All Episodes
Z47 Moments — 249 episodes
242: Building India's most viral sneaker brand | Utkarsh Gupta | Unstarted
241: How 3 IIT engineers built one of India's biggest beauty brands | Manish Taneja | Unstarted
240: The man who sold his company to Jio for Rs. 700 Cr | Aakrit Vaish | Unstarted
239: How Rebel Foods Built the World's First Cloud Kitchen Empire | Jaydeep Barman | Unstarted
238: Raised $12.5M to eliminate US healthcare's biggest problem | Coral AI
237: Built a $70M company because he wasn't invited to birthday parties
236: 150 rejections, a government ban and starting over | The Dream11 story | Unstarted Ep 7
235: AI won't take your job, here's why | Intelligent Indians Ep 3
234: Raising $7 Million for your AI startup | Utkrishta Kumar | Unstarted Ep 5
233: He shut down his first company and built a bigger one | Anil Goteti, Scapia | Unstarted Ep 5
232: He built a $1.5B seafood empire from India that nobody knows about | Utham Gowda -Captain Fresh
231: The truth about about starting up in your 20s | Foxtale founder
230: What Aman Gupta Won't Say on Shark Tank | Aman Gupta | Avnish Bajaj | UnStarted Ep3
229: What if my startup fails? | Ahana Gautam, Open Secret | UnStarted Ep2
228: Do you need work experience BEFORE starting up? | Revant Bhate, Mosaic Wellness | UnStarted Ep 1
227: This company is building the IKEA of India
226: Why VCs regret not investing in Acceldata - From IIT to Silicon Valley
225: How this IIT Alum is scaling India's ₹10,000 Cr AI Initiative | Intelligent Indians #AI
224: Where will $12 Billion VC capital go in 2026? | India’s Top Investors Explain
223: Trends in Term Sheets: What Founders Need to Know
222: How Emversity Is Bridging Higher Education with Real Industry Skills | Zero to Infinity
220: India’s Secret Advantage in AI: The FDE Revolution
221: How MoEngage Is Powering Global Customer Engagement | Zero to Infinity
219: The Startup That Can Build Anything
218: India’s Role in an AI-First World? | Zero to Infinity
217: How Scalekit is Revolutionizing Access Management for Agents | Zero to Infinity
216: Disruptor, Digitiser, Enabler: AI’s Role in India's Apps | Consumer Trends Part 2
215: What it’s like to work at a young AI startup: Inside GreyLabs AI | Zero to Infinity
214: 5 Consumer Trends We're Watching Closely | Part 1 | Zero to Infinity
213: Meet the Founders of Finnable: ₹3,000 Cr Phygital Lending Powerhouse | Zero to Infinity
212: From (Z)omato to (A)ther: India’s Tech IPO Shift Decoded | Avnish Bajaj | Rajinder Balaraman
211: Beyond ISRO: India's SpaceTech Startups Are Firing Up
210: 4 P&L Secrets D2C / Consumer Brand Founders Use to MAXIMIZE Growth
209: How B2B Companies Scale to Infinity | Zero to Infinity | Avnish Bajaj | Sudipto Sannigrahi
208: The Last Software You Will Ever Shutdown - Meet the founder of WizCommerce
207: Jobs, Startups, & Trillions: How AI Will Rewrite the Rules of Everything
206: Meet the Founders of Wootz.work: Reimagining Indian Manufacturing for the World | Zero to Infinity
206: Consumer Unicorns in the Next Tech-Ade
205: The Next Tech-Ade of FinTech
204: The next tech-ade in Enterprise and AI
203: Why Z47, Why Now: Developed Nation Building | Zero to Infinity
202: How redBus CEO Drives Impact with Every Hire
201: Founder Archetypes - The First Time Founder Edge Part 2
198: Founder Archetypes: The First Time Founder's Edge | Avnish Bajaj | Chandrasekhar Venugopal
200: How Startups Can Supercharge India's Aerospace & Defence Sector
199: dd-Matrix CEO Sid Sheth Shares His Blueprint for Chip Success | Seed to Silicon
197: SaaS in the Era of AI: How to build an enduring SaaS AI company
196: Economic PMF is the ONLY PMF: App Economy 3.0.
195: How this founder turned 1000 interviews into a potential Rs.1000 Cr brand?
194: How Unsecured Lending Became More Viable in India | Vikram Vaidyanathan | Anish Patil
194: The Future of E-commerce is Kwik & Bright! | Chirag Taneja | Avnish Bajaj | Rajat Agarwal
194: Meet the Founders of Neysa Networks | Sharad Sanghi | Anindya Das | Avnish Bajaj | Pranay Desai
194: Meet the Founder of SiftHub | Manisha Raisinghani | Pranay Desai
193: The Park+ Playbook for Early Stage Hires
193: Meet the Founders of GreyLabs AI
192: The Middle Journey of Fintech
191: How to Go Phygital for Growth: Myths vs Reality
191: Where to incorporate SaaS Startups: US or India?
