Founders Connect

Onyeka Akumah is a technology entrepreneur with a focus on the agriculture, real estate, and transportation sectors. He is popularly known as the founder and CEO of Farmcrowdy, but he is also a co-founder at CrowdyVest, PlentyWaka and Rent Smallsmall. 

In this episode of #FoundersConnect, I sat down with Onyeka and we talked about his entire career and entrepreneurship journey so far - from his days at British council, Jumia, Konga to setting up a business that failed before finally launching Farmcrowdy. 

This is a very interesting, enlightening, and insightful episode. Amazing conversation, good vibes and best of all, a lot of lessons to learn.

Oluwatosin is the founder of Money Africa, a financial literacy platform (EdTech) and Ladda, a one-stop investment platform that gives you access to an array of products including Savings, Mutual funds and Stocks (Fintech). She is also one of LinkedIn's Top Voices in Finance and Economy.  

On this episode of #FoundersConnect, I sat down with Tosin and we talked about her journey so far. She shared stories from her days working at CNBC and Bloomberg, how she relocated back to Nigeria and went completely broke; and how she accidentally made a business of her passion. She also shared her biggest life lessons, favourite failures and plans for the near future.  

This was a very amazing conversation. You surely enjoy it, so when you do, please comment and share.  

Nadayar is the Co-founder and CEO of Eden Life.  Eden is a tech-enabled service that puts your home's chores on autopilot. Eden helps you to say goodbye to chores forever. Prior to Eden, Nadayar co-founded Andela and led the training and learning teams there. On this episode of #Foundersconnect, Nad talked about his journey with me. He talked about being CTO at Fora, co-founding Andela, & starting Eden with Prosper and Silm. He also talked about his life's mission and biggest life lessons.  Lots of good vibes on this episode plus deep insight into the mind of a technologist and builder. Enjoy!

Check out Eden - https://ouredenlife.com/

Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. 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 - https://twitter.com/0x

In this series, I hope to learn more about your favourite African Tech CEOs and the amazing products they are building to solve real problems for you and me. To launch this series, I have a conversation with Atsu Davoh. Atsu is building Bitsika, a payments app for the whole of Africa - where you can send, spend, issue Visa cards, buy airtime, buy and sell crypto and more.