in60 is one month old. And honestly? We're just getting started.
4,300 readers. Real stories. One incredible month. Thank you for being here.
I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t know what to expect when we launched.
A newsletter about African tech stories, founder journeys, and the people building the future of this continent. It sounded good in my head. It felt right in my chest. But would anyone actually read it? Would anyone care?
You did. 4,300 of you did. 🥹🥹🥹
In one month, 4,300 people have read what we’ve published on in60. That number might not sound massive to some people, but to me, sitting here on a Monday morning thinking about where this all started, it means everything.
Every single one of those reads is a real person who chose to spend their time with the stories we told. And I do not take that lightly for even one second.
So before anything else today, thank you. Genuinely, deeply, thank you.
None of this happened alone. I need to call some people by name because they deserve it.
Semudara Abayomi — you gave me this platform. You saw something in me and said yes. I do not take that lightly and I will spend every edition making sure that trust was worth it.
Confidence, Aseoluwa, and Theodore — my in60 team. You make the work easy. You show up, you contribute, and you make this thing so much better than I could make it alone. We are genuinely great together and I am grateful for every one of you.
One month in, here’s what we’ve done:
We told the story of Adetokunbo Ogunnoiki — the guy who couldn’t find a clean toilet in Ibadan and built LooPoint, a geo-mapping platform that just landed a contract with the Lagos State Government.
We sat down with Timmy of Evolution app — formerly Cryptonia, who spent four years moving money on WhatsApp before building the one global payment platform Africans actually need.
We interviewed Elo Mukoro of Cr3dentials — the Nigerian-American founder building the verification infrastructure that finally makes banks believe gig workers, creators, and Shopify merchants when they say they earn money.
We talked about the hard stuff — Chimoney shutting down, the Swoop funding debate, fake restaurants on Chowdeck, ₦2 trillion recovered by telcos, and what all of it means for the people building on this continent.
We wrote Monday newsletters that started with Eba and Ogbono. We sent a surprise newsletter at midnight because something needed to be said. We built something that feels, at least to me, like it was always meant to exist.
And we are just getting started.
There is so much more coming. More founder stories. More honest conversations. More of the African tech coverage that actually makes you feel something. We are going harder, going deeper, and going further, and I need you on this journey with us.
So here is my one ask on our one-month anniversary:
Tell somebody. Tell your friends. Tell your foes, honestly, maybe especially your foes. Tell your family. Tell whoever you know who is building something, curious about something, or inspired by the people shaping African tech. Send them the link. Ask them to subscribe. Ask them to follow our socials and engage with what we put out.
The stories are here. Help us make sure the right people find them.
Here’s to one month. Here’s to one year. Here’s to a decade and, why not, a century. 😄
God bless you for being part of the in60 family. We are just warming up.
Awwww Congratsss. Let’s reach for the stars