About
Olamide Akinola is the co-founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer of Mainstack, the no-code commerce and cross-border payments platform he built alongside Ayobami Oyaleke for Africa's creator economy. Based in the United States, Akinola leads the product development and engineering of a platform that now counts more than 55,000 active creators across 105-plus countries, accepting payments in over 150 currencies through more than 135 pay-in options. His technical and product leadership has been central to Mainstack's ability to consolidate storefronts, payments, events, community tools, and AI-powered growth features into a single dashboard accessible to creators who previously relied on half a dozen third-party tools.
Akinola belongs on the Borderless 100 because Mainstack's proposition — that African creators deserve owned, monetisable digital infrastructure that doesn't route revenue through platforms not built for their markets — is ultimately a technical bet as much as a business one. His work is what makes that bet credible.
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