Monthly AI Subscription In Africa? You Guys Need Help!
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Dearest Dario, Firstly, let me just say, congratulations on claiming the number one spot in frontier intelligence. I'm sure Sam and Elon wake in cold sweats to nightmares of your rim-horned face standing over them. I'm not quite sure what Mark is doing, but they will get their letters too, today, it's about my favourite LLM, Claude. Good name reference from Shannon - ChatGTP/Grok/Meta, your competitors are unable to think Anthropoligically it seems. But enough of all that, let's get down to the order of business. Do you have a team for market research and sales for Africa, or do you ask Claude for advice on how to penetrate this market... or are we not in your $2 Trillion IPO plan? On what planet are Open Source and Chinese models not eating your lunch when you are asking for a $20 committment a month upfront? In a subscription lock-in? In Nigeria where I am writing from, that is N28,000, and it's enough for a person to feed on for about 3 days. What is $20 worth in America? A single meal? There is a reason YouTube and Spotify sell their subscription here for under $2, and even milk and coffee are sold for single consumption in micro packs. My advice? N28,000/28day = N1000 (Mark up to N1,500 - N2000, rumor has it you want to double token cost soon anyway), charge for daily access, and make sure people can buy tokens via some mobile money service (DCB payment - Airtime is the Gold Standard for market penetration). In fact, how am I seeing ads to buy gambling tokens in my bank app, but nothing for AI tokens? I think I've said enough for one letter. I will refer you to the crypto craze to better understand how to work on adoption. I easily doubled my income using Claude in less than a year. It has completely changed my workflow, and guess what, there's not a single community preaching your gospel. For context, this entire platform was built on Claude in 3 days. You don't even have a place where people building on Claude can share their projects, but these crypto guys had WhatsApp and Telegram groups of influencers teaching adoption on every level - didn't require a 1000-year degree either. Just enough to demonstrate and onboard. Phew, you aren't paying me enough for this, but let's call it me giving back for all Claude has done for me. And Ermmm... If I may allow myself a shameless plug, my first start-up is partnered with MTN to give access to over 30 gaming titles to Nigerians via DCB https://mtn.swarmio.gg/store. If your team ever got serious with market entry into Africa, I'm @willifmoore on like everything social. P.S See how hard I push Claude on Max in image attached - I hope it doesn't hurt.


