Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar
187 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago -The Indian Silicon Valley Podcast is a series of intricate conversations with Founders, Investors and Domain Experts from India's flourishing startup ecosystem, with the hope to decode the learnings from building legendary institutions.
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E121 - Building the Leading Logistics Company w/Pickrr's Gaurav Mangla
October 16, 2022 17:34 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Gaurav Mangla, Co-Founder & CEO of Pickrr. Pickrr is one of the largest logistics software companies in the country, having recently been acquired by Shiprocket for a whooping 200 Million Dollars. The Pickrr journey has been filled with a lot of twists and turns. Starting off as a core logistics player owning the fleet, then surviving with very little cash and doing an emergency angel round to stay afloat, pivoting the model and then fina...
E120 - Building the Most Efficient Lending Business w/Oxyzo & OfBusiness' Ruchi Kalra
October 09, 2022 18:04 - 55 minutes - 37.4 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Ruchi Kalra, CEO of Oxyzo and Co-Founder of OfBusiness. Oxyzo is the FinTech lending business built on top of OfBusiness. It is now a unicorn, raising a large Series A and having been self-funded by OfBusiness Cash-Flow for the longest time. Ruchi was a partner at McKinsey before starting OfBusiness. She comes from a core financial services background and was tailor made to have built a business like Oxyzo. I sit with her and chat about ...
E119 - Scaling D2C Brands w/G.O.A.T's Rishi Vasudev
October 02, 2022 18:05 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Rishi Vasudev, Co-Founder of G.O.A.T Brand Labs. GOAT Brand Labs is a unique model to scale consumer brands under one umbrella via the roll-up model popularized largely last year. There was a surge of companies in this space but GOAT has managed to build its individuality and emerge as a leader. Rishi Vasudev, the founder of GOAT has been an incredibly prolific operator and leader of brands across verticals and companies. He has spent 20 ...
E118 - Indian Fashion Manufacturing To The World w/Fashinza's Pawan Gupta
September 25, 2022 18:06 - 55 minutes - 33.3 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Pawan Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO of Fashinza. Fashinza is a managed B2B marketplace in the fashion vertical, aggregating Indian SMEs on the supply side and selling to large international retailers on the demand side. It is disrupting the global fashion supply chain landscape and has soon emerged as the leader in the space. The company is valued at approximately $300 Million Dollars and is backed by some of the most prolific investors in the ...
E117 - Building The Most Intelligent Programming Platform of the World w/DhiWise's Vishal Virani
September 18, 2022 17:35 - 47 minutes - 33.1 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Vishal Virani, Co-Founder & CEO of DhiWise. DhiWise is building the smartest programming platform in the world. It was started by Vishal and Team from Surat in 2021 after multiple years of building a consulting business. While still early in the journey, DhiWise is already disrupting the global dev landscape and won Dev Tool of the Year by Product Hunt in 2021. They closed a Series A of $7 Million led by Accel & Together Fund recently an...
E116 - Productising The Whole Truth for Millions w/The Whole Truth Foods' Shashank Mehta
September 11, 2022 18:25 - 59 minutes - 41.7 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Shashank Mehta, Founder & CEO of The Whole Truth Foods. The Whole Truth Foods is one of the most fascinating consumer startups of our ecosystem. With the mission to build on top of the truth, the Whole Truth is building a truly category creating and leading brand, with fundamentals that are beyond disruptive. TWT is founded by Shashank Mehta, a marketer at heart who has had HUL as his training ground along with being one of the EIRs at R...
E115 - Mastering Global GTM w/Whatfix's Khadim Batti
September 04, 2022 18:04 - 49 minutes - 31.2 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Khadim Batti, Co-Founder of Whatfix. Whatfix is one of the leading SaaS Companies from India, solving for digital software adoption across platforms, personas and teams for thousands of enterprises across the globe. It helps companies create interactive walkthroughs that appear within applications! What stands out through the Whatfix journey is the category creation and GTM Domination! They have been clear since the get-go to build for th...
E114 - Unlocking Credit for Millions w/axio's Gaurav Hinduja & Sashank Rishyasringa
August 28, 2022 17:01 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBIn this Episode, I speak (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) with the Co-Founders of axio (previously known as Capital Float), Gaurav Hinduja & Sashank Rishyasringa. axio is unlocking credit for millions of Indians, via the pay later model. axio was started back in 2013 by two Stanford GSB graduates who met in the heart of Silicon Valley. They started off with the vision of unlocking credit for SMEs and after a resilient journey in that space, moved to doing the same for millions of consumers. India ha...
