Silicon Valley’s 70-year dominance in tech is ending…and that’s good for tech.

Silicon Valley has become more a State of Mind than a geography as other tech hubs gain influence.

Earlier this month Stripe announced its $200mm acquisition of Paystack, a fintech startup from Lagos, Nigeria. For an African startup to exit at a meaningful figure at all is unusual enough, but that it had garnered a $200mm price tag would have been unfathomable by most observers a few short years ago — even by those long evangelizing Africa’s ‘emerging…