“You watch movies like Social Network and that reinforces this vision of being in Silicon Valley and building awesome things that are going to be used by millions of people.”
Vijit grew up near Delhi and went to a not-famous school in Dallas, where he learned early how to convince people to bet on him — the same skill, he says, that startups run on. Over lunch with a Stripe colleague he floated starting a company and got “the fastest yes I’d ever heard.” Hear how the two left Stripe to build Lark, and the hard lesson YC taught two engineers who’d never sold a thing.