Now, we're going to tour to another part of the world and enjoy two contestants who are looking at Indonesia. So first off, I'd like to introduce Leopold Sudiano. Leopold is from the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the title of his presentation tonight is Overcoming Prison Overcrowding in Indonesia. Indonesia is a beautiful country. It's like a paradise with wonderful beaches and heavenly resort where many visitors, perhaps like you, love to stay there forever, but perhaps not in this part of Indonesia. Here in Jakarta Prison, you have to eat, sleep and defecate with 45 other inmates in a small smelly cell just designed for 10 people, three times the size of the screen. You may think, so what, they all are a dead user to suffer, just leave them there. But do you know that half of them are there for committing victimless crimes, like using drugs or street gambling? They cause no harm to anyone and yet were jailed for years for that. If you were the judge, will you still think in human condition like this is a fair sentence? Since I started my PhD here, 30 months, four days ago, I got my own chalk on the wall for that, the prison population has exploded by 37.5%. The growth rate is for time of the word average. The prison overcrowding has become an enormous burden on the state and society. My research seeks to understand the incentives within the justice system that drives prison overcrowding, questions like why do police and prosecutors detain offenders for the maximum period of four months before taking the case to court, while actually the investigation completed in the first week, what is in need for them? And my research reveals some interesting findings. For instance, the arrest target which has led to the prison overcrowding is actually a key performance indicator in the bureaucratic reform. What a contradiction. The policymaking process in the Ministry of Justice in which I had involved need to be informed on how to tackle those drivers. And this is what my research will provide. Options like by imposing shorter period of detention and simple trials for victimless crimes, for instance. With the hope that more than 120,000 offenders in Indonesia, half of them, my fellow country people as well as some of yours, may get fairer sentences. And then perhaps next time when you visit Indonesia, it will be a true paradise. A wonderful and just country. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Good morning. There will be about 450 videos of this event, I believe. That's pretty impressive.  So my name is Dirk Hoondl. I'm VMware's chief open source officer. And I'm Linus and I hate giving speeches, which is why over the last few years what we've done is basically do these chats where I don't have to prepare slides and I don't have to prepare a talk. And instead, we try to make it more dynamic with an interview style event. So Beijing, Linus, this is your second time here? This is my first time in Beijing. I was in Tianjin five years ago for three days. And after this, I will have a total of four days in China. So this is, I think, my 15th or 16th visit in Beijing. I love the place. Maybe not the air quality, but everything else. I have a lot of personal history with China, but I enjoy coming here a lot. Let's talk a little bit about this Linux thing. You released 4.12 RC6 last night at a very unusual time. So can you talk a little bit about this? Where are we? There is the security thing that I've heard about. So yeah, usually I release my RC kernels every week on a Sunday afternoon because it turns out that normal people work during the weekdays and then they send me their work, usually Thursday, Friday, sometimes Saturday morning. So Sunday is when I release the weekly progress. And this time I was traveling, which was part of why it got released on Monday evening instead. But we also had a very annoying security issue really in user land that we had a kernel patch for. And security issues are always interesting. We take them very seriously, but sometimes the process is very annoying and you have embargo set. And this time the embargo was set for 3pm in Europe, which meant that my release of the kernel workaround for this user space security issue happened at basically midnight China time. So that made my normal release schedule of trying to do it on a nice, calm Sunday afternoon. Now I had to do it basically in the middle of the night on a Monday evening after the dinner here at the hotel. So sometimes you have to kind of work with external issues and time your releases with them too. But other than that, so what's interesting, what are the highlights in 412? The highlight for me, I don't actually, I don't know how many of you realize, I don't code myself very much. I send out code snippets in email to developers and say maybe do it this way, but my job is really integrating work from sub-maintainers who then integrate work from thousands of developers. There's hopefully quite a few of you in the audience right now. So for me, the big issue tends to not be the code details but the flow and how well the whole process works. And I think what I'm personally particularly happy about is that it has worked so well, not just for 4.12, but we seem to have found a code flow and a process that works and has worked for a decade now where we can make incremental releases and we can actually have a very stable release schedule and things just continue to work and we seldom have these big panic issues. And I mean, if the biggest inconvenience for workflow is that I have to wait until Monday night instead of Sunday afternoon, that's a sign of a release schedule that works really well, I think. But so from the feature side, nothing you wanna highlight? We always have new hardware. We always have architecture support for new chip versions. We always have, what I find interesting is that code that I thought was stable continually gets improved. Code that is really legacy code that I would have thought, hey, we wrote that 10, 15 years ago and we haven't needed to touch it for many years. And then suddenly somebody comes along and says, hey, I really care about this code and starts improving on it or starts making bug reports on something that I thought nobody actually ever used. So one of the things I found interesting in 4.12 that nobody else should care about is that we've had a lot of fixes to the UFS file system. That's the traditional UNIX file system that the BSD people use and that Linux people tend to never, ever use. And for some reason some random, excuse me, some random person started using UFS. I think maybe he's migrating for BSD, maybe he just wants to run them at the same time. And as a reason this file system that I thought was basically done has been seeing a surprising amount of changes. So I find it interesting that we do have new hardware, new features, new things that we get developed. But even after 25 years, we also have these old very basic things that people still care about and still improve. So I have a little quiz for you. What do these things have in common? Terminator 2, Judgment Day, the Silence of the Lambs, Brian Adams, everything I do, I do it for you, and Madonna, Justify My Love.   So these are the top two movies and top two songs of 1991 and the fact that no one in the audience knows the songs or the movies makes this even more funny. So you have been doing the exact same job since these cultural highlights were created. Have you considered taking a sabbatical? Not really. So I really like what I'm doing. I like waking up and having a job that is technically interesting and just challenging while not being too stressful. So I can do it for long stretches. You don't want to have the job where you think you're burning out. But at the same time, also something that I feel like I make in a real difference and I do something that is meaningful, just not just for me. And I think everybody, I hope everybody in the audience really would like to have that kind of job where they can do it because it's interesting and because they like it, but also because it matters outside your own little sphere. And I've occasionally taken breaks from it. Jim mentioned the two or three weeks I was working on Git to get that whole project started. But every time I take a longer break, I get bored. So I mean, even when I go diving, which is my only real hobby, and I might be away for a week, I actually look forward to getting back to doing Linux. I don't look forward to the thousand emails waiting for me, but I look forward to the job. So I mean, if that ever changes, maybe I'll need to find somebody, some sucker to take over my job. But I've never had the feeling that, okay, now I need to take a longer break. So I'll talk about this a little more. And I look at this from the perspective of sustainability. So is the development model that we have sustainable? It certainly is in the sense that you just said you love what you do, and you think the process that we've arrived at is fantastic. But if I look at this 20 years from now, if I look at this really long term, is there anything in that question of how we as a community can continue to be this successful that you are worried about? Not really. I used to get the question, what happens if I get hit by a bus? And I don't actually get that question anymore because our process not only has worked for 25 years now. I mean, it's changed over the years, but still. But we have a very strong maintainer group. I mean, we have, we complain about the fact that we don't have enough maintainers, and it's true. We only have a set of a few tens of really top maintainers that do the daily work of merging most stuff. But at the same time, for an open source project, a few tens of really top technical lead people is a very strong team. And at the same time, as we have these maintainers that are getting older and fatter, we also continually have new people coming in.  