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I am super pumped to share that last month, @chowdeck hit over 1 million orders in Nigeria in a single month! 🚀
The past few weeks hasn't been perfect. We have had some tough moments with support and operations. But we are listening, learning, and fixing things quickly.
Our daily order volumes in Nigeria has grown from an average of ~30K daily orders a few weeks ago to over 40K daily orders presently and still increasing day on day.
To everyone who’s shown us patience, trust, and continued support, thank you.
This milestone reminds us of what is possible when people believe in what we’re building.
Cheers to 1M orders! It’s still Day 1, and there are many more wins to come.
Anticipate! 🚀
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Mtshew, this Ozo is not even looking for solution to his problem. When you are ready, you will go and talk to BrightO.
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After 22 months of operations, @chowdeck has finally delivered items worth over a billion Naira in a single month!
To think that earlier in March this year, we were celebrating delivering items worth a billion Naira since inception.
In recent times, I have had to think a lot about what we have built and the impact we have had.
This month, we have had over 1,300 active riders making an average of N55,000 weekly.
Sometimes, when I am having a bad day, I try to talk to a rider and each time I hear their stories, I am constantly reminded of how massive what we are building is. A lot of them are breadwinners of their families and we have really impacted a lot of lives.
Huge thanks to our customers, vendors, agents, riders, advisers and the amazing team that made this happen.
I am super pumped about the future of efficient on-demand delivery in Nigeria and Africa. The entire team is excited for the future!
It is still Day 0! 🚀🚀🚀
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Last week, we crossed 1 Million registered users on Chowdeck. In the same week, we successfully crossed N30 Billion worth of deliveries in 2024 alone.
In less than 3 years we have grown from 319 users in our first month, to over 1M users a few weeks to our third birthday.
To every member of our team that has made this happen, my co-founders and I are effusively grateful for giving us the opportunity to build this with you.
We are grateful for the opportunity to continue to serve our over 3K businesses, 10k+ riders and now, 1M users in just 8 Nigerian states.
We have learnt a lot in the last few years and we can't wait to unlock the next level of growth!
It is still Day 0 and we are excited! You should be too! 🚀🚀🚀
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Today, we crossed 10k deliveries in a single day (from 4.5k a day last month).
We also crossed 1k deliveries in Ibadan in a day - the fastest growth we've seen in a new city.
During our lunch peak period, we were delivering 19 orders per minute, the highest we have ever had.
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Today is my last day at @paystack. I've spent the last 4 years and 3 months doing the work of my life here. Paystack is family to me 🥺
I'll be waking up tomorrow to face an entirely new challenge fully - @chowdeckng 🚀
I documented the journey here - medium.com/@femialuko/the-la…
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I shared this with the team yesterday and we are all super pumped about the future.
This is now officially Day 1! 🚀
3+ Years. 1.5M+ customers. 11 cities and now... $9M in Series A funding. All because of YOU.
Your trust makes our growth sweeter as we step into a new era of transforming the on-demand delivery world.
It's now day 1 🚀
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This made me really emotional. I just ran @chowdeck 's numbers for last month to get a good sense of the impact we have had, and it's truly mind blowing. 💚
We have built something really beautiful, and it gladdens my heart that our champions are equally well paid for the amazing job they do daily delivering happiness to our customers.
~1% of our ~3k riders earned above 500k last month.
~30% earned above 200k last month.
~65% earned above 100k monthly last month.
This is still early days for us. We are going to positively impact the lives of 10k riders this year. 🚀🚀🚀
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I am super excited to announce that we have raised a $2.5M Seed Round to optimise on-demand delivery service in Africa.
Huge thanks to our investors - @ycombinator, @JuneAngelides, @hoaqclub, @shollsman, @0x, and others for joining us on this journey!
For our over 500k users that have trusted us from Day 0, we are really thankful for getting us to this milestone.
