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Lalit Keshre of Groww on being far-sighted, intuitive and absolutely obsessed with your customer

Five founders on building a unique product and making it last

Radhika Gupta of Edelweiss AMC on the joy of creating impact

BillDesk’s MN Srinivasu on building quietly and sustainably

Archit Gupta of Clear on anti-patterns and being misunderstood

Yashish Dahiya of Policybazaar on why being kind is better than being right

Varun Dua of Acko on learning to let go in order to grow

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

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Krish Subramanian of Chargebee on continuously firing yourself

Smita Deorah of LEAD on why India's 280 million school-going children deserve better

Gaurav Munjal of Unacademy on being confrontational, paranoid and transparent

Ronnie Screwvala on why upGrad is neither a startup nor an edtech

Fractal’s Srikanth Velamakanni on surviving before thriving

Kunal Shah of CRED on “exciting but painful” workplaces, gated digital communities, and employee shareholders

Five founders on fundraising, culture-building, clock- building, culture-shaping, people coaching, surviving and thriving

Shan Kadavil of Fresh To Home on selling fish, building moats, encouraging bottom-up “shots on goal”, and being honest with boards

Srikanth Iyer of Home Lane on embracing what you’re bad at in order to do better at what you’re good at, and being a wartime general

Kamal Sagar of Total Environment on picking principles over convenience, reimagining real estate, design, authenticity and learning to say no

Ruchi Kalra of Oxyzo on creating two unicorns in 7 years, spotting gigantic market opportunities, putting profits and cash flow first, and letting go of personal ambitions

Deep Kalra of MakeMyTrip on being “22 years young”, presenting from Excel sheets instead of Powerpoint slides, the importance of open disagreements, and the good stress of building

Tarun Mehta of Ather Energy talks about doing hard things, going down multi-year rabbit holes, building companies over 30-40 years, and being chief storyteller

Amit Agarwal of NoBroker talks about his single-minded mission to disrupt brokerage, building a cockroach company, and why his office address is a secret

Amrish Rau of Pine Labs talks about the differences between being a founder and a CEO

Vineeta Singh of SUGAR Cosmetics talks about building products, educating consumers, and focusing on the long term

Razorpay CEO Harshil Mathur talks about deliberate culture, building to a need, and the principles of product development

Learnability, curiosity, and brand building; Ex-Myntra CEO and Mensa Brands founder Ananth Narayanan gets candid

InMobi founder Naveen Tewari gets candid about survival, innovation, and playing the game by changing the rules

Nithin Kamath of Zerodha candidly talks about building his bootstrapped business, weighing risks, and finding opportunities

$1.5B Amagi Founder Baskar Subramanian talks about building culture at work, parenting, and building from ground up

Kabeer Biswas of Dunzo talks about raising money, gathering user insights, battling deadlines and more