Best Kushal Singh Podcasts (2024)

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What's fintech investing all about with Osborne Saldanha 1:20:12

1y ago1:20:12

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In this episode of the Rainmatter podcast, we spoke to Osborne of EMVC. He is quite clued in with the fintech investing space. We spoke about his view on spotting some of the disruptive teams, thoughts on fintech regulations, and more. Please enjoy this conversation with Osborne. We'd also love to hear your thoughts and feedback, we're @rainmatteri…

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Talking early stage investing with Kushal Baghia of All In Capital 1:10:43

1+ y ago1:10:43

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In this episode, we caught up with Kushal Baghia from All In Capital to talk about the state of early-stage investing in India. Kushal has around 8 years of experience as an investor and has supported around 130 teams throughout his career. Having started his investing career at FirstCheque, he then set up his own fund All In Capital, through which…

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Whats the fuss about Green Hydrogen anyway? 1:09:17

1+ y ago1:09:17

1:09:17

This week, I caught up with Suruchi (CEO) and Suhail (CTO) from Ossus Bio. Ossus is a climate tech startup that is developing a bioreactor to product green hydrogen. Ossus was founded in 2017 by Suruchi Rao, Shanta Rao, and Kamar Suhail Basha. They are working on green hydrogen by using waste carbon in industrial effluents as the starting material.…

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Organizing economic and financial data with Ashutosh Datar 58:37

2y ago58:37

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IndiaDataHub is a data portal that aggregates and provides insights on economic and financial data. Though the government, regulators, and other systemically important institutions publish tons of data, it's highly unstructured and messy. Ashutosh had long dealt with the issue of messy data and based on his experiences, he started IndiaDataHub star…

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Making sense of the madness in the startup world with Sriram Mani 53:37

2+ y ago53:37

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2021 was a banner year for startups. According to Crunchbase, $643 billion of venture money went into startups, compared to $335 billion in 2020 globally. Investors poured $38 billion into Indian startups in 2021 compared to $11.1 billion in 2020, according to Fintrackr. The sheer amount of activity in the world of startups was maddening. 2021 will…

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Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions 45:45

2+ y ago45:45

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For over five decades, Azim Hashim Premji has been one of the trailblazers of India Inc. Taking over his family business of vegetable oils at the young age of twenty-one after the untimely demise of his father, he built one of India's most successful software companies along with a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate. As of 2019, he was the tenth ric…

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The story of Royal Enfield - a cult? 39:33

2+ y ago39:33

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Few brands inspire the kind of devotion that an Enfield does. Its distinctive look and feel, the sound of its engine and the image that it creates of its rider have all contributed to putting the brand on the kind of pedestal that others could only dream of. But the story of how Royal Enfield became the brand it did today is filled with ups and dow…

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Investing in Deep Tech & AI with Manish Singhal, Pi Ventures 35:38

3y ago35:38

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In 1956 at the Dartmouth workshop, the idea we’ve now come to know of as artificial intelligence was sown. John McCarthy of Dartmouth college named the field, Artificial Intelligence. After the initial excitement, the artificial intelligence winter set in. With the availability of large amounts of data and computing power, we’re seeing a revival in…

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Venture Debt - the what, why and when not! With Ishpreet Singh, Stride Ventures 52:14

3y ago52:14

52:14

There is a saying that debt is often cheaper than equity. Our topic for today is venture debt, which has become mainstream in the Indian start-up ecosystem of late. In 2019-20, the total amounts raised by venture debt funds was about $62 million which jumped to about $85 million in 2020-21. As the pool of growth stage start-ups increase, it is fast…

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Term sheets are F*ing complicated; Kushal Bhagia explains them best! 53:51

3y ago53:51

53:51

Why this topic for this season’s first episode - A few days ago, one of my best friends from college got an offer from a Thrassio like set up to buy X% stake in her D2C company. Now she had bootstrapped and built this business from absolute zero to a multi-crore turnover company with ~30% margins on each sale! Yet she felt absolutely lost and helpl…

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Making investing easy with Vasanth, Rohan and Anugrah of smallcase 1:18:18

3y ago1:18:18

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Thanks for tuning to episode 3. In this episode, Nithin caught up with Vasanth Kamath, Anugrah Shrivastava, and Rohan Gupta, the founders of smallcase. In this freewheeling conversation Vasanth, Anugrah, and Rohan talk about: 0:00 Introduction and Individual backgrounds 9:20 The chronology of the smallcase story 12:05 What's smallcase 13:13 The Rai…

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Episode 2- Difference between losing and coming last 20:31

3y ago20:31

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In this episode of "Zindagi Aur Hum", Kushal describes the significance of coming last and the main difference between losing and coming last. He will motivate you about why you should never give up and try to at least come last because that's the spirit that will take you to your dreams. How important it is to give time to your work and focus more…