And there are lots of new people coming in. So I don't feel like we should necessarily worry about the process and Linux for the next 20 years. I mean, who knows? Maybe some new and aggressive project comes along and shows that they can do what we do better, but that doesn't look very likely either. So I don't worry about that. We've had situations where we needed to change how we work and they are very, very painful. And if we hit that again, I mean, we had to do a change, it's over 10 years now. And it was acrimonious and there was a lot of stress involved when you change how you work. If we have to do that again, now that we're so much bigger, that's going to be very painful, but so far we've been scaling very smoothly. One of the things that I find fascinating about Linux is that there has never been a successful fork. There has never been a challenge to your leadership. Why do you think that is? I actually disagree to some degree. I think there's been lots of very successful forks and one of the things that made them, makes people not think of them as forks is that they weren't acrimonious. I've always said that if somebody has a new feature that I don't believe in, it happens all the time. People say, I want to do this and it's going to change everything and it's going to make the kernel so much better. And my feeling was always, hey, go ahead, do it, prove yourself. I think it's a bad idea, but you can prove me wrong. And that has actually been fairly different in the kernel from a lot of other projects. And I literally designed, I mean, when I sat down and wrote Git, one of the prime design rules was that the whole, you're supposed to be able to fork and it should be really easy to go off on your own and do something on your own. And the thing is if you have these kinds of forks that are friendly and are on the type where, hey, prove me wrong, show that you are really doing something new, really doing something interesting, doing something that really improves the kernel. If you're in that situation, then when the person who may, or the company who made the improvement, comes back and say, hey, look, I actually improved the kernel, there's no bad feelings. There's like, okay, I was wrong. I will take your much improved code and we'll merge it back. And I think that's the big deal that you actually want to encourage forks. You want to encourage these forks that happen all the time when people do development. But you also want to make it easy to take back the good ones. And the fact is you don't see a lot of the forks because most of the time I'm right and most of the forks are bad and they never go anywhere. But when I'm wrong, I'm like, wow, good job, I'll take the credit for your work now. So that's how pretty much all development gets done. But I think you said you disagree but then you proved my point. Because it is about the leadership. It is about the approach of saying, go as hell, prove yourself and I'll take it if it's successful. And to me that is the secret of the fact that there isn't a differently named Linux clone with a different leader. And that was my point. But you made a very interesting comment here about the role that Git plays in this. And I have a somewhat controversial question for you. Linux obviously had a huge impact. But if I think about the transformational nature of Git and what it has done to software development, not just in open source, but I mean companies like Microsoft or VMware use Git for software development internally. So do you think that Git maybe had a huge, a larger impact than Linux in that sense? I'm actually very surprised about how widely Git has spread. I'm pleased, obviously. And I feel like it validates my notion of doing distributed development. At the same time, just looking back at most source control versions, it tends to be a huge slog. And it tends to be really hard to introduce a new software control system. And I expected Git to really be limited mostly to the kernel because it was tailored for what we needed to do. And I don't know how many of you actually have followed Git, but for the first three, four years, one of the main complaints about Git was that it was so different and it was so hard to use because people were used to the CVS model or the subversion model or there's a ton of these commercial source control management systems that people also used. And Git was very different and Git took a different kind of mindset to get used to. And then about five years ago, something changed. And I think it was just that enough projects and enough developers had started using Git and suddenly Git wasn't different anymore just because now Git was what they were used to. And people really started taking advantage of the development model and of the just security and the feeling of security that when you have something in Git, it will not get corrupted. I mean, using strong hashes and making sure that we actually track everything and we never lose data. So it was kind of interesting to see how the project that I thought was kernel-specific really spread very widely. And when my daughter went off to college, my oldest daughter went off to college, like a month or two later, she sent me an email back and said she found it hugely amusing that she was known as the daughter of the person who created Git, not as the daughter of the person who created Linux because they all used Git inside of Duke. And some of them used Linux too, but Git was very widely known among the computer science students. And I always also found that interesting because to me, Git was this short, I actually ended up maintaining it only for about three, maybe four months. And for the last 10 plus years, Git has been maintained by Junior Hamano, who's done an outstanding job and should really get all the credit for how well Git works. But despite that, in certain circles, Git is the more well-known one and the one you actually interact with daily. And it's probably because quite often Linux is hidden. If you have an Android phone, you are running Linux, but you don't think of it as Linux. But if you're running Git, you are very aware of the fact that you're running Git. So sometimes it's a perception issue too. So outside of Git and Linux, what other open source projects? OK, you're fishing now. No, no, I'm not talking about subsurface. Outside of the projects that you started, let's phrase it this way, what other open source projects do you spend time on? Surprisingly few. I used to be, I've always been interested in low-level details. So I used to be mostly, I mean, this is why, obviously, I do a kernel, but I used to be very into compilers and editors and things like that, like low-level programming tools that are not really user-focused. And maybe it's just because I'm a fairly focused kind of person. I don't like being distracted by different things. I prefer to concentrate on one project. So all my time is spent on Linux. And there's almost no time to look at other open source projects outside of that. We sometimes have incidental issues, like we find compiler bugs. But then it's still my Linux work that is involved. And then the fact that I talk to other open source projects because we have issues with them or they have issues with us is still related to Linux for me. So we talked about this earlier. The world has changed dramatically in the last 26 years. If you were starting today, what do you think you'd be working on? One of the things I find interesting and that I probably would have been really excited about when I was a teenager and then early 20s when I started Linux is you can tinker with hardware so much more easily than you could when I was growing up. And I was dangerous with hardware. I would try to build things and I would destroy computers because I was not very good at it, but I always found it very interesting. And now getting involved with FPGAs, if you're actually interested in chip design, it used to be expensive to get involved. Now you can get an FBA development board and free tools to play around with it for reasonably low cost. All these Raspberry Pi, random small things that you can build up with yourself, I think that's something that I would really have enjoyed. And if I was starting out now, that's probably where I would be looking. But let's look at the audience. If you were a young Chinese developer and you wanted to use open source as a way to build your career, what do you think? Where should they look? What is Linux's advice to success? I get the question, what should I do quite often? And I have a really hard time answering it. Partly it's because for me it was always I was very self-motivated. I pretty much always knew what I wanted to do. And the question feels kind of odd to me. It's like I was never told what I should look at doing. And I'm not sure my example is necessarily the right thing to follow. There's a ton of open source projects. And if you're a programmer or you are a beginning programmer and just want to further your career, find something that you're interested in and find something that you think you can actually follow for more than just a few weeks. Find something where you can get to know the code well.  It doesn't have to be the whole project. Like for the kernel, nobody. And I mean really nobody, not me. Nobody is an expert on the whole kernel. Everybody has areas that they know well enough that they can be an expert on that. And once you're in that situation where you know a small project or a part of a bigger project and you can really be part of the community and send out patches, it's not just about the coding. It's a lot of this is about the social aspect of open source. You get connections.  You're showing the world, hey, look, I made these improvements. I am competent. I am worthy of going far in my community, in my job. And the showing off part of open source is actually to a large degree why I released Linux originally as open source. It was like I do programming because I think it's fun and it's challenging and it's basically the best mental gymnastics you can do in the modern world, I think. But then I released it because I wanted to just show people, look, this is what I worked on for six months. It's not big yet, but it's doing something interesting. And in fact, the social commentary and the fact that we grew a community around it came as a surprise to me and it was a very pleasant surprise. It is why I still do Linux 25 plus years later. The technology is still interesting and our problems have evolved and we still do new things. But at the same time, the thing I really enjoy about open source is the interaction with people. They're not all friendly. We have a lot of bickering. We have a lot of arguments about the right way to do things and things like that. But I actually think that's also part of what makes it interesting. So find something you're interested in, get involved. You will first have to spend a certain amount of time to learn the project, but there's a huge upside, not just from a career standpoint, but also from a satisfying project in your life. I think you're giving an amazing answer to this question because that is exactly what I think matters. Find something that you're interested in, that you want to do and then keep doing it. Stay with it. There's one other aspect when talking to an audience here in Asia. I think English skills, the ability to express yourself in English, if you want to be successful in the global project, are quite important too. And I want to use this to thank our wonderful translator who has been diligently trying to keep track with us and please give a round of applause to our translator who helped us here. And I think on that, we'll have to stop. We're out of time. Thank you very much for your attention. I hope this was interesting and fun for you. And I hope we'll see you next year. Thank you. Thank you.


