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Today was a difficult day at Paystack.
We’re reducing our operations outside of Africa, and will be parting ways with up to 33 employees in Europe and the UAE.
In the last 3 years, our hiring philosophy was to recruit great talent regardless of location, including opening an…
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✨I'm excited to introduce a community project that a group of friends and I have been working on: ⚽️ Sporting Lagos Football Club
@SportingLagos
✨
We’re creating a modern football club to incubate the next generation of Nigeria’s sporting talent.
And we need your help.
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🎙 I’ll be delivering the keynote at PITCH2WIN tomorrow morning at 9am, where I’ll be talking about lessons learnt from the early days of scaling Paystack. Looking forward to connecting with all the amazing founders building the future 🚀
Sign up here:
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I’m biased, but the Paystack team is really amazing ❤️❤️❤️
Please watch the video 🎉
⚡️ We're thrilled to announce Paystack Commerce, a toolkit that helps African creators bring ideas to market, beautifully.
(THREAD 👇🏿)
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We’re starting with a club but we have big ambitions. Can we build an academy? Can we build arenas that feel safe, fun & inclusive?
Can we build something that lasts generations? And creates opportunity for millions?
I think we can
Let’s do this ⚽️🚀
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Having
@Kola_Aina
as an investor in Paystack was extremely helpful. I'm glad more African founders can benefit from his support.
Congratulations
@vp_fund
🎉🎉
I am happy to announce the 1st close of our $40m Pan-African fund
@vp_fund
- to invest in Market Creating Innovations.
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We're playing in the 2nd division NNL with ambitions to break into the 1st division NPFL.
Come watch our first game!
⏱ When: Sat. Feb 12, 3 pm WAT
🏟 Where: Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere
🎟 Tickets:
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While I helped get it started, Sporting Lagos will be led by a strong team including
@genakhena
,
@ColinUdoh
&
@folasanwo
I remain fully focused on
@paystack
& building payments systems for Africa
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Every startup founder needs an
@OoTheNigerian
. Thanks Bro. The full story will be told one day :)
#paystack
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We know we can't do it alone. We need the creativity and energy of an entire community to make this a success.
This is why I'm inviting you to become a Founding Member of
@SportingLagos
.
See the full announcement and learn more about member benefits
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Whoaaaaaaaah. This is an amazing blog post. I’m so happy to be associated with Paystack 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
⚡️[NEW] We recently put up our very first billboards in Lagos, and in this post, we share everything we learned about billboard advertising in Nigeria.
✅ detailed pricing guide for 9 billboard agencies
✅ contract template
✅ guide to regulatory approval
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❤️❤️❤️
Today is my last day at
@paystack
. I've spent the last 4 years and 3 months doing the work of my life here. Paystack is family to me 🥺
I'll be waking up tomorrow to face an entirely new challenge fully -
@chowdeckng
🚀
I documented the journey here -
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Congrats 🎉🎉
Paga Group is a teenager today! What started out as a simple idea to make it simple to pay & get paid is now 3 business lines:
- Consumer Payments -
@paga
- Embedded Finance - Paga PaaS
- Seller/Merchant -
@doroki_ng
Thanks to our amazing team 🎉🎉🎉
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From my talk at the Nigerian Economic summit. Got selfies 🤳 with
@jehimuan
and Kebbi state governor. 🎉🕺
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✨ Few hours to the
@ycombinator
application deadline.
Hi team ✨
The deadline for
@ycombinator
's S23 batch is today, at 8 PM PT.
As you put the finishing touches on your application, here’s last week’s webinar where 4 YC alumni shared tips on applying to YC as an African startup.
Best of luck! 🚀
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Met
@austin_okere
at
@InterswitchGRP
#interswitchconnect
yesterday. Running a tech company for 25years in Nigeria is not easy.
#goals
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Looking forward to speaking at the
#KPMGDigitalSummit
tomorrow with some of my favorite people in the payments industry 💪🏾
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I'll be featured on TVC (DSTV 418) tonight at 8:30pm. Please watch if you can :)
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Congrats 🎉💙
This past year was spent intentionally planning the next phase.
