Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16%
many of them ultimately collapsing under the weight of their outsized valuations. As investors rush into AI, will history repeat itself? https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : When billion-dollar ...
How Spotify's on-the-ground work in Nigeria, like hiring local staff, contributed to the success of Afrobeats, which grew 550% on Spotify between 2017 and 2022
Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World : X: @anupkaphle See also Mediagazer X: Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : How Spotify helped turn Afrobeats into a global phenomenon Read @tarykuh's reporting from Lagos. H...
How ShareIt became the go-to file transfer app in countries where mobile data is prohibitively expensive; the company claims the app has 2.4B downloads globally
Rest of World : Tweets: @anupkaphle Tweets: Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : Faster than Bluetooth, 2.4 billion downloads @NilChristopher & @violazhouyi on how ShareIt became the world's go-to app for fil...
A look at Line's sticker economy, made up of over 4M hobbyist and professional designers; Line's revenue from direct sticker sales was $200M+ in 2020
Andrew Deck / Rest of World : Tweets: @decka227 , @restofworld , @mvzelenks , @dlberes , and @anupkaphle Tweets: Andrew Deck / @decka227 : LINE is host to a sticker marketplace that is 4 million arti...
Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger
the business model and the music we listen to https://restofworld.org/... via @restofworld Yinka Adegoke / @yinkawrites : @Mark_Mulligan ... As Universal Music digital EVP Michael Nash told me: “There...
Profile of Abu Dhabi-based music streaming service Anghami, which has 1.4M paying subscribers and 70M total users, as it goes public via a $220M SPAC merger
Anghami is a case study in how the music business is being gradually transformed from outside its core centers of New York, Los Angeles and London. Tweets: @yinkawrites , @yinkawrites , @restofworld ,...