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Episode 1- Kya Humari Soch Mayne Rakhti Hai 18:49

3y ago18:49

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Episode 1 deals with Kushal’s most loved discussion atopic and that is about what, why and how much big we think. Why there is so much problems in thinking big. Why people are doing injustice with their talent, their capabilities. Listen how Kushal finds the answer of these questions and at the end inspire you to think big.…

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Zindagi Aur Hum Teaser 0:58

3y ago0:58

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Listen to the trailer of Zindagi Aur Hum by its own host Kushal Singh who introduces himself and this motivational show to the listenersBy Kushal Singh

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Episode 1: The Roots of the Danger Ahead 11:09

3y ago11:09

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Meet the characters of this story in the first episode and get to know them well. About their life and most importantly what tragedy have they met. How they come up together for this iconic mission in order to save the Cosmos

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The Roots of the Danger Ahead 11:16

3y ago11:16

11:16

The first episode deals with the characters of the book and what tragedy have they met. What their current scenario of life is and how they are currently doing. How they come to meet each other and many more exciting things.

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Guardians of the Cosmos (Trailer) 0:34

3y ago0:34

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Pricing strategies for Indian startups 31:57

3+ y ago31:57

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One of the most common things you hear in the world of startups is “We weren’t able to monetise.” The theme that often plays out is this - the team gets excited about an idea - they start working on it - they talk to customers and if everything works out, they build a great product with an obvious demand in the market. However, in this entire journ…

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Making financial education accessible with Prateek Singh of LearnApp 1:00:49

3+ y ago1:00:49

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In Episode 2, Nithin speaks to Prateek Singh, the founder of LearnApp on how he working on making quality financial education accessible. Prateek talks about: 00:00 LearnApp 4:51 Prateeks' background and his trading journey 16:36 The behind deciding to teach people 25:56 How LearnApp started 29:39 Demographics of LearnApp users 32:40 Competi…

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How to measure and value a SaaS company? With Shripati Acharya, Prime Venture Partners 35:27

3+ y ago35:27

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If you’re a data driven professional, in all likelihood this episode is for you. There are also some interesting analysis techniques I came across this week, that I thought I’d share. Check them out at the end of this email below !!! Do subscribe to the newsletter if such topics interest you! No Spam, ever! On the show today JPK and I got a chance …

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Making taxes easy with Vishvajit Sonagara of Quicko. 59:51

3+ y ago59:51

59:51

Yay, we finally decided to start a podcast. Thanks for tuning in to the first episode of The Rainmatter Podcast. The idea of the podcast is to talk and learn from the best and brightest founders and investors in the Indian startup ecosystem. We hope this podcast becomes a source of learning in your entrepreneurial journey. In the first episode, we …

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Pratik Poddar, Nexus VP on Outcomes, Ed-Tech, VC investments and more 32:07

3+ y ago32:07

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The importance of thinking in outcomes When Gaurav Munjal, the founder and CEO of Unacademy was pitching to Nexus, he was asked - how could a company offering video test prep solutions scale in a country with such poor internet bandwidth (this was the pre Jio era)? He simply pointed the committee to the fact that the lessons were not a video - they…

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SPACs, IPOs, Indian Private Equity landscape and more with Gopal Jain, Gaja Capital 33:34

3+ y ago33:34

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Byrne Hobart called it “the Vegas Wedding Chapel of liquidity events” - quick and easy. One of the hottest trends of 2020 among late stage tech companies was to go public via a SPAC or Special Purpose Acquisition Company. SPACs are essentially blank cheque companies set up and listed with the sole purpose of merging and taking another company publi…

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⚡️The BigBasket Story: From being written off to $2+ Bn valuation 43:25

3+ y ago43:25

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Why are Amazon, Reliance, Walmart backed Flipkart, and several others competing for a piece of the action in online grocery retailing? Consider some numbers from Redseer: ⚡️Grocery is expected to be a $790 billion market by 2024. Of this, online grocery is expected to be around $18.2 billion. ⚡️ The market, currently around $603 billion in size, is…

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The state of India's banking sector today - is it a tragedy? With Tamal Bandyopadhyay 25:02

3+ y ago25:02

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Did you know that in 2020 on an incremental basis, more deposits went to private banks in India instead of Public Sector Banks for the first time in history? What is happening to the bad loan mess and NPAs that Indian banks have been forced to deal with by the RBI? Is the worst over? Forced by the rapid pace of technology, can India’s gigantic bank…

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Let's Talk Money with Monika Halan 47:29

3+ y ago47:29

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Welcome to yet another episode of The Use Case Podcast. I hope you've started thinking about your new year’s resolutions because if you are then you've got to listen to today's show. Believe me, it's going to change how you think about money. Our guest today is Monika Halan, the author of the best-selling book Let's Talk Money, published by Harper …

