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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'YOU CANNOT PREDICT FUTURE': Upstox Co-Founder Shares Big Hack On Investing, Wealth Creation
Co-founder shares investing philosophy and how Upstox empowers retail Indians to build wealth by removing brokerage fees and complexity.
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Robinhood's $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI
CEO discusses breaking Wall Street rules and expanding into tokenized wealth products
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Harshil Mathur On Razorpay's Elevator Pitch: Wanted To Be Every Startup's DeFacto Payment Platform
How Razorpay became India's default payments infrastructure
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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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Razorpay founder on crafting a winning pitch deck, early rejections, & building a fintech giant
Razorpay founder shares pitch deck strategy and founding journey
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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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Unfiltered Talks With Paytm Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma | Paytm
Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma on how founders stay relevant and keep reinventing themselves across cycles.
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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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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 Affirm built the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) industry, with President Libor Michalek
How Affirm created the BNPL category and changed consumer credit
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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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Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma's Vision for India
Founder on empowering 1.4 billion Indians through financial technology
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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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The Origin Story of Zerodha, by Nithin Kamath and Kailash Nadh | Zerodha
CEO Nithin Kamath and CTO Kailash Nadh tell how they built a bootstrapped broker into India's largest.
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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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Varun Dua on Building Acko Into India's Most Trusted Insurance Brand
Founder on digitizing insurance and building trust in a traditionally opaque industry
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Fireside Chat with David Velez: Nubank's Decade of Innovation and Impact
Founder David Velez shares Nubank's 10-year journey disrupting Latin American banking with 130M+ customers across three countries, built without traditional bank infrastructure.
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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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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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PhonePe Founder Sameer Nigam on Why Bengaluru Is India's Startup Capital
Founder insights on why Bengaluru leads India's startup and fintech ecosystem
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PhonePe Is Made In India, Will List In India: How Sameer Nigam Built A Unique Unicorn
Founder explains keeping Indian payments infrastructure local and building for India first
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PhonePe's 7 Year Journey: Co-Founder Sameer Nigam on UPI Digital Payments
PhonePe's dominance in digital payments and UPI ecosystem leadership
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Fintech Will Be Massive - Brian Barnes, M1 Finance CEO Interview | Joseph Carlson Ep. 142
Founder shares M1's vision as a personal finance platform combining automated investing, checking, and lending, managing $8B+ for 500K+ customers.
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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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Kunal Shah on Winning in India and the Philosophy of Startups | CRED
Kunal Shah on second-order thinking, what winning in India really takes, and his philosophy of building startups.
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The PhonePe Journey With Sameer Nigam
How PhonePe became India's leading digital payments platform and fintech powerhouse
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The Rapid Growth of Jack Dorsey's Square Inc. - The Square FinTech Story
How Square created the market for mobile card readers and payments
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Where Did Bitcoin Come From? The True Story | Bitcoin
Traces the cypherpunk lineage and Satoshi's whitepaper into the origin of an asset class, grounding the myth in real engineering.
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Kunal Shah on Building Cred for the Future
Credit platform founder on building trust and incentive design
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma Biography: Paytm Founder Success Story
Journey of building digital payments from scratch, pioneering mobile wallets in India
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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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Hiring and Culture with Patrick and John Collison and Ben Silbermann (HtSaS 2014: 11) | Stripe / Pinterest
Stripe and Pinterest founders on how deliberate early hiring bar and written values shaped culture more than any perk once they scaled.
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