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Razorpay's Journey From a Small Startup to a Big Brand with Co-Founder and CEO Harshil Mathur

Harshil Mathur · Prime Venture Partners Podcast Free Intermediate India

This is the segment selection episode: the rabbits and elephants analogy, fewer than 1,000 merchants at Series A, and why 20 basis points on top of MDR was the right price.

The question it answers

  1. How did Razorpay win by chasing the merchants the incumbents refused to sign?

Read with it

  1. A slide by slide walk through the actual 2014 deck, which had no founder slide and won on problem clarity, useful if you are... SeedToScale by Accel Podcast · Podcast episode Breaking Down Razorpay's Original Pitch With Harshil Mathur Harshil Mathur
  2. Where the counterintuitive north star is explained: payment success rate rather than merchant count, plus 30 to 40 minute... Inc42 Article · About 12 min read The Product Practices That Turned Razorpay Into A Payments Juggernaut Deepsekhar Choudhury
  3. The numbers spine behind the story, including exact take rates, multi product attach at 65 percent of customers, and the risk... Contrary Research Report · Long report Razorpay Business Breakdown & Founding Story Contrary Research
  4. The rupee denominated revenue ladder plus the saying no story: refusing to enter buy now pay later against investor pressure... Forbes India Article · About 8 min read Razor-sharp checkout: How Razorpay grew close to eight times in four years Rajiv Singh
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