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.
The mission of this Podcast is to democratise the knowledge to building a truly spectacular Company!
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E31 - Going back to the "Why" w/MX Player's Karan Bedi
February 14, 2021 09:17 - 56 minutes - 45.3 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Karan Bedi, CEO of MX Player, the Super App for Entertainment, with Music, Video, Games, OTT and Short form Video all a click away. MX Player has an overall user-base of over 350 Million Monthly Active Users across the international Market. It's short form video offering, MX Taka Tak leads the market with over 100 Mn MAUs, and its OTT platform provides unique value to a large part of the Indian Market, which is still not completely penetr...
E30 - It's all about People w/Sequoia's Ajey Gore || From the VC Lens
February 07, 2021 16:35 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Ajey Gore, Operating Partner at Sequoia India. Ajey Gore is a technical expert, but he fundamentally understands and explains the importance of people through this wonderful conversation. Ajey has insane experience in working at startups, and scaling them to great heights. He has been at ThoughtWorks early on his career, then started up two companies, and finally spent time at GOJEK for almost 5 years as the group CTO, before joining Sequ...
E29 - The Power of Compounding w/Pratilipi's Ranjeet Pratap Singh
January 31, 2021 18:25 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-Founder & CEO of Pratilipi. This Episode is called the Power of Compounding, for Ranjeet’s ideologies and Pratilipi’s journey intersect at the core belief in Compounding, a principle, which works like magic in life, and more so in Starting Up. Pratilipi is by far India’s largest storytelling platform with over 25 million daily active users, coming on the platform for hours through the month, browsing through literature, stories, comics,...
E28 - Disrupting with First Principles w/Wakefit's Chaitanya Ramalingegowda
January 24, 2021 17:40 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBIn this Episode I speak with Chaitanya Ramalingegowda, Co-Founder and Director of Wakefit, India's largest direct to consumer sleep & home solutions company! Chaitanya personifies the ideology Disrupting with First Principles, as they have exactly done so with Wakefit, disrupting by a rather conventional and unorganised market through the sheer power of "Questioning Everything". Wakefit has crossed 200 crores in revenue with a 2.5x YoY growth, having served 500,000 consumers across the cou...
E27 - Building a Global SaaS Company w/CleverTap's Anand Jain
January 17, 2021 09:55 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Anand Jain, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of CleverTap on Building a Global SaaS Company. CleverTap is a customer life-cycle management and mobile marketing company, which combines the analytics, engagement and communication all in one, making life easier for brands who want to engage effectively with their consumers. Anand Jain is an extremely amazing, kind, generous, and humble person, who has had multiple experiences under his belt including a prev...
E26 - It starts with Curiosity w/LBB's Suchita Salwan
January 10, 2021 13:26 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Suchita Salwan, the Co-Founder & CEO of Little Black Book (LBB). LBB is India's largest platform to discover and shop independent brands and retailers. 16Mn+ Users, with 100,000 Businesses listed on their web and app platform! From the best of bags to the best of shoes to the best of Biyani, you name it and LBB will help you find it. With the quirky and amazing notifications, LBB Is one app that should definitely always be on your phone! Suchita is this insane...
E25 - Everyday is Day 1 w/Vokal & Koo & Taxi For Sure's Aprameya Radhakrishna
January 07, 2021 13:20 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBIn this Episode I speak with Aprameya Radhakrishna, Co-Founder and CEO of Vokal & Koo, also the Co-Founder of TaxiForSure. Taxi For Sure, Aprameya’s first venture disrupted the ride-sharing industry very early in the day. Eventually, 4+ years into operations, it was acquired by Ola in 2015. An exit that gave Aprameya much perspective and learnings, which he carried to his next ventures. Koo & Vokal are two phenomenal platforms, built for the Expression and Discovery of the Indian Audie...
