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Olugbenga Agboola

CEO & Founder, Flutterwave

Search every verified Olugbenga Agboola interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Olugbenga Agboola, co-founder and CEO of Flutterwave, spoke at two events in late September and early October 2026. At the Find Your Voice conference in Lagos on September 28, he discussed his journey from software engineer to CEO, describing challenges the company faced, including a crisis in Kenya, and emphasized the importance of resilience, curiosity, and staying grounded. At The Platform Nigeria event on October 1, he discussed building Flutterwave, which he said started with a simple idea to reduce friction in moving money across Africa, and expressed a vision for African companies to become global institutions, stating that the greatest gift to the next generation is evidence that success is possible from Africa. In August 2022, the Inspector General of Police appointed Agboola as the National Youth Ambassador of the Nigerian Police Force, recognizing his contributions to technology, financial inclusion, and youth development. At the appointment ceremony, he pledged to support youth empowerment, cybersecurity education, and peaceful engagement, and noted that the average age at Flutterwave is 22 years old.

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“So I think for me the first the first piece is um I have this confidence that I cannot fail and that comes from being very rooted in my faith. That's number one for me. That's key. Now I also believe in the fact that no one promised that it will be easy. No one. The only promise that we have with it will be worth it at the end of the day. But that easy easy wasn't promised, right? So I don't expect easy. There was on”

“So a very important point as well in my journey and the question you asking is the fact that you have to be naturally curious as a person right you have to be curious you have to be able to get in information very very quickly is very important processing might take a while that's fine but you have to have that as somebody who wants to be excellent in anything in life. And then naturally with that comes disciplehip o”

“We did not start Flutterwave as a billion-dollar company by valuation. We started with a very simple idea and problem that we wanted to solve, which is that why should moving money across Africa be frictioned? Why should it be difficult for a business in Accra to get paid by a customer in New York? Africa has brilliant businesses, banks, telcos, companies, you know. However, everything was fragmented. You know, you c”

“One important answer uh which is already in the works is the paps panafrican payment infrastructure platform by Afric. Why is that important? They are solving a very big problem. They are connecting all the countries together. They're taking the slow hard way to do it which is important getting central banks to sign bilateral agreement with each of the other countries.”

“We're building stable coin infrastructure right on the blockchain to enable payment types that is stables you know USDC USDT whatnot on our platform that is so key for us because we see the opportunity there. We are an interoperable super for payment and our goal is to help ensure that any payment type that our business cloud customers wants to accept, we support that.”

“Africa does not need one currency to trade like one market we just need an infrastructure that connect everything together so we be further away on the belief that if you could unify payment acceptance right settlement connectivity African businesses can suddenly start to perform like they are global.”

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