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African fintechs are experiencing stratospheric growth — last year, the number of startups in the category increased 17.3% to 573, from 491 in 2019, according to local publication Disrupt Africa. An exciting new entrant is Thepeer, which powers infrastructure for mainly fintech businesses, from small to medium sized. Tage writes that the company is seeing success a year post-founding, with average month-on-month transaction growth of 161%. That's impressive no matter how you slice it.

On an unrelated (but equally important) note, if you haven’t nabbed tickets to TechCrunch’s summer party, you really should consider it. We don’t bite — at least, not without justification. — Kyle

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• Not for the prudish — or the prudent: MindGeek, the parent company of porn streaming giant Pornhub, has seen less calamitous days. Devin writes that the CEO and COO — Feras Antoon and David Tassillo, respectively — abruptly resigned roughly a week following a New Yorker report on the company's less-than-stellar moderation policies. It's all speculation at this point, but financial uncertainty might've played a part. As profitable as adult film tends to be, MindGeek bore the brunt of a payment processor crusade against pornography platforms 2 years ago, with processors, including Mastercard, suspending payments to the company's brands.

• Brevity is(n't) the soul of wit: Remember when Twitter, constrained by the limitations of SMS, limited its poor users to 140 characters? I do. But I'm old. New tweeters (twitterers?) might never know that tweets were once an exercise in self-editing, thanks to Twitter's new feature — Twitter Notes — that would support the publishing of long-form content on the platform. Sarah has the story.

• Better get out of here: Mary's reporting on Better.com's woes has been second to none, and this week, she published another big scoop: A large portion of the mortgage lender's senior leadership has resigned, including the SVP and VP of sales. Their departures follow the exit of the EVP of customer experience, the SVP of capital markets and growth and a trio of high-level public relations folks. Facing a delayed IPO and continuing bad publicity, including a lawsuit, a turnaround for Better.com is looking increasingly remote.