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S10 E22: Zero Tax Liability from Day One: How to Automate Global SaaS Compliance and Sell in 220+ Countries with Ayush Agarwal, Co-Founder & CPTO of Dodo Payments
Mar 4, 2025 · Season 10 · Episode 22 · 20 min
Cross border, global payments for India & emerging markets
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.
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