Pitch Cafe Podcast: Recent Episodes

Vidyangi S. Patil (Vida)

Pitch Cafe is a place where startup talent meets coffee. Vida Patil, your host is the head brewer who will brew some great coffee as we churn out the gourmet secrets and interesting insights on success hacks for individuals, startups, and ventures. The guests are coffee beans and get roasted, toasted or boosted in a fun way!

In this episode, we are joined by Nikita Singh, an experienced brand strategist and the visionary founder of Aam Pannaa Creations. Nikita has over five years of experience in building impactful brands and driving meaningful change.Nikita shares the story of how Aam Pannaa Creations came to life, shedding light on her approach to startup marketing and the inspiration behind developing an AI-powered chatbot.

Nikita dives into the pivotal moments that shaped her journey as a change maker and marketer, sharing insights into building a dedicated team at Aam Pannaa Creations. She opens up about the toughest challenges she has faced and offers a glimpse into her daily routine.She also treats the audience to a musical interlude with a rap performance, showcasing her creative spirit.

As we near the end of our conversation, Nikita reveals her vision for the future of Aam Pannaa Creations and what lies ahead for her venture. With her extensive experience in scaling digital profiles, including achieving impressive LinkedIn and Instagram growth for clients, Nikita’s story is one of relentless passion and dedication to igniting purposeful conversations. Join us in this inspiring episode as we explore Nikita’s journey of creativity, impact, and innovation.

Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast featuring the inspiring journey of Raman and Lakshmanan, the visionary co-founders of Backyard Creators.** Dedicated to affordable healthcare solutions, their flagship product, "Impulse," is an external ear device designed to restore hearing for congenital hearing loss. Discover how they are on a mission to empower communities in need across India and neighboring regions, creating a world where healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

Join us as we delve into their innovative approach and the impactful work of Backyard Creators. Learn about their groundbreaking efforts in developing hearing implants within India, addressing a critical gap as no one else was manufacturing these devices domestically. Their commitment to accessible and transformative healthcare has earned them significant recognition, including the prestigious Young Achievers Innovation Award presented by Thiru MK Stalin, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. They have also been featured on Zee TV, highlighting their remarkable contributions to the healthcare industry.

In this episode, Raman and Lakshmanan share their personal journeys, the challenges they faced, and the milestones they achieved in their quest to revolutionize healthcare.** Headquartered in both San Francisco and Mumbai, Backyard Creators is more than just a company—it's a movement dedicated to making high-quality healthcare accessible to all. Tune in to hear their inspiring story and gain insights into the future of healthcare innovation!

In this episode, we sit down with Sameer Ahirrao, Security and Privacy Practitioner and Founder CEO of Ardent Privacy. With over two decades of experience in information security at Symantec, Deloitte, and Lockheed Martin, Sameer shares his journey of starting Ardent Privacy, a company dedicated to empowering enterprises with data privacy, AI governance, and robust compliance solutions.

We explore the core principles of data security, including the intriguing term "Bill of Materials," case studies on how Ardent's product works, and insights into why traditional data encryption isn't always the answer. Sameer dives into key domains within cybersecurity and explains how organizations can strengthen their compliance stack with rapid data asset visibility and meaningful protection mechanisms.

Tune in to learn from Sameer's rich expertise as he shares his approach to efficiently managing a startup while driving innovation in cybersecurity and data privacy. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, an aspiring entrepreneur, or a professional in cybersecurity, this episode is packed with actionable insights!

In this episode, we are joined by Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President of Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Sanjay, a Harvard alumnus, shares how nearly half of the Fortune 100 rely on Cohesity for business resilience.

A decade ago, Cohesity aimed to revolutionize data management by simplifying backups and data protection on a single platform. This vision continues to drive their innovations today. Recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cyber Recovery 2023 Vendor Assessment, Cohesity's team includes experts from Google, Nutanix, VMware, and more.

Sanjay, with his extensive experience in scaling multi-billion dollar businesses and leading strong teams, discusses his expertise in cloud, applications, infrastructure, analytics, and security.

Join us as Sanjay Poonen reveals Cohesity's journey and how they help the world's largest organizations enhance business resilience in a dynamic digital landscape.

In this episode, we dive into the fascinating journey of Abhi, an innovator and entrepreneur who seamlessly blends technology and filmmaking. With 17 international patents and publications in top journals like NATURE, Abhi is a key player in healthcare technology as the chair of TiECon Health and a member of Sand Hill Angels.

