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May 8, 2026

Building from Mogadishu

Building technology from Mogadishu means designing for the rails as they are, not as a brochure imagines them. Identity, payments, connectivity, and regulation are all moving at once.

That is a constraint, but it is also the reason the work matters: a product that assumes mature infrastructure cannot serve a market that is still building it. Tabsamo’s ventures are designed to degrade gracefully and to leave room for the rails to mature underneath them.