To our 3k+ riders and 1.5k+ restaurants, we are just getting started, and we are unlocking the next level of growth in this continent!
To the entire team @chowdeck — we did it guys! Yes! We did it! Let's continue to make ourselves and our shareholders proud!
It’s still Day 0! 🚀
chowdeck.com/blog/Chowdeck-s…
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We just crossed over 1,000 orders in a single day in Ghana - in under 3 months! 🎉
It took us 11 months to hit this in Nigeria, and we are excited at how fast the growth has been since we launched in Ghana.
The @chowdeck Nigeria team travelled to Accra to celebrate with the @ChowdeckGH team and share the joy of this milestone. To everyone who has been part of this incredible feat, a big thank you 🙏🏾
It’s still day 0 on this journey and we are blazing on with anticipation and energy! 🚀
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We now do 70 deliveries per minute during peak period. The team is fully stretched with all hands on deck.
We are actively hiring for customer support here - chowdeck.bamboohr.com/career…
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31 on the 31st - Talk about perfect timing! 🎉
Last day of the month, and the first day of my new age!
Jesus has risen, and so have I! 🚀🚀🚀
Happy birthday Femi! ❤️
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I am the Femi in that story. With these people, the difference between life and death is vibes. The only person I have to pay for making my hair is my hairdresser. You can’t reason with these people. We have to end this! #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutality
For several months, several members of our team suffered experiences which can only be described as horrific.
Here is one example of far too many. #EndPoliceBrutality (1/n)
medium.com/@adeyimika/a-sad-…
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@chowdeckng struggled massively with ops when our numbers grew fast in January and everyone was scared. I took a big gamble by bringing in one of our most Senior riders in as a rider operations associate. We got John Ayaka a MacBook and onboarded him to the core system. 1/3
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
Great things are coming out of Africa!
It's now Day 1! 🚀
Congrats to the team @chowdeck on their $9M Series A!
A few years ago, Chowdeck made its first delivery with a mission to adapt food delivery to the realities of African cities.
Since then, they've served over 1.5 million customers across 11 cities in Nigeria and Ghana through their locally built platforms, proving that world-class delivery service can be built for Africa, by Africans.
techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/ni…
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We launched airtime/data earlier today!
Two things greatly inspired this
1. We now have over 20k @chowdeck riders spending 5k weekly on airtime and data. Figured it'd be great to offer them this service as well as allow them borrow from their weekly earnings.
2. Majority of our users leave spare funds in their wallets and this can be repurposed to airtime/data without having to leave the app.
Over 1k people have already used this service in the last 4 hours!
Curious to see how this goes!
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Q1 was massive for us @chowdeckng . We have delivered over 20,000 meals after I made this tweet. Delivering over 400 meals daily and over 2,500 active users(up from 206 users in January) is really really huge for us!
Looking forward to Q2 🚀🚀🚀
Today at 3:55pm, We at Chowdeck delivered our 1,000th meal to @ObiIk (check your wallet). This is a huge milestone for us. We have learnt a lot in the last 48 days and the team is super grateful to everyone that has contributed to this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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This is more than an acquisition to me. It’s a meeting of hearts, values, and vision ♥️
@useMiraHQ joins @chowdeck, and together, we are setting out to build the technology that will power the future of Africa’s food economy. This is for the vendors who trust us, the riders who move us, the customers who count on us, and the communities that inspire us every single day.
The journey ahead is long, but we’re walking together.
It is still Day 0 🚀
chowdeck.com/blog/beyond-del…
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😂 You know what? We are celebrating so let's go big.
5K RTs in 24 hours and it would be the biggest giveaway we have ever done.
#bundlebybundle 💸💸💸
Chowdeck bossman @LordBinary_
How many RTs to show love to our customers? 👀
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I no longer believe there are bad employees. There are just bad managers(or maybe manager-employee mismatch). I have seen superstars become average under poor managers and seen average people become superstars under great management.
