Decoding Unicorns with Prashant Pitti: Recent Episodes
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Are you planning your start-up? What will it take to make it big? How will you make it to the Unicorn Club? Know it all. Prashant Pitti, Co-founder of EaseMyTrip will be talking to other entrepreneurs whose businesses achieved the Unicorn status. Entrepreneurs share their stories, trade secrets and the recipe of making it big. Tune-in to the podcast – Decoding Unicorns on the Red FM Podcast Network and listen to some of the most influential minds talk about their success, failure and lessons learnt in the process.
"On the next episode of Decoding Unicorns, Host Prashant Pitti (@prashantpitti) interacts with the CEO of Pine Labs. Pine Labs is Asia’s leading Merchant Commerce platform that provides financing and last-mile retail transaction technology to merchants.
Tune into the podcast to know more about his journey
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Vikram Chopra, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cars24, the e-commerce platform for pre-owned cars, credits the entrepreneurial lessons from his first startup, FabFurnish for the success of his second. Vikram was also a business analyst at McKinsey & Company. He received a BTech and MTech in Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and earned an MBA in Finance at the University of Pennsylvania-The Wharton School.
Listen to the two founders of two unicorns talk about the challenges and the state of start-ups in India.
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Prashant Pitti in conversation with Asish Mohapatra is the Co-Founder and Head of Sales at OfBusiness since August 2015.
Previously, Asish was a Senior Associate in Mumbai at Matrix Management Corporation from October 2010 to August 2015. At Matrix, Asish aimed to build on his healthcare and operations experience to help entrepreneurs build their business. Apart from work Asish
kept himself alive with a plethora of hobbies ranging from indulging in sporting records to maintaining collections to creative writing.
Asish started this journey as a Maintenance Manager, and subsequently an Operations Manager, in ITC after completing his B. Tech at IIT Kharagpur. As the Operations Manager Asish managed a team of a thousand people in the demanding plant environment. During this stint he led the turnaround of a factory that grew to ~5X its size in operations and manpower within a year. Asish's experience at ITC taught him that knowledge and an understanding of details is pivotal to being a great manager and leader of people.
Post his MBA at the Indian School of Business, Asish joined McKinsey & Company. While consulting is known to offer diversity across sectors, Asish chose to focus on the healthcare sector as he believed that the sector was in its nascence and was going to be a crucial element in India’s rapid global growth. Asish has spent bulk of his time at McKinsey in serving MNCs and domestic Indian companies in pharmaceuticals, medical equipments and pharma support services. Asish has also worked in the public sector with large bilateral donors and the Ministry of Health. Asish has built a diverse and deep expertise in healthcare at both the corporate and the grassroots levels.
Asish earned his MBA in Finance and Marketing from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and a B. Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
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In the next episode of Decoding Unicorns, Host Prashant Pitti is joined by Founder of Zeta Bhavin Turakhia. Zeta is a full-stack cloud-based neo-banking platform that enables banks and financial institutions to launch modern retail and corporate fintech products.
Inspite of being a college dropout Bhavin Turakhia along with his brother has built almost a dozen of companies throughout his career. So what mistakes he has made and what has he learned in this journey?
Listen to the whole episode to know all his secrets and tips.
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In the next episode of Decoding Unicorns, Host Prashant Pitti is joined by Co-Founder of Vedantu, Pulkit Jain. Vedantu is a knowledge network where any student can tap into a teacher directly and learning can happen in a personalized way, anytime-anywhere. Presently, Vedantu is one of the fastest growing education company with over 35 million users’ accessing Vedantu through its app and web for free every month.
Tune into this podcast where Pulkit discusses the numerous challenges that contributed to Vedantu's success.
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In the next episode of Decoding Unicorns, we have with us the founder of a disruptive, tech-based, capital efficient and globally scalable business model. Host Prashant Pitti is joined by Co-Founder & CEO, NoBroker.com, Amit Agarwal. Presently, No Broker is one of the fastest growing start-ups in India that is witnessing an explosive growth in customers, posted-properties and closed deals.
But what is that secret ingredient which makes No Broker a real estate hero in the overcrowded market? Tune into this podcast where Amit discloses the many hurdles which shaped No Broker’s success.
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In this episode of Decoding Unicorns, host Prashant Pitti is joined by the Beauty tycoon with a purpose ‘Varun Alagh’. He founded the Indian organic brand, Mamaearth in 2016 with his wife, Ghazal Alagh, who plays the major role of Chief Mama at the company. At present, Mamaearth has diversified from baby care, hair care and skin care into body care and colour cosmetics.
