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Candid conversations with India’s best-known entrepreneurs and leaders, and fresh insights on how they apply First Principles thinking—not just see the world differently, but to remake it in their own vision.
Candid conversations with India’s best-known entrepreneurs and leaders, and fresh insights on how they apply First Principles thinking—not just see the world differently, but to remake it in their own vision.
The co-founder of Clevertap on how first principles, not playbooks built his company's foundation
The co-founder and CEO on building Ultraviolette through frugality, forward-thinking, and “paranoid” problem-solving
The co-founder and CEO of Meesho charts the company's and his own journey of growth till now
The founder and former CEO of Eka Software Solutions believes having a strong vision and persistence goes far in taking a no to a yes
The founder of Postcard Hotels explains how luxury travel is evolving, why he left his prestigious job and how he is scaling the founder-led luxury hotel chain rapidly.
The co-founder and MD of Indifi Technologies shares his thoughts on organization building
The co-founder and CEO of Rebel Food explains how he’s building the world’s largest internet restaurant
The Chairman of Marico Limited on building an FMCG empire, creating product differentiation in a crowded market and what innovation has meant for him across 30 years
The CEO and co-founder of Freshworks on leading from the heart, building patiently, and finding the right role for the best talent
The CEO and co-founder of Udaan on what differentiates the B2B platform, how it has evolved and the five pillars of its culture
The Co-Founder and MD of Capillary Tech on starting like investors, building a people-first organization and growing more while raising less
The executive vice chairman of Narayana Health on building sticky habits in customers, changing the messaging in healthcare, and becoming “worse” as an insurance firm to be better as a healthcare one
The Founder and CEO of Waterfield Advisors on betting on a 'sceptical' idea, turning it into a resilient business and the future of wealth management in India
The founder and group CEO of OYO on breaking into a traditional market with a differentiated product, cracking a supply-starved industry and persevering through a crisis.
The co-founder and CEO of Spinny on why there's no longer a difference between a used and a new car buyer, how to build trust within your firm, how to identify pain points and much more.
The co-founder and CEO of Groww on why financial services are a basic necessity, how to create delight with your product, why discipline is overrated, and much more.
The MD and CEO of Edelweiss AMC on why she doesn't believe in work-life balance, separating constructive criticism from targeted bias, keeping an inner scorecard for evaluation and much more.
The co-founder of BillDesk on not handling person-to-person payments, disincentivising chasing glory metrics, coaching the first 100 employees, and being “managed upward” by his reportees
The co-founder of PolicyBazaar on why his firm is an education platform and not a comparison one, the "right to win", how he spots and grooms talent and the importance of physical endurance and excellence.
The co-founder and CEO of Chargebee on letting go of the need for world-changing ideas, hiring for strengths, why early-stage founders must say 'no' instead of 'challenge accepted!', and treating business as a game.
The co-founder of LEAD on why she moved back to India, whether schools should work for profit, why India's students lag in learning by two years, and how her daughter learnt to read even before she could speak.
The co-founder and CEO of Unacademy on how AI will disrupt education, why today’s teachers are more mercenaries than missionaries, running a product-driven education firm instead of a sales-driven one, and why confrontational people do well in life.
The co-founder and chairperson of upGrad opens up on ambition, organisation building, online education and long-term thinking.
The co-founder of Fractal on transitioning from analytics to AI, using "AI for Good", playing the chief talent scout and Keiretsu.
In a wide-ranging and reflective conversation, we go behind Shah’s thoughts about building businesses, hiring “high-slope” professionals, and why many meetings inside CRED are called as “shareholder meetings”.
In a wide-ranging and reflective conversation, Kadavil offers first-hand insights from his stints as an entrepreneur.
The co-founder and CEO of Home Lane on what it takes to be one of the market leaders in the online home interiors space today.
In a candid and reflective conversation that spans his three decade career as an architect and entrepreneur, Sagar shows us an alternate view of building a company. A word that comes up multiple times in the conversation is “authenticity”.
The CEO 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.
The founder and chairman of MakeMyTrip, covers a two decade span of evolution of India’s internet and startup space, including his own journey as an entrepreneur. It’s a masterclass on not giving up, staying in the game, and building to last.
The CEO of Ather Energy talks about his journey to convince investors of his vision, building an organisation over decades, and why it takes at least three years to make a true impact at work.
The “IIT-IIM” founder speaks candidly over an hour and a half on a range of topics from entering management consultant to running a frugal organisation.
Building SUGAR Cosmetics into what it is today was a tumultuous journey, one that exposes a lot of the lenses that Vineeta uses to look at the world around her.
As defined by it's CEO and co-founder, Razorpay is India's first full-stack financial solutions company. What does that truly mean? How did it come about? This episode is all about that.
The CEO and co-founder of India's fastest unicorn, Mensa Brands, gets candid about the virtues of curiosity, learnability, and the gravity of brand building for e-commerce.
The founder and CEO of one of India's first unicorns, InMobi, talks about what it took to survive the tough times and to go on to build businesses like Glance, and Roposo.
The co-founder of Zerodha shares some little known yet fascinating insights about the company, how he built it, and what drives him today
The co-founder and CEO of Dunzo on why India needs a 'quick-enough' commerce market, putting his money in Dunzo rounds, how to know your consumers better and his love for 'Smondays'
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