Fcuk for the road
After 5 years working in high finance, Ile decided he needed a career change. Over the years, he had experimented with several online startup ideas. They usually followed the same cycle: intense excitement, endless tinkering to build a beta, sharing with friends, a slow launch and then abandonment. Within the same time frame, several competing ideas would spring up and essentially demolish the business case to continue. If it already exists, what's the point , he would always think to himself. He finally decided to re-enrol for a PhD he abandoned just before he moved to Lagos. At that point, he just didn't have the mental energy for it. Besides, he needed to earn a living and the 5 years since he left school had allowed him make enough to take a break for a while. He secured a fully funded scholarship at the Cambridge Computing Lab for 3 years to work on developing an AI system for autonomous water transportation. He had spent the last 2 months of his time in Lagos preparing