Shola Akinlade
Shola Akinlade is a Nigerian software engineer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Paystack. [1][2] In 2020, Akinlade's company was acquired by Stripe for $200m. [3]
Education
Sola attended St. Gregory's College for his secondary education. In 2006, he graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Babcock University.[4] Shola's career started at Heineken where he worked on their database management as a management trainee and moved on to being a software engineer with banks.[2] In 2016, Shola and Ezra started Paystack.[1][5]
Company
Akinlade's company Paystack was apart of startup accelerator YCombinator's 2016 batch of startups. The company was created to helps businesses in Africa get paid online and offline. [6]
References
- ^ a b "Nigeria: "The hard work is still in front of us" - Paystack CEO". The Africa Report.com. 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ^ a b Can more entrepreneurs shake up fintech in Nigeria? - CNN Video, retrieved 2021-06-14
- ^ "Stripe acquires Nigeria's Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African continent". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
- ^ "Meet Sola Akinlade, co-founder of Nigeria's foremost payment platform Paystack". Nairametrics. 2018-09-08. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ^ Nsehe, Mfonobong. "Nigerian Fintech Startup Paystack Raises $1.3 Million". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ^ Combinator, Y. "Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack". Y Combinator. Retrieved 2022-01-29.