Sirmwill:


So it use to shock you too abi

15 years and nothing to show for it
The speedy progress that Nairaland could have been experiencing now is only been dented by the ignorance and greediness of so called mods and founders that only put much attention on ads
People bringing their ads to Nairaland are really trying.I barely read or even see them

Truly backward site.Especially in 2020

According to the website worth of web dot com, this nairaland is worth close to 300 million dollars!!!

No other nigerian site or blog comes anywhere closer.

According to the same website, Bet9ja is worth close to 1 Billion dollars!!!

But when you consider the gigantic traffic that Bet9ja pulls on a daily basis, you will know that Nairaland is not doing badly at all.

CSTRR:

YouTube was sold to google for peanuts and the previous owners regret It till today.

That is typical Nigerian behaviour.

I don't see how not selling off our best tech companies stop Nigerians from getting jobs from abroad.

In fact , if companies like paystack grow to be world Standard, it would do better in marketing Nigerian programming skills.

Where did the previous owners tell you that they regret selling it?

They made a very good profit when they sold

sylve11:
Over $200m. That's some massive funds. Congrats man!

if SARS see these guys that developed paystack they I'll called them Yahoo boys

sylve11:
Over $200m. That's some massive funds. Congrats man!

imagine say SARS kill this bright mind years back b4 he set up this biz. that's why we protest

#endsars

cdm4live:


Door delivery. You have the option of paying after delivery.

In every state or just Lagos

Kobicove:



Where did the previous owners tell you that they regret selling it?

They made a very good profit when they sold

Yes.
Relative peanuts
Zukerbag would have made a profit too if he sold Facebook in college.

Peanuts.

Moneyball
This is super cool

CSTRR:

Yes, a billion dollars is peanuts when you consider that YouTube is worth $300b today.

If the cost of maintaining YouTube was great, he could have gotten outside investment without completely losing ownership.
Zukerbag was just a student when he founded Facebook.
He did not sell Facebook because of the cost of maintainace even when bill gates made an offer.
He was smarter than most grown men.

Yes, the previous owner of YouTube IS a millionaire by all standards.
But he could have been a billionaire today without needing to invest in various start ups.

How easy is it to get investors to invest in technology in Nigeria?

How many Nigerian billionaire invested Paystack till today when Stripe a foreign company were busy putting money in Paystack?

I can't blame those young men. Besides, github got acquired recently. Whatsapp also got acquired.

Yahoo is folding up in December. Blackberry is now extinct. Symbian is gone.

Technology companies are also not immune to death.

When you consider these you'd realize that getting acquired isn't so bad.

I wouldn't have sold though.

Technology is the future.
Man, become tech wise and become a multi millionaire.

Nice one

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Nightstalker:


Where are those thieves ? To all the cursed animals who boast here about Yahoo take a look at this !!

Iyo cartel you thief you scum bag you criminal , see your life ?!!!

While bastards like you are thinking how to send scam emails your mates working and earning legit
Bloody thief!! See how useless and cursed the lives of Yahoo boys are ?

Useless slawormir see your mates !!! Animal !! See as they are doing things .
They sold their company for[b] $200k[/b] and can relax and spend with peace of mind but you will be awake every night sending scam emails to get $50 off your victims you useless good for nothing bastard .. that illiterate iyo cartel who should be selling gala in ibadan comes here to make noise and disturb this forum with his fraudulent activities see your mates!! Useless bastards!!!

$200 million dollars please . . .

Sirmwill:
He should not have sold it
If at all he had to,it should have been far above that price na
60000 users is not beans ooo...and considering the fact that they could still grow very powerful than this

Google once offered themselves for acquisition to Yahoo,but Yahoo declined.You know the rest...
These big companies will not want to acquire small companies if they don't see tendencies
All paystack needed was further patience and more investors

Biko
One of these billionaire companies should come and acquire Nairaland...

Reasons
1.Nairaland has far more active traffic than almost all other Nigerian sites
2.I want Seun Osewa to become a millionaire in dollars

Seun,if this should happen,don't settle for less than 1billion dollars...It get why

After the $50 million mark, your lifestyle doesnt differ much - whatever lifestyle a billionaire wants to live, they can also do same to a very large extent. House? Car? Clothes? Women?

CSTRR:

YouTube was sold to google for peanuts and the previous owners regret It till today.

That is typical Nigerian behaviour.

I don't see how not selling off our best tech companies stop Nigerians from getting jobs from abroad.

In fact , if companies like paystack grow to be world Standard, it would do better in marketing Nigerian programming skills.

$200 million is peanuts? Well, the founders aren't complaining now are they?

CSTRR:

Yes, a billion dollars is peanuts when you consider that YouTube is worth $300b today.

If the cost of maintaining YouTube was great, he could have gotten outside investment without completely losing ownership.
Zukerbag was just a student when he founded Facebook.
He did not sell Facebook because of the cost of maintainace even when bill gates made an offer.
He was smarter than most grown men.

Yes, the previous owner of YouTube IS a millionaire by all standards.
But he could have been a billionaire today without needing to invest in various start ups.

I hate to delve into you guys' intelligent argument, but don't you think that the young men have a better understanding of their market sector than we outsiders?

I mean, they saw value in that sector when no one else did and swiftly moved in. They worked hard to create something great that got financial giants interested in them, and at this point, they felt it's a good time to sell at the amount they did.

Looking at their market sector closely, you will see that a lot of competition is coming. GTB is coming with anger. Stripe too would have come in on their own if Paystack refused to sell. These two alone could intimidate them with cash.

Remember, the sector evolves so fast. If they can't keep up, they'll eventually crumble.

Gmajor:

In every state or just Lagos

Every state.

