Hi earthlings!

It’s Ebun

Chidozie and I were not looking for Verifi, it found us and as nerds and curious people, we follow the signals and this accidental sojourn is turning out to be something quite neat. Of course from the tone of our emails, you can tell we are a playful bunch. Not to be mistaken for unserious but we tackle big subjects with inquisitiveness and use jest to lessen the friction. But today with a lot more money going through our hands, blue-chip investors coming on board, a thickening plot that has us facilitating big conversations at the intersection of life and work — we often get the question — when will you hire a professional communications person and start to send more serious emails? Oy Veh! Yuck. The work is serious but must we grow up to be boring? The answer probably lies somewhere in the middle.

So products have to grow up and so do we as individuals. “We” in the collective sense share some inconvenient truths -

• Growing up (or older) is inevitable. Of course, death is a way out but who wants that?
• At a certain point — you will need to stop working but your expenses will not stop
• The best time to start planning for retirement was yesterday.

So it is with great joy and pride that we announce that we have partnered with wealth.ng to make the business of securing tomorrow and your assets seamless, profitable and rad. So that when the day comes to hand in the badge you will do so with great aplomb knowing — yeah, I’ll be okay — what a feeling. Check out wealth, it is intuitive and yes it is different from pensions because of better returns, portability and more control. This is not “the man” saying this is how I will secure your future at interest rates below inflation — this is you — in conversation with professionals saying, let’s plan for an abstract future but it isn’t abstract is it?

Some of us are now parents to our parents — mom/dad doctors check-up time! Just like they yelled at us way back. We know that we will get older, the money will get tighter and hope and relying on our children is maybe not the best strategy — perhaps even unfair. But a whole lot more on this later.

For now, we get started. We have randomly selected 1000 people and credited your account with N500 and opted you in at N5000. You can, of course, opt-out (I would not), if you do we get our N500 back hehe. We picked a simple T-bill to start with but expect it to get more interesting.

We are super excited about this and this is just a brief hello in a long conversation

Since growing up isn’t an option — how about we make it rock?

E