The Paystack Story, with Ezra Olubi, Co-Founder and CTO #FoundersConnect

Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. A couple of weeks ago, Stripe (an American financial service and software as a service company headquartered in San Francisco) acquired Paystack for a rumoured amount of about $200M. In this episode of #FoundersConnect, I sat down with the CTO of Paystack, Ezra Olubi. He shared how Paystack started, why he said Yes to the idea, how Paystack raised money and eventually got acquired; his biggest life lessons and favourite failures and even talked about his personal style. Watch, share and comment. Check out Paystack - https://paystack.com/ Connect with Ezra on Twitter -   / 0x   Book a 1:1 Session with me - https://paystack.com/pay/60wpi Subscribe to my mailing list - https://eepurl.com/gpVwwH 0:23 - How would you describe Ezra? 1:16 - How was growing up for you? What experiences shaped you? 3:53 - From childhood till now, what has changed about your views on Religion? 4:50 - What was it about the Paystack idea that gave him the confidence to build it, and with Shola? 9:54 - The ways in which Ezra and Shola compliment each other. 11:48 - How do you manage all the people and teams in Paystack? 13:02 - Biggest lesson and favourite failure as a CTO? 15:15 - What mistakes did you make? 17:37 - How hard was it raising money in 2016 vs now? 22:19 - If you were going to do it all over again, what is one thing you will do differently? 23:28 - What friendships have had the most impact on you? 24:39 - How would you describe your style? 25:47 - Have you had any struggles with how people perceive you, your style? 27:50 - Do you have a lot male friends? 28:32 - Were you always androgynous? 28:56 - Do you think your style would evolve? 30:04 - Fun questions, bucket list, social media, cereal, favourite city, etc. 32:14 - What should I look for in a technical cofounder if I want to start a company?