Vini Jr He’s a finished player 😭😂
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🚨 DID AFRICA’S 5 RICHEST PEOPLE REALLY START FROM ZERO? 💰🇦🇫 After looking into the family backgrounds of the world’s richest people, I wanted to look at Africa’s richest five. The stories are just as interesting. 🇳🇬 ALIKO DANGOTE Dangote came from a wealthy Nigerian business family. His great-grandfather, Alhassan Dantata, was one of West Africa’s most successful businessmen. Dangote received a $3,000 loan from his uncle to start trading commodities before building the Dangote Group into a massive industrial empire. 🇿🇦 JOHANN RUPERT Rupert was born into one of South Africa’s established business families. His father, Anton Rupert, built the Remgro business empire and founded the company that became Richemont. Johann later expanded the family fortune through luxury goods, investments and Richemont. 🇳🇬 ABDULSAMAD RABIU Rabiu was born into a wealthy Nigerian business family. His father was a businessman and Rabiu inherited land from him. But he also built his own business from the ground up, starting a trading company in 1988 before expanding into cement, sugar and manufacturing. 🇿🇦 NICKY OPPENHEIMER Oppenheimer was born into one of Africa’s most powerful business families. His family was historically connected to De Beers and the diamond industry. He later inherited a major fortune and expanded his wealth through investments. 🇪🇬 NASSEF SAWIRIS Sawiris comes from Egypt’s wealthiest family. His father, Onsi Sawiris, founded the Orascom Group, and his brothers Naguib and Samih are also billionaires. Nassef went on to build his own fortune through construction, chemicals and investments. The point? Africa’s richest people did not all start from the same place. Some inherited wealth. Some inherited assets. Some grew up inside established business empires. Others received family support but still had to build massive businesses of their own. Their stories show that becoming extremely wealthy is not always a simple story of starting from nothing. Where you start matters.
🚨 DID THE WORLD’S 5 RICHEST PEOPLE REALLY START FROM ZERO? 💰 I looked into the family backgrounds of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Dell. The stories are more complicated than “they started with nothing.” Here’s what the records show: 🇺🇸 ELON MUSK Musk grew up in an affluent South African family. His father, Errol Musk, was an engineer, businessman and property developer. Claims about an emerald mine are disputed, but Musk’s family was financially comfortable while he was growing up. 🇺🇸 JEFF BEZOS Bezos did not come from a billionaire family, but his parents had enough savings to put $245,573 into Amazon when he was starting the company. That was a significant amount of family capital. 🇺🇸 LARRY PAGE Page grew up in an academic and technology-focused household. His father was a computer science professor at Michigan State University, while his mother taught computer programming. Computers and technology were part of his environment from childhood. 🇺🇸 MARK ZUCKERBERG Zuckerberg was raised in a comfortable professional family. His father ran a dental practice and his mother was a psychiatrist. He also had access to computers from a young age. 🇺🇸 MICHAEL DELL Dell’s father was an orthodontist and his mother worked in money management. At 19, he started PC’s Limited from his university dorm with about $1,000. The point isn’t that their parents simply handed them billions. They didn’t. The point is that the starting line was different. Some grew up wealthy. Some came from financially comfortable professional families. Some received substantial family capital. Others had access to education, technology and networks that gave them opportunities most people never had. They still had to build companies that created enormous wealth. But their journeys did not begin with nothing. Their family backgrounds and early opportunities played a role in giving them a head start. The biggest lesson? Don’t let someone else’s success timeline make you feel behind. People start from different places, with different resources, opportunities and support systems. Build your own path, focus on your progress and understand that success doesn’t happen on the same timeline for everyone.
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Coaches wey go solve Ghana’s problem 😂😭
I swear I see this man coaching a new national team every year😭😭😭
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Just $10k
Let quote into existence ✨️ What do you really need right now?
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Grand Theft Auto VI is on the cover of GameInformer
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Teshie or Kasoa?
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Reinvestment or Abinchi before hallelujah?👀
Thank you Bank of America, Friday just got better.
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