Interview with Ezra Olubi, CTO of Paystack, on Getting Acquired by Stripe

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Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. 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 October 2020. Ezra Olubi talks about his background, his work before Paystack, the experiences acquired through the years and more. He shares how Paystack started, why he said Yes to the idea, how Paystalk raised money and eventually got acquired; his biggest life lessons and favourite failures as a CTO.