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Welcome back, friends! The most clicked link from last week was Jason’s tweet about Jumia — and excluding tweets from Jason and your humble author, the most clicked link from last week would be Mario's 10 lessons from great businesses.
Special thanks also to the eagle-eyed reader who, correcting us about the Quartz mention being our first, shared that an Afridigest mention appeared in PYMNTS.com at the end of last year. (Thanks to the folks reading from PYMNTS — on est ensemble 🤸🏽) And congrats also to our friends at alGROWithm — I see you, Bili…exciting times 💥
And this week, dear reader, for the first time we selectively open up future newsletter sponsorships to the general public. And, of course, thanks again to our inaugural sponsor intellence for rocking with us. And, with all that said, let’s get into Week 12! (…
