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Raising money is the most difficult thing I ever did as an entrepreneur

— Funke Opeke

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We can’t leave an entire generation of young people without proper access to the internet.

"Being tied into that global ecosystem seemed to be the best route to ensure the long-term sustainability and growth of what we had built."

"What does that say about us as a society, about how much value we place on the education of our young people?"

For anything you are trying to do, there are a thousand other people trying to do the same thing. Even if it costs a billion dollars.

"We were all young people trying to discover and create the best opportunities for ourselves."

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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