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 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...