Leveraging YouTube Community to build a 100 Cr SaaS company ft Varun Mayya, Founder, Scenes

Today on the podcast, we have with us the very dynamic Varun Mayya, a YouTuber, Author, and Entrepreneur who built a community platform for creators to manage, moderate and monetize their communities in one place. Before building Scenes, he also built a recruitment platform, Jobspire which got sold to a New York-based company in 2017. […]

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Principles of Product Led Growth ft. Dheeraj Pandey, Co-Founder & CEO , Nutanix & DevRev

According to a recent article in Forbes, as per data of ProductLedGrowth.org,“Buyers want to self-educate.”

Personalization is expected by customers—not only are 80% of people more likely to do business with a company that offers personalization but Salesforce’s 2017 State of Marketing Report found that 52% of B2C customers would actually switch brands if they weren’t getting a personalized experience.

In today’s episode we’ve some Dheeraj Pandey, CEO at DevRev; Board Member at Adobe; Investor & Co-founder at Nutanix.

During the episode, catch Dheeraj sharing his experience around Product-Led Growth over the past two decades, taking Nutanix Inc. public within 6 years of inceptio and much more.
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Ishan Sharma on Dropping Out, Money, Content Creation, and Youtube

In today’s podcast, we have Ishan Sharma with us! Ishan is a Youtuber, Entrepreneur, and Founder of MarkitUp. He droped out of his college(BITS Pilani, Goa) at the age of 20 and decided to continue his entrepreneurial and content creation journey!

Ishan Sharma has around 500k Subscribers on Youtube and about 100K on LinkedIn. He also wrote a book called “Crush It on LinkedIn” back in Mid 2020 which summarises his experience of using LinkedIn and it is a guide for college students to find opportunities.

Ishan will share his YT journey so far, why he decided to drop out, what motivated him to do so, how MarkitUp was formed, and a lot more!

Let’s listen to his inspirational journey so far and what he plans to do next! […]

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Founder Hari Menon on BigBasket, The Largest Grocery Platform

If you’re a startup enthusiasts, its highly likely that you would have read or atleast heard about the book – Saying No to Jugaad: The Making of Bigbasket by by T. N. Hari & M. S. Subramanian.

In today’s episode we have Hari Menon, BigBasket’s founder sharing the his experience in the Indian Ecommerce Ecosystem over the last two decades.

In May 2021, Tata Digital invested $375 Mn in BigBasket. They have also recently launched their quick commerce vertical called BBNow and will now compete alongside the existing players such as Swiggy, Blinkit, Zepto and Dunzo.

During the episode, catch Hari talking about his learning from his first venture, his thoughts on the current market and the investment slowdown, and much more. […]

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The story of India’s 100th Unicorn, Open ft. Founder, Anish Achuthan

We’ve heard inspiring stories of founders of Facebook and Microsoft who’ve dropped out of Harward and even some of the well known Indian Entrepreneurs who’ve dropped out of IITs to build on their dream venture.

But in today’s episode we’ll talk with Anish Achuthan, who ran away from his hometown during his Class 11th with dreams to build something big in the Dotcom space and currently is the Cofounder of Open, which recently became Kerala’s first unicorn start-up.

Listen to Anish talk about his journey through his various ventures over the last two decades and how he’s building for Open to democratize the Neobanking space in India.
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Building 1000 Cr+ EdTech Platform For Coders ft. GeeksForGeeks

Teaching as a career is often looked down in our society, as something only people who aren’t career-driven, not motivated enough and don’t have any other interesting career options left, do take up.

As a result most teachers don’t take keen interest in making their students learn from real-world experiences, which would help them grow.

This problem statement was taken up by the guest of our episode – Sandeep Jain, Founder GeeksforGeeks, which made him leave his well paying Software Engineer job after college.

Listen to how Sandeep grew GeeksforGeeks from a blog run by a single person to a 40 Crore+ annual revenue Edtech company with 250+ team members. […]

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The story of 100x Entrepreneur ft. Founders Nansi Mishra & Siddhartha Ahluwalia

March 2019 was when we published was we published our first episode of 100xEntrepreneur.

So far we’ve covered 150+ VCs, Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs from the Indian startup ecosystem.

Alongside 100xEntrepreneur podcast we’ve so far invested in 30+ portfolio companies via like Airmeet, PlumHQ, Zencastr and Neeman’s.

In today’s episode we share our journey so far. We are Siddhartha & Nansi, a husband-wife entrepreneur-cum-content creator duo who started their podcast journey with a purpose to make behind the screen conversations, thought process, and mindset of VCs, Investors and Successful entrepreneurs accessible to thousands of early-stage entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts like you.

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How a 23-year-old created a $8M yearly revenue content business

India’s largest Content Marketplace with 1L+ creators, 2500+ customers, out of which 70+ are Unicorns.

Does that ring any bells?

We’re talking about Pepper Content, founded by Anirudh Singla, in his 2nd year of undergrad college.

Pepper’s journey started when Anirudh during his college decided to take up freelancing and content creation to fund his graduation all by himself. He then realised the potential of content creators in India and decided to organize it by creating an Indian marketplace for the same.

In our conversation with Anirudh, we dive into the journey of building and scaling Pepper to $8 Million ARR Content-marketplace in under 5 years and their plans ahead.
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India’s first 1000 Cr D2C brand which is bootstrapped | Noise

From Selling Mobile Covers To Building a 1000 Crore Revenue D2C Brand that’s also India’s No. 1 Smartwatch brand, here is the story of Noise. In our conversation with Amit Khatri, Co-founder of Noise, he shared how the brand started bootstrapped in 2014, what have been the challenges and how have they scaled over the years. […]

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Shashank Mehta, Founder, The Whole Truth on secrets of building a brand and his learnings & insights from his experience with Hindustan Unilever

Why is HUL considered a Leadership factory?

“Every great brand is built on a fundamental human insights.”

Do you agree that people come before revenue?

“Invest in Brand, even as little as possible, and not just Performance Marketing from Day 1.”

Listen to Shashank Mehta, Founder of The Whole Truth Foods and a passionate HUL Ex-employee in today’s episode to know his perspective about everything mentioned above.
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