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Wow
The most popular Food & Drink app by country on the iPhone app store (last six months):
🇺🇸 DoorDash - Food Delivery
🇬🇧 McDonald’s U.K.
🇳🇬 Chowdeck | Food Delivery
🇩🇪 REWE Angebote & Lieferservice
🇦🇷 Burger King® Argentina
🇦🇺 MyMacca's
🇧🇷 iFood: pedir delivery em casa
🇨🇦 Dairy Queen® Food & Treats
🇨🇳 饿了么-放心点，准时达
🇪🇬 Breadfast: Groceries And More
🇫🇷 Too Good To Go: End Food Waste
🇮🇳 Zomato: Food Delivery & Dining
🇮🇩 TOMORO COFFEE
🇮🇹 Too Good To Go: End Food Waste
🇯🇵 McDonald's Japan
🇰🇷 Coupang Eats - Food Delivery
🇲🇽 Rappi: Market and Food Online
🇵🇰 foodpanda: Food & Groceries
🇷🇺 СуперМаркет
🇺🇦 McDonald’s - Non-US
🇿🇦 Mr D - Groceries & Takeaway
🇸🇦 Ninja - نينجا
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This came with its own challenges and new opportunities for improvement.
I'm very thankful to my team, our riders, restaurants and most importantly, our customers.
I am super excited for the next phase! 💚
#JourneyTo100kDeliveriesADay
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Rain delivery is crazy & has wild compounding effects. Cold riders, spoilt phones(resulting in break in communication), bike issues and customers not coming out. Supply becomes small, demand is massive because everyone is indoors - Classic marketplace problem.
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We just delivered our 200th meal of the month via our app. This is hoooooouugggeeee for us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🥺🥺🥺
Look who’s back 👀
We are now beta testing in Ikeja.
🍲🍝🥪🫔🍟🍗.
Visit chowdeck.com to sign up for early access. We’ll be in your area soon!
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I genuinely love having conversations with him because he is a detailed guy. He’s a key part of our operations team and frankly, we would have suffered massively without him coming in when he came! Thank you John! I am super proud of how far you have come! TheEnd!
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I gave the keynote at the Meta Youth Summit yesterday and someone asked a question that really hit deep. “Do I consider myself lucky?”.
Short answer is “Yes, I do. The more you do a lot of things, the higher the probability of you getting lucky”.
Long answer in the video.
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The most interesting thing happened this morning. We curated a set of emails to send to top 10% customers for Chowpass and we asked Olumide to grant them access before sending it. The email is not out yet but over 100 people already subscribed.
My favourite kind of product!
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Two years ago. lol 🙈🙈🙈
Today at 3:55pm, We at Chowdeck delivered our 1,000th meal to @ObiIk (check your wallet). This is a huge milestone for us. We have learnt a lot in the last 48 days and the team is super grateful to everyone that has contributed to this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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Today at 3:55pm, We at Chowdeck delivered our 1,000th meal to @ObiIk (check your wallet). This is a huge milestone for us. We have learnt a lot in the last 48 days and the team is super grateful to everyone that has contributed to this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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I have got an unusual amount of luck, and one of my biggest fears is unintentionally taking it for granted.
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Clear Communication. Empathy. Kindness. You can’t be a Senior dev and not have these three. No matter how technically sound you are, you are no different from the red rated competitive student programmer on Topcoder. Your problem domain is just different.
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We struggled with average delivery time of 36.7 minutes within Ikeja in the first two weeks of our beta.
After some optimizations, our average is now 28.6minutes.
Some really great delivery times. 😀
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John has a raw talent for figuring out the most complex operational issues. He started evening deliveries in Chowdeck and drove it largely(Yh, we now deliver up until 10pm). I mentioned it as a wish and he doubled down on it setting the rules and driving it. 2/3
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god. I have to learn Spanish. I need to know what to tell Lamine Yamal when I see him! It won’t make sense for me to just go and be telling him “Mi amor” throughout 😭
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My @chowdeck guys are on 🔥 even in the rain! I get really anxious when it rains and I suspect this is their own version of sending me traps. Well, it works! Rain deliveries are optional for them and a lot of them still show up!
