The 37X Podcast: Recent Episodes
Aditya Menon
A podcast where we aim to tease out the principles that brilliant entrepreneurs and corporate gurus in India live by, in life and at work, which you as a listener can incorporate in your life to achieve continued success and deliver high performance. We deliver micro insights, you create macro impacts.
1% better everyday compounded over a year = 37X your present self.
Discussion with Apoorv on all things biking, startups and design thinking.
Spoke about finding your IKIGAI, counter-intuitive idea of not relying on user feedback as a design first company, challenges of 3rd part manufacturing and finally on the threat of counterfeiting & how good patent laws help with innovation.
Find Apoorv here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/apoorvmangalam/
Find RoadGods here - https://www.roadgods.com/
Join us as we pick Bhuman's brain on the why he decided to startup after being a consultant at BCG and INSEAD, how he managed to raise funds from 17 investors in a pre-seed round, how do you create a market for high quality products and how he came up with a classy yet minimalistic design for TGL.
Additionally we speak about the movies that's inspired him and the most common mistake that he's seen founders make.
Find Bhuman here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhuman-dani/
Find WickedGud here - https://wickedgud.com/
Join us as we pick Akshay's brain on the opportunity in the health & fitness segment, growth of nutraceuticals space in India, dealing with failures while coming up with breakthrough products and the process from ideation to product launch.
Additionally we speak about how the big pharma and FMCG players are entering the nutraceuticals space in big time.
Find Akshay here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshay-pai-5a59ab15/
Find Nutrova here - https://nutrova.com/pages/about-us
Join us as we pick Arman's brain on how he built a super-successful consumer product brand, insights on how the beverage space is going to evolve, takeaways from growing and in many ways transforming a traditional F&B space and how that led to him being named in Forbes 30U30.
Additionally we delve into how he's created metrics that Sleepy Owl obsessively tracks on a daily basis and tips on recruiting the right people.
Find Arman here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/armansood/
Find Sleepy Owl here - https://sleepyowl.co/
Subramanian Chidambaram's profile:
linkedin.com/in/subramanianchidambaran
https://www.youtube.com/user/bcsubbu
- Idea about Indian philosophy is that it’s highly esoteric. Does traditional indic wisdom have any relevance for modern management?
- Why is going deeper in indic wisdom considered by many as a challenge in corporate growth? Is that really the case?
- Leadership can be divided into two parts - leading oneself and leading others. What does Indian philosophy have to tell us about effectively leading others?
- "Thinking brain is the supporting character who imagines it's the hero". How do you ensure that you keep emotions in check and avoid laziness, procrastination, impulsiveness etc.?
- How do we avoid nihilism - the idea that nothing matters. Pleasure for the sake of pleasure, success for the sake of success without answering the broader why?
- There is always a perceived friction between science and religion - being someone of scientific temperament, how do you reconcile both?
Aditya Gadge - Founder at AIWMI, Niti Ayog (WEP), SEBI (AIPC)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-gadge-67a8255/
(The Association of International Wealth Management of India (AIWMI) is a not-for-profit organization and a globally recognized membership association for finance professionals. AIWMI primarily focuses on the broad and strategic role of developing a more robust and forward-looking training infrastructure for the financial services sector and to promote more active industry involvement and collaboration in training and continuing education)
- Aditya's journey from setting up the first wealth management company in Bilaspur to being a pioneer in the family office education space in India
- Building careers like test matches rather than T20s
- Creating value vs creating valuations - why it makes sense to focus on legacy building rather than making the quick bucks
- Evolution of the family office space in India and where do we go from here
- The role of women in finance and how they're consistently breaking the myth that finance is a "big-boys club"
- Book recommendations for aspiring 20-30 year olds
- Generalist vs specialist - skill-sets needed to be successful in the FMCG space
- Aditya's habits that lead to the 37X growth
Deep Bajaj - Founder, Sirona Hygiene Private Ltd.
Creator of Award Winning Feminine Hygiene Products. Won multiple awards such as National Entrepreneurship Award, ET 40 under 40, Fortune 40 under 40 and ET Innovation Award. Deep is also a serial TedX speaker.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepbajaj/
Some of the topics covered in the episode -
The idea generation process - how he comes up with multiple innovative ideas
Tackling one of biggest unaddressed problems in India - intimate and menstrual hygiene faced by women
Switch from being an event manager to a serial entrepreneur
Plan of action that Deep adopted as COVID caused huge supply chain disruptions
Sirona's expansion strategy as it moves from India to Bharat
Winning multiple coveted awards and what it means to receive those as a founder
Pankaj Kapoor - Head, New Product Development at Marico Ltd.
Heads the Business Intelligence and Digitised Process at Marico
linkedin.com/in/kapoorpankaj
(Marico is one of India's leading consumer products companies operating in the beauty and wellness space. Marico markets household brands such as Parachute, Saffola, Set Wet and Livon among others that add value to the life of 1 in every 3 Indians)
- Pankaj's distinctive journey from working at Wipro to becoming a six-sigma black belt in operations to heading new product development
- Impact of COVID on day-to-day personal and professional life
- Setting up systems to deal with crisis such as COVID in the future
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Launching products from concept to shelf - ideation, development, marketing & sales
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Key skill-sets that a NPD professional needs to have
- Drivers of the FMCG space and how COVID has caused some major shifts
- Ways in which nimble FMCG startups are disrupting the distribution moats of large companies
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E-commerce and it's future in the FMCG space
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Book recommendations for aspiring 20-30 year olds
- Generalist vs specialist - skill-sets needed to be successful in the FMCG space
- Pankaj's habits that lead to the 37X growth
Nitin Vishwas - Co-founder of Moonshine - Asia's first Meadery
(Ex-Abbott, Ex-McKinsey)
https://in.linkedin.com/in/nitin-vishwas-84b7625
- Nitin's journey and career path
- What are meads and meadery and how is it different from breweries and wineries
- Responding as a leader of a startup that’s been doing amazingly well when a crisis such as COVID hits
- Building a consumer product brand in India in a category that previously didn't exist
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Making projections in an unknown segment / market
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Thought process while leaving McKinsey and Abbott and starting something of your own
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Key learnings from the time in consulting and at ISB
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Generalist vs specialist - the way forward
- Nitin's habits that lead to the 37X improvement
Welcome you to the 37X podcast!
So why the name 37x - Imagine you improve by 1% everyday. Compound that over a year and you would be 37x your present self by the end of the year. This is exactly what we aim to do.
We hope to put together content which is genuinely useful for anyone interested in understanding the secrets behind great businesses and wonderful lives - no matter if you’re a 25-30 year old who’s been working for a couple of years or a postgraduate student or even someone who’s right now looking to start off a career - we believe these takeaways are quite universal.
We’ll have some brilliant entrepreneurs and corporate gurus from the industry from Consumer Goods and Retail, Fintech and Banking, Healthcare, Biotech and Cleantech and maybe even something as diverse as Agriculture.
We hope by the end of every episode you as a listener have two major takeaways -
- What does this industry look like - what are the drivers, how can I form my own company in this space and how do the big players in the space operate
- How can I apply come of the core principles of success that our guest live by to my life to achieve outsized success relative to the efforts I put in
We’ll be releasing our first episode very soon on all major podcasting platforms including Spotify, Google Podcasts and iTunes. Do subscribe to get notifications on release of new episodes.
We hope to have you onboard for the incredible learning journey that lies ahead - one which makes us 1% better everyday. Cheers!