When interacting with potential business partners in East Africa, we eventually realized that when we told them our user/âtransaction numbers, they often assumed that we were lying unless the claim was endorsed by someone they had a trusted connection to.
This is confusing. Did they just think you were scammers, not a real business at all? Or did they think of you as a business that was suspiciously quick to share this information, and trying to⌠I donât know, make a power play? Something else?
Iâm guessing that they assumed we were exaggerating the numbers in order to make them more interested in working with us. The fact that youâre so ready to call anyone who lies about user numbers a âscammerâ may itself be part of the cultural difference here :)
Oh, I see that I was confused: I was thinking of a âuser numberâ and a âtransaction numberâ as things related to Waveâs bank accountâas though you were trying to share information for something like direct deposit and being accused of lying. The quote makes much more sense if itâs ânumber of usersâ and ânumber of transactionsâ.
This is confusing. Did they just think you were scammers, not a real business at all? Or did they think of you as a business that was suspiciously quick to share this information, and trying to⌠I donât know, make a power play? Something else?
Iâm guessing that they assumed we were exaggerating the numbers in order to make them more interested in working with us. The fact that youâre so ready to call anyone who lies about user numbers a âscammerâ may itself be part of the cultural difference here :)
Oh, I see that I was confused: I was thinking of a âuser numberâ and a âtransaction numberâ as things related to Waveâs bank accountâas though you were trying to share information for something like direct deposit and being accused of lying. The quote makes much more sense if itâs ânumber of usersâ and ânumber of transactionsâ.