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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 f…
1 year, 10 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 h…
1 year, 10 months ago
Part 2: Manav Garg sold his business and started TogetherFund with Girish Mathrubootham. Naturally, the $150M fund has a founder-operator bias. What does that mean?
Season 2 Episode 29
In the first part of my conversation with Manav Garg, I introduced him as the founder of Eka Software. This week, I would like to reintroduce Manav a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Part 2: Alok Mittal—teacher, angel investor, former VC—asserts Indifi is not a disruptive business. He also emphasises organisations should not fall into the trap of founder-worshipping
Season 2 Episode 28
"This notion of a startup should be centered around the founder is a mindset. It makes for great stories. It makes for great heroes. And that's the r…
1 year, 10 months ago
Part 1: Manav Garg started and ran Eka Software for 20 years before selling it. His #1 advise to founders? Budget 6 months to "manufacture" your co-founders
Season 2 Episode 27
“As I said, I am from a middle-class family. I was earning $10,000/month, which is a large sum in those days. And sitting in Singapore, Bangkok, trav…
1 year, 11 months ago
Postcard Hotels' Kapil Chopra wants to build an iconic luxury hotel group in a hurry and from scratch, but without risking it all
Season 2 Episode 16
Kapil Chopra, the founder and CEO of Postcard Hotels told me the following statistics.
Of the 10 million foreign tourists who visit India each year, r…
1 year, 11 months ago
Part 2: Jaydeep Barman explains how internet restaurant Rebel Foods and luxury good giant LVMH have more in common than one can imagine
Season 2 Episode 25
Jaydeep Barman has settled into his role of being a CEO for quite some time now. He admits he was not always the nicest of people when they restarted…
1 year, 11 months ago
Part 1: Alok Mittal of Indifi on why org culture should not be defined but discovered
Season 2 Episode 24
Alok Mittal has been on both ends of the startup ecosystem. He’s been a founder and a VC. These days he’s back in the founder’s seat but still enabli…
1 year, 11 months ago
Part 1: Jaydeep Barman of Rebel Foods on why his business is 'misunderstood'—and why that's a good thing
Season 2 Episode 23
Rebel Foods was incorporated in 2015. Before that it was Faasos and Faasos has been around since 2004. But co-founder and CEO Jaydeep Barman says bac…
2 years ago
Part 2: Chetan Maini of SUN Mobility on finding his 'true north', again
Season 2 Episode 22
When Chetan Maini – co-founder and chairman of SUN Mobility – stepped down as Mahindra Reva CEO in 2015, he wasn’t thinking what was the next venture…
2 years ago