E114 - Unlocking Credit for Millions w/axio's Gaurav Hinduja & Shashank Rishyasringa
August 28, 2022 17:01 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBIn this Episode, I speak (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) with the Co-Founders of axio (previously known as Capital Float), Gaurav Hinduja & Shashank Rishyasringa. axio is unlocking credit for millions of Indians, via the pay later model. axio was started back in 2013 by two Stanford GSB graduates who met in the heart of Silicon Valley. They started off with the vision of unlocking credit for SMEs and after a resilient journey in that space, moved to doing the same for millions of consumers. India h...
E113 - Funding Winter, FinTech & Pattern Matching w/Elevation Capital's Mridul Arora
August 21, 2022 18:20 - 42 minutes - 30.8 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Mridul Arora, Partner at Elevation Capital. Mridul has been a venture investor for the better part of the last 12 years, since joining Elevation in 2011 when it was called SAIF Partners. Over the years, Mridul has developed expertise in Financial Services and FinTech, investing deeply across the sector. Some of his phenomenal investments include the likes of Urban Company, Acko Insurance, Clear, FloBiz and Uni Cards. His investing acumen ...
E112 - Pioneering Indian Food Tech Innovation w/Curefoods’ Ankit Nagori
August 14, 2022 17:52 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Ankit Nagori, Founder & CEO of Curefoods (Ex-CBO of Flipkart & Co-Founder of Cure.fit). Curefoods is Pioneering Food Tech Innovation in India, building a multi-brand cloud kitchen organization by acquiring & growing a variety of labels. Ankit Nagori, the previous Chief Business Officer at Flipkart and Co-Founder of Cult.fit has transformed E-Commerce & Fitness in the past. While at Cult.fit he recognised the power & future of food in Ind...
E111 - Building a Global Robotics Company from India w/GreyOrange's Akash Gupta
August 07, 2022 18:22 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Akash Gupta, Co-Founder & CTO of GreyOrange. GreyOrange is the leading warehouse automation company in the World, and has single handedly put India on the global map of robotics technology excellence. Samay & Akash were fascinated by robotics since their college days and decided to turn their passion into a business. Years later, GreyOrange is one of the most massive successes in our ecosystem, generating value by working on cutting edg...
E110 - Decoding the SaaS Playbook w/SaaS Labs’ Gaurav Sharma
July 31, 2022 18:29 - 46 minutes - 32.4 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Gaurav Sharma, Founder & CEO of SaaS Labs. SaaS Labs is one of the most fascinating SaaS companies from India, building and scaling multiple innovative products serving the entire suite of requirements for sales agents and support professionals. Gaurav founded SaaS Labs with the vision to build multiple innovative products, and scale them bit by bit. What started off with JustCall in a profitable bootstrapped manner is now a suite of mor...
E109 - Transforming Fitness & Healthcare w/Ultrahuman's Mohit Kumar
July 24, 2022 18:06 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Mohit Kumar, Founder & CEO of Ultrahuman. Ultrahuman is the world’s most advanced metabolism fitness platform, developing cutting edge technology and transforming the way we look at fitness & healthcare in India, and soon across the globe. Started by serial entrepreneurs Mohit & Vatsal, Ultrahuman equips consumers to track the impact of their lifestyle habits with real-time data. It has evolved from a fitness platform to metabolism trac...
E108 - Championing Sales Efficiency Across The Globe w/LeadSquared's Nilesh Patel
July 17, 2022 18:15 - 45 minutes - 30.3 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Nilesh Patel, Co-Founder & CEO of LeadSquared. LeadSquared is championing Sales Efficiency across the globe built from India. It recently became a unicorn having announced a large funding round of over 150 Million dollars led by WestBridge Capital. Started in 2013, LeadSquared found its way with Sales Efficiency when a leading EdTech business stumbled upon as a client. Almost 10 years later, it is one of the leading players in its catego...
E107 - Championing Revenue Based Financing in India w/Klub's Anurakt Jain
July 10, 2022 18:18 - 58 minutes - 40.8 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Anurakt Jain, Co-Founder & CEO of Klub. Klub is India’s leading revenue based financing company, championing the cause for RBF in the ecosystem. Started in 2020 by two experienced operators, Klub identified the whitespace which was the lack of a revenue-based-financing market in India, especially with regards to growth capital for consumer brands in the country. The rest is history in the making, and to decode how far they have come, I...
