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Ayush Agarwal

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

Because senior folk will come with a baggage and there will be high chances that a senior folk might be requiring a team to actually work and to deliver certain outcomes. We were not looking for those folks, right? We're looking for folks who are senior, who have certain experience, but are also open to do grant work on their own.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

And over the course of different interviews, different hiring process, we kind of assessed this ability of that person to take ownership, to work under certain pressures. We actually designed our assignment in such a way that we had assignments for every role that we hired for. And for every assignment, the typical time

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

And over the course of different interviews, different hiring process, we kind of assessed this ability of that person to take ownership, to work under certain pressures. We actually designed our assignment in such a way that we had assignments for every role that we hired for. And for every assignment, the typical time

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

And over the course of different interviews, different hiring process, we kind of assessed this ability of that person to take ownership, to work under certain pressures. We actually designed our assignment in such a way that we had assignments for every role that we hired for. And for every assignment, the typical time

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

that you can take to complete easily was one week, but we asked them to complete within two days, right? So that basically pushed them to the limit that they have to think like how to work in that high pressure, high timeline kind of environment. And that actually helps us assess whether that person is good fit for our startup or not.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

that you can take to complete easily was one week, but we asked them to complete within two days, right? So that basically pushed them to the limit that they have to think like how to work in that high pressure, high timeline kind of environment. And that actually helps us assess whether that person is good fit for our startup or not.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

that you can take to complete easily was one week, but we asked them to complete within two days, right? So that basically pushed them to the limit that they have to think like how to work in that high pressure, high timeline kind of environment. And that actually helps us assess whether that person is good fit for our startup or not.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

I think we, all the different modules or all the different services that we have built, we have kept scalability, efficiency and responsiveness at the top. I'll give you an example, right? On the backend, we used Rust. So I think nowadays every other company was just starting up. We'll obviously choose Moonstack, Node.js, Django to build out their backend.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

I think we, all the different modules or all the different services that we have built, we have kept scalability, efficiency and responsiveness at the top. I'll give you an example, right? On the backend, we used Rust. So I think nowadays every other company was just starting up. We'll obviously choose Moonstack, Node.js, Django to build out their backend.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

I think we, all the different modules or all the different services that we have built, we have kept scalability, efficiency and responsiveness at the top. I'll give you an example, right? On the backend, we used Rust. So I think nowadays every other company was just starting up. We'll obviously choose Moonstack, Node.js, Django to build out their backend.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

But being a payments company, I think what was core to us was reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems, right? So we chose Rust as our backend. And whatever systems, whatever services we are building, we are automating a lot of that using different SOPs, different workflows.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

But being a payments company, I think what was core to us was reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems, right? So we chose Rust as our backend. And whatever systems, whatever services we are building, we are automating a lot of that using different SOPs, different workflows.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

But being a payments company, I think what was core to us was reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems, right? So we chose Rust as our backend. And whatever systems, whatever services we are building, we are automating a lot of that using different SOPs, different workflows.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

We have a lot of AI agents working within our workflows to automate whatever part of process that we have for the product. And

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

We have a lot of AI agents working within our workflows to automate whatever part of process that we have for the product. And

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

We have a lot of AI agents working within our workflows to automate whatever part of process that we have for the product. And

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

we have a lot of moving part that requires like manual intervention and we have tried to automate it using ai agents and other workflows that we have so yeah everything we build has to scale three months back we had zero merchant now we had more than a thousand merchants processing thousand transactions a day so i mean like that's been pretty insane for us so i think within three months we have grown so much after three months after a year

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

we have a lot of moving part that requires like manual intervention and we have tried to automate it using ai agents and other workflows that we have so yeah everything we build has to scale three months back we had zero merchant now we had more than a thousand merchants processing thousand transactions a day so i mean like that's been pretty insane for us so i think within three months we have grown so much after three months after a year

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

we have a lot of moving part that requires like manual intervention and we have tried to automate it using ai agents and other workflows that we have so yeah everything we build has to scale three months back we had zero merchant now we had more than a thousand merchants processing thousand transactions a day so i mean like that's been pretty insane for us so i think within three months we have grown so much after three months after a year

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments

Our product should be scalable and need to scale and every decision that we take like have scalability in mind.