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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 ful…
1 year, 3 months 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,…
1 year, 3 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…
1 year, 4 months 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 n…
2 years 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 gu…
2 years 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 ever…
2 years 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 f…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month ago