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Venture Capital in India with Rahul Chandra, VC & Author, The Moonshot Game 1:12:00

3+ y ago1:12:00

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There are very few VCs in India who have seen more than 2 Venture Capital cycles play out. Then there are those select few who have raised more than 3 funds. And then there are even fewer those who have seen their portfolio companies go all the way and IPO. Then there are the likes of Rahul Chandra who have started not one but 2 VC firms over the y…

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Chris Saad, Ex-Product Head at Uber Developer Platform on Leadership Traits 47:15

3+ y ago47:15

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There’s no template to success. That’s for sure. But, there are traits. In this episode Chris Saad, who was previously the Head of Product for Uber Developer Platform and is presently a strategic advisor to several startups joins us to share his learnings on what leadership characteristics set our favourite CXOs apart. Chris fundamentally believes …

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Reimagining Digilocker and product design with Robin Dhanwani 37:56

3+ y ago37:56

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I was on my way back from a long day at work a few months ago. Went straight to bed. The next morning was busy. The day after too. And it was only a few days later that I noticed that my wallet has been missing. All these days, I did not really have to take out my wallet. Almost everyone, from the grocer to the vegetable vendor accepts mobile payme…

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Launching Gojek Singapore, agile product management & more with Vikrama Dhiman, Head of Mobility Products, Gojek 27:53

3+ y ago27:53

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Vikrama Dhiman is presently the Head of Mobility Products at Gojek and has been a builder for more than a decade across firms like Bharti Softbank, WizIQ, and Zeta- a Directi company. Vikrama says that having such becoming a Product Leader today has come at the expense of making several mistakes. He’s grown from making them, and gained an almost an…

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Ajay Sethi of Accel on the engagement centric approach to startup building 49:06

4y ago49:06

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On this podcast in the past, we’ve talked about product-market fit, minimum viable product, jobs to be done, lean startup model, blitz scaling and several other ways startup founders approach company building. In today’s episode, Dr Ajay Sethi, venture partner at Accel talks about a new way of looking at startup building. He calls it the engagement…

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The Product Manager 'On that Job' with Vindhya C 52:28

4y ago52:28

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Let’s be honest. The title is every bit deceiving. Yet, there’s truth in it. It is true because this conversation with Vindhya captures so much of what building a product for India and being a Product Manager is about. It is deceptive because hidden within it are so many elements that are relevant even if you’re not a product manager. For example, …

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Startups, Venture Capital and a trip down the memory lane 48:35

4y ago48:35

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It’s not often you meet old friends and take a trip down the memory lane and wind up with a podcast decent enough (I think) for other people to listen to. I caught up with Vineet Devaiah, the co-founder of Teliportme (10 mn + downloads on Play Store) after long and had a fun talk about venture capital, startups and we even talked about GPT3, a la h…

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Nikhil Pahwa on freedom of internet and India's ban on Chinese apps 1:01:15

4y ago1:01:15

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“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather… …You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth…

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⚡️Product managers, don't do other people's job: Taruna Manchanda 51:10

4y ago51:10

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Some weeks ago, I asked on Twitter who are the best product managers I should have on the show. And many people said we should have Taruna Manchanda, now at LinkedIn talk about her experience. We finally made that episode happen. If you enjoyed listening to our episodes with Mona Gandhi, founder of Upraised; Disha Chhabra, product manager at Google…

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On Impact Investing with Bharath Visweswariah, Omidyar Network India 37:27

4y ago37:27

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The job of the Venture Capitalist, as has been mentioned on the show before, is in many ways to predict change and place bets that are likely to give returns. However, for an impact investor, it’s not just about predicting change but also about creating change. Bharath Visweswariah, Director of Investments at Omidyar Network is one such investor wh…

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Managing product teams, cracking the Google interview, writing & more with Disha Chhabra 39:07

4y ago39:07

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We’ve been talking to some of the best product folks ever since we began this podcast. We had Deepak Abbot’s masterclass on products some time ago. Then we had Nir Eyal, Anshumani Ruddra, Sidu Ponnappa, and Mona Gandhi on the show. They all gave us a deeper understanding of what goes into building great products. Today on the Use Case podcast we ha…

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Did you know this about Bytedance? And other China tech trends with Rui Ma, Techbuzz China 1:20:31

4y ago1:20:31

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🔥🔥🔥BANGER EPISODE ALERT! 🔥🔥🔥 The story goes that Bytedance founder Zhang Yiming was super inspired by Steve Jobs. So much so that the name Bytedance was derived from Jobs’ philosophy for matching technology (byte) with art (dance). Rui Ma, who is one of THE MOST RESPECTED voices on tech in China, and the host of the popular Techbuzz China podcast, …

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Product & Growth: essential lessons for startups from Mona Gandhi (Founder, Upraised. Ex Airbnb) 51:57