I was that kid. I had braces. I had bad zits all over my cheeks And it was a really hard time, you know, especially for your self-esteem for your confidence levels Like acne can play a huge part in affecting that so I thought I would talk about you know Just kind of how I dealt with it my skincare routine things that I do on a daily basis to make sure that my skin is looking clean fresh so Let's just jump right into it So before I kind of get into my tips I just kind of want to talk about my personal story with acne because I know Like I said, it's it's a tough thing to deal with it's Intimidating it sucks.  Oh, I have like one baby.  But yeah in freshman and sophomore year. I I don't know I was like breaking off for some mad reason puberty hormones whatever it was especially when you're like 16 17 like that's prime time for your acne to start building up But you know, it was all over my chin I'll put pictures right now.  But anyway, I had acne. I had braces. I was short. My hair was In a bad phase, but then I went to dermatologist Started going to visits to see, you know, what I could do to clear my skin up She eventually recommended something called accutane now most of you guys probably know what accutane is but essentially it's like a really Strong acne treatment for people who have it really bad.  They have to be taking daily I also have to get like monthly But blood tests to make sure that it's not affecting my liver or anything because there are several side effects now My story with accutane is I would have the worst dry lips like oh man I would have to use chow I would I'd be carrying like two to three chapsticks in my pocket a day Vaseline aqua for you name it I was a chapstick connoisseur. That was the biggest side effect for me. Everyone has different side effects You know, I'm obviously not a dermatologist So go talk to a doctor if you feel like accutane is something that you would like to try like speaking from experience. I Think that accutane was a great decision for me I don't think that I would have been able to combat it any other way just because it was so bad But it's not for everyone like if it's very minor then don't worry about it But if you feel like that's what you need to do then you got to do what you got to do But yeah, I was on accutane for like Four to five to six months taking pills every day It was actually like really a really big hassle, but once I was done with my treatment I promised that like my skin was instantly clear I will say this though that like when you first start accutane your acne is gonna get worse before it gets better Which is just like kind of part of the treatment.  I don't have any kind of PhD in any of this. I'm not a dermatologist But like intuitively it just doesn't make sense that Putting greasy food and fats will not have an effect on your skin So yeah, just the most important thing is just watch what you eat like make sure that you have a balanced diet Make sure you're getting your vegetables your fruits your vitamins and then on the other side of that like even myself as a college Kid like I still like to you know watch my intake on Not good substances for your body whether it's you know alcohol Smoking whatever blah blah blah also just find out like what your body reacts to I know some people can start breaking out If they drink milk or if they eat a certain type of food that will make them inflame like listen to your body If it starts reacting after you eat something then just keep that in mind for the future Another huge thing is like your hands actually have so much germs and bacteria on them that by like I'm not gonna do it right now But like by touching your face every day and you know just like messing around with it.  It's ready. It's juicy Like you know what I mean when it's like you can see the white The best thing to do then is first off wash your hands because you don't want any other type of bacteria getting that Infected and then if you really really need to pop it like you know it's about the pop Then you know be as gentle and you know it's kind of weird that I'm making video about this But the best way I found to like pop a zit is like go this way go this way and then go this way like Don't just go Because that's just gonna make a worse scar. This is like really weird for me to talk about but then dab the blood With a tissue like don't just like smear it around as this grows and nasty going back to what I was saying like if It's not ready to be pop it then don't pop it. Don't agitate it.  Hopefully your friends won't do that But that kind of takes me to my second point of your skincare routine The most important thing to battle your acne is first off finding the products that work right for your skin every type of person has a different type of skin Complexion meaning that everyone's gonna need different types of skin products. So the type of stuff I don't really recommend are your basic pharmacy brand Face washes because that's just kind of like very basic it tries to like cover all as many Skin types as possible meaning that it's not gonna be the best way to come back your acne So if you have really bad acne go to your dermatologist see what they prescribe Whether it's topical creams pills or just a specific type of face wash for whether it's like oily skin or dry skin or Whatever your type of skin may be Okay, so personally the type of face wash I'm using right now is the Clinique for men The Clinique for men, which is this charcoal skin wash I just kind of got it at the airport when I was flying into Paris because frickin TSA confiscated my face watch Which I was super pissed about. Okay, this kind of goes against what I'm saying But I'm traveling so I have to like travel lightly meaning I can't carry my regular skin routine products But it's called and Prani These two things are called toner and lotion if you don't know what toner is Toner is very important because that's the stuff that you should be using right after you wash your face It's gonna like lightly most moisturize it and then the lotion is what you put on after the toner And it's gonna make it even more moisturized so you get that smooth soft skin So yeah, that being said don't go and get these products just because I recommend them like Do your research see what works for other people who have similar skin? Complexions not all products are gonna be right for you So you're gonna have to take the time to like find what does work another huge thing Aside from the foods that you're eating stress is also a huge factor So I know for like me personally when it's like finals or midterm season I just get stressed if I'm not sleeping enough, you know that can lead to More stress which will lead to more acne.  Oh, I can't believe I forgot water water water literally Drinking water and staying hydrated keeping your skin hydrated is so important because when it starts drying out That can be a bad place for acne to start building up So make sure that you're drinking tons of water this much even more a day I promise that will also treat help help treat your skin and kind of like my last thing. This isn't really a tip It's not a skincare product, but it's just dealing with self-confidence when you have this bad acne especially in high school I know that kids can be judgmental, but it's whatever like it's gonna be so hard But really you just can't care what other people think like sure. It's a pimple who cares everyone gets them Just brush it off and know that it will get better your skin will clear up So don't think that this is permanent that is the end of the world like speaking from personal experience like trust me It does get better if you do the right routines if you take care of yourself, and yeah, okay I hope you guys enjoyed this just kind of candid talk talking about my experiences I know that it's not like a touchy touchy subjects But it's something that it's pretty common with you know guys and girls both And it was really difficult for me to get through there were times where my self-confidence was super low I like wouldn't want to go out with my friends take pictures But you know once I got over that fear and my skin started clearing up I just started being way happier. So I hope that can be the same for you Thank you guys so much for watching if this video has helped Please make sure you give it a like comment down below any suggestions of other types of videos Whether it's about you know fashion or lifestyle photography film you name it and I'll do it


I'm Tanya. I come from Croatia, a beautiful country in the heart of Europe. Today I'm celebrating because I finished my ITTT course which was 120 hours long with tutor support and video lessons. I actually have an anecdote about taking this course because I won it for free. It was around Easter time when I stumbled upon this Facebook I had to count Easter eggs in the picture and did. So two days later I found out that I got the course so I took it. Today I finally finished it and became a certified TAPL teacher which I'm very grateful for and thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. I would recommend taking TAPL and TESL courses to everybody because they're very interesting and useful. Lessons are easy to read and offer plenty of examples. There are also videos supplemented and tutors were great as well. They provided feedback to all of my lesson plans and answered to my questions. So thank you John, thank you Tanya and all the other stuff. So I would recommend it to everybody also because TAPL and TESL courses provide job prospects and hopefully I will work as an English teacher abroad. So I'm really looking forward to taking another TAPL and TESL course to enhance my English skills and I wish you all the luck if you take one as well. So see you soon and bye.