E106 - Building India's leading E-Commerce Enablement Company w/GoKwik's Chirag Taneja
July 03, 2022 18:25 - 53 minutes - 35.7 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Chirag Taneja, Co-Founder & CEO of GoKwik. GoKwik is India’s leading E-Commerce Enablement Company, building with the mission of providing an Amazon like experience for non-Amazon merchants in the country. One of the fastest growing companies in the ecosystem, GoKwik is truly disrupting the market. What started off as a solution for the Return To Order problem that merchants face, is now a full-fledged conversion cycle solution company. F...
E105 - Building India's Largest Consumer Social Company w/Sharechat's Ankush Sachdeva
June 26, 2022 13:25 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Ankush Sachdeva, Co-Founder & CEO of Sharechat. Sharechat is India’s leading social media platform, building for the next billion Internet users of India. Started in 2015 by a group of IIT Kanpur graduates, Sharechat is dominating the consumer social landscape of India, having a total of 300 Million Monthly Active Users across both Sharechat and Moj, their short form entertainment application. Valued at $5 Billion Dollars as of its last round, Sharechat is bu...
E104 - Building a Global SaaS Giant from India w/Chargebee's Krish Subramanian
June 19, 2022 18:22 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Krish Subramanian, Co-Founder & CEO of Chargebee. Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform, valued at 3.5 Billion Dollars as of its latest funding round. It is leading the charge of Indian SaaS and building a global giant in the market from India. Started in 2011, Chargebee has come a long way, personifying perseverance and ambition in the best possible manner. I sit with Krish and decode this journey of buil...
E103 - Entrepreneurship Redefined w/Rippling's Prasanna Sankar
June 12, 2022 18:23 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Prasanna Sankar, Co-Founder & Board Member of Rippling. Rippling is one of the leading Enterprise Software companies in the US, becoming the foremost platform for Employee Management, valued at over 10 Billion Dollars as of its recent round of funding. Prasanna is a genius coder, a serial entrepreneur, an angel investor and much more. An epitome of the entrepreneurial spirit, Prasanna embodies risk taking, first principles thinking and ...
E102 - Leading India's Space Tech Innovation w/Pixxel's Awais Ahmed
June 05, 2022 15:34 - 43 minutes - 27.7 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Awais Ahmed, Founder & CEO of Pixxel. Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Simply stated, Pixxel solves for high quality satellite data, leading the Indian Space Tech Innovation from the front. Started by Awais & team in the final year of their college, Pixxel is one of the more incredible stories of our ecosystem. I...
E101 - Building the Operating System of Indian Debt Markets w/CredAvenue's Gaurav Kumar
May 29, 2022 18:27 - 56 minutes - 37.8 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Gaurav Kumar, Founder & CEO of CredAvenue. CredAvenue is building the Operating System for Indian Debt Markets and has soon become the leading infrastructure platform in India’s fintech ecosystem. It became a Unicorn in a record 18 months, which is the fastest for any fintech company in the country. Gaurav is a 4th time founder with CredAvenue and this experience was extremely evident through the conversation as his natural bias of acti...
Masterclass #7 - Technology w/Atlassian's Sri Viswanath
May 22, 2022 14:27 - 50 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Sri Viswanath, Chief Technology Officer at Atlassian. Sri is one of the most distinguished tech leaders of our time and I could not imagine anybody more suited to help us understand tech leadership, culture and org design. Through his illustrious years of professional experience, Sri has worn multiple hats as a tech contributor in both large companies and early stage startups, providing a rounded perspective to most aspects. In the next ...
E100 - Building a Public Company w/Policybazaar's Yashish Dahiya
May 15, 2022 08:17 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Yashish Dahiya, Founder of Policybazaar. Policybazaar is India’s largest distributor of Insurance policies. Started in 2008, Policybazaar is one of the few new-age Indian companies to successfully list and go public on India’s stock exchange. Going public is a coveted feat, dreamt by each founder when starting up and Policybazaar’s journey provides a lot of inspiration to the entire ecosystem. Through this conversation we decode much of...
E99 - Building India's Leading Shipping Solutions Company w/Shiprocket's Vishesh Khurana
May 08, 2022 15:55 - 53 minutes - 35.4 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Vishesh Khurana, Co-founder of Shiprocket.