E24 - Starting Up with Purpose w/SHEROES' Sairee Chahal
January 03, 2021 13:20 - 58 minutes - 42.2 MBIn this Episode I speak with Sairee Chahal, Founder and CEO of SHEROES. SHEROES is a women-only social platform, a safe, trusted, high-empathy and constructive space, powered by communities, a chat-based helpline, resources, opportunities and conversations. With more than 20 Million Registered Users, and 2000 Communities & Brands, Women’s internet! Sairee is a maverick in the Ecosystem. Having been an entrepreneur for almost 20 years now, she has seen it all. Sairee is extremely passio...
E23 - Perseverance Wins w/Lokal's Jani Pasha
December 27, 2020 13:40 - 1 hour - 47 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Jani Pasha, CEO & Co-Founder of Lokal. Lokal is a one-stop platform for life services and hyperlocal news interaction. Present in 5 states as of now, Lokal has 5 million + monthly active users and was part of the Y Combinator Summer 19 Cohort of India! Jani is an exuberant youngster who personifies the Indian Dream. A graduate of IIT Kharagpur, Batch of 2013, Jani has always had a knack for creative building. Having tried his hand at starting up with multipl...
E22 - The Art of Mentorship w/MyCaptain's Mohammed Zeeshan
December 24, 2020 14:27 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Mohammed Zeeshan, CEO & Co-Founder of MyCaptain. MyCaptain as you may know is an online Learning platform that helps us users take our first plunge at our passion, be it photography, content, artificial intelligence, or multiple such courses that explore our creative pursuits. Zeeshan started MyCaptain at the age of 19, having observed the lack of such a platform. From what began as a discussion amongst friends in an engineering college exploring alternate car...
E21 - Solving for a Billion Indians w/OkCredit's Harsh Pokharna
December 20, 2020 17:10 - 59 minutes - 48.8 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Harsh Pokharna, Co-Founder and CEO, OkCredit. OkCredit is a digital udhar-khata for Indian merchants who face the constant problem of keeping track of their dues from multiple Consumers. Solving for Middle India and the billion Indians, OkCredit envisions to own the entire stack of problems that the merchants face and build products that solve for the same. This has led them to launch two new products, OkShop, enabling traditional merchants to create Digital S...
E20 - More than a Cheque w/Prime Venture Partners' Sanjay Swamy
December 17, 2020 17:09 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner & Co-founder of Prime Venture Partners. Prime Venture Partners is a seed fund started by Amit Somani, Shripati Acharya and Sanjay Swamy! Typically the first institutional investor in early stage startups, Prime likes to invest in product & technology driven startups. With the incredible composition of the experienced partners, Prime likes to be "More than a Cheque" and work closely with the founders, with a different style, thus m...
E20 - More than a Cheque w/Prime Venture Partners' Sanjay Swamy || From the VC Lens
December 17, 2020 17:09 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner & Co-founder of Prime Venture Partners. Prime Venture Partners is a seed fund started by Amit Somani, Shripati Acharya and Sanjay Swamy! Typically the first institutional investor in early stage startups, Prime likes to invest in product & technology driven startups. With the incredible composition of the experienced partners, Prime likes to be "More than a Cheque" and work closely with the founders, with a different style, thus ...
E19 - Breaking the B2B Code w/Tracxn's Neha Singh
December 13, 2020 15:56 - 57 minutes - 41.4 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Neha Singh, Co-Founder of Tracxn. Tracxn is one of the largest platforms in the world to track Private Markets. It covers more than 300 tech sectors , 800+ themes, and has thousands of Large Corporations as Clients including the likes of Google, a16z and others! Tracxn has scale to more than 600 employees through the last 6+ years, and Neha tells us a lot of hiring and culture secrets through the Episode. Backed by the likes of marquee investors - Sequoia & Ac...
E18 - Building an Institution w/Urban Company's Raghav Chandra
December 10, 2020 15:14 - 50 minutes - 35.8 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Raghav Chandra, Co-Founder of Urban Company. Raghav and I speak about Building an Institution for the future, a dream many aspiring Entrepreneurs hope to achieve. Urban Company is the largest services startup of the Country serving million consumers of customers with presence in 4 Countries, over 20 cities, managing over 30,000 blue collar workers via an organisation of 1300 Employees! Urban Company is known for its precision in terms of service, great culture...
