Shor co-founder and CEO Daivik Goel discusses the company’s stablecoin-settled payroll platform and its decision to build, rather than rent, its fintech stack. He explains why dollar-pegged settlement matters for workers in markets with volatile local currencies, framing the company’s focus around an underserved fintech gap.
Shor co-founder Avi Konduru discusses the company’s pivot from stablecoin infrastructure into global payroll on The Lobster Talks Podcast. The conversation covers Shor’s use of AI agents and stablecoin settlement to rebuild employer-of-record operations at lower cost, its pricing strategy against Deel and Rippling, and the founders’ last-minute Y Combinator Summer 2025 application.
Nov 2025 · The Lobster Talks Podcast by Lobster CapitalNews article
Shor co-founder and CEO Daivik Goel describes the company's shift from a crypto payments idea to global payroll. He says Shor ships contractor payroll within a week and embeds payroll actions in Slack and WhatsApp through AI agents instead of dashboards.
Nov 2025 · START / Startup Growth PodcastNews article
Payroll startup Shor launches as a Y Combinator-backed platform with a bubble-bath ad mocking Deel and Rippling. It charges USD 99 per full-time employee plus a flat 2 percent foreign-exchange fee, and offers instant contracts with local-currency payouts within 24 hours.