Today, we build on that dynamic community, launching
@Afropass
.
It's a VIP passport immersing you into premium African experiences with a single download.
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Well deserved!
@steveamaza
🙌🙌
Our man in tech today is
@steveamaza
who is the customer success manager at
@paystack
!
#MenInTech
#MCM
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@JasonNjoku
@0x
Thanks Jason for supporting us with your time, business and eeerm, your money 🙏🙏🙏
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I'll be speaking at the
@JumiaNigeria
Super Start-Up Live Tech Talk on September 18th, at 1 PM (1/n)
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Looking forward to speaking at
@DukeFuquaBIA
on Saturday :)
Join us as Shola Akinlade leads conversations on the role of technology in finance and payments in Africa.
#dbiac2018
#dukeafricainnovate
#cantwait
#march24
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Haha. Exactly. He sent an unsolicited email to like 5 YC partners and cc’d me. That email changed everything. Can’t thank him enough.
Where is
@OoTheNigerian
This man deserves serious accolades 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 tireless supporter in the earliest days of
@paystack
@shollsman
&
@0x
and even a small
@irokotv
. His
@paystack
pitch went something like this. Oo: You gotta meet my boy. Me: Great. Whose the boy?
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I totally enjoyed reading Startupland by Mikkel Svane, co-founder of Zendesk. Too many relatable stories.
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*DJ Khaled's voice* Another one 🔥🔥🔥. Welcome Steve.
On a similar unrelated note, I'm moving to Lagos to join
@paystack
full time as Product Implementation Specialist 🙏🏿🙌🏿🇳🇬
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🙌🙌🙌🙌. Thanks Baba. Coming soon :)
S/O
@shollsman
and his partner
@paystack
has taken over, can't wait for dem to have square and hardware like paypal
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Boom!!! Welcome Emmanuel. Super excited. 😎😎💥
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Awesome interview but overly dramatic title 😂
Wonderful to see our client
@paystack
take centre stage on dble pge spread in this month's
@TheAfricaReport
cc
@shollsman
@0x
@NickNorbrook
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Thank you :)
I've referred a number of people to PayStack with no referral incentive and I'm happy to refer more. Good products advertise themselves.
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@SwitchExpress
.
@paystack
engineering team sharing our experience with
@SwitchExpress
earlier today. Great work Sheriff.
@Possicon
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🙈🙈
⚡️ Hi team, in anticipation of the
@ycombinator
Lagos Meetup we published our YC application, complete w/ commentary
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Pleasantly surprised to read this post by
@ParminderVir
of
@TonyElumeluFDN
. Thanks for the kind words Parminder.
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.
@FatherMerry
wrote about the ingredients of the new
@paystack
website and made the code public
#badguy
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Thanks for your support. Happy to be part of the family :)
#Newsflash
: Proud to announce our investment in
@paystack
, a prtnrshp w Tencent,
@ComcastVentures
&
#angelinvestors
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Met
@JedMcCaleb
of Stellar yesterday. Thanks
@joyce
@iaboyeji
and
@OoTheNigerian
for making it happen.
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@DadaBen_
.
@dominion_e
actually none of the above. Two companies doing their part to fix the payment mess.
@iaboyeji
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@gossyomega
yaay. happy to see the payments powered by Paystack.
@mukoshy
and
@OoTheNigerian
please send your sizes.
#xmas
@swavebrand
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Wow, seems i'm not alone. 3M views on youtube for a xtain rapper is amazing…
http://t.co/X55PiPyz
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.
@funkolaani
and
@OdunoluwaL
are the real MVPs. Glad to have met them when I did. Great legal counsel is priceless.
#startuplawyers
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Congrats Yele. This is amazing. 🙌🙌
1/ I'm super excited to share with you what I've been working on for the past 8 months
@microtraction
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Massive shout out to
@kehers
and
@OoTheNigerian
. We've been using
@Fonenode
API for voice authentication since dec2013.
#FlawlessExecution
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phew!!! just spent 6hrs solving a css positioning problem..solution came 5mins after i put 'Bad Girls' by D'prince on repeat!!
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