E17 - Global from Day 0 w/InVideo's Sanket Shah
December 06, 2020 16:28 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBIn this Episode, I speak with the Founder of the Indian Global SasS Company that helps us Consumers to seamlessly edit Videos - Sanket Shah of InVideo. Sanket has been so candid throughout the Episode, sharing such great Practical insights and learnings! Sanket is an avid believer of the adage that if you do something dedicatedly for long enough, the results will follow. InVideo recently raised their Series A - 15Mn round led by Sequoia Capital and TigerGlobal, two of the largest Institu...
E16 - Data as a Moat w/SockSoho's Simarpreet Singh
December 03, 2020 15:50 - 44 minutes - 32.6 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Simarpreet Singh, Co-Founder of Socksoho.com! The largest D2C sock brand of the country, SockSoho has created a revolution transforming the way we understand fashion in India. Great consumer service, innovative methods & constant innovation at the helm of Technology Company as opposed to what we may come across as a Fashion Brand! Data lies at the Core of SockSoho and so, we take a deep dive into how is it actually that they use Data as a Moat! Tune in & Fin...
E15 - Building People w/Accel's Narayan Thammaiah || From the VC Lens
November 29, 2020 16:45 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Narayan Thammaiah, Venture Partner at Accel, one of the leading Venture Funds of the Country! Narayan is an expert People's Practitioner and a Founder Coach, who works closely with the Portfolio Companies at Accel. Through this Episode, I speak to Narayan about a variety of concepts centred around the core of "Building People". These concepts range from attracting great talent, hiring the founding team, dealing with conflicts at the workplace, employee brand...
E14 - Build for Consumer Love w/Finshots' Bhanu Harish Gurram
November 22, 2020 18:10 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MBIn today's episode, I am in Conversation with Bhanu Harish Gurram of Finshots. Throughout this Episode we speak about building traction led products, understanding & developing customer love, and diving into the practicalities of Entrepreneurship. Bhanu shares some great insights from his journey with Finshots, a product we all truly love. The road is mighty and it'll be very intresting to understand how Finshots keeps simplifying Finance for us! Tune in to know more about Consumer Love. ...
E13 - Brand Market Fit w/Sleep Owl's Arman Sood
November 15, 2020 13:34 - 59 minutes - 41.3 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Arman Sood, Co-Founder of Sleepy Owl Coffee. "The Brand is what makes the consumers try your Product." Unsure what Brand Market Fit entails? Who better to solve the enigma than the founder of India's beloved Premium Coffee Brand! Sleepy Owl brings the finest coffee to all Indian Households in the most heartwarming packaging, and some extremely innovative ideas. (https://sleepyowl.co/) Join us, as we decode Brand Market Fit with the passionate Co-Founder Arman ...
E12 - The Hunger to Innovate w/Yulu and InMobi's Amit Gupta
November 08, 2020 14:39 - 50 minutes - 39.2 MBIn this Episode, I speak with the Mr. Amit Gupta, CEO and Co-founder of Yulu. Tune in as the seasoned entrepreneur personifies the Hunger to Innovate! Through the Amit answers some key Questions - 1. How the Ecosystem has evolved over the years and how there is greater resource availability⠀ 2. What motivated him to start the 2nd chapter of his story with Yulu 3. What's the secret sauce with bringing an innovative product into the market 4. What are some of the downfalls of being t...
E11 - Defining Culture w/Nearbuy's Ankur Warikoo
November 01, 2020 15:45 - 48 minutes - 40.1 MBIn this Episode, I speak with the phenomenal, Ankur Warikoo, Co-Founder of Nearbuy.⠀ A man who needs no introduction, Ankur has been a great Entrepreneur and has seen the Ecosystem in India evolve, shaping it to a large extent. He continues to mentor founders, be an active angel investor in the space and spread his learnings actively. ⠀ Through this episode, Ankur answers some key questions. What does Culture means and Why is it important? How can culture be inculcated in an organization...