Tune into this riveting conversation where Varun discusses his journey from working in a corporate job to establishing a D2C sensation under five years
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Pristyn Care is an asset light, full stack healthcare model which provides you with a hasslefree and smooth process of consultation, admission, treatment and discharge. Harsimarbir (Harsh) Singh, is the brain behind this $117M funded organisation. Pristyn Care is present in all states with its focus on tier 2 and 3 cities as Harsh's vision is to make healthcare a healthy process for all. Tune in to understand how Harsh could build a complex 360 degree business model by keeping it asset light with an underlined revolution.
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Yashish Dahiya is the founder of Policybazaar, India's biggest online insurance aggregator. The vision of Yashish was to create an ecosystem where he minimizes potential fraudulent activities in the market and builds a standardized thumb rule for the selling and subscribing of insurance policies. With this idea in mind, PolicyBazaar has been showing tremendous y.o.y growth in revenue and also got listed at NSE and BSE in 2021.
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Ashneer Grover, Founder BharatPe Ashneer Grover is an IIT-IIM passout, and the Founder of BharatPe. He is the most famous shark out of Shark Tank India and has been one of the core drivers in the growth of companies like Grofers, American Express, Kotak Investment Banking etc. Recently, Ashneer Grover resigned from his own company Bharatpe and faced various accusations. On this podcast, Ashneer addresses the conditions that led to this fiasco and what are the aspects budding entrepreneurs should be aware of in the world of business.
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In this episode, meet another Unicorn with a fascinating story about his entrepreneurial journey.
Dinesh Agarwal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IndiaMART, the country’s largest online marketplace connecting Indian suppliers with domestic and international buyers.
Dinesh has played a crucial role in transforming the business ecosystem in India over the last two decades by helping millions of micro and small enterprises come online.
Widely recognized for his vision and sustainable business ideas, he is one of the few ‘dot.com’ era survivors who have built a niche positioning for his business. He has successfully steered IndiaMART to survive the catastrophic 9/11 incident in 2001 that resulted in a 40% drop in business and the economic slowdown in 2008. His brainchild ‘IndiaMART’, with the aim of bringing in ‘ease of doing business’ in the country, has constantly brought in substantial innovation and digital transformation for enterprises. Today ‘IndiaMART’ is a flourishing business which serves more than 100 million registered users from across the country. In June 2019, IndiaMART got successfully listed on the BSE and NSE with its Initial Public Offer (IPO) which was very well received by the market.
In conversation with the Show Host Prashant Pitti, CEO and Co-founder EaseMyTrip, Dinesh shares business advice that is pure gold.
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This episode of Decoding Unicorns with Prashant Pitti features the founder and CEO of Droom Technology.
Sandeep Aggarwal, a name backed by unicorns like Shopclues and Droom is an entrepreneurwith great vision and depth. He was one of the first ones to infuse technology with data to organize the automobile market and shift it online. He spent over a decade working at Silicon Valley but immediately moved to India, when he saw the scope of business growing within the country.
His great knack to identify gaps and work through them only to convert his exposure into opportunities for others- makes him one of the most special businessmen in this space.
On this podcast, we get to know Sandeep better and understand how he does what he does.
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Tarun Mehta studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Before starting Ather Energy, Tarun had worked at Ashok Leyland and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL).Ather Energy is developing India’s first smart electric scooter that aims to revolutionize the concept of two-wheeler driving in India. Tarun quit his job at Ashok Leyland in 2012 to start work on battery packs - one of the biggest shortcomings in electric vehicles.
Listen to the two founders of two unicorns talk about the challenges and the state of start ups in India.
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Nikhil Kamath is the co-founder and CEO of the bootstrapped fintech startup Zerodha and had built the organisation around the vision to break all barriers. Within a decade, Zerodha grew its customer base by 50X, becoming a billion dollar business by internalising its growth and not raising any funds. He went on to build another disruptive startup in 2019, TrueBeacon.
Watch the two founders of two bootstrapped unicorns talk about the grit it takes to run a business in the competitive markets of India without raising any funds and how it in fact, is better.
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Aman Gupta is the co-founder and CMO of boAt- an Indian company that ranks in the top wearable electronic brands of not just India, but the world. So, how did an Indian company rank the global charts in terms of electronics? What was the process of setting up the vision to gain monopoly in the electronic markets of India? How long did it take? In this episode of Decoding Unicorns, Prashant Pitti will get to the roots of all these questions and more.
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In conversation with Rahul Garg, founder of the B2B ecommerce platform named Moglix- one of the startups to turn unicorn in 2021. In this episode, Prashant and Rahul break down the perspective behind building Moglix into deep insights in order to gain some wisdom around what works in business, and what is the root cause behind it.
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Prashant Pitti in conversation with Ishan Bansal, Co-founder of Groww a company which started off as a direct mutual fund distribution platform but quickly grew into a marketplace for stocks, ETFs, gold etc. From getting the young of the country interested in investments to reaching a billion dollar market cap within a few years, Ishan spills all the beans on how to be successful in today's times. Tune in and listen to this insightful conversation of uncovering stories and decoding unicorns.
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