We came to @themomentconf by @themainstack as the team behind the brand. But our Director of Strategy, @victorfatanmi showed up as something else, the person trusted to sit across from @Chude and pull out one of the most important conversations of the event. The session was titled Betting on Creators: Inside Africa’s First $500K Creator Investment Fund. Chude’s FourthMainland Fund is a direct capital investment into individual African creators, backing bold people building for the long term. Victor has spent over a decade inside Africa’s creative economy. As a founder, a brand builder, a consultant to startups, and someone who has worked from the inside of the ecosystem long enough to understand what creators actually need to grow. He has asked these questions in boardrooms, in agencies, and in communities of designers and entrepreneurs across the continent. So when he sat across from Chude in that room, it was a full-circle moment for what @FourthCanvas has always believed: that the people building Africa’s creative economy deserve to be in the room, not just working behind the scenes of it.