E10 - Startup Funding Explained w/3one4 Capital's Kshitij Shah | From The VC Lens
October 25, 2020 15:35 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Kshitij Shah, Principal at 3one4 Capital where he explains Startup Funding. 3one4 Capital manages over ₹1550 Crores, and has made some notable Investments across the last couple of years, including Luscious, YourStory, Yulu, Pocket Aces, Tracxn, etc. You can find more information about them here - https://www.3one4capital.com/ Kshitij is a Principal at 3one4, playing a pivotal role in driving the Investment thesis, the portfolio balance, and helping portfolio ...
E10 - Startup Funding Explained w/3one4 Capital's Kshitij Shah || From The VC Lens
October 25, 2020 15:35 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Kshitij Shah, Principal at 3one4 Capital where he explains Startup Funding. 3one4 Capital manages over ₹1550 Crores, and has made some notable Investments across the last couple of years, including Luscious, YourStory, Yulu, Pocket Aces, Tracxn, etc. You can find more information about them here - https://www.3one4capital.com/ Kshitij is a Principal at 3one4, playing a pivotal role in driving the Investment thesis, the portfolio balanc...
E09 - The Power of Community Building w/Network Capital's Utkarsh Amitabh
October 18, 2020 14:57 - 55 minutes - 42.6 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Utkarsh Amitabh, Founder of Network Capital on the Power of Community Building! Utkarsh Amitabh is the energizing founder who built Network Capital as a passion project, while working with at Microsoft. This passion project grew to become a Strong Community of Individuals connected across borders spanning throughout the globe. Network Capital reaches the epitome of collaboration and shows truly the power of a Community. All of Network Capital is for the Commun...
E08 - Decoding Market Research w/YourDOST's Richa Singh
October 11, 2020 17:40 - 48 minutes - 38.5 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Richa Singh, CEO & Co-Founder of YourDOST on Decoding Market Research. YourDOST is India's premier emotional wellness Platform having served 20+ lakh customers, and having 900+ professionals on their platform. A platform which is completely technology driven, and is now profitable! Richa presents key insights on understanding market research, taking feedback from real users, developing an MVP, and having a strong sense of WHY! Tune in and witness Market Rese...
E07 - The Customer Comes First w/Zerodha & True Beacon's Nikhil Kamath
October 04, 2020 08:53 - 28 minutes - 65.1 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Nikhil Kamath, Co-Founder & CIO of Zerodha & True Beacon on Keeping the Customer First! Zerodha is the Indian Proficorn, the dream brokerage retailer. True Beacon is creating a revolution in asset management by completely transforming the fees structure. Nikhil gives us his key insights on how to Build with Intent, create value and keep the highest standards while dealing with customers. Tune in to understand how and why you need to keep the customer first! ...
E06 - Building for Impact w/Lal10's Maneet Gohil
September 28, 2020 08:31 - 44 minutes - 103 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Maneet Gohil, Founder & CEO of Lal10 on Building For Impact! Maneet Gohil is a gentleman who is driven by perfection, building for Impact, scaling Lal10 to 18 Countries, impacting over 1200 artisans by directly generating millions in revenue for them. A technology first B2B model, Lal10 has continued its growth trajectory since inception. With the vision of creating a sustainable environment for SMEs to do business, Lal10 continues it's journey. Maneet gives ...
Unplugged #1 - All about BOHECO & the Hemp Industry w/Yash Kotak
September 21, 2020 13:42 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBIn this Episode, I start off with the Unplugged Series! Every couple of episodes, I bring back a guest from our past episodes to revisit a conversation and dig deeper into questions you had! For Unplugged #1, we have Yash Kotak telling us all about the Hemp Industry and BOHECO! Yash never fails to mesmerise us, and in this episode as well, he has left us with great stories and learnings. Patience, Passion and Making things RIGHT. Tune in to find out more! We're available on Instagram at - ht...
E05 - Make in India w/Dr. Vaidya's' Arjun Vaidya
September 13, 2020 18:04 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Arjun Vaidya, Founder & CEO of Dr. Vaidya's on Make In India in the Indian Startup Ecosystem. Arjun Vaidya is a phenomenal young gentleman with great passion, hunger, grit and vision. He is reviving the cultural heritage of India and his family legacy, Ayurveda, leading the Indian Valley with Dr. Vaidya's. A technology first consumer brand, which modernises the Ayurveda concept, Dr. Vaidya's serves millions of customers from remote areas of the country with 'P...
