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Part 2: Kuku’s Lal Chand Bisu on the Bathoth-to-Bandra arc, learning from iterations not books, and why nos beat yeses

Part 1: Kuku's Lal Chand Bisu on killing three products, ditching the free tier and charging Bharat ₹399 a year

Part 2: Curefoods' Ankit Nagori on why Indians only eat healthy Monday to Thursday, focusing on brand over scale, and what drives him now

Part 1: Curefoods' Ankit Nagori on cold emailing his way into Flipkart, designing for talent density, and surviving a pandemic on 2 crores a month

Part 2: Captain Fresh's Utham Gowda on seafood as the world's last unorganised trillion-dollar industry, why undervaluation is a founder's superpower and his “reverse career path”

Part 1: Captain Fresh's Utham Gowda on seafood as the world's last unorganised trillion-dollar industry, why undervaluation is a founder's superpower and his “reverse career path”

Part 2: Kalpana Morparia on the culture of dissent, the 90-day NYSE race, and why ambition requires self-redundancy

Part 1: Kalpana Morparia on the culture of dissent, the 90-day NYSE race, and why ambition requires self-redundancy

Part 2: Darwinbox’s Rohit Chennamaneni on leading without a CEO, the ‘show don’t tell’ product mindset, and why resilience beats intelligence

Part 1: Darwinbox’s Rohit Chennamaneni on leading without a CEO, the ‘show don’t tell’ product mindset, and why resilience beats intelligence

First Principles, second look: The 2025 wrap

Part 2: Ixigo's Aloke Bajpai on using empathy, customer experience, and resilience to both survive and thrive

Part 1: Ixigo's Aloke Bajpai on using empathy, customer experience, and resilience to both survive and thrive

Part 2: Indiagold's Deepak Abbot on turning a nation's 'dead asset' into credit scores and working capital

Part 1: Indiagold's Deepak Abbot on turning a nation's 'dead asset' into credit scores and working capital

Part 2: Trilegal's Rahul Matthan on the firm, the partnership, and the principles

Part 1: Trilegal's Rahul Matthan on the firm, the partnership, and the principles

Part 2: Anand Jain of Clevertap on starting with nothing and learning, building and leading as you go along

Part 1: Anand Jain of Clevertap on starting with nothing and learning, building and leading as you go along

Part 2: Ultraviolette Automotive's Narayan Subramaniam on tinkering, designing and learning by discarding

Part 1: Ultraviolette Automotive's Narayan Subramaniam on tinkering, designing and learning by discarding

Part 2: Manish Sabharwal of Teamlease on creating great ancestors, India’s development journey and ‘regulatory cholesterol’

Part 1: Manish Sabharwal of Teamlease on creating great ancestors, India’s development journey and ‘regulatory cholesterol’

Part 2: Sahil Barua on why Delhivery is the antithesis of moving fast and breaking things

Part 1: Sahil Barua on why Delhivery is the antithesis of moving fast and breaking things

Part 2: Vidit Aatrey on building a problem-first mindset into Meesho's culture

Part 1: Vidit Aatrey on building a problem-first mindset into Meesho's culture

Introducing Two by Two, a new premium business podcast from The Ken

The Final Supercut Part 2: Founders 21-41

The Final Supercut Part 1: Founders 1-20

Last Principles

Five women founders speak about leading with empathy, ambition, and not being apologetic and just focusing on building

Part 2: Manav Garg sold his business and started TogetherFund with Girish Mathrubootham. Naturally, the $150M fund has a founder-operator bias. What does that mean?

Part 2: Alok Mittal—teacher, angel investor, former VC—asserts Indifi is not a disruptive business. He also emphasises organisations should not fall into the trap of founder-worshipping

Part 1: Manav Garg started and ran Eka Software for 20 years before selling it. His #1 advise to founders? Budget 6 months to "manufacture" your co-founders

Part 2: Jaydeep Barman explains how internet restaurant Rebel Foods and luxury good giant LVMH have more in common than one can imagine

Part 1: Alok Mittal of Indifi on why org culture should not be defined but discovered

Part 1: Jaydeep Barman of Rebel Foods on why his business is 'misunderstood'—and why that's a good thing

Part 2: Chetan Maini of SUN Mobility on finding his 'true north', again

From succeeding in overcrowded markets to creating customer delight, five founders share their secrets

Part 2: Harsh Mariwala of Marico on experimenting with learning, fitness and leadership at 72

Part 1: Why Chetan Maini of SUN Mobility stopped making EVs when it got cool

Part 2: Girish Mathrubootham on Freshworks' trade secrets – and why he opened them up to competitors

Part 1: From Parachute to Saffola, Marico's Harsh Mariwala on building and branding India's biggest consumer products

Part 1: Girish Mathrubootham of Freshworks on why he doesn't measure 'winning' by numbers

Part 2: Why Vaibhav Gupta of Udaan doesn’t identify problems by patterns

Five founders on creating trust, patience and careers in their organisations

Part 2: Aneesh Reddy of Capillary Tech on how being called a “bully” led him to be a better leader

Part 1: How Vaibhav Gupta of Udaan builds, scales and improves execution playbooks

Part 2: How Viren Shetty of Narayana Health is building a career free of ‘groundhog days’

Part 1: Aneesh Reddy of Capillary Tech on his wins, mistakes and a breakout SaaS model

Part 2: Soumya Rajan of Waterfield Advisors on entrepreneurship, liberation and legacy

Part 1: Viren Shetty of Narayana Health on becoming ‘worse’ to become better and other ways to fix healthcare in India

Part 2: Why Ritesh Agarwal is a 'peacetime CEO' despite OYO's many wars

Part 1: Soumya Rajan of Waterfield Advisors on turning a 'sceptical' idea into a resilient business

Part 2: Karthik Jayaraman of WayCool looks back on his career, starting up at 40 and building leaders

Part 1: Ritesh Agarwal of OYO on building a business on differentiation, communication and resilience

Five founders on their childhood, choices and what drove them to start up

Part 1: Karthik Jayaraman of WayCool Foods on why disruption isn't always necessary for innovation

Five founders on building a unique product and making it last

Five CEOs talk about their journeys, struggles, successes, and failures

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