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Speaker: If you ask your local, not-plugged-in investor, where do you get your news from? It's not local press. it's Where do they get their press from? TikTok. TikTok? Yes, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn. Okay.
Speaker: Like, there has never been a better time for a founder to be able direct... to consumer brand. And actually, if you notice, Future Africa has actually stayed off news since 2022. And I try to advise our companies to the same. I don't want to be sharing a page with a company with a scandal, right?
Speaker: Really? Why that? It's just bad energy. Even if I have something good to say, I just don't want it to be right after you've read it come a piece about some founder stealing money. Tech media, which used to be a fantastic aggregator of perspectives in the days of like radar and all of that, like it's just become kind of a press release machine.
Speaker: Right? Tech Press is over. Wow. There is no future for Tech Press. Tech Abou's monopoly on on the tech media space is very bad for the ecosystem. There's just something missing. It's a really good income there. Like, they listen and they actually quickly implement feedback. But at the same time, I do think that they need to be challenged by a lot of younger, better writers on Substack. I'm being a little bit extremist about the media stuff, giving them an new investor in Tech Abou.
