Tomiwa Lasebikan is the co-founder and head of Product at Helicarrier, a company with the mission to financially connect Africans, anywhere they are in the world. Helicarriers are makers of some of the most innovative crypto products in Africa including Buycoins, a crypto exchange and Sendcash which helps users in the US send money back home using crypto. Before Buycoins, Tomiwa was a software engineer at Microsoft, working on Azure and Hololens. In this video, Tomiwa talked to me about his background, getting a scholarship to study in America, working at Microsoft, starting Buycoins and many more. Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z5y29Hn1Rg Video timestamps 1:27 Tomiwa shares his family, educational, and career background 5:18 How did Microsoft happen? 6:44 How did BuyCoins find you? How did you leave the US for BuyCoins? 10:48 How do you guys consistently build and create different things? 17:05 How do you balance in a way that no product is suffering in a bid to move fast? 24:05 What are the challenges you have faced with BuyCoins over the years? 37:04 Tell us about what you're doing outside BuyCoins with Aleph? 43:16 Asides from Jeff Bezos, who else inspires you? 45:45 Outside of work and tech, who is Tomiwa? 47:00 What's the fundamental life principle you have built your life upon? 50:02 Solving problems and fundamentally changing the things that you met here, has this always been you?

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