Hello everybody! Today we have a super interesting interview with Raj, the co-founder of Sell the Trend, a product and a software that helps people to find hot selling products for their Shopify and do commerce stores using data that they have about the products. It will be super interesting and I'm super excited about it. Hey Raj, how are you today? I'm doing great, great Lira. Thanks for inviting me. Cool. So today we'll be focused on how to find winning products for dropshipping to Shopify and everything that we can find more interesting here for beginners and other dropshippers who won't find the top products. So first, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Sure. So I am the founder of Sell the Trend and we started Sell the Trend about two years ago really with one purpose in mind really to provide an alternative way to find winning products for for dropshipping and you know the way that we kind of approach it is something that we didn't really find in the marketplace at the time which is doing it really the data way as opposed to the hand-picking way or doing it in ways that just didn't really make sense. So our focus has always been on providing something that is really database and a cut above you know some of the other tools. Okay, so your main focus is really like you check the products by the performance of the products? Yeah, yeah so we have a lot of factors that we check products on and not only are we judging products we're also judging the stores that the products live on, right? So we have a bunch of factors that we look at each product and since we've been really looking at products for the last two years we also have a history of what makes a winning product a winning product. So not only are we judging them by you know the details of the particular product but also we're judging them by the history of similar products and how they performed over the years, right? So yeah we're definitely a database when it comes to winning products. And how did it come into this idea of creating the products? It was really from really looking at what was available at the time when we started. So 2019 when we first started the options were two options either you have tools that are just providing one or two products a day or two or three products a day handpicked tool, a handpicked product or the products that were doing it through data and looking at what's happening up there online but the two top tools at the time we didn't really find it really supplied everything that it drops for me. For example the two or three products handpicked ones the problem is could be there might be showing products that maybe are not even in your niche. You know the two or three products today might be one is a docked item and one is two beauty items but you're really in the camping niche or you know the travel niche so those products are not going to be useful for you. And then the other tools really were providing a very vague product recommendation so they would recommend like a dress or something and then you're like why does this even like show me the data why this dress is really a winning product and there was no data or the data was very lacking or it was just a couple of numbers that didn't make any sense. So looking at what was happening at the time we realized that there was a need really for something that is a bit different and pretty much all the people that you know all our members really that's really what they appreciate about seller trend is being able to really pinpoint exactly how and why these products are winning products. Okay and how can I ask how many products do you have in database? We have millions we have millions you can see it on the you can see it on the on the home page there's like a number tracker it shows you how many products I think there's five or six million right now in our database and we're always adding like we're literally adding daily thousands of products daily right so. What do you scan like you scan an express or you scan other we're doing a lot of different we're scanning a lot of different sources so not only Aliexpress Shopify we're also scanning Amazon and we're always adding additional platforms to scan so we want it and that's really one of the things that we always wanted to do there's a lot of tools at the time that were just scanning Aliexpress right so I mean you can do that yourself you can just go to Aliexpress you know maybe you know look up a few things but what we wanted to do is we wanted to create something that is scanning multiple sources and then seeing what's popular across multiple sources so it's not just popular on Aliexpress or on Amazon it's also popular on Shopify it's also popular on big Shopify stores or is it popular just on you know brand new Shopify stores what's the date of the Shopify store that created and we scale that we rank all those as different things okay and you check the same product or it's already checking niche we're checking across we're checking niches and we're checking you know different products and we have like a if you go on sell the trend there's a there's a niche drop down of about 80 or so niches that you can if you're looking if you're interested in one particular niche you can just zero in on those products right so so we have a lot of filtering options because again since there's a lot of data there we wanted to give people obviously the ability to kind of slice up that data a little bit and it's not just a bunch of product random products a lot of products that ran you don't even know where to start uh so yeah so there are there are tools within within the app to uh to zero in on exactly what you're interested in oh that's super cool and interesting and also it's unique it's very different from the other tools yeah that's that's really i mean that that really is is our motto is we want to create something there's no point i mean anybody can create you know you can go go look at something copy it and create something similar right good bad or indifferent the problems you're never gonna be as good as the thing that you copy that's why we wanted to make sure we're not copying where you know we're we're we're getting the best ideas from a lot of different places and putting them into our own unique vision of exactly how to find the best winning products using data okay i may ask what are the criteria for a winning product for you so so we just literally put out a video a couple days ago it's on our blog right now and um we this this really we wanted to wanted to put out this video to kind of give people an idea of uh you know how to judge a winning product not just from a theoretical perspective like you know when you look at a product right now and this is this is really came from a um it came from a feedback from our customers so basically they looked at and some we get messages from customers saying you have tons of products here how do i know where to start how do i know you know why should i pick this product compared to this product what is so different about this product from that product so we put out this this this new uh a blog and video really that's also uh a spot of our website that really takes you from a theoretical perspective of how to find a winning product but also then applies it to looking at the data and sell the trend and how the the theoretical applies to the actual data so for example uh you know what is the what is a winning product right what makes a winning product a winning product well there's there's definitely things that are common between all winning products most winning products have like you know you've probably heard this term before they have a wow factor right they have something about them that makes them stand out on on our facebook feed you know tiktok feed whatever you look at something you're like wow that's cool right so that is you know huge criteria and how do we then extrapolate that criteria to data right you can because you can't look at a picture and say a thing so you extrapolate it by data you say hey if there's a lot of excitement about this product through orders through stores ads and all that kind of stuff that shows you that there's excitement about this product in this day train in the last month two months one week or whatever it is so then we go through this entire video we go through all the different things like pricing for example you know you can have a winning product that's great but the price is uh to to sell can only be ten dollars because it's a very small thing so can you really make money on sourcing a product for a dollar selling it for ten you would think yes i can definitely make money i'm going to make nine dollars but the reality is you need to factor other costs there is shipping costs potentially there is advertising costs promotion costs so we also go through the video and break down what is a good cost factor and and profit margin that you need to really look at and some of the some of the things that you can do to kind of counteract some of these profit margin limitations right so we have like you know so we've added that recently that that goes through the entire way of not of how we judge winning products before like before you publish any product do you check it somehow on your stores or something like that or so we have so yeah it's so we have literally millions of products and thousands of products are coming in every day so we are not physically i mean that's why we we rely on the data we're not physically checking every single product putting it in our store doing ads for it and promoting and all that kind of stuff it's impossible right for the amount of products that we're showing people but again the data speaks for itself right is the is the product selling