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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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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Welcome to Bolt: Founder Jay on Building Smarter Together
Bolt Checkout founder on frictionless commerce and solving checkout friction
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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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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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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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Klaviyo's $9.5B Revolution in eCommerce Marketing: CEO
Email and SMS marketing platform success story
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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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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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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 Prioritize Your Time | Homejoy
The Homejoy founder's framework for spending founder hours only on building product and talking to users, and cutting everything else.
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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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Michael Seibel - How to Plan an MVP | Justin.tv / Twitch
Seibel uses Airbnb, Twitch and Stripe's embarrassing first versions to prove you should ship a lean MVP in weeks, not fall in love with it.
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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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Michael Seibel - Building Product | Justin.tv / Twitch
The Twitch co-founder's loop for building something people want: talk to users, ship fast, measure, and cut features ruthlessly.
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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 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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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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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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Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz) | Y Combinator
Idea, product, team, execution multiply together; Facebook and Asana co-founder Moskovitz strips the glamour myth off startup life.
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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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Optimal Traits and Sustainable Advantages [Entire Talk] | Eventbrite
Eventbrite's founders on what they did early to build durable advantages: relentless talent development and continual product evolution.
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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.
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