E98 - Building India's First Public Gaming Company w/Nazara Technologies' Nitish Mittersain
May 01, 2022 17:39 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Nitish Mittersain, Founder & MD of Nazara Technologies. Nazara Technologies is India’s first gaming company to successfully go public and trade on India’s stock exchange. A mega IPO in 2021 paved the way for India’s illustrious gaming future. Nitish started this company as a young enthusiast in 1999. Almost 22 years later, those efforts have yielded a successful listing, giving incredible hope & belief to an entire country of young entr...
E97 - Powering the Future of Health w/Innovaccer's Sandeep Gupta
April 24, 2022 18:09 - 54 minutes - 38.5 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Sandeep Gupta, Co-Founder & COO of Innovaccer. Innovaccer is a leading healthcare data activation platform company focused on delivering more efficient and effective healthcare through the use of pioneering analytics and transparent, clean, and accurate data. Innovaccer’s aim is to simplify complex data from all points of care, streamline the information, and help organizations make powerful decisions and realise strategic goals based o...
E96 - Building India’s leading Consumer Food Brand w/Epigamia's Rohan Mirchandani
April 17, 2022 18:27 - 58 minutes - 54 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Rohan Mirchandani, Co-Founder & CEO of Epigamia. Epigamia is one of India’s most loved consumer food brands, building delicious & healthy dairy products for millions in the country. Hinged on the core belief that this decade will produce new-age brands that will dominate the Indian lifestyle for the century that awaits us, Epigamia has successfully established a presence for itself by curating a category with its hero product Greek Yogur...
E95 - Building India’s leading Real Estate Tech Company w/NoBroker’s Amit Kumar Agarwal
April 10, 2022 17:28 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Amit Kumar Agarwal, Co-Founder & CEO of NoBroker. NoBroker is India’s leading Real Estate Tech Startup, disrupting the way millions of Indians discover residential properties and interact with them for multiple types of transactions in a tech lead environment as opposed to dealing with brokers, or other middleman, who would earlier consume a considerable portion of each transaction. What started as a disruptive solution in 2014 to a deep...
E94 - Transforming Indian FinTech w/smallcase's Vasanth Kamath
April 03, 2022 18:18 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Vasanth Kamath, Co-Founder & CEO of smallcase. smallcase is one of the most disruptive companies of India, transforming the FinTech landscape of the country, one product at a time. What started as a quest to fill a gap for retail investors who wanted to move from Mutual Funds to Equity, has now become an entire asset class in itself, which is further building multiple products on top of it, including - https://gateway.smallcase.com/, htt...
E93 - Enduring Venture Investing w/General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja
March 26, 2022 19:59 - 44 minutes - 31.9 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Hemant Taneja, Managing Partner at General Catalyst. Hemant is one of the most legendary venture investors of our generation. In his path-breaking career, he has invested in companies such as Stripe, Snap, Livongo, Gusto and many other phenomenal companies. His brilliant investing career fundamentally stems from his core trait of being an original thinker and intentionally resorting to first principles thinking when developing frameworks...
E92 - Reinventing HRTech for the World from Asia w/Darwinbox's Rohit Chennamaneni
March 20, 2022 18:06 - 57 minutes - 53.6 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Rohit Chennamaneni, Co-Founder of Darwinbox. Darwinbox is a SaaS unicorn from India, which is reinventing HRTech for the World. Human Resource is one of the most crucial aspects for any organization and in turn one of the largest markets globally. For long, companies have relied on foreign solutions in a seemingly competitive market. However, Darwinbox chose to rethink the space from scratch and build the best in-class suite for HRTech in...
E91 - Building India's largest New-Age Insurance Company w/Digit Insurance's Kamesh Goyal
March 13, 2022 17:47 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Kamesh Goyal, Founder & Chairman of Digit Insurance. Digit Insurance is India’s largest New-Age Insurance startup, valued at almost 3.5 Billion Dollars. Digit offers a variety of insurance products across motor, travel, health, and property categories, and is the leading tech-first company in the under-penetrated Indian insurance market.Built on the principles of simplification and transparency, Digit has come incredibly far in taking in...
E90 - Institutionalised Investing across the Globe w/Insight Partners' Deven Parekh
March 06, 2022 17:00 - 53 minutes - 37.5 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Deven Parekh, Managing Director at Insight Partners. Insight Partners is a global software investment firm, which has one of the largest venture & private equity funds with over $90 Billion in Assets Under Management, having recently announced its new fund of $20Bn, headquartered in New York. Insight has invested in some of the most generation defining companies of our time across the globe including the likes of Twitter, Shopify, Checko...
