Startup Videos
The launch videos, explainers, founder stories, pitches, ads, and keynotes founders study before making their own. Browse by what a video is for, then narrow to your industry. Tap any video to play it right here.
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How Nikolay Storonsky Built a $45B+ Fintech Empire
Profile explores how Revolut CEO took the no-fee fintech model global, from London startup to international banking app serving 50M+ across 35 countries.
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Reinventing Wall Street: Rogo's AI Revolution with Gabriel Stengel
AI transforms financial analysis for investment pros
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Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
Profile of how Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by eliminating commissions and barriers to investing, fundamentally changing how retail investors participate in markets.
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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport into a $3B Logistics Giant
Founder discusses scaling global logistics platform
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The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm | Andreessen Horowitz
How Margit Wennmachers weaponized transparency to make an unknown firm the most talked-about in VC.
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A Deep Dive on AI and the Next Generation of Automation with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck | ZoomInfo
Schuck on the mistakes he made scaling DiscoverOrg to a ZoomInfo IPO from a Columbus office.
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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi | Databricks
Ghodsi with Ben Horowitz on the enterprise data wars and betting big on the cloud to build Databricks.
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Block ft. Jack Dorsey - A controversial hack week project becomes the #1 financial services app
Dorsey's Square (now Block) grew from a hackathon project into a multitrillion-dollar payment platform, now expanding into bitcoin and blockchain finance.
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Fasal's story of Indian farmers, the future of tech & the business of Indian agriculture
Founder journey building precision farming tech for Indian farmers
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FinTech Diary SE02 EP16: In conversation with Anish Achuthan, Co-founder & CEO, Open
CEO discusses Open's dual-sided fintech platform for Indian businesses and founders, explaining how modern banking infrastructure can serve underbanked entrepreneurs.
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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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Namma Yatri: How A Payments Company Built the best Mobility App | Vimal Kumar (Founder, Juspay)
Juspay founder discusses pivoting from payments orchestration to building Namma Yatri, India's homegrown mobility app powered by domestic payment rails.
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Patrick Collison tells the founding story of Stripe: A lot of good ideas don't seem great upfront
Founder co-founder reflects on Stripe's early rejection and the insight that great ideas often don't look great upfront, revealing the perseverance behind global payments.
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Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor on Making Customer-Facing AI Agents Delightful
Customer AI agent platform from OpenAI cofounder
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The Paystack Mafia Building Africa's Tech Future
Documentary about how Paystack founder Shola Akinlade built Africa's first major fintech unicorn, later acquired by Stripe, spawning a wave of fintech startups.
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The untold story of Setu with Sahil Kini | Fintech Founders
Co-founder shares how Setu is building fintech infrastructure for India, enabling sachet-sized financial products through API connectivity to banks and payment rails.
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Founder Stories with Taavet Hinrikus (Transferwise)
Co-founder discusses Wise's origin as the solution to real cross-border transfer problems, built on the conviction that the existing money transfer system was fundamentally broken.
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Girish Mathrubootham on building Freshworks
Mathrubootham on building a global SaaS company out of Chennai and the bets behind a NASDAQ listing.
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Jeff Lawson of Twilio: The Other CTO at StubHub Got 5x More Equity Than I Did | Twilio
Lawson on committing fully as a founder after learning how little equity he got at his first startup.
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Karthik Jayaraman, WayCool | Rohin Dharmakumar | First Principles by The Ken
In-depth founder interview on building supply chain for India
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The journey of Box: From a single feature to a content platform with Aaron Levie | Box
Levie on turning a single file-sharing feature into an enterprise content platform after IPO.
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The Truth about Entrepreneurship [Entire Talk] | Okta
Okta's co-founder gives three rules: time is your scarcest asset, keep the main thing the main thing, nothing happens until someone sells.
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How to Build and Sell a Product that Customers Love with Olivier Pomel | Datadog
Pomel wrote no code for six months, obsessively listening to customers before building Datadog.
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Interview: Karthik Jayaraman, Co-Founder & Managing Director of WayCool Foods & Products
Co-founder discusses reimagining India's food supply chain with tech
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How to Build a Profitable Startup in India | Cashfree Payment Gateway Founder Akash Sinha | TFD
Founder shares lessons on building a profitable fintech business in India, focusing on unit economics and solving real payment processing needs.
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Jupiter Founder Jitendra Gupta on building a neobank and a new era of financial services
Founder shares how Jupiter rethought Indian neobanking for millennials, combining full bank accounts with investing and lending in one app.
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Ranjith Mukundan, CEO & Co Founder, Stellapps on doubling ops in 3 years
CEO on scaling IoT dairy digitization across India
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Zoom company story: How Eric Yuan defeated Skype | Zoom
Eric Yuan left WebEx over unhappy customers and won on one metric: video that just works. A lesson in late-entrant obsession.
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Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals | Homejoy
Cheung on picking one primary metric that reflects real value delivered, then setting goals that keep the whole team honest.
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Dalton Caldwell - All About Pivoting | Y Combinator
Founder-turned-partner Caldwell shows how Brex, Retool and Segment pivoted hard off their first idea into the businesses that worked.
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Ilya Volodarsky - Analytics for Startups | Segment
Segment's co-founder on the minimum analytics to instrument at MVP stage, and which primary and secondary metrics actually matter early.
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Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas | Wufoo
The Wufoo founder frames an idea as a growth hypothesis with three parts: problem, solution, insight, and how investors stress-test each.
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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO, What Went to Plan and What Didn't | HubSpot
Shah on breaking every startup rule to create the inbound marketing category, from day 0 to IPO.
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Get to $100m ARR While Burning Almost Nothing: 6 Learnings in 6 Years | Zoom
Yuan reached $100M ARR burning almost nothing by picking investors who bet on him, not the metrics.
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Stewart Butterfield of Slack: Building a Product or a Platform? | Slack
Butterfield, who pivoted a failed game into Slack, on when to build a product versus a platform.
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Blitzscaling 09: Reid Hoffman and Allen Blue on Why and How They Scaled LinkedIn | LinkedIn
The two LinkedIn co-founders recount sequencing network-effect products and when to hit the accelerator on hiring versus wait.
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Blitzscaling 10: Selina Tobaccowala on Building a Global Business at SurveyMonkey | SurveyMonkey
The Evite and SurveyMonkey co-founder on 'let fires burn': triaging which problems to ignore while scaling a product globally.
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Blitzscaling 15: Diane Greene on Scaling Products and Culture At VMware | VMware
VMware's founder on selling deep virtualization tech to skeptical enterprises and protecting engineering culture through hypergrowth.
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Before the Startup with Paul Graham (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 3) | Y Combinator
Graham's counterintuitive rules: ignore startup 'expertise', follow genuine curiosity, and accept you cannot predict who will win.
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Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5) | PayPal / Palantir
The PayPal co-founder's case for monopoly: win a tiny market first, then expand, because perfect competition kills profit and durability.
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Lecture 2 - Team and Execution (Sam Altman) | Y Combinator
Altman argues execution is a skill you build via relentless focus and momentum, and why co-founder choice is the highest-variance decision.
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