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Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions from 2021-11-29T03:54:53
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 demis...
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The story of Royal Enfield - a cult? from 2021-11-27T14:16:18
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 th...
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Investing in Deep Tech & AI with Manish Singhal, Pi Ventures from 2021-08-09T03:18
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 ...
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Venture Debt - the what, why and when not! With Ishpreet Singh, Stride Ventures from 2021-08-03T04:17:04
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 ...
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Term sheets are F*ing complicated; Kushal Bhagia explains them best! from 2021-07-26T02:28:45
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...
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Pricing strategies for Indian startups from 2021-04-12T02:28:53
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...
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How to measure and value a SaaS company? With Shripati Acharya, Prime Venture Partners from 2021-03-09T04:39:22
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. Che...
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Pratik Poddar, Nexus VP on Outcomes, Ed-Tech, VC investments and more from 2021-02-08T03:49:13
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 p...
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SPACs, IPOs, Indian Private Equity landscape and more with Gopal Jain, Gaja Capital from 2021-01-25T01:09:26
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 S...
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⚡️The BigBasket Story: From being written off to $2+ Bn valuation from 2021-01-13T02:41:12
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 expe...
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The state of India's banking sector today - is it a tragedy? With Tamal Bandyopadhyay from 2021-01-04T02:43:52
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 l...
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Let's Talk Money with Monika Halan from 2020-12-28T01:30:59
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 ...
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Venture Capital in India with Rahul Chandra, VC & Author, The Moonshot Game from 2020-12-21T02:37:54
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 ...
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Chris Saad, Ex-Product Head at Uber Developer Platform on Leadership Traits from 2020-12-14T01:50:50
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 presen...
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Reimagining Digilocker and product design with Robin Dhanwani from 2020-12-07T02:43:48
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 ...
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Launching Gojek Singapore, agile product management & more with Vikrama Dhiman, Head of Mobility Products, Gojek from 2020-11-17T02:11:14
Vikrama Dhiman is presently the Head of Mobility Products at Gojek and has been a builder for more than a decade across firms like...
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Ajay Sethi of Accel on the engagement centric approach to startup building from 2020-10-26T02:59:02
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 co...
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The Product Manager 'On that Job' with Vindhya C from 2020-10-19T02:33:51
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 bei...
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Startups, Venture Capital and a trip down the memory lane from 2020-08-17T01:30:50
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 Listen
Nikhil Pahwa on freedom of internet and India's ban on Chinese apps from 2020-08-04T02:28:38
“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 alo...
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⚡️Product managers, don't do other people's job: Taruna Manchanda from 2020-07-28T06:06:46
Some weeks ago, I asked on Twitter who are the best product managers I should have on the show. And many p...
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On Impact Investing with Bharath Visweswariah, Omidyar Network India from 2020-07-20T03:31:46
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...
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Managing product teams, cracking the Google interview, writing & more with Disha Chhabra from 2020-06-22T03:53:21
We’ve been talking to some of the best product folks ever since we began this podcast. We had De...
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Did you know this about Bytedance? And other China tech trends with Rui Ma, Techbuzz China from 2020-06-13T04:06:11
🔥🔥🔥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...
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Product & Growth: essential lessons for startups from Mona Gandhi (Founder, Upraised. Ex Airbnb) from 2020-06-01T03:19:50
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 inclu...
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Building brands like Airtel, Vistara and Infosys, with Meeta Malhotra of The Hard Copy from 2020-05-25T02:45:29
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 Listen
Building a social network with Sairee Chahal, CEO of SHEROES from 2020-05-11T02:45:42
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...
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How to become Indistractable with Nir Eyal from 2020-04-27T02:50:41
I’m super thrilled to finally release this podcast with Nir Eyal on how you can become indistractable and reclaim your life...
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Credit cycles, Neobanking & Fintech 2.0 with Gaurav Sharma, CEO of Neo-Bank from 2020-04-20T02:40:44
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, t...
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Anindya Ghose, Stern Business School on using data analytics for better business performance from 2020-04-13T02:50:35
Listen now | 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 ...
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Anindya Ghose, Stern Business School on driving performance with analytics from 2020-04-13T02:50:35
Sometime back while travelling in Beijing, I took this picture:
The picture is a perfect tool to visualise the experiment that Anindya ...
