Startup Videos
The launch videos, explainers, founder stories, pitches, ads, and keynotes founders study before making their own. Ranked by how many founders recommend each. Tap a video to play it right here.
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James Dyson: 5,127 Prototypes
The 5,127 failed prototypes over 15 years: Dyson kept building the bagless cyclone vacuum until number 5,127 finally worked.
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Tobi Lutke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
Tobi Lutke traces Shopify from a checkout he coded for his own snowboard shop, Snowdevil, into one of the internet's foundational commerce platforms.
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From the Ground Up: Nithin Kamath on bootstrapping Zerodha
Nithin Kamath on why he built Zerodha with no funding and no ads, the bootstrapping story that reframed how Indian founders think about capital.
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How YC Was Created With Jessica Livingston
Co-founder Jessica Livingston tells how the 2005 Summer Founders Program, dreamed up on a walk, became the accelerator that reshaped startups.
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Stripe's Origin Story: How Stripe was created, with Patrick and John Collison
The Collison brothers themselves recount how frustration with online payments led to the few lines of code that became Stripe.
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WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Nikesh Arora
Zerodha's Nikhil Kamath interviews Palo Alto's Nikesh Arora on the Ghaziabad-to-Silicon-Valley climb, a founder podcast now ranked among Spotify's global best.
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9-Year Hustle to Achieve a Single Goal: Notion's Cofounders
The moment Ivan Zhao scrapped everything, laid off the team, and rebuilt Notion from scratch in Kyoto after nearly going broke.
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Brian Chesky, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb: Designing a 10-star Experience
Chesky retraces the three air mattresses on his apartment floor and unpacks the 10-star experience framework, the definitive Airbnb origin talk.
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Nithin Kamath: From Zero to Zerodha
Nithin Kamath recounts trading through market crashes for a decade, then bootstrapping Zerodha with no VC into India's largest retail broker.
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How Alakh Pandey Built Physics Wallah
The teacher who ran a free YouTube channel from Prayagraj into a unicorn, the clearest proof that Indian edtech can be built on trust not ad spend.
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Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia: Growing the Sustainable Company
Chouinard tells how a climber blacksmith hand forging pitons built Patagonia while calling himself a reluctant businessman who put the planet first.
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Guy Raz Reveals His Own Incredible How I Built This Story
The host who chronicled hundreds of founders finally turns the mic on himself and tells how he built the podcast that defined founder storytelling.
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The Nas Daily Story
Nuseir Yassin recaps quitting his Venmo job to make one 60 second video every single day for 1,000 days straight until it became a media company.
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