Tobi Oluwole is a Nigerian-born entrepreneur, creator, and investor, and the Founder of Magnate Ventures, a holding company and investment firm partnering with founders, athletes, and creators to build profitable, scalable businesses. Over the past five years, he has grown a LinkedIn audience of 375,000+, generated 315M+ impressions, and helped clients earn over $35M in revenue.
How to find leads with AI in 2026
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My friend spent 6 months building the perfect product But no time actually planning how he would take it to market. I sat down with him last week and walked him through Apollo's AI Assistant. He had 47 beta users who loved his product, but zero pipeline beyond that. So I pulled up Apollo and asked him one question: "Who are your best customers right now?" "SaaS founders. 20-100 employees. Doing $5-15M in revenue." I typed that into Apollo's AI Assistant: "Find 500 companies matching this profile. Build personalized outreach sequences. Set up a complete campaign ready to launch." In less than 12 minutes, we had: → 612 qualified prospects with verified emails → Personalized messaging written specifically for his product → A full campaign ready to go live tomorrow → Exact cost breakdown to execute everything He spent 6 months building features & could have validated his entire market in one afternoon. This is the mistake I see founders make over and over: They spend months perfecting the product, then weeks trying to figure out distribution. By the time they're ready to sell, they've already burned half their runway. Apollo's AI Assistant lets you answer three critical questions before you build anything:
If you're launching anything, validate your distribution before you perfect your product. Get early access to Apollo's AI Assistant here Happy Hunting, Tobi |
Tobi Oluwole
Tobi Oluwole is a Nigerian-born entrepreneur, creator, and investor, and the Founder of Magnate Ventures, a holding company and investment firm partnering with founders, athletes, and creators to build profitable, scalable businesses. Over the past five years, he has grown a LinkedIn audience of 375,000+, generated 315M+ impressions, and helped clients earn over $35M in revenue.
A friend of mine built an agency from $0 to $500k in revenue in 1 year.He said the worst part of the job was outbound messaging. For almost 12 months, he would spend 30+ hours per week manually sending emails & DMs. By the time we were having this conversation, he was starting to feel burnt out. If you're trying to scale your business & find customers at scale, you need infrastructure. This is why tools like Apollo.io were created. Apollo helps teams use AI in ways that actually execute...
Every Sunday, I get an email that makes me a better creator. It's from Stanley - an AI tool that analyzes my LinkedIn posts. But here's what makes it different: It doesn't just show me what performed well. It shows me the outliers. → Posts that did way better than expected → Posts that underperformed when I thought they'd crush it → Patterns I never would have spotted myself Last month it showed me something interesting: My posts about other people's stories consistently outperform posts...
I got invited to Dubai earlier this year to speak at the 1 Billion Follower Summit. While I was there, Lamide asked me to be a guest on her podcast - Wealth Without Borders. She's grown this channel to over 200,000 subscribers in less than 2 years! I shared my journey from being an ex-pastor to joining Shopify & building my business on LinkedIn. We also touched on what true wealth is. Watch the episode on YouTube here Let me know if anything resonated with you. Tobi