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Vishnu Dileesh
Engineer | Entrepren... • 22d
It Begins With a Question Every transformation starts with a question. Not a grand plan, not a market map. Just a small, piercing question. For Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar, the founders of Razorpay, it wasn’t “How do we build a unicorn?” It was simpler. Clearer. “Why is digital payment in India harder than cash?” Listen to them on the Blume Podcast, and what unfolds isn’t the myth of effortless success. It’s a story of relentless iteration, community roots, and building infrastructure that could scale for a billion people. It’s less about overnight victories and more about coding through the night, navigating regulatory inertia, and enduring hundreds of rejections from skeptical bankers. Two coders from middle-class families dared to fix something deeply broken. Middle-Class Roots, Hacker Mindsets Harshil grew up in Jaipur, pushed by family expectations to pursue medicine or engineering. Shashank, from Patna, was drawn to computers early, energized as much by code as by classroom lessons. Read full essay on https://www.vishnudileesh.com/essays/coding-through-rejection-how-razorpay-built-indias-payment-backbone
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