# Harshil Mathur

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4738: Razorpay founder on crafting a winning pitch deck, early rejections, & building a fintech giant

What makes an investor back a startup in a “crowded, commoditized” space? In this episode of PitchCraft Season 2, we go deep into Razorpay’s original pitch deck, which helped a pair of IIT grads raise their first round of funding against the odds. Co-founder Harshil Mathur, along with early investo…

S4 E1 | How Two Coders Built a $7.5 Billion Fintech | Destiny Avenged

Razorpay’s founders are no strangers to podcasts. But most conversations stop at scale, valuation, or IPO chatter. This one is different. On the Blume Podcast, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar sit down with Karthik Reddy to walk through the raw Razorpay journey—the rejections, near-dead ends, and…

Breaking Down Razorpay’s Original Pitch With Harshil Mathur | PitchCraft Season 2

In this episode of PitchCraft Season 2, Chandra Srikanth sits down with Harshil Mathur, Co-founder and CEO of Razorpay, and Vikram Vaidyanathan of Z47 to unpack the pitch deck that launched one of India’s most iconic fintech companies. Harshil looks back on Razorpay’s early days in 2014, when he a…

At work, it’s 'AI or bust'. What’s your move?

What happens when AI at work isn't optional anymore? Across the board, companies are investing in AI tools for their teams. But with that access comes a new kind of pressure to work smarter, move faster, and think more creatively. So what does that actually look like in practice? And how does it …

#44 Razorpay's Journey From a Small Startup to a Big Brand with Co-Founder and CEO Harshil Mathur

Harshil Mathur, Co-Founder and CEO,  Razorpay, chats with Sanjay Swamy Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the episode to learn about: 2:51- Razorpay's early days and original thesis 4:40- Why developer centric way to approach the market 9:12- Mistakes made and lessons learnt during e…

China's raising OpenClaw lobsters. India's testing the waters first

Last Friday, Razorpay CEO Harshil Mathur hosted 150 founders at Razorpay's Koramangala headquarters — not to talk payments but to let them showcase what they'd built with OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent taking the world by storm. The same week, thousands were queuing outside Baidu and Tencent o…

How karate helped a shy kid transform how India pays

We hear how karate, being laughed out of a bank boardroom in a cash-obsessed country helped shape one of India’s most valuable fintech companies. Harshil Mathur shares how discipline, resilience and a leap of faith helped him build Razorpay into a $7.5 billion company at the heart of India’s digita…

248: Got Rejected from 100 banks and then built a $7.5 Billion company | Razorpay Story | Harshil Mathur

Harshil Mathur started Razorpay after quitting the highest-paying job on his campus, a role his whole family had just celebrated, because he walked in on day one and realised he was a guy who wanted to sit and code, not step onto an oil field. Then he spent a decade away from that: walking into b…

Harshil Mathur, Razorpay CEO: Building India's Dominant Payments Company

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Harshil Mathur, Co-Founder and CEO of Razorpay, one of India’s most important fintech and tech companies. Razorpay moves hundreds of billions of dollars in annual payment volume and powers about 85% of the country’s largest tech companies. They are also reportedly p…

Who Gets To Decide How India Pays? | WTF is Payments? | Trailer

I wanted to start by drawing a diagram of the different kinds of payments and how we got here. We use UPI for everything from everyday purchases to applying for an IPO, but using it and understanding it are different things. What makes us choose one way to pay over another? What does it take to bui…