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.SponsorsPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://dodopayments.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/aagarwal1012/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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I learned from my past mistakes. I didn't dig deep into building the product first, then selling it to the customers. This time, we actually built out just a simple website talking about the problem statement, talking about the solution in general. And that took me just one or two days to build it on Framer. And then we actually sent that website to a lot of cold emailing, cold DMing to customers.
all the potential merchants that we can onboard and started getting the feedbacks. And you'll not believe, but we are actually able to contact around 250 merchants from almost 30 plus different countries. My name is Ayush Agarwal and I'm the co-founder and CPTO at Dodo Payments.
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