Over the past 8 years, Paga has built deep payments infrastructure in Nigeria and we have opened that up to all developers to leverage (available at Paga.dev). Paga is committed to enabling the innovation of others and spurring the growth of the internet economy. About a month ago we announced…

Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) make up 90% of all businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. The vast majority of these SMBs struggle to sell efficiently. They do not have systems to track inventory, and primarily trade with cash. On social media or their own website, those who are selling online also face trust…

A year ago, I was inspired by a friend’s article to do 3 things — mediate daily write something I am grateful for daily in a journal fast every Tuesday It was not easy at all and I failed on two of them — Journaling and fasting. However, meditation daily…

Not counting the time I went door to door selling smoke detectors for a few months before college, Paga, which I started 10 years ago, was my first true entrepreneurial venture. Reflecting on the Paga journey (READ part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4) has been quite insightful…

At this point I knew 2 things: that the “use of cash” problem we were seeking to solve at Paga was a global problem, and that we were determined to build a world-class platform, one that could stand shoulder to shoulder with any platform built in Silicon Valley where I…

“You hear all these stories of Yahoo and Google founders who started in a garage. Do you think they wanted to start in a garage? Do what you need to do to move forward!” From the moment I started dreaming up Paga, I knew we needed to raise venture financing…

Once I had decided to pour my life into solving the “use of cash” problem, I started mapping out how to go about it. Top of the list of questions I noted down was related to the team — Who would be great to bring on to the team? What…

I was once on a date and after a lovely dinner was faced with the familiar embarrassment of being unable to pay for the dinner due to a POS failure. The restaurant tried charging my card but got an error. They tried another device and yet another error. The only…

My personal goal is for Paga to be a company that lasts over 200 years. For us to achieve that and be successful, we have to always be building the dream team — A+ people who are great at what they do, then give them the freedom to execute and…