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Leadership in the time of crisis from 2020-04-06T03:27:20
We’re here with another episode of the Use Case podcast and I’m excited to welcome leadership coach Deepak Jayaraman to the s...
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Writing, gaming & product designing with Anshumani Ruddra, VP of Products at Hotstar from 2020-03-31T03:16:06
A writer, a game designer and a product manager walked into a bar.
Twist - all of the three is the same person!
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Repost: Behind the scenes at Flipkart from 2020-03-23T02:30:45
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 suc...
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Products that tap consumer psychology - Triggers & Trump with Dr. Syagnik Banerjee from 2020-03-16T02:39:28
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)...
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Nir Eyal, author of Hooked on habit forming products with Anshumani Ruddra, VP-Product at Hotstar from 2020-03-09T02:37:45
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 th...
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Marketing +2: Building power users & some marketing stories with Sanjay Ramakrishnan, Ex-Flipkart & co-founder of Multiply Ventures from 2020-02-24T03:14:27
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 d...
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Marketing + 1: Raja Ganapathy, Ex-Sequoia Cap CMO & Co-founder, Spring Marketing Capital from 2020-02-17T04:03:33
In the past on the Use Case podcast we’ve discussed and debated how several Indian startups have been commanding incredibly high valuations to their business. One practical way how they do so is...
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Be CEO, Be Pirate - Uplive CEO, Andy Tian on live streaming, India-China competition and growth from 2020-01-27T03:04:12
On a recent trip to Beijing, I was travelling in the subway during peak hours. I looked to my left - almost everyone I saw was on their phones. Looked to my right - same thing. Like a typical
The rule of 40 & Sanjay Nath on how to build, scale & measure growth in B2B and SaaS startups from 2020-01-13T02:45:59
In today’s episode we are joined by Sanjay Nath, who is the Managing Partner of Blume Ventures, one of India’s leading early stage VC...
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Product Management 2: Deepak Abbot, ex SVP at Paytm on Building an app for India & Growth Hacking [BONUS VIDEO CONTENT] from 2019-12-30T03:34:04
India is the world’s fastest-growing app m...
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Product Management 1: Sidu Ponnappa, of GOJEK on what makes a superapp, his journey & managing hyper growth from 2019-12-23T03:32:07
Every product manager has a unique story. The multi-dimensional nature of the role implies that there is no one fixed path to becoming a great product owner. Our first guest as part of the Listen
Media Industry's shifts in business models, platform economy and what to build next with Miten Sampat, CSO at Times Internet from 2019-12-09T03:32:42
In today’s Use Case podcast, we try to understand how the media industry has changed in the recent past, what sort of business models are working and how founders of new media startups should t...
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Indian SaaS revolution, product design and more with Rajan, Co-founder of Upekkha from 2019-12-02T02:44:38
Some six months ago, after shutting down Factordaily, I joined Freshworks, a fast-growing software as a service company built out of Chennai....
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Designing for Next Billion Users with Payal Arora, digital anthropologist & author from 2019-11-19T02:42:27
Payal Arora, digital anthropologist and author of the book, ‘The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West’ talks to Jayadevan on the sidelines of the Design Up conference in Ba...
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The untold Flipkart story with Mihir Dalal, Author of Big Billion Startup from 2019-11-11T02:41:20
Seasoned Indian business journalist and author of ‘Big Billion Startup- The untold Flipkart story’, Mihir Dalal shares the ups and downs in Flipkart’s growth story and the journey of th...
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Building BHIM, future of Fintech in India & more with Nikhil Kumar from 2019-10-28T02:58:31
One of the rising stars of the Indian fin-tech space, Nikhil, co-founder of Setu, shares with us his experience building the BHIM app, how the Fintech space is changing, his tips and tricks for ...
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Why don't more Indian startups IPO? With Karthik Reddy, Blume VP from 2019-10-14T03:21:58
It was 2012. I'd just started working at Pluggd.in, the startup and tech site run by Ashish Sinha. Yourstory also covered startups those da...
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Ankush Gera, CEO of Junglee Games on gaming industry in India & building successful product business from 2019-09-21T03:41:02
In this episode we meet up with Ankush Gera, the CEO of Junglee Games to learn more on the start-up and gaming industry in India. We learn what the state of the nascent but fast expanding gaming...
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Mastering the start-up fundraising pitch with Vinit Bhansali from Orios Venture Partners India from 2019-08-03T16:08:45