#3 → Prateek Swain: Building Robinhood for India
Worth
English - January 08, 2020 03:39 - 43 minutes - 33.4 MBTechnology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Asher speaks with Prateek Swain: recent Princeton graduate, and the 23 year old co-founder of GreenTiger, an app that allows people in India to trade U.S. stocks commission free.
After being accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch, and being dubbed "Robinhood for India", we caught up with Prateek and talked about some of the best advice he got during his time at YC, and the challenges of starting a fintech company.
[1:55]: Prateek's experience building his first business, "Shuffl", in high school
[6:54]: Launching India's largest hackathon and Princeton's first startup incubator
[12:41]: Why Princeton lags behind Harvard/Stanford when it comes to entrepreneurship
[16:05]: Working for Microsoft and discontentment with corporate life
[18:06]: How the idea for GreenTiger was born
[23:15]: Applying to Y Combinator early-decision
[26:04]: The best advice that Prateek received during his time at YC
[29:41]: How Prateek and Tyler divide responsibilities and prioritize tasks at GreenTiger
[33:06]: The "Series A Challenge" and where GreenTiger's focus currently lies
[37:09]: Prateek's favorite books and his love for Paul Graham's essays
Worth website - worth.carrd.co
GreenTiger website - https://greentiger.co/
Prateek's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateekswain/
Prateek's Twitter - https://twitter.com/Thelast_skeptic
Book recommendations - https://www.notion.so/book-podcast-recommendations-59abba1db1db4fc2b9b9a4e08edb0b24