S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ayush Agarwal is a techy trying to code his way out of things. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science, but more importantly, he discovered entrepreneurship in college, inspired by his successful classmates. He spent years gathering experience in different startup verticals, including fintech. But outside of tech, he loves to play badminton, cricket, and hangout with friends. He is also big into Chess, which he mentioned enjoying Chess.com, as well as our recent interview with their CTO, Josh Levine.

When Ayush met his now co-founder, they started to think through businesses and how much goes into setting up payments, taxes, etc. They started to dream about building this layer of payments, to enable builders to send and receive global payments easily, so they can focus on their core competencies.

This is the creation story of Dodo Payments.

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1:16.1	mistakes. I didn't be deep into like building the product first, then selling it to the customers.
1:21.3	This time we actually built out a just a simple website, talking about the problem statement,
1:26.8	talking about the solution in general
1:28.3	and that took me just one or two day to build it on framer and then we actually sent that website
1:35.5	do a lot of cold emailing cold daming to all the potential merchant that we can onboard and started
1:42.7	getting the feedbacks and you'll not believe but
1:46.1	we are actually able to contact around 250 merchants from almost 30 plus different countries.
1:53.4	My name is Ayu Shaggawal and I'm the co-founder and CPTO at Dodo Pabements.
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2:06.3	six months moonlighting there's nothing on the backhand who share what it takes to change
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