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</head><body><a href="#content" class="skip">Skip to content</a><div class="site"><header class="header"><a href="/" class="name">Manny Akintayo</a><nav aria-label="Main navigation"><a href="/writing/">Writing</a><a href="/speaking/">Speaking and Media</a><a href="/prototyping/">Prototyping</a><a href="/about/" aria-current="page">About</a></nav></header><main id="content"><h1>About</h1><div class="about-layout"><aside class="about-portrait"><img src="/images/manny-akintayo.jpg" alt="Manny Akintayo" width="800" height="800"/><div class="about-socials"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-manny-akintayo-a80b6313/" aria-label="Manny Akintayo on LinkedIn" title="LinkedIn"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor"><path d="M20.45 2H3.55C2.69 2 2 2.68 2 3.52v16.96C2 21.32 2.69 22 3.55 22h16.9c.86 0 1.55-.68 1.55-1.52V3.52C22 2.68 21.31 2 20.45 2ZM7.93 18.75H4.98V9.2h2.95v9.55ZM6.45 7.9a1.71 1.71 0 1 1 0-3.42 1.71 1.71 0 0 1 0 3.42Zm12.3 10.85H15.8v-4.64c0-1.11-.02-2.54-1.55-2.54-1.55 0-1.79 1.21-1.79 2.46v4.72H9.51V9.2h2.83v1.3h.04c.39-.74 1.36-1.52 2.79-1.52 2.98 0 3.58 1.96 3.58 4.5v5.27Z"></path></svg></a><a href="https://getcbt.substack.com/" aria-label="CoffeeBreak on Substack" title="Substack"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor"><path d="M2 2h20v2H2zm0 5h20v2H2zm0 5h20v12l-10-6-10 6z"></path></svg></a></div></aside><div class="bio"><p>Hi, I’m Manny Akintayo. I’m an engineer by training, a product leader, and an entrepreneur. My work spans AI, healthcare, fintech, and consumer products. I’ve built new businesses and helped scale products used by millions of people. Today, I lead AI product and platform teams at PayPal.</p><p>I started my career building software for banking and healthcare, working on distributed applications and enterprise search systems. At OfferUp and Meta, I worked on machine learning infrastructure for advertising, including data pipelines for ad ranking and serving that helped generate $1 billion in new revenue.</p><p>I later co-founded Gentem Health, combining AI and financial services to simplify medical billing and help doctors get paid. We raised $20 million across several funding rounds and scaled the product and business before selling the company to a publicly traded company in 2023.</p><p>After Gentem, I joined Menlo Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence, exploring new startup ideas.</p><p>I enjoy staying close to the technology while thinking about the people and problems behind it. This site is where I share my <a href="/writing/">writing</a>, <a href="/speaking/">conversations</a>, and <a href="/prototyping/">experiments</a> in AI and product building.</p></div></div></main><footer class="footer"><p>© <!-- -->2026<!-- --> <!-- -->Manny Akintayo<!-- --> · <a href="https://getcbt.substack.com">Substack</a> · <a href="https://github.com/oea101">GitHub</a></p></footer></div><script type="module" src="/_next/static/chunks/index-B0eKOigU.js" id="_R_" 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