right we have sales chart is the product selling did it's did it make a sale yesterday did it make a sale a month ago two months ago how many sales did it make we also have how many how many people are excited about this how many people are adding it so we use the data to to vet the product so to speak as opposed to running an ad campaign ourselves for the particular product just for the fact that we have way too many products right it's impossible to do that yeah i agree it's very impossible to check everything but yeah and that will help maybe with the facebook ads or so yeah so we have uh in our uh nexus store so the nexus for us is really our kind of like our hub um of of our hub where we put all the the wedding products in uh the ones that have been connected through all the different uh streams like aliexpress Shopify and all that stuff it goes all sits in the nexus right and in the nexus a product research page if you click on that button for each product you'll get a lot of the data about it you know what are the top countries that are selling this product what are the sales of this product what stores are adding this product you see the stores that are adding the product how many stores are adding all that kind of stuff and we also have facebook uh targeting recommendations for these products right so we have uh you know for each product you'll have different targeting options like are we you know you can target by these facebook interests including some things like who are some popular um who are some popular names in in the space for example if it's a dog product who are some popular dog breeders uh that have big facebook pages and then you can obviously target those interests right so if i'm somebody's interested in dog products you might be interested in that breeder because they're a popular celebrity breeder then you can target those interests so we have all these interests for these products so you can literally copy and paste them into your advertising campaigns so we don't create the advertising campaigns for you we don't have a connection to your ad account but you can we have obviously some we have a we have an entire drop shipping course included with any kind of subscription so you can come in even you can even use it in the trial so you don't it's available our trials are fully fully open all the features there's no limitations at all so technically you can do a seven-day trial go in there just take the drop shipping course right and the drop shipping course takes you through the entire flow of the business from the theory in the beginning as well as setting up your Shopify store step by step as well as adding your first winning product fulfilling a product so going through the the automation of fulfilling a product goes through the whole entire thing of how to run a campaign on instagram how to run a campaign on facebook uh so you can literally use those interests in your first campaign that we show you how to set up so we don't actually have an automated method for that uh but we have the the tutorials and and the course for that as well included so you're all happy even with the education of the options sorry so what was the question so you help also with the education of the new draw absolutely absolutely not only do we have courses obviously like any business you have we have our facebook group so uh you know we have moderators there that are that are helping with questions as well as our community that also have a lot of our members and other people that that help in the group besides tutorials for every single feature we have our youtube page as well we're always adding new features and we have descriptions of all these features an education of how to use a feature in a real drop shipping situation so every single time we add a you know a sizable feature we will have this video about it and then how do you really what's the purpose of this feature and how to use it in a real drop shipping situation for example you know let's say we add a new something to modify variations so not only do we describe what the feature does but also you know when you're adding a variation what kind of price should we use for this variation for this product how to make sure that you're making profits for this variation when you're adding a product or variation so so yeah we always have a lot of education as well for for everybody so it's insane because you can really help people to succeed using the tool and knowledge absolutely like like our literally our motto is you know your success is our success right our member success is our success like any business and I'm sure you know this yourself if you don't have successful customers and successful members you will never have a successful business because nobody is going to want to stay so that's why we do everything that we can we have not only do we have you know live chat and email support and group and we're always open to answer questions whether they're you know support questions general administration questions or if they have technical questions I don't know how to use this how do I do this how come my Shopify store is not doing something then we have over solutions or existing blog articles or FAQs to help them nice okay so you said that you have a millions of products and you almost said that you also help with the Facebook audiences don't have the audiences for all of the products or like it's something that you do manually and you just know so so we have yeah sure we have audiences for the majority of the products so if you know for the majority of the products the millions of products we have audiences but if somebody wants something specific that we don't have an audience for we have an audience builder tool that's included so in this tool you can go in there you can write in some keywords about this whatever it is let's say you know funny dog collar whatever the keyword is or diamond collar right and then with this tool we can suggest some audiences for you that you can test that and if there's something specific that you really need you can always send us a message and we've added specific audiences for some top audiences that we were missing you know let's say back in the day maybe we were missing fishing audiences or something like that and then somebody suggested it hey you know I'm I'm big in the fishing nation you guys don't have any audiences for any of these fishing tools that's something that we can definitely add so we're always adding to our audience list the same way we're adding to our niche list what about different suppliers like you said that you support product research from some different suppliers and do you also offer do you also show the exact product from the supplier from any express or amazon absolutely absolutely yes yeah so not only do we show the product so you can obviously you know but also you can add your own suppliers let's say you go on aliexpress and you find it something that you know different a better price than what we show in our system you did more research you can find a better price you can definitely add that supplier into our system and it'll be available for you to to use available for you to fulfill orders with so yeah absolutely or you can you can add your own suppliers and we're also adding additional suppliers besides aliexpress soon to really open up available suppliers available to to our members would you consider your tool as a tool for Shopify only or can it work for eBay users for example also so so right now the only two integrations that we supply with that we support in terms of product export to an income tool would be Shopify and WooCommerce right so you can use it for Shopify you can use it for WooCommerce there's no any kind of eBay or Amazon integrations right now so we're focusing on Shopify and WooCommerce and we still have you know there's still a lot of a lot of room there to go into providing new features and new support for those two platforms we're always adding new platforms like if somebody comes up to us says oh we know a lot of people start asking us about like you know big commerce or something like that another tool you know that's the kind of like the Shopify and WooCommerce thing that's something that you know we can think about adding but again it all depends on the amount of effort that you want to put in to support you know the members right so we don't want to kind of spread us off to to fan and start adding some additional platforms when we can still you know add a lot more features to the existing platforms that we have but we're always looking and if there's enough demand from people say hey there's you know a lot of demand for big commerce or something like that from a lot of our members because they have extra extra platforms because we have members that actually have Shopify and WooCommerce stores they have both both types of stores right so if there's a lot of demand we're absolutely thinking of adding it for sure okay and what is the average product price that you would recommend to beginners to start with and with which product with which profit margins sure so uh the cost could be anything really I mean all the office depends on your budget right so so we're going to a lot of suppliers you can find really good products for for for a cheap cost right so you can find a product for $3 that you can then sell for $20 right so the cost is not the key as like you mentioned the real the real the real factor that you want to think about is the profit margin right so you want to think that you have enough profit margin there to turn a profit so our recommendation would be make sure that you have at least of a $15 profit margin uh for for products right so you know you can buy it for five but then you