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Welcome to Long Term Investor Club — let me tell you what this actually is
I will not pretend I have this all figured out. I am Oluwapelumi John Oluwalana — a Nigerian entrepreneur based in Kraków, Poland, working my 9-5 by day and building a life in angel investing on the side. I taught myself angel investing and venture capital. Through books, through obsessive research, through writing investment memos at 11pm after work, and through deploying the little capital I could save each year into companies I believed in. And I am still learning. That is what this community is. My 5-year goal is to invest $1,000 every single month into a startup for 60 consecutive months. I am not there financially yet. I am building toward it. And I decided the most honest and useful thing I could do was build toward it in public — so that everyone else who is where I am right now does not have to figure it out alone. What we are building here — four sections, one mission: 📚 The Learning Room: Every Friday I post something new from my Capital and Curiosity series — covering everything I am learning about angel investing and venture capital from scratch. Cap tables. Term sheets. How to evaluate a founder. Why the best investments look obvious in hindsight and terrifying in the moment. All of it, documented honestly. 🔬 Emerging Technology and Industries : This is where we track the sectors shaping the next decade of investing. AI infrastructure. Fintech and financial inclusion. Clean energy. Quantum computing. Space. Biotech. Each week I will flag what is moving, what is being funded, and what the smart money is watching. If you are building an investment thesis, this section is where that thinking starts. 📂 The Resource Library: Every book review, every framework, every investment memo template I build goes here. By the end of 8 months this will be the most useful free resource for aspiring angel investors on Skool. Structured by topic, continuously updated, free forever. 💡 Deal Watch: A space to share startups you are watching, interesting rounds you have seen, or companies you would hypothetically back. No real money required. This is where we practice thinking like investors — together. Investment committee simulation in public.
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Welcome to Long Term Investor Club — let me tell you what this actually is
Who Bets First: Understanding Angel Investing, and Why Africa Needs More of It
Hey Everyone, Here is the thing that stopped me in my tracks this week: Africa has nine unicorns. The entire continent. 1.4 billion people. 54 countries. Nine companies that have ever crossed a $1 billion valuation. The United States minted more unicorns last quarter alone. But here is what the headline number hides: the real gap is not in the companies — it is in who owns them when they exit. Paystack sold to Stripe for over $200 million. The seed investors who got in at a $7 million valuation made approximately 14x to 20x on their money. The angels who showed up before anyone else — people like Olumide Soyombo, Kendall Ananyi, Jason Njoku — captured extraordinary returns. But most of the capital at exit went to American and European institutions. Not because African investors did anything wrong. Because there were not enough of them in the room early enough. That is the problem I want to help solve — starting with my own education, in public, over the next 8 months. This week's full piece covers: - How angel investors, VCs, and private equity each fit into the startup lifecycle — and why order matters - The Paystack, Moniepoint, and Flutterwave case studies with the actual return numbers - Why Africa's VC funding per capita is 300–400x lower than the US - Why this is not just an investing question — it is a wealth distribution question 👉 Read the full piece here: https://pelumijohn.substack.com/p/who-bets-first-understanding-angel?r=4sqdr One question for this community: If you had $5,000 to deploy as an angel investor in an African startup today — what sector would you back first, and why? Drop your answer below. No wrong answers. I am genuinely curious where this room's conviction sits.
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