All Episodes

The Best Sales People Don’t Sell

When to Pivot in Life & Career

Build a Life, Not Just a Career

Preferred, Not Preserved: Rethinking India's Craft Economy

Why Smart People Make Poor Decisions w/ Shane Parrish

Grew Up Learning from Buffett and Munger: Monsoon Pabrai’s Investing Edge

Episode 87 [Thrive]: How Estée Lauder Sold Permission, Not Perfume

Episode 86: Private Communities Are the Future w/Utsav Somani

Episode 85 [Thrive]:  Starbucks Achilles Heel Technology Adoption versus the Human Touch

Episode 84: Harnessing Chaos: The Antifragile Approach to Thriving in Uncertainty

Episode 83: CEO’s Journey: McKinsey to Entrepreneurship w/ Simran Khara

Insight Business Breakdown: Do Restaurants make Big Profits?

Insight Business Breakdown: The Rise of Cloud Kitchens in the Delivery-Only Era

Insight Business Breakdown: How much is restaurant rental?

Episode 82: Business Breakdown of the Indian F&B Industry w/Sarthak Ahuja

Episode 75: Business Breakdown of the Indian B2B Textile Industry

Episode 81: The Indian Video Game Revolution: History & Social Impact of Gaming, The Indian Female Gamer, Unit Economics of the Gaming Industry w/Salone Sehgal

Episode 80- Cycle Pure Agarbathis: Whenever the nation prays together, Building the world’s largest incense business- History, Culture, Customer w/Arjun Ranga

Episode 79- Being Resilient & Committed: Lessons from Three Startups, B2B- Marketing, Pricing, Why is Generative AI the next Saas w/Vijay Rayapati @Atomicwork

Episode 78- Designing & Building a Career: Investing in Yourself, Finding a Career Coach w/Sawan Kapoor

Episode 77- Turning Adversity into an Advantage: Building Wakefit, Importance of Sleep, How to build a great company, w/Chaitanya Ramalingegowda

Episode 76: Early Life, Impact of IIM, Is success an outcome of Brilliance or Network? How to make career decisions? How to build teams? Best leadership advice w/Dhruvank Vaidya

Insight: White space opportunity for entrepreneurs to explore within the Indian Handicraft Industry

Insight: White space opportunity for entrepreneurs to explore within the Indian Handicraft Industry

Insight: Founder & CEO of Reshamandi talks about the Indian Silk Industry size & opportunity

Insight: Mayank Tiwari talks about why NIFT alums are not building brands for the masses.

Episode 74: Part-2: Building Chamaeleon, Investing in Start-ups, Decision Making Strategies, Analysing Decisions w/Nuno Goncalves

Episode 73: Part-1: View adversity as an opportunity, How to slow down and intensify focus, Learnings from living in 35+ countries, How love for food has influenced his career w/Nuno Goncalves Pedro

Insight: Prasanna Sankar shares why Bitcoin is a Technological Marvel.

Insight- Prasanna Sankar shares how he is productive by not being productive?

Insight-Prasanna Sankar shares how his life has changed after becoming a Billionaire.

Insight- Prasanna Sankar shares why "The Thoughtful Investor" by Basant Maheshwari is the most under rated book.

Insight- Prasanna Sankar shares how Governments and CBDCs will create the next bull run in the Crypto markets.

Episode 72: Part-2: Becoming a Billionaire, Impact of Paul Graham & Marc Andreessen Essays, Productivity Hacks, Books w/Prasanna Sankar

Episode 71: Part-1: Indian Hustle & Competition, Building Early Confidence, State of FAAMGs, Brilliance & Future of Bitcoin, Power of a Free Mind w/Prasanna Sankar

Episode 70: An Unconventional Career Journey w/Susan Zhang

Episode 69: Part 2- Building Blume Ventures w/Karthik Reddy

Episode 68: Part 1- Building Blume Ventures w/Karthik Reddy

Episode 67: State Bank of India: Elephants Can Dance!

