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08-31-2016, 06:11 PM
Mark Zuckerberg walked the streets of Lagos, Nigeria to meet the startup that recruits African tech talent
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Mark Zuckerberg came to Lagos, Nigeria in part to meet with Andela, a startup he's backing.*
But he got a sense of the city from more than the tech workers he met with. On the way to his meeting, Zuckerberg walked the streets of Yaba, a neighborhood in Lagos.*
Surrounded by cars in Yaba's busy streets, Zuckerberg made his way to Andela, a startup that recruits tech talent across Africa. Andela has ******s in Lagos, Nairobi, New York and San Francisco.*
He told Andela employees in Lagos that he came to their city because it was where "the future is going to get built."
Andela has raised $41 million (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/andela#/entity) for its mission to provide tech companies with talent in Africa that otherwise might **t be matched. The company gets 30,000 applicants and has an acceptance rate of 0.6 percent for the positions it matches with tech companies. Its technical leadership fellows go through a six-month vetting process.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/31/zuckerberg-andela-lagos-nigeria/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Lagos (http://mashable.com/category/lagos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Nigeria (http://mashable.com/category/nigeria/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Africa (http://mashable.com/category/africa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Andela (http://mashable.com/category/andela/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (http://mashable.com/category/chan-zuckerberg-initiative/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/SpTcbE54dq8
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Mark Zuckerberg came to Lagos, Nigeria in part to meet with Andela, a startup he's backing.*
But he got a sense of the city from more than the tech workers he met with. On the way to his meeting, Zuckerberg walked the streets of Yaba, a neighborhood in Lagos.*
Surrounded by cars in Yaba's busy streets, Zuckerberg made his way to Andela, a startup that recruits tech talent across Africa. Andela has ******s in Lagos, Nairobi, New York and San Francisco.*
He told Andela employees in Lagos that he came to their city because it was where "the future is going to get built."
Andela has raised $41 million (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/andela#/entity) for its mission to provide tech companies with talent in Africa that otherwise might **t be matched. The company gets 30,000 applicants and has an acceptance rate of 0.6 percent for the positions it matches with tech companies. Its technical leadership fellows go through a six-month vetting process.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/31/zuckerberg-andela-lagos-nigeria/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Lagos (http://mashable.com/category/lagos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Nigeria (http://mashable.com/category/nigeria/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Africa (http://mashable.com/category/africa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Andela (http://mashable.com/category/andela/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (http://mashable.com/category/chan-zuckerberg-initiative/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/SpTcbE54dq8