have to sell it for 20 or you can sell it for a bit cheaper you can buy it for five sell it for 15 so that's only a $10 profit margin but then we recommend either adding shipping on top of that so another $5 of shipping so you can bring it into that kind of safer zone of profit margins or you can do things like doing cross sells and upsells to increase your average auto value right so let's say you're selling a dog a dog bone let's say like or like a dog collar for example then make sure that your upsells you have an associated dog bed that you're also selling or a dog toy make sure that you have other related products or if you're selling for example a dog collar make sure that you're picking products that you can sell in multiples so you know you're not only one dog collar make sure that you have the option to sell two dog collars for a bit less more money or three dog collars for you know so that way and and we've seen it obviously from from from research and from data and from obviously drop shippers is that a lot of people want presented with that option a lot of buyers when they're presented with that option especially if the product cost is low you're not selling something for $50 if you're selling something for $10 you'll have no problem you know buying two for $15 for example so so there are things that you can do to mitigate you know lower profit margin product and some of those things are obviously mentioned in the video that we just put out on our blog so yeah so that's our our recommendations around the $15 range is a pretty safe range for profit margin on products yeah and another thing that I would recommend is also to do something like bundling that you can take absolutely absolutely that's something we're definitely looking into it because that's something we can do on our side right the bundling can be not on on the on the platform side as well so so you plan to add a feature that helps people to create bundles absolutely absolutely that's something definitely in our roadmap we don't have it right now but that's something definitely in our roadmap because it makes sense right for certain products it makes sense to bundle them and make them more viable for sure nice okay so thank you for the valuable information about the technical things I would like to ask you some more other questions sure about general about dropshipping what do you think that will be the future of the dropshipping in terms of Shopify dropshipping so dropshipping has been around for years right dropshipping has been around for years and it is an exciting business model for a lot of people it's exciting business model for a lot of people that do not have the budget to you know buy inventory and stock inventory and dropshipping really is at the core of the entrepreneurial spirit right it's it's the ability to own your own business to be really a trader really you're buying and you're selling right and that's really a core a very core business model that's been around for years so I think the key for dropshipping's health moving forward is providing a lot more options in terms of suppliers and shipping options and different warehousing and you know that to me is going to be and I think that will is is happening every day more suppliers coming to the marketplace more businesses start offering better shipping options and the reason it is is because the e-commerce industry as a whole forget dropshipping just e-commerce is is only expanding at an exponential rate because of not only what happened this year with the pandemic and some of these other things but also people's desire for convenience so the people have are always looking for more convenient ways to to do things right so that to me is is really you're talking about a business model that's been around for years that is only being supported by people's natural desires which is convenience finding things that they like and I think the people that are going to do the best are the people that are looking at dropshipping as a real business and not as a quick money making operation right so like any business you give it time and effort it will be good for you and the only our jobs I guess the same thing with out of the yes our jobs is to provide people the tools that simplify this for them in every single way whether it's picking products whether it's managing automation education all those things so I mean I believe the future is bright for dropshipping but again it's a business and anybody that goes in there and goes hey you know I need to make a quick buck today dropshipping is not for you it's like any business it's just not for you right so yeah I totally agree that there are people who sell dreams to people about blockchain but maybe it's the easiest business in the world in terms of the budget that you need to spend in the beginning yeah and the time it takes to learn to understand to understand the business but I agree that it's basically it's a real business and people need to understand it and work like they work in a real business absolutely absolutely but again it's it's it's such a base it's such a base business model of you know buying and selling really it's it's at the heart of e-commerce so to speak right so yeah so it's like any other business model you know it's always gonna have its own life provided you treat it as a real business okay and one last question that I like to ask in the as the last question of the interviews is what would be the one thing that you would recommend to a beginner dropshipper for a successful way the dropshipping niche so so I'll give you a couple one is you gotta have you gotta have a faith and persistence in any business venture you have to have faith and persistence you have to have faith that uh you know it can work because it has worked because it does work for other people right and then you have to take that faith that you can make it happen and then you can you have to marry it with persistence you have to be persistent you have to realize that you know the world is not against you the world wants you to succeed it's just you have to realize this with the faith part and then find everything that you need to succeed so whether it means education whether it means uh you know uh find tools for example uh whatever it is you have to realize that you know you need those two things in order to succeed in any business and now for dropshippers the the recommendation is is what we talked about earlier if you look at this as a real business then I'll give you an example then the question of what you are spending on certain things becomes irrelevant I'll give you an example so you know if you look at any business where you plan to make you know a hundred thousand dollars a year let's say what are you willing to spend to make that business happen are you willing to spend a dollar a day to make that business happen thirty dollars a month are you willing to spend fifty dollars a month a hundred dollars a month a thousand dollars a month so a lot you have to make sure that you are investing not only your time but you have to also invest money and that's I think the biggest problem that a lot of people when they look at dropshippers like we were talking about they're thinking well I can have fifty dollars in my pocket and I can make it successful right and it would be extremely difficult you have to have a little bit of budget to work with and you have to learn and you have to have faith and you have to have persistence well thank you for the great interview rush it was super interesting and I'm sure that it will give people a lot of value and they hope that people will really check products using data and thanks for being here today so thank you Lior for having me and a big hello to all of your viewers


This is the Revendad Hapa, a.k.a. Mala Mewitu, a.k.a. Muzungu Muluya, you are here on the watch, SPM BADS. E yo mamo, VP Mpenzim Tezamad, you are SPM BADS. Krypto nisa na kwenya SPM BADS na juli kana kama Silva Kido. Na director on wapu nyuma juli kana kama director Sulei. Kama kawaida tuno lete exclusive interview, interview kipeke. Nimaweza kupata na na mumsani, mumsani waki sasa wana pende. Ongela na Muzungu Muluya, ongela na Muzungu Muluya, ongela na Muzungu waki sasa, ongela na Muzungu Lobajet. Nikona Revdadi moneye, mamo, VP bro. E gama hizumaji na ni mingi. Nama ni masawa ingine? E. Lazi miko na zingine lakini. E.k.e. E.k.a. Nizote tu. Ni tu meni ata ata ziyu, metaja gani, ai ni mingi. E.k.a. Ni mingi zana. Bro, mamo, VP. Mi niko fidi zana. Jkwapa. Ni miko sanatu mekujabes diyangu. Lakini, mambu, mambu ime. Iisha wana djua kukulasi ho dambi. Kukulasi ho dambi. Kukulasi ho dambi. E.k.kunu moto alezema yos. Jkwala kwa nanunu? Yes liza mo? Eh, jkwala kwa mi. So, bro, kwa zanasema sama Shukran sana. You've really inspired me personally. Nkanya pale hinje. Ume traiku break. Kufanya manyuba zaatusi frizehi cheke, wituzuna fanya. So, how do you feel about that? Nii, ni awesome. Ata, siji ni li fatta comment. Ono jwen iyo wajne, inu kupiai encouragement iya kwa ndalea. I think ni li fatta comment ingine. Siji, I think li kwa kwa comment siji kwa wapi, but it's like, you know. But wale zema, like, ya ni iya na encourageawa, wakiki kwa na badde, wana watch, wakiki ya muka na fura. Nii, ni, I think that's why itu na fanya. Ti ya kwa. Yani, ata comedy, wana zabad, wana zachenge, mood iya mutu, wama life iya mutu. Okay. So, just to ask you, usha ifi kwa base kama iyo, jasi si ni watu tumizu ya maisha iya tu ni kwa street. Street food. Nii, ni kwa na base. Nii itu wakwa doro, doro kempinski, shout out. Doro kempinski. So, wakwa doro kempinski, wana jwen gana favorite ya kwa ni gana jwen, karida mutwa kena mahali. Yo, siya wana ni mam, kama kawa ida? E, doro wana jwen ni ugali dontu. Gali dontu. So, your favorite meal, kenyan meal ni ugali in dondu? I think, aini ladi. Kushua? Nii kushua. So, maybe na tanga kujiwa, that time uli kuja kenya maybe before, we don't wanna go back now, but let's just assume kwa kenya leo. Uli na kwa uteli, wakapati ya menu, unraka rice, mandondo, kasava, mogo, cha pati, mukati, chai, wana kwa na menu zote. So, maybe what was experienced, the first time, uli na kwa sample a kenyan food. Ina kumbuka kueli. Like, I am a kwa ketamu. Wana jwen me isi isi apa.  