4y ago51:57

51:57

It seems surreal but we’re almost five months into 2020 already. Feels like the world, in a hurry, decided to borrow chapters from a dystopian novel. I’ve been worried about several things including the Covid19 pandemic. But I’ve also tried keeping busy during the lockdown. The book that I signed up with Harper Collins is almost complete. I’ve sent…

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Building brands like Airtel, Vistara and Infosys, with Meeta Malhotra of The Hard Copy 31:30

4y ago31:30

31:30

The art of building big brands in an Indian context We’re here with yet another episode of the Use Case podcast. And this time we have with us Meeta Malhotra, the founder of The Hard Copy, a magazine that focuses on design, growth, and innovation in India. Meeta started her career with Infosys and was one of the partners at the famous brand design …

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Building a social network with Sairee Chahal, CEO of SHEROES 21:40

4+ y ago21:40

21:40

What would have happened if Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Sairee Chahal had decided to get the license for starting Facebook in India back when it was just a college network? We wouldn’t have had two of India’s most successful startups - Paytm and Sheroes. Sairee Chahal is one of the kindest, most accomplished and successful founders who has managed to …

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How to become Indistractable with Nir Eyal 43:49

4+ y ago43:49

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I’m super thrilled to finally release this podcast with Nir Eyal on how you can become indistractable and reclaim your life. I read his first book Hooked: How to build habit-forming products, a couple of years ago. And ever since then I’ve followed his work. Nir’s second book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life deals …

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Credit cycles, Neobanking & Fintech 2.0 with Gaurav Sharma, CEO of Neo-Bank 53:03

4+ y ago53:03

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I don’t say this lightly - this is, in my opinion, one of the best episodes on the Use Case podcast, and not one to miss! 'Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: call it what you like, money matters' - Niall Ferguson begins the The Ascent of Money, a beast of a book on the world’s financial history, with this sente…

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Anindya Ghose, Stern Business School on driving performance with analytics 32:45

4+ y ago32:45

32:45

Sometime back while travelling in Beijing, I took this picture: The picture is a perfect tool to visualise the experiment that Anindya Ghose, who is the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at NYU’s Stern School of Business and the Director of its Masters of Business Analytics Program, and his team conducted across various cities in China. In th…

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Leadership in the time of crisis 37:31

4+ y ago37:31

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We’re here with another episode of the Use Case podcast and I’m excited to welcome leadership coach Deepak Jayaraman to the show. Deepak has trained several CEOs in navigating difficult times, and given the current crisis, it’s only fair we pause and think about how we can all ‘play to potential’. Deepak is an alumnus of IIM-A and London Business S…

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Writing, gaming & product designing with Anshumani Ruddra, VP of Products at Hotstar 45:49

4+ y ago45:49

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A writer, a game designer and a product manager walked into a bar. Twist - all of the three is the same person! Say hello to Anshumani Ruddra, who is presently the VP of Products at Hotstar. He’s worn the hat of a writer, a game designer and a PM, which gives him the unique ability of looking at products in a way that most of us skip. Come to think…

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Repost: Behind the scenes at Flipkart 1:10:57

4+ y ago1:10:57

1:10:57

Late last year, Mihir Dalal created waves with his reporting when he launched his first book, Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story, sharing behind the scenes of India’s most successful unicorn story. In this episode we caught up with Mihir to dive deep into how the company was born, the scandals that happened and the ups and downs in crea…

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Products that tap consumer psychology - Triggers & Trump with Dr. Syagnik Banerjee 43:49

4+ y ago43:49

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Dan Ariely in his book, Predictably Irrational, starts off with this example. If you were to choose one of The Economist’s subscription plans, which would you choose? 1) Digital only for $59, 2) Print only for $125 or 3) Print + Digital for $125? Most people go for the third option, even if they came in to buy just the Digital subscription! Such ex…

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Nir Eyal, author of Hooked on habit forming products with Anshumani Ruddra, VP-Product at Hotstar 1:00:30

4+ y ago1:00:30

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I was on a long flight and on this flight there was a gentleman in the aisle seat across from me sleeping - very clearly knocked out. A flight attendant was coming through the aisle, she stops at our row and she turns to him and says "Sir?" He’s clearly asleep, so she calls out louder “Sir!” He's got his blanket up to his chin and he's got a big pi…

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Marketing +2: Building power users & some marketing stories with Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Ex-Flipkart & co-founder of Multiply Ventures 37:17

4+ y ago37:17

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Sanjay Ramakrishnan was the Senior Director for Product Marketing at Flipkart and has led various leadership positions at literally every one of the cool places that an aspiring marketer would desire, including Google, Myntra and Ogilvy and Mather. In his current avatar, he is the co-founder of Multiply Ventures, a newly launched early-stage invest…

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