E89 - Championing the Roll-Up Model in India w/10club's Bhavna Suresh
February 27, 2022 17:46 - 51 minutes - 35.9 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Bhavna Suresh, Co-Founder & CEO of 10club. 10club acquires, operates and grows e-commerce first businesses, championing the roll-up model in India. This Thrasio like model gained a lot of popularity in the country early last year as multiple companies emerged in the space. 10club made the headlines with a 40 Million Dollar seed round led by Fireside Ventures and, marking the largest seed round we have ever seen in the ecosystem. A year l...
E88 - The Quick Commerce Revolution in India w/Zepto's Aadit Palicha
February 20, 2022 18:28 - 56 minutes - 39.8 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Aadit Palicha, Co-Founder & CEO of Zepto. Zepto is the primary champion of the 10-minute delivery revolution, which has disrupted the entire quick commerce landscape in the country. Started by two 19-year-olds from Mumbai, Aadit and Kaivalya dropped out of Stanford college to pursue their dreams. This has led to the creation of a $500Million+ company in less than a year, serving millions of consumers across India, with an average time of less than 9 minutes pe...
E87 - Disrupting the Global Web 3.0 Landscape w/Polygon Technology's Jaynti Kanani
February 13, 2022 18:25 - 43 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Jaynti Kanani, Co-Founder of Polygon Technology. Polygon is the most successful side-chain solution to Ethereum’s scalability problems, emerging as the most valuable Web 3.0 Company of Indian Origin, with a market cap of greater than 20 Billion Dollars at its peak, also having recently raised 450 Million Dollars in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital India, and participation from Softbank Vision Fund, Tiger Global and others.Polygon has radically transformed...
E86 ft. Akshay Kothari of Notion
February 06, 2022 18:24 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Akshay Kothari, Chief Operating Officer of Notion. Through this phenomenal conversation we discuss: (Time Stamps Coming Soon) Hope you liked the 86th Episode on the Indian Silicon Valley Podcast! That was it from this Episode, thanks again for tuning in! :) If you liked the episode, do share with your friends or drop us a quick review! Also, do follow us on social media to stay updated with all new episodes: Twitter: https://twitter....
E85 - The Art of Venture Investing w/Matrix's Vikram Vaidyanathan
January 30, 2022 17:42 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Vikram Vaidyanathan, Managing Director - Matrix Partners India. Vikram is one of the finest venture investors in the Indian Ecosystem, leading the institutional practice at Matrix along with his partners. Matrix India itself has contributed largely to the development and maturity of the ecosystem by backing some of the most incredible companies of our time including the likes of Ola, Razorpay, OfBusiness, DealShare and many more! Vikram’...
E84 - Simplifying Finances for India w/Clear's Archit Gupta
January 23, 2022 18:20 - 54 minutes - 37.1 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Archit Gupta, Founder & CEO of Clear (previously known as ClearTax). Clear is one of India’s largest FinTech - SaaS Companies, ambitiously simplifying millions of financial lives. Started by Archit Gupta a decade before, Clear had the sole mission of simplifying tax filings for the masses when it ventured out. Turn to present day, and they’ve not just dominated the niche of tax filings, but also disrupted the enterprise side of Financial ...
Masterclass #6 - Navigating a Career in Tech w/Stripe's Kaushik Subramanian
January 16, 2022 18:28 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Kaushik Subramanian, Product Leader at Stripe UK, previously at Meta (Facebook). Through this masterclass, Kaushik helps us decode the journey of navigating a career in Tech companies. His personal evolution of coming from a non-tech background, working in consumer and in consultancy before breaking into Product leadership roles in tech companies such as Meta & Stripe provides a unique perspective to the global tech landscape.In what was...
E83 - Democratizing High Quality Education for India w/Vedantu's Vamsi Krishna
January 09, 2022 18:25 - 1 hour - 38.1 MBIn this Episode, I speak (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) with Vamsi Krishna, Co-founder & CEO of Vedantu. Democratizing high quality education for 35 Million Indian Students per month, Vedantu is a phenomenal long-term organization solving one of the most fundamental problems in the country. Started in 2014 by a group of friends who had previously established a chain of offline engineering tuition centers with Lakshya, live tutoring was not main-stream back in the day, and there were a bunch of ques...
