Ezra Olubi Paystack Biography, Career, Controversy, Net Worth

Ezra Olubi (born November 12, 1986) is a Nigerian IT professional, software engineer, mobile app developer, and entrepreneur. He is well known as a co-founder and CTO of Paystack.

Ezra Olubi

Ezra Olubi was born to his parents on November 12, 1986. He was born and raised in Ibadan, a city in Oyo State, Nigeria.

After finishing high school, he joined and began his university career at Babcock University in Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. He studied Computer Science from 2002 to 2006.

Ezra Olubi and Shola Akinlade both graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 2006. There were a few interactions between the two at the time. Shola asked Ezra for help creating Paystack, which led to their reconciliation. It was the first of its sort in Nigeria, with a net worth of $120,000, and was eventually sold to Stripe for $200 million in 2020.

Personal life.

On April 10, 2021, he posted a photo of one of his clothes he wore to a friend’s event on Twitter with the caption: ‘My friend invited me to her wedding reception and all I heard was “Ezra, get dressed!”‘ Ezra, a heterosexual male, frequently wears lipstick and has his nails done, which defies traditional masculine expectations.

Suspension and Controversy on X (formerly Twitter)

Paystack suspended him in November 2025 after receiving social media complaints of sexual misbehaviour with a subordinate. The allegation, as well as his exposed tweets from 2009 to 2013, has caused continued social media uproar.

Ezra Olubi Net Worth

Paystack is Nigeria’s first unicorn financial firm, and I co-founded it. Stripe acquired a startup for over $200 million, and I was the CTO. Received the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), one of Nigeria’s highest civilian honours. Worth approximately $40 million. A national hero.