Onyeka Akumah is a technology entrepreneur with a focus on the agriculture, real estate, and transportation sectors. He is popularly known as the founder and CEO of Farmcrowdy, but he is also a co-founder at CrowdyVest, PlentyWaka and Rent Smallsmall. In this episode of , Onyeka and I discuss his entire career and entrepreneurship journey so far - from his days at British council, Jumia, Konga to setting up a business that failed before finally launching Farmcrowdy. This is a very interesting, enlightening, and insightful episode. Amazing conversation, good vibes and best of all, a lot of lessons to learn. #FoundersConnect Watch the Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSy1LXbivNw Video timestamps - Introduction, growing up and early career stories 00:00 - The part he played in helping to set up Jumia in Nigeria 15:00 - Becoming VP, Marketing at Konga 26:00 - First business that failed 28:05 - Farmcrowdy 33:00 - The challenge at Farmcrowdy (early days) 37:30 - Raising funds for Farmcrowdy and pitching to 80+ 41:30 - Farmcrowdy is doing well, competitors are springing up every day 42:00 - Farmcrowdy moves away from crowdfunding 42:50 - Launching Crowdyvest 45:15 - How Plentywaka Started 46:30 - How Plentywaka survived the 2020 lockdown 48:00 - Launching Rent Smallsmall 53:00 - Raising money for all the businesses 55:00 - Lessons about creating the best team 56:50 - Most important business lessons so far 1:00:00

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