How Paystack (Stripe) gets it right 99.99% of the time

Matt and Premal discuss Fintech with Shola Akinlade. Shola Akinlade is the CEO and Co-founder of Paystack, which was recently purchased by https://stripe.com/ (Stripe) for over $200 million in October. Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. They are breaking all barriers so that African businesses can quickly and easily accept payments from anyone, anywhere. In this episode, Shola talks about what it takes to scale successfully. In September of 2020, Paystack did about 15 million transactions in one month, and in order to be successful, they need to execute 99.99 percent of those transactions without any issues. If they were only able to execute 99 percent without any issues, they would have had 150,000 problems. Learn more at https://www.paystack.com (https://www.paystack.com)