190: The Founder's Handbook - Internal vs External Funding Rounds
189: How Domain Alphas master success?
188: How OTO Sold 1,00,000 Two-Wheelers online?
187: The Whole Truth about Brand Communities
186: The Whole Truth about Company Culture
185: 0:03 / 23:04 • Introduction How INDMoney's Ashish Kashyap Builds Successful Teams AGAIN & AGAIN | People First with Rupali
184: Building the Organisation from Ground 0 with Revant Bhate
183: Investing in Digital India - Trends for 2024
182: Leading the B2B frontier: People fueling profitability
181: Matrix Moments: Investing in Human Capital; The VC Perspective
180: Matrix Moments: Code to Commerce - The Mobile Gaming Evolution
179: Matrix Moments: Simplifying employee support with AI - Atomicwork
179: Matrix Moments: Maximizing Return on Investment - The Key to Stable Money
178: Matrix Moments: Investing in India's B2B Potential
177: Matrix Moments: Insights From Second Time SaaS Founders - Part 2
175: Insights from second time SaaS founders - Part 1
176: Matrix Moments: Gaming Reloaded - What is next?
174: Digital Industrialists with Avnish Bajaj and Rajinder Balaraman
173: Matrix Moments: India's First Lifestyle App For The Elderly, GenWise
172: Matrix Moments: The AI revolution in Media & Social - Part One
172: Matrix Moments: Anil Goteti, Founder of Scapia on building a travel fintech company
171: Why now, for the India Semiconductor opportunity? Seed to Silicon part 1
170: Unravelling Fintech Infra and Banktech Opportunities
169: The GenAI Revolution in Fintech
168: Murf Unplugged: Winning in GenAI
167: Ready, Steady, Zupee! Elevating Gaming in India
166: What’s Next for Matrix over the Next Techade
165: Matrix Moments: Indian ConsumerTech - Coming back to life
164: Matrix Moments: To IPO or to not IPO?!
164: Demystifying GenAI: A Founder's Primer with Vijay Rayapati
163: Infinity Entrepreneurs
162: The top 4 B2B verticals founders should invest in
161: Environment, Valuations and Starting Up in 2023
160: 2022 Recap & Forecast 2023
159: Jump-starting crypto: road ahead to building applications in web3
158: Founder Market Fit
157: Institutional Staking in the post merge era
156: Building scalable vertical social communities
155: Learnings from experienced founders
154: Tokens of Wisdom
153: Cash’ing in on crypto
152: Built for scale - OneCard's company building journey
151: Starting, fundraising & PMF: navigating the seed stage journey
150: Building the organisation of the future
149: How to create category defining SaaS companies feat. Rocketlane
148: Razorpay’s hypergrowth journey: learning’s & what’s next?
147: The past, present and future of Edtech
146: The gaming series part 4: uncovering the untapped opportunities
145: The gaming series part 3: how Web3 can transform the gaming industry
144: The gaming series part 2: Estreaming - fandom, platforms and tools
143: The Uppercase Podcast
142: Gaming series part 1: Esports: key trends & what's next?
141: B2B Marketplaces part 4 - Decrypting the Indian manufacturing boom
140: The Whole Truth on building enduring, scalable brands
139: B2B marketplaces part 3: how do you solve for perishable supply chains?
138: Demystifying GoKwik - building & scaling "kwikly"
137: Leadership factory at OfBusiness
136: B2B Marketplaces Part 2 – What is a good B2B Marketplace?
135: B2B marketplaces part 1 – why now for B2B?
134: “When it seems too good to be true, it likely is”! aka thoughts on corp governance for digital co.’s
133: The Art of Venture Investing
132: FarMart – building the world's 1st OS that powers value chains
131: Org building with the Captain Fresh team
130: Decoding life as a junior VC
129: Market environment, Feb ‘22
128: Boards
127: A look back at 2021 & forecast for 2022
126: Inside out versus Outside in
125: Behind the scenes with Ilya Sukhar
124: Hiring an in-house head of talent
123: Executive coach: what role do they play in a company’s success?
122: Hard clauses in a term sheet
121: When to hire a chief of staff?
120: DaMensch - building India's largest Men’s Fashion Essentials brand
119: What if I want to startup, but don't have a problem statement
118: IPO readiness & startups
117: Downturns & M&A's
116: Decoding the BNPL model
115: How to pick the right CEO
114: OTO Capital - reimagining the 2 wheeler ownership experience
113: When to bring in an external CEO
112: dezerv. - building an expert investing platform
111: Captain Fresh: Building the future of fresh fish and Sea food
110: Performance versus loyalty: how should employees be evaluated?