E04 - Building a Product for your consumer w/Hubhopper's Gautam Raj Anand
September 06, 2020 12:14 - 42 minutes - 214 MBIn this Episode, I speak with Gautam Raj Anand, Founder & CEO of Hubhopper on Building a Product for your Consumer! We often have ideas for products but no direction in terms of how to move ahead. Gautam speaks about his journey with Hubhopper and how the feedback loop contributes to the product cycle! He talks about some great concepts like the Minimum Viable Segment (MVS), Micro Questions in the Feedback Cycle and the Balancing Act, giving us a comprehensive outlook about building meaningfu...
E03 - The What of Starting Up w/StockEdge's Vineet Patawari
August 30, 2020 11:23 - 33 minutes - 75.8 MBIn this Episode I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Vineet Patawari, Co-Founder and CEO of StockEdge and Elearnmarkers on the What of Starting Up! We've spoken about the Why and the How, and it is now time for the What! Vineet perfectly articulates the approach via which one should approach the primary mission. He emphasizes on listening to the consumers and the importance of building people who in turn can build great products. Tune in to get all your answers to the What of Starting Up!...
E02 - How should you start a startup? w/Dare2Compete's Ankit Aggarwal
August 23, 2020 13:17 - 34 minutes - 79 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Ankit Aggarwal of Dare2Compete on the How of Starting up! We often get clouded by ideas with no sense of direction about what needs to be done next. In this Episode, Ankit Aggarwal talks about the three step approach of validating your idea in terms of - 1. Feasibility 2. Practicality 3. Scalability. Ankit Aggarwal talks from the experience of building the largest student community in the country! Here's a quick glance into the Episo...
E01 - Why should you start a Startup? with BOHECO's Yash Kotak
August 16, 2020 15:37 - 26 minutes - 48.8 MBIn this Episode, I speak to Yash Kotak of BOHECO on the Why of Starting up! As budding entrepreneurs we often tend to get blinded by the flowery picture of Entrepreneurship, forgetting the core reasons of starting up. -- Yash unfolds the real reasons of starting up and how budding entrepreneurs need to fundamentally understand their why. Yash is an exuberant young entrepreneur who is leading the way for innovation in the ecosystem. Yash is an avid football fan and has won multiple accolades, ...
E01 - Why should you start a Startup? w/ BOHECO's Yash Kotak
August 16, 2020 15:37 - 26 minutes - 48.8 MBIn this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Yash Kotak of BOHECO on the Why of Starting up! As budding entrepreneurs we often tend to get blinded by the flowery picture of Entrepreneurship, forgetting the core reasons of starting up. -- Yash unfolds the real reasons of starting up and how budding entrepreneurs need to fundamentally understand their why. Yash is an exuberant young entrepreneur who is leading the way for innovation in the ecosystem. Yash is an avid football fan and ...
#0 - Introduction
August 11, 2020 00:01 - 2 minutes - 45.6 MB𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 is a masterclass series addressing one Entrepreneurial problem at a time! With the Indian Startup Ecosystem growing exponentially, the questions are growing too. The podcast answers all your questions, as I, Jivraj Singh Sachar, your host, interviews the Best Startup Founders from the Indian Valley, and questions them about the fundamental problems while building a startup! Here's the introduction to a great ride ahead, Stay Tuned Folks!
E00 - Introduction to the Indian Silicon Valley
August 11, 2020 00:01 - 2 minutes - 45.6 MB𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 is a masterclass series addressing one Entrepreneurial problem at a time! With the Indian Startup Ecosystem growing exponentially, the questions are growing too. The podcast answers all your questions, as I, Jivraj Singh Sachar, your host, interviews the Best Startup Founders from the Indian Valley, and questions them about the fundamental problems while building a startup! Here's the introduction to a great ride ahead, Stay Tuned Folks!