P.S: your deliveries will take longer today🙏
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Ohhhhhhhhh goooooddddd. Can people send in their one line pitch before they call them? 🥺🥺🥺🥺. E.g “my boss gave my dirty slap and my ear was doing wrrrnnnnnnn”.
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As a lead, half of the job is making decisions. The other half is setting up yourself, the team and product to make decision making easy.
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3-3 home and away. Anyhow this ends, I am contented. A fucking sport. Nah. Guys. I am so proud. Proud to be alive to watch this match.
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We want to hear from our president. @TheOnlyIbukun was spot on here. #EndSarsNow #EndSARSImmediately #EndPoliceBrutality
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Thank you so much @DadaBen_ !
Massive congratulations, @LordBinary_ 👏
Your growth has been one to watch and I wish you all the best!
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Lmao. Nwabali make one last minute save, e fall down make everybody know say e don work today. Oloshi 😂
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With the super smart & experienced people advising me, I have learnt in the last few months that the advice “counters” themselves if you listen really well. Person A says “this is what I think”, person B says “I think the exact opposite”. 1/2
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Off boarding after a long relationship can be very stressful. Passwords, shared accounts, Netflix removal, etc. it’s a lot tbh.
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I actually waited all year to turn up properly in December. Bought multiple tickets to multiple shows. Postponed all meetings with my mum till December. And guess who this stupid virus decided to visit? Fuck you covid.
Lesson - Don’t plan enjoyment. Just enjoy like Kennedy 🙏🏾
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1st day of the quarter, We had about 500(~200 active) users and did 24 orders on the first day of the quarter.
Last day of the quarter, we had over 5000(~2500 active) users and did 445 orders in a single day.
Bring in your orders. We will deliver with happiness!
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I am consoled in the fact that the team is a young one. There’s more Champions league games for most of them, including Araujo!
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The team is so grateful to everyone that has contributed to our growth. We are grateful for your patronage, your feedback, your reviews, insisting on high standards, and our joint mission to make inefficient food delivery a thing of the past.
See you in Q2 🚀🚀🚀
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I loveee it! Thank you so much @LizOgunoye ❤️
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One of the hardest things to manage in a crisis/tough situation is your psychology. How you see/manage the situation will most likely translate to how everyone around you will see/react to the situation. You have superpowers, use it well.
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Moyo told me this and it’s stuck with me for a long time - “You may be in the same industry but you are not competitors. The idea that you have competitors is superficial. Your vision is massive”.
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That Ghanaian keeper can order food from Chowdeck and will get the food before he touches the ball 😩
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At the end, just make a decision you can live with. Everyone is right and everyone is talking from their own experience and context. No two situations are the same… Similar yes, but never the same. God help us 🙏🏾 2/2
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I wrote C++ code on Thursday and the nostalgia it brought back. It was a beautiful first language to learn.
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Hahaha. All excel sheets I will review this week has to be colored blue and red. Period.
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Haaaaaaaa. VAR. they actually paid this ref. I actually now believe the corruption allegations
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I have been attending French classes for 3 weeks. It is finally time to enter this thing full time. My System is now in French. Just 1 target for this week. Every google search I do will be done in French(except for hot fixes and bugs - I can't think fast in french yet).
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On it Egbon @idrisayobello !
@chowdeck , let’s do this right away! 🎉
I no talk am? Amala to the moon and beyond! In fact @chowdeck pls supply amala to ten people of your choosing!!! Oya aburo @LordBinary_
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Wow. So we can’t win without Lamine Yamal? The first league match we lost this season, Yamal didn’t start too. This is wild!
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