Razorpay is India’s largest payments platform, processing over $180 billion annually. They were also the first Indian company YC ever invested in, and went through the W15 batch. In this fireside at Startup School India, co-founder and CEO Harshil Mathur sat down with YC’s Jon Xu to talk about the early days of building a payments company in India, the near-death moments that shaped the company’s culture, and what he’s learned about staying in founder mode ten years in. Chapters: 0:00 – Intro 1:11 – Discovering the payments problem 3:47 – Pivoting from education to startups 6:49 – Building in…

