Episodes

  • #63 Udayan Walvekar (GrowthX)
    Mar 14 2023

    GrowthX is a learning community for the top 1% growth leaders.

    The GrowthX membership gives three key things. One, Ability to grow any internet product through learning frameworks taught by top growth leaders. Two, The revered GrowthX community, a safe space to soundboard about anything that’s stressing you. Three, Real outcomes for founders and leaders- they are able to upskill, hire & scale their revenue growth team.

    Prior to GrowthX, Udayan was the first growth hire at Razorpay where he built the product growth team that drove growth across all verticals of Razorpay. He's also worked across multiple startups in India and San Francisco.

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    25 mins
  • #62 Sanil Sachar (Huddle)
    Sep 15 2022

    Sanil Sachar is the co-founder and partner of Huddle, an entrepreneur, active angel investor, national best-selling author, and columnist based in New Delhi, India. As part of their accelerator, Huddle, Sanil works with the portfolio, to attain the short and long-term keenly focusing on the revenue strategy and growth. He is also one of the co-owners of the global sports apparel brand Tru, and looks in the global strategy and the multi-sports growth of Trusox in India. Sanil focusses his efforts to enable startups on their go-to-market strategies and revenue models as a base for their growth.

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    24 mins
  • #61 Rishabh Karwa (GoMechanic)
    Apr 29 2022

    Rishabh Karwa is the co-founder of GoMechanic. GoMechanic is disrupting India’s auto aftermarket with their services, spares, accessories & tech ecosystem. With over 1200+ workshops across 60+ cities, GoMechanic offers 300+ car services, warranties, spares e-commerce & has built a unique supply chain with garages & retailers. Started by 4 friends - Rishabh, Kushal, Amit & Nitin in 2016, GoMechanic aims to solve auto aftermarket problems at first principles & aim for global markets replicating their model. With 1000+ employees, 4000+ mechanics & 250+ retailers - GoMechanic aims to add value in the entire ecosystem.

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    25 mins
  • #60 Ragini Das (leap.club)
    Mar 21 2022

    Ragini Das (co-founder, leap.club) is a woman on a mission - more women in leadership roles. With the aim to bridge the long seen disparity between men and women in the workspace, her remarkable skills in building and expanding brands has been key in seamlessly accelerating leap.club towards this mission.

    During her tenure at Zomato, Ragini had been a huge part of the building blocks of the brand and has garnered experience across various growth roles in a span of six years. Previously, as the head of International expansion for Zomato Gold, her expertise resulted in driving impeccable growth of the now leading delivery company. Her purposeful approach to go the extra mile is what makes her an extraordinary leader.

    Through this conversation, we dive deeper into her journey of starting up leap.club, building engaged scalable communities and understand more about their latest initiative "the table", launched to bridge the gap in early stage VC funding for female founders.

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    26 mins
  • #59 Ravi Iyer (Flipkart Leap)
    Feb 14 2022

    Ravi Iyer is a Senior Vice President & Head of Corporate Development, Partnerships, Corporate Finance at Flipkart. He is a veteran of Flipkart, having worked there over the last 8 years in multiple roles. Prior to that, he spent 12 years plus in the FMCG space at ITC. He has led multiple key initiatives at Flipkart over the years, most recently the acquisition of companies like Yaantra, Cleartrip and strategic partnership with companies like Moj and Adani. He has led multiple key initiatives at Flipkart over the years spoke to us about their accelerator program.

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    16 mins
  • #58 Anand Chandrasekaran (Kwaish)
    Jan 10 2022
    Anand has built five products globally with 10M+ users (one with 1 billion+ users) and co-founded Aeroprise Inc. (acq by BMC Software). Most recently, he was EVP, Product at Five9 (Nasdaq: FIVN). Five9 has added $10B in value since 2019. He is also seed investor/advisor in 80+ startups across US/India, 35 of which have grown to $250M+ and eight > $1B in valuation. Breakout investments include Dealshare (1.7B valuation), NoBroker (1B valuation), Rupeek (600M valuation) Khatabook (600M valuation), OneCard (750M valuation) , etc.  Prior to this, Anand was Director of Messenger Platform at Facebook. He was previously CPO @ Snapdeal, one of India’s e-commerce leaders. Previously, he was CPO at Bharti Airtel, a global mobile operator with 300M subscribers. Earlier, Anand was with Yahoo! as Sr. Director for Search and Mobile. He is on the board of directors at publicly listed Future Enterprises Ltd (NSE: FEL).
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    35 mins
  • #57 Arjun Vaidya (Verlinvest)
    Dec 3 2021

    Arjun Vaidya was the CEO at Dr. Vaidya's: New Age Ayurveda (until Jan 2021). Prior to his entrepreneurial stint, Arjun graduated from Brown University, USA with a BA with honors in International Relations and Economics. He then worked in private equity at a consumer sector focused fund, L Capital Asia (the private equity arm of the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Group) where he focused specifically on consumer brands and consumer tech.

    In October 2016, Arjun quit his job to take on his 150-year-old family legacy of Ayurvedic formulations that his grandfather left behind. Dr. Vaidya’s repackaged the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda and emerged as India’s largest Ayurveda brand online. The brand has successfully reached 1m+ consumers across 500+ cities and 16,500+ pin codes in India. Arjun was the first Ayurvedic Entrepreneur to be featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia List for and Business World 40 Under 40 List! Dr. Vaidya’s also won Youth SMB of the Year from Amazon and the Retail Startup Award from the Retailers Association of India. In June 2019, Dr. Vaidya’s partnered with the USD 4b RP Sanjiv Goenka Group and has now been acquired by the group – making it one of India’s first successful D2C exits.

    Currently, Arjun leads venture investing for Verlinvest in India (one of the world’s largest consumer brand focused funds). He is also an active angel investor mentor to brands in India’s D2C and ecommerce ecosystem.

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    18 mins
  • #56 Vishnu Acharya & Dinesh Pai (Razorpay & Rainmatter)
    Oct 15 2021

    Vishnu leads Corp Dev/Investments at Razorpay - with a focus on supporting innovation and creating value for the payments and banking fintech ecosystem in India. Razorpay is one of India's largest NeoBanking & payments player. Vishnu also manages investments at MarsShot Ventures (an angel fund for early stage entrepreneurs).

    Dinesh Pai leads initiatives for Rainmatter, which is a Fintech focused fund by Zerodha. Rainmatter believes in helping people do better with their money and deepen capital market participation in India.

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    26 mins