Nimi aza nili. I don't know, okaza ugali, I think, wata wana kwa lazemisha, wana kwa sebabu, ni polai tamani ni. But then, I think, saza, nimi kwa fun ya ugali. Fun ugali. Fun ugali. Nini wana palim tanda uli sama, wewa usupu kula ugali. Outa, outa, uta zunguka tukwa nyumbu, zungka, zungke. Nini wana kwa penda ugali? I think, ni yo, like, I know, like straki kuru diya nini lezema, lakini. It's like, ugali, unashiba kujiba, like I said, you kwa explain wizuri, but kuna full, na kuna ugali full, ni tafa uti. Like, ni umesiba, umesiba, but, ujashiba, siu kuna koku, kuna kaa contentment, ya na kuja kama umesiba ya ugali. Siu ni mzito, amini nini, but it's unable to. Okay. Of course, kenya wakuna different sample of food, kuna zile street food, kuna mitura, kuna usupu, kuna omena, you know, nela wako downtown, na katulua maipasua, smoki, nini, kuna kituka wajda, kuna kipita maali ahone, maia indoile pasua, na henda pali, gongen bili. Kuna kitu amba, kia muka asubu, how is it miss out, kua onja ita kukula, ama kusampu.  Sorry, vo ni mjanda sana, umekam, umekam kenya, ume jibamba, kuka sema apa, lazimotani jua, ukaingi, ukajombaka sheng, ukaingi, akwa street ugazema, mimi siwezi gongua, but the most of the time, kenya kujakenya, wasu take advantage. Kuna walo, kiki, uti wembe iti shoninga pa kama niha тati kwiha 250 kama uti uniform genu kuna, ume tati kwiha hee, ini 250. So nigara kuju wa mbiyu managing to get, want to landsheng, swahili. Wazitu advantage, I just wanted to explore Kenyan culture. I think zote, like atta seju, soelile wikwajya, I think elin ni ingi atu. because like, me mina mauga si, si marafiki, you mejarepuko soma luge zengini, ayingi ata kidoogu. Ki wquat na jaru, si kuendi kule kolani. Mi sezi  Ei nda kule. Bu, e guess just yuyambogini nini nini ilingia tu. I think peria katibaba kazi, eni ni nafanya, nafanya da eq. unajiwa nafanya na mayutsu mu ainawa ko geto, nini ni nini. Sasu oki ndo ukaui kia wang via ki zungumiungi, mafua, ansasa, awaze re-late. Walesi mwa re-late. evening about revelation but For the for for the but for the first time maybe but for the exam but for the first time maybe but for the exam for the exam for the exam for the 로 So, see the So, see the work was baga balsiya, mahala, So tuna tender basically 5th, the few people who are in college, the boys from the college. For a lot of the person who are in the university, they are going to high school. I am in the process, because of what I am doing, that is that I am sitting next to the teachers and not me discussing myself. I am a team building, but overall I have 87 kids. Like, mini babu wa vijana 87, vijana ok. Wavla nini 86, mtsiana ni moja. So naji wuki mese na wiyumistana. Wei, akuna brothers 86 wa to ku kujia. Ya, so then, kuna wakutu life, akata kuna, wengini wa me have kids, tena. I think, saizini kuna around 12 of them university. Taresto waku high school, wengini wa me toka.  At the end, wu kumali wuko na sema. Yes, I've achieved what I wanted to achieve, at least so fun, I'm progressing. Ei, nima lima, kwanza fundraising saizini nima lima. Vili koroni me, ei, me gonga wuko ngambu vibhaya sana. Watu awana pesa, takama wakuna pesa, yani wana di fita, njuwa.  So nima lima, uh, but, but, wunga di mungu, njuwa ii kwa sana pesa. So, tuta hendele.  I think for me, kitu moja ni nina deal, oke ni nina, iina ni bo, zema ii bo. I think, like, kapa kenya kuna, like, mindset ya muntiako successful ni very slim. So it's like, yani, lazimu hende shule, lazimu malize, lazimu koe doctori, ama lawyer, ama pilot, ama what? Na ii zi baya, but ii zi the only success. Yani wana zi kwa, yani like a farmer. That's, that's successful, come away, you know, those things, come when you went and tackle kwa content creator, baru we wana zi kwa successful. I think that's like getting that into the mindset of people, like instead of just kwa doctori, kwa doctori, you know it's good, but uke lazimu twa koe doctori, na ane yo, toza ataku dungana between ya, you know. So I think, hende yo yo, I think ni kwa persuade watu, watu ane zi a dream, nga wachivi dreams yao, but u see wu weke lazimu kwa dreams yao kwa. Stuka me mimexen. Of course I mentioned, of course, african parents wanna believe mtu lazimu ane investi ya, so me wu doctori, data kwa successful. So I think maybe during this time, maybe on school holiday, wako break, omitoka university, how do you engage them? Are there activities on Afanya, are there short courses, wana fundisha wemunyewe? Yeah, so kona, kona izima courses ya life. Ono jo shule inokote it's algebra, but maybe it doesn't teach how to start up a business or file taxes or, you know, even to your life ane lazimu joe. So to na teach those things, alafopia to kona camp once yae and to na endotu na amboginozima, to na come early, like one week, to na enjoy, to na bigger story, activities easy in my sessions, ni ni ni ni ni. Of course definitely billa support ya, ma besta ya, ma friends, family, how will you achieve all this? What is that one thing maybe me learn from friends, from family that imu kukipu ewe kama mzungu umutu? Umo eza kusonga na dreamia kumbakaleo? I think, I think kukana watu wanya wana encourage lakini awa kubembeleze. Ono jo kwe encourage na kubembeleze system. Kwe encourage ni yani, yani kupei yu positive feedback ni ni ni ni, but then wuki pata tu watu wanya wana kubembeleze, sasateni uta arabika. So mi mi, I have to surround myself with people that yani sasangini wana eza, I am here to work kwa nda wuko.  Kwa nda wuko, mi nani ono views ya umu ni ni ni, so I think that's what emini sa idea, kwa a bit humble, kwa watu wengini na zema na ringa lakini a bit humble, na kuski watu. So far you've stayed in Kenya more than 10 years, if I'm not wrong, and Kenya is one of the leading top countries in Africa, maybe you might want to speak one of the top languages in Africa that is Swahili, yume kuja ume yembreze ume land, so taku jua tu first day, you know jua, taku funisha umu tu lu ga yamtu, whatu funisha umu tu o kwanza na matusi, ono kumbe ya, bute hii, mumbe hii hii, badwa ume heza kukachi, ni how did you manage to learn, was it online YouTube, wul kuna rafiki yamuli, sema uta kumja nja? I think ni wuja nja tu, kusema ukweli, lakata shule ni yewe si kupenda kwa nda sasa, so where's the rudi shule tana. I just learned, ya like,ata si kukata, ata kama si shule, si kukana mutuakani, ambe hii ni ni ni ni ni, ona skia tu, alafu na march, ona jipata tu, ona jua. Alafu kusema biya kusema hii nasa ilia, ona jua nasema kitu rung, alafu mutuwa nasema, ume zema kitu umbayazi hii vii, ni... Did you call your first sentence? Aswaili sentence? Hei! Tana hii mabeya jambo muzuri, salama, akuna matata. Tuanda le ni tarudi kwa hii, watini fikre ya, ni taka kumbuka hii lukani, iu tu tarudi ya. To mesawa ume biko mention, kua le views ono tuna for the first time, ume zakutuna sahi. Where are you best actually? Na your organization ni kwa api? Okay. So mimi, ona jua, si zema, okay, celeb ya on line, tuna sema we are not real people. If you see us in life, that is not us. So in real life, I don't exist. Lakin ya ukweli, naishe LD, but nakuja Nairobi, like once a month, kazi-kazi kidogo ni ni ni ni. But yeah, miyumbani miyumbani, ni LD. Maisha VP, ono jua ume kakini ya more than 10 years. You adapting was very fast, ulilan language, that's very smart of you. Kaisa ku interakuna wa say, ukabilda team, ukuna community sahi, you are giving back to the community. What was the secret? The secret to success is there's no secret. Ni hard work to, niko jikaza, niko nibus wait, ni ni mi. I don't know. Network, wa nasema your network is your network.  So, lazimu ku juana na watu weingi. Um, kukua wise, uh, ku sacrifice short term for the long term. Um, yeah, I guess nivo too. That's it. Akuna mungu apu? Ah, mungu ako. Mungu ako kilima ali. Stila zemeni metaji. So rev, gada ku jua kwa, eji na rev. Na jua, Most people kuskiya rev. Na jua awonim tu langu. Aman of God. Na jina ajita a Prophet of God. Son of God. Thank God means you are Pro май기�asite makatu ya Tadu, kuna long hair, dreadlocks, glasses, nini nini but ya nomi nirefia ukeli mina yusu bamba da bamba mina yusu say what's up so rev, mita kujua maybe sii afrikan kuna ile kuna religions ambawzi tumizi pata kama kuna zile zeto traditiono zemikuwa kristianji kakuja, kuna islami kakuja kuna other religions zemikuja but skwezi vitu zeme change kitambu, kuna kurserlutu, kuna umbewa ukeli wana pata maombi utapata most of the churches watu wana endapale wana umbewa lakini wana kwa scripted wana pata beliefs wana na marev, wana na mapasta wana so many images to wana vidu zemikuwa viral what is happening are we losing track kama are we running as a business wana jwa yes i think vidu zengini na kwa commercialized but i think as well kuna vidu kumingi kama ume nenefani kakama churches i think like sisi tu najuwa aje izi vitu aiku kwa kitambu watu wana waki danga waki fanya you know izi vitu zengini and i think because of media sasa wana jwa mutwa kifanya kitumuzuri kila mutwa najuwa mutwa kifanya kitumbaya kila mutwa najuwa kwa svabu it's publicized but i'm sure ato wuko kwa biblical times kuna wengini wana kwa ya ukeli kuna wengini wana kwa ya mawa wanga na pesa pesa tu given chance what can you change kwa matat i think i think ni watu kukatu