EP 175 : Building India's Payments Infrastructure - Akash Sinha (Co-founder & CEO, Cashfree Payments)

Akash is the co-founder and CEO of Cashfree Payments, a payments and banking technology company that enables businesses in India to collect payments online and make payouts. In this episode he spoke about the nuances of building the payments infrastructure, what to do and not do while partnering with financial institutions, being developer friendly and balancing growth and profitability in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:
00:00 Introduction
01:28 Akash's thoughts on Fintech space
03:25 Nuances of building the payment infrastructure
06:47 Founding story of Cashfree 
09:33 Learnings from the Y Combinator experience
10:54 Team structure at Cashfree
12:32 Cashfree's customer acquisition
14:07 Do's and Don'ts of partnering with financial institutions
15:46 Working with the policymakers and regulators
17:28 Being developer friendly
20:21 Balancing growth and profitability
22:31 Working through the downturns

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