Episode 66: Exploring the Toy Industry w/Brendan Boyle

Episode 65: Career: Making bold moves w/Aditi Sharma

Episode 64: HabitStrong: Importance of Habits, Boredom and Discipline w/Rajan Singh

Episode 63: Building Generational Brands w/Raja Ganapathy

Episode 62: Career: Management Consultant to Storyteller w/Abhay Maheshwari

Episode 61: Being an Evangelist w/Guy Kawasaki

Episode 60: Mini-Series: The CEO factory of India, Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever

Episode 59: Building Inshorts & Public App w/Deepit Purkayastha

Episode 58: Building an Effective & Profitable Sales Function w/Aditi Shrivastava, Pocket Aces

Episode 57: Jeremy Utley: Ideaflow- Generate as many ideas as possible

Episode 56: Matt Abrahams: Frameworks for Strategic Communication

Episode 55: Sandeep Jethwani: dezerv.- Building long-term wealth

Episode 54: Shreyaa Kapoor- Being a Content Strategist & Influencer

Episode 53: Anand Jain- From door 2 door sales to building CleverTap

Episode 52: Mini-Series-Royal Enfield: India's Global Lifestyle Brand

Episode 51: Peter Wang- Being a CTO

Episode 50: Mini-Series- Generalist Vs Specialist

Episode 49: Sidu Ponnappa- Lessons from entrepreneurship and investing

Episode 48: Mini-Series- Haldiram’s- India’s No.1 snack company

Episode 47: Ahana Gautam-Un-Junking the Indian snack industry

Episode 45: James Keyes- Leadership through adversity

Episode 45: Sourjyendu Medda: DealShare- Building a social e-commerce unicorn for Bharat

Episode 44: Taru Kapoor: Tinder- Solving a Hard Problem

Episode 43: Shrishti Sahu- Investing in early-stage founders

Episode 42: Abhinandan Sridhar- Building a screenwriting career in the New Media Age

Episode 41: Jeffrey Paine- Being an Introverted Leader

Episode 40: Ashwin Suresh- From Wall Street to India on a one way ticket

Episode 39: Ustav Agarwal- How to enter new markets

Episode 38: Sabeer Bhatia- Problems worth solving

Episode 37: Ravi Mehta- Product Management 101- Building for Tinder, Facebook, & Tripadvisor

Episode 36: Pramath Sinha- Building a legacy in education

Episode 35: Pushkar Mukewar- Building Drip Capital from zero to $2 billion in transactions

Episode 34: David Fallarme-The New Age Marketer

Episode 33: Amit Garg- Investing in the future of Artificial Intelligence

Episode 32: Miten Sampat- How to build and scale tech ventures?

Episode 31: Shravan Tickoo- How to build and scale products for Unicorns

Episode 30: Billy Naveed- Building Ventures for South East Asia

Episode 29: Tarun Davda- Building Matrix Partners India

Episode 28: Mahi de Silva- Building consumer-focused businesses

Episode 27: William Mcquillan- Building Frontline Ventures

Episode 26: Christina Lopes- Building The One Health Company

Episode 25: Abhishek Nag- Building Internet Businesses

A product manager's guide to building a start-up and a successful blog

Episode 23: Omid Scheybani- Scaling Growth Stage Ventures.

Episode 22: Deborah Quazzo- Investing in Exceptional EdTech Entrepreneurs.

Episode 21: Aviral Bhatnagar- Building & Scaling “A Junior VC” Community; Democratise Start-up Conversations

Episode 20: Sanjay Mehta- Being a Founder Friendly Investor

Episode 19: Abhinav Jain- Democratizing Entrepreneurship in Bharat

Episode 18: Devaiah Bopanna- The New Age Story Teller

Episode 17: Matthew Lee- Building a career in Venture Capital & Next Wave of Consumers- Gen Alpha

Episode 16: Frank Lantz- Game Design: Brilliance & Fallacy of Chess, Go, Poker and the Future of Online Gaming

Episode 15: Ayush Jaiswal- Building Pesto Tech business on a mission to give everyone access to opportunity

Episode 14: Victor Lang- Scaling Gini to 60 Countries with 3,000 Banks in 4 years

Episode 13: Vikram Chandra- Decoding a Writer’s Mind

Episode 12: India on the 74th Independence Day

Episode 11: Utsav Somani - Building AngelList India

Episode 3: Alfonso Fiore- A Product Owner’s Journey

Episode 2: Amit Agrawal- Understanding the Indian Consumer Landscape

Episode 1: Robert Hao- Building and Scaling in China

Episode 10: Prasun Choudhary - Building OYO Japan

Episode 9: Sachin Tipnis- Higher Education: Building and Scaling Asia’s Leading Master Program