Podcast Episodes

The Most Underrated Unicorn Founder In Silicon Valley | Tuhin Srivastava

Season 1 Episode 39

SPC alum Tuhin Srivastava sits down with Aditya Agarwal to break down how a failed four-year startup, plus early chapters in finance and biotech, shaped the way he is scaling Baseten into one of the …

Published on 10 hours ago

Scaling India's Payments: How PhonePe Built for 500-Million+ Users

Season 1 Episode 38

Rahul Chari is a leader in India’s tech evolution, from building Flipkart’s foundations, to architecting PhonePe’s planet-scale platform. Simply put, there are very few people in a country of over a …

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Scaling a Founder-First Community | Ruchi Sanghvi & Aditya Agarwal

Season 1 Episode 37

After years of operating at scale at companies like Facebook and Dropbox, Ruchi Sanghvi, founding partner of South Park Commons, and Aditya Agarwal, General Partner, turn the mic on each other to rev…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Selling Pulse to LinkedIn & Scaling Notion Globally | Akshay Kothari

Akshay Kothari has built tools that transform the everyday by making technology feel effortless, like Pulse and Notion.

He joins Aditya Agarwal to share the counterintuitive lessons behind enduring pr…

Published on 1 month ago

-1 to Extreme Conviction in India’s EV Market | Tarun Mehta & Ather Energy

Tarun Mehta, co-founder and CEO of Ather Energy, joins Prateek Mehta, to unpack how Ather lived the “minus one” philosophy. By taking risks, locking in on what they truly wanted to build for the next…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Inside Early Facebook with Andrew Bosworth: Culture, Ads, and AR Glasses

Facebook’s early culture was chaotic, fun, and fueled by a belief that "you can just do things."

Andrew Bosworth, Meta CTO, joins Aditya Agarwal to revisit that foundational energy. He covers the crea…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Man Betting on Institutional Reform | Joe Lonsdale and 8VC

After building companies that made their mark, Joe Lonsdale launched 8VC to tackle institutional decay, backing ambitious startups and encouraging the next generation to build what’s missing.

Now over…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Building Great Companies, Not Just Good Ones | Mukesh Bansal

What does it take to build great companies?

Mukesh Bansal, founder of giants like Myntra and Cure.fit, and now building at the frontier of deep tech with Meraki Labs and Nurix, joins Prateek Mehta in…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Robinhood, Space, and the American Dream | Baiju Bhatt

Baiju Bhatt helped millions learn to invest through Robinhood. He’s since taken the leap to aerospace with his new company Aetherflux.

Baiju joins Aditya Agarwal to cover what building from first pri…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

What the Smartest People in AI Are Missing | Gary Vaynerchuk

How do brands like PepsiCo and Chanel convert consumer attention into real business growth?

Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia and multiple New York Times Bestselling Author, joins Dylan Itzikowitz t…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago