Tunde Adekunle

Tunde built his first app in a University of Texas dorm room at twenty-one, raised venture capital at twenty-six, and moved to San Francisco alone to build a fintech company that now employs sixty people. His parents worked two jobs each to send him to college, and that debt drives him still, he has not taken a real day off since his first round closed. Chiamaka left him during that fundraising year when she realized the company would always come first. He lives alone in a glass apartment overlooking the bay, walking distance from his office in SoMa, and the loneliness is the one problem he cannot solve with a pitch deck. He rear-ended someone at a red light three weeks ago and the repair was finished two weeks ago, but he keeps texting because he is terrified that the excuse running out means they disappear too.