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▶ 26:00 · AI Coding Agents · AI coding agents compress build time, making speed of decision-making the only durable moat
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Y Combinator

Harshil Mathur: AI Is Compressing Every Moat

2026-05-06 · 2 company · 4 thematic
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harshil mathur

Co-founded Razorpay in 2014 after experiencing payment acceptance challenges as a developer; led the company through Y Combinator Winter 2015 as the first Indian startup accepted, scaling to India's largest payments platform processing $180B GMV.

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Payments & Banking Infrastructuretailwindscore 8/10harshil mathur
Regulatory hurdles in payments create deep, durable moats that compound over time
The one-year licensing process and identical rules for all players in India's payments sector act as a filter that eliminates impatient competitors, allowing compliant incumbents to build l…
SaaS Business Modelstailwindscore 7/10harshil mathur
B2B payments proved capital-efficient: $11M Series A earned more interest than monthly burn
In B2B, value exchange is immediate and logical — businesses pay for value added today — eliminating the need for capital-intensive user acquisition and engagement loops required in B2C, en…
AI Coding Agentstailwindscore 9/10harshil mathur
AI coding agents compress build time, making speed of decision-making the only durable moat
AI tools like Claude Code are collapsing the build phase to near-zero, shifting competitive advantage entirely to how fast companies can decide what to build; incumbents that wait to respon…
AI Economics & Business Modelsriskscore 7/10harshil mathur
AI makes building trivial but company-building still requires 10-year founder obsession
While AI dramatically lowers the cost and time to write code and deploy software, the fundamental grind of finding a problem worth dedicating a decade to remains unchanged; founders risk ch…