An entrepreneur who has embarked on a journey “To build the world’s largest youth sports platform that gets 100 million kids to play”. Saumil, with over two decades of entrepreneurial journey, decodes his audacious goal, talks about the importance of play in our lives. Easy to practice approaches that each of us can adopt to make play possible for us and also in our neighborhood. A timeless piece of advice for someone looking to pivot into entrepreneurship. Listen to all of it and much more from the man who is redefining sports and play in education across India!

Making the world a better place with the notion of Play - 2:45

Benefits of Play - 7:35

Overcoming constraints to play - 14:50

Adult society supporting the movement of play and sport - 19:10

Pivoting as an entrepreneur, tips to look into - 25:40

Experience of play and playfulness - 30:58

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