Wonderful news

Kobicove:


Is it real leather?

Yes, quality leather. You will love it.

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southniyikaye:
One of my regrets in life, rejecting computer science for biosystems engineering..
Shey now, me self for dey create apps worth millions of dollars

Modified - - - -una go Everly get issue with my personal regrets and decisions..
As I dey regret am now, he give una headache? Na your regret? Na my mistake? abeg let kme regret my regret in peace biko

guys, you got no excuse, I am science-based, run a tech company. I self learnt all I could to run. Get your idea and get appropriate developers to run it. Not every body must become a programmer to run a tech business. Just get a solution to peoples problems and get a developer to develop. You still own it bro

I received this news with mixed feelings.

On one side, I am happy that a Nigerian Tech Company has done so well to get to this point where it has to be admired and acquired by global tech giants.

It’s a motivation for some of us Nigerian Youths who work assiduously and legitimately to make ends meet, solve problems as well as make the nation proud.

It projects a good image of Nigeria and proper impression for young Nigerians. It shows that we’re not all Hushpuppies and Diezanis.

On the flip side I feel pained.

That was how we lost Jumia and other promising Prospects emanating from Nigeria to these smart westerners.

Why do they have to keep swallowing everything that survives the critical death stage, leaving us with absolutely nothing of our own to be proud of?

Why must Africa continue to consume innovations and inventions of the Wild West?

Why are the governments not buying into these projects and companies to strengthen them to a point where they become global brands from Africa, contributing to the growth and development of the country and continent ?

I’m just pondering about this with a very heavy heart.

Why must my dream be to build www.ceoshub.net to a point where an American Company pays me heavily for it and takes it over leaving my country or continent with nothing to point to as “their own”, something that is contributing to global development which is coming from Nigeria or Africa?

Well, I might be wrong in my thinking, but I think NIGERIA and Africa generally needs to watch it closely.

How many global brands can we point to and say “this is from Africa”?

[quote author=AllOfUsAtManna post=94971260]yes ooo
real yerobas not yeroba Muslims [/quote Fool do you know that the founder of cowrywise is Yoruba Muslim. In Yoruba land we don't reason like fools.

This is heartwarming news. I hope SARS reads this.

Soon every dick and harry will trop into tech

DadaStephen1:
I received this news with mixed feelings.

On one side, I am happy that a Nigerian Tech Company has done so well to get to this point where it has to be admired and acquired by global tech giants.

It’s a motivation for some of us Nigerian Youths who work assiduously and legitimately to make ends meet, solve problems as well as make the nation proud.

It projects a good image of Nigeria and proper impression for young Nigerians. It shows that we’re not all Hushpuppies and Diezanis.

On the flip side I feel pained.

That was how we lost Jumia and other promising Prospects emanating from Nigeria to these smart westerners.

Why do they have to keep swallowing everything that survives the critical death stage, leaving us with absolutely nothing of our own to be proud of?

Why must Africa continue to consume innovations and inventions of the Wild West?

Why are the governments not buying into these projects and companies to strengthen them to a point where they become global brands from Africa, contributing to the growth and development of the country and continent ?

I’m just pondering about this with a very heavy heart.

Why must my dream be to build www.ceoshub.net to a point where an American Company pays me heavily for it and takes it over leaving my country or continent with nothing to point to as “their own”, something that is contributing to global development which is coming from Nigeria or Africa?

Well, I might be wrong in my thinking, but I think NIGERIA and Africa generally needs to watch it closely.

How many global brands can we point to and say “this is from Africa”?

Jumai was never a Nigerian company from the start and was not founded by Nigerians forget the Nigerian front.

Emmadoc:


Bro not really impressive to me..

They will soon place some limitations on Nigerians..

They will soon place a policy on Nigerians that will require Nigerians to go an extra mile just to have an account with them.

for where? Wey Skrill dey.

CSTRR:

Yes, a billion dollars is peanuts when you consider that YouTube is worth $300b today.

If the cost of maintaining YouTube was great, he could have gotten outside investment without completely losing ownership.
Zukerbag was just a student when he founded Facebook.
He did not sell Facebook because of the cost of maintainace even when bill gates made an offer.
He was smarter than most grown men.

Yes, the previous owner of YouTube IS a millionaire by all standards.
But he could have been a billionaire today without needing to invest in various start ups.

what Mark did was to allow Angel investors and venture capitalists. He still own about 57% of equity on Facebook.

bluefilm:


According to the website worth of web dot com, this nairaland is worth close to 300 million dollars!!!

No other nigerian site or blog comes anywhere closer.

According to the same website, Bet9ja is worth close to 1 Billion dollars!!!

But when you consider the gigantic traffic that Bet9ja pulls on a daily basis, you will know that Nairaland is not doing badly at all.

Does Nairaland traffic equals funds. Any CPC or CTR working here?

CSTRR:
I don't see this as good news.

A future giant has just been snapped Up by a foreign company.

All the profits will now move abroad.

they are fools

Soon every dick and harry will trop into tech

Donpaper:
Does Nairaland traffic equals funds. Any CPC or CTR working here?

I think you should to direct this particular to Seun.

He is the Sole Proprietor cum Chief Accountant of this Nairaland Forum business.

plat0:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/15/stripe-acquires-nigerias-paystack-for-200m-to-expand-into-the-african-continent/

Bravo

Donpaper:
guys, you got no excuse, I am science-based, run a tech company. I self learnt all I could to run. Get your idea and get appropriate developers to run it. Not every body must become a programmer to run a tech business. Just get a solution to peoples problems and get a developer to develop. You still own it bro

now, this is an intelligent statement.. Thanks