ceo @fiflowHQ | my dream is to go to San Francisco.
Awka, NG
Joined May 2021
- Tweets 4,671
- Following 744
- Followers 1,312
- Likes 3,549
Pinned Tweet
I am kachi and I am building @fiflowHQ , what came as an idea when I wanted to analyze and understand a very long spreadsheet I got access to.
Today I am building it and am not building for myself , I am building for business owners.
Join me as I build in public.
kachi ◉ retweeted
UNILAG FOUNDER OF THE YEAR
MEET @teslimadetola08 a 5x Hackathon winner with a recent 10 million Naira recent winning.
He’s a founder of @GPAihq
@GPAihq an app that helps students with AI tools for smarter learning and also helps in tracking their GPA.
Follow him and let’s get him to 500 followers
kachi ◉ retweeted
Vibecon is a huge opportunity for builders. But what are they building? We were curious.
🎙️ So @maddiedreese found out.
Nerds meet Nerds.
Yesterday was the first Friday Social of the @HackerResidency, it was fun but also a bit overwhelming, I realized that many of us (the nerds) can’t handle socializing for many hours straight. 😂
kachi ◉ retweeted
Yesterday was the first Friday Social of the @HackerResidency, it was fun but also a bit overwhelming, I realized that many of us (the nerds) can’t handle socializing for many hours straight. 😂
kachi ◉ retweeted
Fully packed robotics festival on Friday eventing. Only in SF @fdotinc
My fav project:
kachi ◉ retweeted
Live with Restream, November 09 x.com/i/broadcasts/1gqxvrqDN…
kachi ◉ retweeted
Sunday morning in @HackerResidency
Everyone is absolutely locked in 🔒
There’s no way to not be inspired by this mindset
kachi ◉ retweeted
The Middle East view of AI.
Exclusive interview of H.E. Saeed Aldhaheri, commissioner and UNESCO co-chair of AI ethics.
He has been working in AI long before Siri, the first consumer app to use AI, was launched in my home.
Keynote speaker at the AI conference that is starting in Abu Dhabi. This conference will be live streamed on my account only today (I am the MC).
Saeed is giving the opening keynote and this is a taste of the conversations we are having here for the next three days.
Believe in yourself, it won't be long you'll have a story.
“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”
5 years ago, when I was earning nothing, this was my first WhatsApp bio and I’ve never changed it since.
I was grinding for 2 years with $0 results.
But hope never faded, because I believed in myself.
Believe in yourself and keep grinding until you see the light.
kachi ◉ retweeted
@rileybrown
We’re at a @ycombinator hackathon today.
We’re building a personal memory layer for vibe coders/software engineers to help tools focus when building.
The tool will be open source.
We would like to include your “.md” rules as a role model that others can use too. Would you be open to sharing your .md file with us?
kachi ◉ retweeted
Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think getting and renovating a big office is a good use of time and money when you're extremely pre-PMF. Spending money is not success. Making money is.
This was our office when we were half the size and 10x the revenue as this team. Our main perk was all-you-can-drink horse electrolytes (3rd pic). Rent was $6k.
I also wouldn't delude myself into thinking that the fancy office is a recruiting tool. You don't want people joining you because of your sauna and surfboards. You want those who do because of your mission, your team, your traction.
Having a fancy office gives everyone the false impression that you've "made it." My intention is the exact opposite: we haven't made it, we can die any moment, and we better work our asses off (not go surfing of sauna'ing) if we want to increase our odds of survival.
I spent $1.5M building our office after raising a seed round. My co-founder thought I was crazy. Here's what changed his mind...
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭:
After our seed round, I looked at our team. Mostly immigrants. Working 6-day weeks. Building something incredibly hard. The office wasn't just where they worked. It was becoming their home.
So I made a bet, what if we actually designed for that?
The requirements I gave our real estate agent:
- Shower (for ocean swims between meetings)
- as close to the beach as possible, ability to quickly go surfing/kiting etc.
- Big enough kitchen for a chef
- Room for an actual sauna
People thought I was building a vacation house, I thought: I am building a place worth the sacrifice.
𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤:
- Found one of SF's best real estate lawyers. Negotiated hard.
- Negotiated Tenant Improvements + First year for free
- Effective cost: $250k (not $1.5M)
Then I was extremely prescriptive with design and construction. No endless back-and-forth. I drew what I wanted. Told them to build it.
Cut iteration time by 80%.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭:
- Nordic vibes (keeping our European souls)
- Industrial kitchen
- Sauna room (yes, like our product: sauna.ai)
- Ocean access
- Space that feels like home
Conclusions:
- This "expensive" decision already paid for itself.
- In SF, recruiters charge $100k per engineer. We've closed multiple hires -because candidates walked in and said: "I want to work here."
But the real ROI isn't only financial.
It's this:
- We do Friday AMA as a BBQs on the beach.
- People actually use the surfboards.
- The team's lifestyle supports the intensity of the work.
EVERYONE WANTS IN, doesnt matter if events, hiring or using the space as coworking (@bertie_ai and I open it up for our portfolio companies)
My co-founder's response after 3 months:
"You were right."
Some founders optimize for low burn rate.
I optimize for: Can great people sustain this pace for years?
Because great companies aren't built in one sprint.
They're built by people who can go the distance.
We're hiring: wordware.ai/careers
(Comment if you want intros to our real estate agent, lawyers or construction team - happy to connect)
kachi ◉ retweeted
ready to ship a new feature this weekend at #vibecon hackathon @ycombinator HQ
w/ @MadlenerNikolai @getmiora