less judgmentu i think that's something that tu na strago najuwa makanisa najuwana watu wana ndi kanisa because uki enda any watu wana kwangiliya package instead of kwangiliro and i think that's something that we really need to deal with otherwise watu wana nda church waki filjaj wakamu wako raitamu wako rung saawatu tadil najuwa badai but i think just kwingia for those that are watching can you advise someone to go to church because we've been raised in a community ama in a society whereby lazima 20 church lazima 20 miskiti lazima 20 tempo is it right for a parent to force someone to go to church ama it's something that we wana eza sema mutu waki takakuna kanisa aende so what i would say is in general yes i would say like kuna faku pata church but church Missouri kama tumisema kone churches anye ni fek tu lakini kone churches iaukweli alafu waio yaku force what i would say is my house my rules so kama we wana isi kwa mutu niluziao so kama wana isi kwa wazazi badu nawa na tako nda church atama we nif 25 kama wana isi tini iroof wana fanyu beli wana ambiwa kama utaki kwa nda church takutani umbayako dafkuzwa Rev you have one unique one unique identity nesa sema apart from your accent kuna kizungu flani kuna kusuaile flani kuna kiluia flani kuna sheng flani that's one of your identity second identity is the way you always dress on a standout ni ni ni bona wana mutu kutesa na luku wana zema na shout hey anaseba debe shout i don't know i think ni ni mimi tu like i've always dressed like this like i've always dressed to impress before i came to Kenya nili kwa on track kwa model act ni ni ni ni so i guess ni lifestyle too na zili asu moku in a high budget kuva va bizur na pii okuna watu wana asu mama na mimi kama kicks Kenya that's why viatu iko iko sawa kilasa kicks so ni wewa watu kutesa this is your test na onatoma switch to african african wear ini kajamsuiti kuna jupia na famutu ya garage ma niya mevaki tangi ini luku ini luku so this is an election here any time few months to come Kenyans will vote for who they feel they want to vote for you've been there with us 10 years ago you've seen what happened advice to a young guy at home when you're not going to make a decision when you're voting for the first time what is your advice to him I mean it is a matter of definitely vote atakamu jyutu vote na ni definitely vote because ini right ini watu wa me fight for onajua kuna freedom fighters wa me fight kwa that right where we kwa enda kwa balutu na wu vote atakamu onajua pengini you don't believe in the system ni ni batalazimu vote kwa sababu just here kua respect how freedom fighters alafu imambo I think watu wa lewe tu ni politics too ya ni see serious like gozi endu kupiga na maku ini ni gombana na watu juia politics mutumanya atu jui ata kujui atawai kujua pengini atu kusidea bizuri sana alafu na endu kubiga vitu juia ata kwa co-organization kuna kuna watatua ni tumegro ni wasani sasa ni band sovereign anata tumendika song gimisha release tuligada wasani kwa kubwa boutua LD gospel piano sekule tulifanya song naitua penderjirani na it's just a thing sasa kenya ita baki kenya atakama after ilukwa the first five pama ilukwa tanotena sasa tena so you ni tanu fresh five years, five years, five years kenya badu ita kwa after every five years so tu jenge kenya tua tana sana na mu watu have you voted before? kapa ah badu, badu siwezi vote bona kwa ten years kwa tu nimi nimi jadibu kwa Ramprezo wana sana mi nisi muka kenya IEPC wako shuwa kuna klib wako shuwa IEPC IEPC wama kata wana sana mi nisi muka kenya umi apply citizenship ah iiko iiko in the works IEPC hopefully I believe you'll get a chance to tiktoku mu zima ina sama mi laze mi ni kwa eso waki kata tabidi nipileke mi onyesu matiyangi tiktok nizema tafadali awa na zema laze mi ni kwa mu kenya so just you've mentioned social media mentioned tiktok um we have different social media platforms so we could blow up o kenya kwa apreciata mu kujue it's true at tiktok what is your life after that video that went viral if you have a change did you call yourself a middle example wa nimi jega kwa shida I don't know like I think niku kwa ma dogo I always wanted to gain that fame wana grow up wana mature wana get life alafu this one ime kujia tu so kuna video ime change I think niku kwa LD kilomutwa na kujua because see that big ni ni ni at least kwa a bit prominent so nili LD nimi zoya kujua na na kilomutu but then maria kwanza ni ki nda ki sumu Nairobi si jwa nda mombasa badosins ni ki trend but sasa akun na maali wana nda bela bela wada kujua wana kujua wazuli sana ime reza kuku zia wek fanya kazi za ku maybe ukumali in a serious meeting your pitching for partnership sponsorship muto na kona anakona kama mutua kawai da wea na maisha si ok kuna wana jo kuna nda wana nda kazi zengine alafu wana kamo mesema wana nge serious alafu wana stuka kumperi wewe so I think that's funny any regret joining social media? I think I think si jwa ikona any bad experiences really ata kuna video nda ime nda wrong ni ni ni ni ni kwa bad reaction ni so I think no yes i easy upon I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think Nikotu Nikotu so your life may change in social media you've made it to get endorsement maybe public placement I think wana do at near end of the day community content likes don't pay rent likes don't buy food so it's a career like that's what I would say even if you were kids like what you want to do when you grow up I want to be a content creator I'm like what's in your mind dream That will never happen 10 minutes of your day Just take us through Maybe a subuki yamka Of course kawahida kuna bili tatu wufanya kawahida The last thing you do is always one thing Tell us what is that one thing Senikolala Kwa seria What's the last thing you do before you sleep? No Okay Yami kwa subuki Atachiku wa simu Adagya kuhoa Ataftile poste lieka jana Mipata likes, koments Aruldi jira angali wa substators Atafti udaku So mi mi usually Mi nga nge netflix Nakabana yanduku lala Nweke episode amomovie A lafuna pata subui pengini Uli watch the first 10 minutes Okay, I guess I'm about to finish our interview. So kuna kitu ki kuja nero bila zemo fanya. Lazi mautimbe-timbe kuma street, when they're downtown, when they do boys, when they're sliut after maybe socks, when they have a kwa street kuna uto na uza-uza maviatu, ni ni ni ni ni ni ni, wubagain. So asemi huma fika kwa street umona ele socks pale, umo tanga kwa bagain. Share with us experience. Ya konu na bitu, wuko kwa street.  Like, I don't mind even if they'll tell me it's what...  Laf mi si na shidi, wakaata ni kendo kwa kizemi ni 2,000. Mi si na shidi akubagain, ni ta fika ata chinia, io be ya nyanafa, but ni ku jua. Sasa kama mu na juo na uju ii, be ya ke, beginia na zemi 2,000 na, na faku kwa 2,000. So let's do it practically. Mi mi ni kanjuo hoka, we mi ni kastoma, wama ku juo kunuwa, assuming, to assume ni mi tu, kuna ni na nia apa tu naza huza. No mon saidi ya kofia, kama waka ima chua na nia kutua kia apa, kama wapeni kutua, it's fine. I welcome, mi na kuzia for the first time, eh, 20. Kastoma, kastoma, kastoma, karebu, karebu, karebu. Genia yaki sasa design na ni ni, izin wa tuwa chacha ona vawa sani, kuliti yangali yawone. Gucci freshi. Izia atraikai genuine. Ebu vawa wone kwanza, vawa wone. Vawa wone. Sasa mi na vana skaki? Teki ini yam sani, wama waka sasa, wende yam sani, izin doza kisa sasa. Ikali sana. Ah, bro, chikua ini yaki leo bro, ya wa chachi. Emoziwa tuwa willi tuwe ni wotatu. Na jareku kutua izi, nika mu na taku kutufa. Bro, chikua mada rara. Ha? Ah, ni wewa isi wunase matuwa tuwa. Teki gold, kidoge kuna gold, ni ni ni ni ni ni ni. Ni ni gold feki ya kongu. Ah, ah. Ah, eh, I guess ni nene zahenda na yo kama, ni fesangafi? Abe ya joni 1200. Ah, sawa. Sawa, tuwa na ni? Ah, ah, skiza bro, checki, checki, checki. Chikai, chikai. So ni fi, mi by the way, ah, mi na kwangumbaya kuna nuna litu. For real? Ehi na kwangumbaya. Se wongu taka kuna nuna 150. Eh, kama ni ya 150 ni nuna nuna 150. Mumskiya, nuzungo na juo kwa game. Wani ekonomi lazimi dunuwe ya nabeka li duyanini. So ni na promote ekonomi? Na promote kijana? Si ekonomi ya hongu. Sawa, sawa. To the youth apu nyumbani. Talk to them. Ah, ma youth, I would say, ah, kwa steady usi, yuno na jwa sa zengine, mambia shule ni ni ni ni tabi muzuuri, ona katla kwa zbabu, ona biwa ufanya. Fanya tu kwa zbabu, ita kwa sa idea badai. Mada dey ndo wadare maisha na yako. So lazimu, okay. Sii kwa, kuna ni ya kusema sii panguingi, lik ini lazimu panguanga. Eh, lazimu panguanga. I think that's what I would say to the youth. Ya famas vitkot? Kukula siya dambi? Kuna ili hengine nasama? Kwa understandanga. Kuna, eh, kuna mii. Tafi ni ni nge, online ni oni. Kusema juafek. Siya understandanga. Kukula siya dambi? Uhu. Ugarli ezbei? Kusibu kusiba? Kusibu kusiba? Indi umpia ya jani na trend size? Fasbabu ni lazema? Kikula ugali unashibo kusiba? Kikula pizza unashiba? Lakin usibu kusiba? So I think kusiba kusiba ndi umpia? Ya leo, fresh. Thank you so much for your time bro. Tazidiku patana. Hofu li wita patana tare tisa wiki pigakura. Amma bipu. Ni toko huku ni kiankarage watu. Oto huna skumadua. Ni toko asa ya line. Na gideri. Ni toko gideri man pro max. Thank you so much bro. For the SPM viewers, Mshaskia kutaka kumzungu monewe, reverend monewe. Bromun zangu apaivi ya. Mesema mei shake VIP Kenya miadap VIP. Kaziana fanya kuma vidyana. It's so amazing. Namutakitaka kusapot maybe palikwanya website zapoteote? Me ni the reverend dad kilima alitik. Tok Instagram, Twitter, Facebook ni the reverend dad. In case any time soon unapanga any kakactivity kachariti maw Kenya waleza taka maybe kudonet something, kulete something matubi. Part of your charity. It's safe for that one. 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