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Tayo Oviosu is a Nigerian-American businessman who is the founder and group CEO of Paga, a mobile payments company that is focused on digitizing cash in emerging economies. Nigeria is Paga's first market.

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“Make sure people are in the role that fits for them, where their strength can really be used and where they can fly."

Our aim as a business is to solve payments and bring financial services to the mass market in Nigeria.

My personal mission is to help change the face of Nigeria and Africa at large, by helping to bring ideas to life

They have to be confident in your ability as an entrepreneur to execute the business.

The investors are bringing something on the table and so are entrepreneurs.

The investor entrepreneur relationship is almost like a marriage.

The investors are typically investing someone else’s money, at least for the institutional guys, so they can’t just put the money anywhere.

Single largest network of financial access points in Nigeria.

70% of Nigerian adults” who don’t have bank accounts.

We want to help individuals pay and get paid.

I think I’d rather own a small part of a big pie than a big part of a small pie.

I don’t think I would have changed anything about how we raised money.

I had to work my way through college, sometimes holding up to 5 jobs at a time. So I was excited when I finally graduated with an electrical engineering degree.

We do not care if you are banked or unbanked.
Tayo Oviosu stated

It will take a lot of investment to get to that vision. I wouldn’t be surprised if over the lifetime of Paga, we invest over $100 million — we are well on our way to that.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tayo Oviosu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.