109: The Delhi Belly edition: Digesting the wisdom of our NCR founders! - Part 2
108: The Delhi Belly edition: Digesting the wisdom of our NCR founders! - Part 1
107: bijnis - taking factories to the world!
106: Convertible round vs priced equity round?
105: Co-founder Conflicts
104: Fundraising: Speed, Frequency & Size
103: Democratizing the e-shopping experience with GoKwik
102: Fundraising when you don't need it
101: Toddle - Superpower for teachers, by teachers
100: Toddle snippet: working with schools as your clients
99: Stanza Living: Learnings From Hyper-Scaling A Phygital Business
98: Should you care if your VC backs your competitor?
97: Where should I incorporate my company?
96: A decryption of the DealShare journey
95: What's the right burn rate for your company?
94: The Rocketlane Journey
93: Behind the Scenes with Tarun Davda
92: When should a founder announce their fundraise?
90: Network effects in a nutshell.
89: Product vs Distribution
88: The PhonePe journey with Sameer Nigam
87: Marketplaces - Part "2" : B2B&2C&2R&2E = 2B or 2E that is the question!
86: Tarun Davda - Building Matrix Partners India
85: Tarun Davda on AngelList India radio
84: Nithin Kamath unplugged
82: From both sides of the table: Kunal Bahl unplugged - snippet
81: Founder Compensation
80: Co-founder Disputes
76: LTV-CAC – what’s the right number?
77: Is marketing scalable?
79: Reverse Vesting
78: Founder Ownership Structures
75: Valuation versus Dilution
74: The Hack Job – Hacking Your Way Through Growth and Profits
73: From both sides of the table: Kunal Bahl unplugged
72: What role does human capital play in venture investing?
83: Customer versus Competition
71: Redefining wellness, one mosaic at a time
70: Profit Pools – fishing in the right pond!
69: OZiva unplugged: building India’s leading clean, plant-based nutrition brand
68: Gaming+: some games are companies but all companies need to up their game!
67: A look back at 2020 & forecast for 2021
66: Commerce N.0 - crystal ball gazing!
65: Working from home to working from anywhere to finally from work – our experience!
64: From dream to reality - the journey of Dream11
63: The untapped opportunities in agritech
62: The role of tech in the Agri sector
61: Learnings from Ninjacart on building a sustainable agritech model
60: The inception of Waycool – insights from Karthik’s journey
59: Agri – tech startup advice – for founders, from founders.
58: India venture opportunity – part 2
57: The Whole Truth, and nothing else
56: Mobility trends & leanings from redBus's journey
55: Moats
54: Performance Management Systems Decoded
53: The Journey of building Razorpay
52: Dailyhunt’s Journey – Part 2
51: Dailyhunt’s Journey – Part 1
50: Marketplaces
49: The Journey of building OfBusiness – Part 2
48: The Journey of building OfBusiness – Part 1
47: COVID -19 & its after effects on the grocery business.
46: The journey of building Country Delight
45: Marginal Value add
44: Exit Strategy for startups
43: Overreaction is the only reaction for Fintechs
42: Covid - 19 & its implications on startup India
41: Building India’s first discount broking model, Zerodha
40: Decoding the Founder – VC Relationship
38: Creating new Consumer brands digitally
37: Crafting Your Company Culture
36: A look back at 2019
35: POS Framework
34: Founding Team
33: What’s "Neo" about them?!
32: GTM for startups
32: Fundraising & Valuations
31: Stanza Living: transforming the student housing sector
30: Startup Temperature Check
29: Learnings from Serial Entrepreneur, Bhavin Turakhia – part 2
28: Learnings from Serial Entrepreneur, Bhavin Turakhia
27: Exits
26: Finding & Scaling PMF
25: The journey of building Citrus Pay & learnings on the fintech landscape
24: Investor Value Add & Engagement
23: Metrics & Dashboard
22: Structuring incentive plans – ESOP, Cash and Balanced Scorecard
21: The State of the Indian Venture Market 2019
20: The Terms of Term Sheets
19: The Journey of Building LoadShare
18: Budget & Burn
17: Org 3.0
15: The journey behind building Itilite
14: The InMobi journey
13: CODS
12: Discovering Fintech Religion - Part 2
11: Discovering Fintech Religion - Part 1
10: Extreme Hiring
9: Extreme Referencing
8: State of the Indian Venture Ecosystem - Part 2: Forecast 2019
7: State of the Indian Venture Ecosystem - Part 1: A Look Back at 2018
6: Living in the Middle of the Funnel (MoFu)
5: Extreme Productivity
4: Making Sense of Valuations
3: Operator VCs versus Investor VCs
2: Fear & Greed
1: Intrinsics