Podcast Episodes

Part 2: Sahil Barua on why Delhivery is the antithesis of moving fast and breaking things

Season 3 Episode 4

Delhivery, the logistics company, started out in Delhi. It even has Delhi in its name, literally.

Yet, a few weeks ago, I flew to Goa to meet its co-founder and CEO, Sahil Barua, because that’s where …

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Part 1: Sahil Barua on why Delhivery is the antithesis of moving fast and breaking things

Season 3 Episode 3

Delhivery, the logistics company, started out in Delhi. It even has Delhi in its name, literally.

Yet, a few weeks ago, I flew to Goa to meet its co-founder and CEO, Sahil Barua, because that’s where …

Published on 6 months ago

Part 2: Vidit Aatrey on building a problem-first mindset into Meesho's culture

Season 3 Episode 2

Welcome to First Principles. This is the second part of my conversation with Vidit Aatrey, co-founder and CEO of Meesho, which we had released in full for Premium subscribers of The Ken last week and…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Part 1: Vidit Aatrey on building a problem-first mindset into Meesho's culture

Season 3 Episode 1

I met Vidit Aatrey, Co-founder and CEO of Meesho, on 14th February, exactly two months ago. We met at Spacebot Studios in Indiranagar. Vidit is tall, lean and clean-shaven. He is a careful listener a…

Published on 7 months ago

Beyond the First Order - The Ken's first live subscriber event

Season 2 Episode 30

The Ken is hosting its first live subscriber event! Join two long-term and contrarian CEOs, Nithin Kamath of Zerodha and Deepak Shenoy of Capitalmind, as they discuss the mental models, decision maki…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Introducing Two by Two, a new premium business podcast from The Ken

Season 2

From over here at The Ken's newsroom, we have a very exciting announcement: our first premium podcast – India's first premium business podcast – is now live!

It's called Two by Two – and this podcast …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

The Final Supercut Part 2: Founders 21-41

Season 2

Hello, we're back again with part 2 of our final, final supercut where we’ve spliced together one interesting bit of conversation from the last 21 guests I interviewed on First Principles. 

And like t…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

The Final Supercut Part 1: Founders 1-20

Season 2

I know what you’re thinking. Didn’t the First Principles podcast draw its curtains? Yes we did.

But then we decided to do a final super-splice of every single episode we did. There were 41 founders. A…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Last Principles

Season 2

First Principles is coming to an end. But it's not the end of the road for you as listeners.

We still want to hear from you and know what you expect from the podcasts from The Ken. Let us know with yo…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Five women founders speak about leading with empathy, ambition, and not being apologetic and just focusing on building

Season 2

Becoming an entrepreneur is a leap of faith. Regardless of when or even if your business sees the light of day, starting up is still a tremendously hard thing for someone to take up, work on and say …

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago