About Pushkar Mukewar:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Pushkar Mukewar, Co-founder and CEO of Drip Capital. Pushkar kicked off his career at Capital One, went to work for Oliver Wyman and Saama Capital. He has a Masters from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Wharton School of Business.Join our No-Spam WhatsApp groupIn this conversation he talks about:His journey building Drip Capital, going from 0 to 2 billion dollars in transactions on the platform.Getting incubated by Y Combinator when Drip Capital was just two founders with just an idea.Scaling the business across three markets, building a team of 250+ employees, and raising 500M+ in venture funding.Key Take-Aways:Building a startup is about experimentation, understanding the customers’ pain points and launching something - failing quickly - launching again.Your success as a startup depends on how and why you uniquely solve your customer’s pain points.Scaling up a business is like building a scalable machine. You start with generalists who can do everything and bring in specialists who can build specific functions once the business scales.