Who’s your Daddy?

A few weeks back I did something I have held back on for the longest time and splurged on a couple of Range Rovers for my wife and I. I have long been able to afford such things, but largely on advice from my wife have held back to demonstrate how good a ‘custodian of capital’ I am. She steered me clear of the ‘Lagos Big Boy syndrome’ (a coming post), but focused me on building a bigger more undeniably awesome company based on fundamentals not VC money. In January a couple of amazing things occurred so I thought, fuck it, and just splurged. New money is stupid like that. Who cares? Now the point.
I usually have around one thousand (1k) unaccepted friend requests on Facebook at any given time. It’s usually in flux depending on what media has recently come out about me. A post on Linda Ikeji about me or the company and I usually get a 2–300 request surge. Being who I am, I usually just accept most of them and then engage in lively debate about whatever, when I have a few dead minute...