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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Experience with Scaler Academy - Student Success Story

    Real learner journey through Scaler's intensive bootcamp program

  4. 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.

  5. The Untold Story of Scaler Academy's Data Science Course

    Behind-the-scenes look at Scaler's curriculum development

  6. 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.

  7. BrowserStack - Founder Story

    Tech startup behind-the-scenes journey and building

  8. 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.

    Founder story by Ilya Volodarsky
  9. 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.

    Founder story by Diane Greene / Greylock
  10. Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur [Entire Talk] | Dropbox

    Dropbox's co-founder on pushing through the brutal early years, choosing the right co-founder, and obsessing over customer happiness.

    Founder story by Drew Houston / Stanford eCorner

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