E82 - Building India's Largest Gaming Platform w/Mobile Premier League (MPL)'s Sai Srinivas
January 02, 2022 16:18 - 45 minutes - 32.4 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Sai Srinivas, Co-Founder & CEO of Mobile Premier League (MPL). MPL is the largest eSports & gaming platform in the country, as it offers over 60+ competitive real-money games to a user base of over 90 Million people! Through the conversation we discuss: 1. (2:18) : The clarity of Vision when starting up MPL 2. (08:09) : The personal trajectory of Sai - From IIT to Zynga to Hardware to MPL 3. (12:16) : Incredible Speed & Scale for MPL...
E81 - Sales Readiness to the World w/MindTickle's Deepak & Krishna
December 26, 2021 18:20 - 54 minutes - 36.9 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Deepak Diwakar & Krishna Depura, Co-founders of MindTickle, the Sales Readiness platform of the World!
E80 - Building the Fastest Growing SaaS Company in the World w/Rubrik's Soham Mazumdar
December 19, 2021 04:35 - 50 minutes - 35.8 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Soham Mazumdar, Co-founder of Rubrik. Rubrik is a cloud data management company, started by 4 amazing individuals in 2014, taking only a couple 18 months to go from 0 to 100 Million in ARR. With over 1600 Team Members across 18+ Countries, Serving over 200 Customers paying more than $1Mn and a cumulative of 3200 Enterprise Consumers, Rubriks’s speed and growth has been beyond excellent in the last couple of years. I speak with Soham, one ...
E79 - Building the Largest Internet Restaurant of the World w/Rebel Foods' Jaydeep Barman
December 12, 2021 17:05 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Jaydeep Barman, Co-Founder & CEO of Rebel Foods. Jaydeep Barman and team have built perhaps the most unique, first-principles startup of the country. Rebel Foods has established and pioneered the concept of cloud kitchens not just in India, but globally! What started as Faasos in 2011 as a single-store fast-food outlet, has become a technology marvel paving the way for a complete overhaul of the restaurant business. Rebel Foods soon reali...
E78 - Building India's Fastest Growing FinTech Company w/Rupeek's Sumit Maniyar
December 05, 2021 04:25 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Sumit Maniyar, Founder & CEO of Rupeek. Rupeek is India’s Fastest Growing FinTech Company, disrupting the category of asset backed lending having started with gold and already gaining a large market share in the industry. Sumit questioned the way we look at Gold as an asset class in the country and started building with first-principles in 2015. Fast-track to present day, Rupeek has redefined the way Indians look at Gold and has built an ...
E77 - Taking Indian Manufacturing to the World w/Zetwerk's Amrit Acharya
November 28, 2021 16:04 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Amrit Acharya, Co-Founder & CEO of Zetwerk. Zetwerk is phenomenally disrupting the manufacturing industry across the globe as we know it. It is a B2B marketplace focused on make-to-order custom manufacturing and is one of India’s leading startups, redefining benchmarks of speed, growth, profitability and value creation. Founded less than 4 years ago, Zetwerk found a very unique whitespace with custom manufacturing and doubled down in an ...
E76 - Establishing India's Largest New-Age Consumer Brand w/boAt's Aman Gupta
November 21, 2021 18:11 - 47 minutes - 31.9 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Aman Gupta, Co-Founder & CMO of boAt Lifestyle. boAt is one of India’s largest consumer brands, which has completely disrupted and transformed the global audio & wearables industry. Founded by Aman Gupta and Sameer Mehta in 2016, boAt was originally ruled out by a lot of critics citing reasons such as crowded market, competitive landscape, what not. However, history shaped up differently and boAt has gone on to become one of the most ico...
E75 - Pioneering Indian Venture Capital w/Accel's Prashanth Prakash
November 14, 2021 18:25 - 41 minutes - 29.7 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Prashanth Prakash, Partner at Accel India. Accel Partners India is one of the most accomplished institutional venture investors of our ecosystem. Accel has funded ground-breaking Indian ventures including the likes of BookMyShow, MuSigma, Flipkart, Freshworks, Swiggy, BrowserStack, Moglix, Urban Company! Through the episode we discuss - 1. (2:14) : The Accel Ideology of Investing ~ Having a Prepared Mind! 2. (05:05) : The Freshworks ...