A Badass Organism called Tardigrade

Think about an animal that could:

  1. Chill in ice up to -200 °C and then come out like it was just a cold shower
  2. Run around in a kettle of water boiling off at 150 °C and pretend it is a lame sauna
  3. Hang around in space without a space suit and still live to tell the story
  4. Go on hunger strike for 120 years and then break the fast like it was just Lent
  5. Go pheasant hunting in the ruins of Chernobyl and make gamma rays look like wussfess

Sincerely, I didn’t make those up. There is a badass organism no one has ever heard about called the Tardigrade. It does all these and a lot more. If only I can do half of that, my swag would have no equal

Author: Adedeji Olowe

Adédèjì is the founder of Lendsqr, the loan infrastructure fintech powering lenders at scale. Before this, he led Trium Limited, the corporate VC of the Coronation Group, which invested in Woven Finance, Sparkle Bank, Clane, and L1ght, amongst others. He has almost two decades of banking experience, including stints as the Divisional Head of Electronic Banking at Fidelity Bank Plc. He drove the turnaround of the bank’s digital business. He was previously responsible for United Bank for Africa Group’s payment card business across 19 countries. Alongside other industry veterans, he founded Open Banking Nigeria, the nonprofit driving the development and adoption of a common API standard for the Nigerian financial industry. Beyond open APIs, Adédèjì works deeply within the fintech ecosystem; he’s the board chairman at Paystack. Adédèjì is a renowned fintech pundit and has been blogging on technology and payments at dejiolowe.com since 2001.

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