However, Abhi's passion for the Marathi film industry sets him apart. Despite being an outsider, he has created a significant legacy in Marathi cinema and won the prestigious Swarn Kamal in 2012, a national award in India for his movie Deool featuring Sonali Kulkarni, Nana Patekar, and directed by Dr. Jabbar Patel, demonstrating that innovation knows no bounds.

Before founding Optra Ventures, focusing on medical devices and digital healthcare, Abhi's first venture was acquired for $100 million. Now, Optra Ventures leads with companies like Optra Systems, Optra SCAN, and Optra Health.

In this podcast, Join us for a poignant podcast episode as we interview Girish, the dedicated volunteer CEO of IIT Madras Foundation and also the Co-founder & CEO of Rockfish Data.

Rockfish Data is the industry’s first outcome-centric synthetic data generation platform that helps companies unlock the true value of their data to tackle these data bottlenecks. Rockfish’s data adaptive, and enterprise secure platform builds on patent-pending proprietary technology and years of university research from Carnegie Mellon University.

Girish reflects on his impactful journey, expressing gratitude to the exceptional team, volunteers, and donors who propelled the foundation's mission of raising a $100M endowment for India's premier institution, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

In this podcast we talk about how RockFish Data is helping out in today’s world, how Corporate life helped Girish in his startup, what he learned throughout his inspiring journey. Celebrating his remarkable journey presenting to you another exciting podcast.

In this podcast, we dive into the revolutionary world of Inhabitr with our special guest, Ankur Agrawal, the visionary founder of the first fully integrated platform-as-a-service furniture company. Discover how Inhabitr is redefining furnishing with flexible subscription, purchase, and pre-owned options across sectors like hospitality, multifamily housing, staging, student housing, short-term rentals (STR), and direct-to-consumer markets.

Learn how their platform leverages AI-powered technology and a proprietary supply chain to provide a wide variety of furniture options curated by in-house designers. We also discuss their impressive achievement of raising a total of $31 million, including $27 million in Series B funding from Hamilton Ventures.

Ankur Agrawal also shares his personal journey, relocating from Chicago, where he had a successful career at McKinsey & Company, to Silicon Valley to pursue his dream. Headquartered in San Francisco and Mumbai, Inhabitr is transforming the furniture rental industry with innovative and affordable solutions. Tune in to hear Ankur's insights on innovation, entrepreneurship, and the future of flexible furnishing solutions!

In this episode, we sit down with Abhijeet, a distinguished Global Sourcing and Procurement Leader who has consistently delivered impactful results and created value by building and coaching high-performing teams. Abhijeet is a visionary leader, focusing on long-term growth, digital transformation through AI, and driving sustainable results across various sectors.

With a strong track record as a trusted Global Supply Chain Operations leader, Abhijeet has driven innovation and value across planning, sourcing, procurement, analytics, and service operations. His strategic vision and exceptional execution have made significant contributions in sectors such as Semiconductors, Medical Devices, Robotic Surgery, BioPharma/Biotech, Automotive, and High-tech industries.

In addition to his extensive professional achievements, Abhijeet has completed the prestigious Stanford LEAD course, which significantly altered the trajectory of his career, further enhancing his leadership capabilities and impact.

Tune in to learn from Abhijeet's journey, insights, and the strategic vision that continues to shape the future of global supply chain and procurement.

In this episode, we dive into the inspiring journey of Rahul, the founder of Towner Taxi, a visionary leader revolutionizing India's transportation sector. Towner functions as a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, specifically designed to tackle the distinctive hurdles encountered by taxi and auto-rickshaw owners and drivers.

Towner serves as a technology enabler, allowing drivers to harness state-of-the-art technology through a subscription-based model. This empowers them to kickstart their own digital enterprises, accompanied by an array of additional features that pave the way for them to become Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

Join us as we explore the innovative solutions Towner Taxi brings to the transportation industry, providing drivers with the tools they need to thrive in a digital world. Rahul shares insights on overcoming challenges, empowering local drivers, and fostering economic growth through technology.

So, grab your favorite beverage, settle in, and let's embark on this enlightening journey together at the Pitch Cafe. ☕️✨

Join us in this episode as we talk with Peter Kovacs, a top Silicon Valley executive coach, who empowers entrepreneurs and executives to maximize their global impact. With clients like Nvidia, Amazon, and Bain & Co., Peter offers invaluable insights into leadership and business growth.

As a seasoned entrepreneur who successfully exited V12 Software, Peter understands the entrepreneurial journey's highs and lows. He also mentors at Singularity University, StartOut, and the NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center, sharing his expertise with the next generation of leaders.

In this episode, Peter discusses transformative journeys, strategies for positive behavior development, and essential grooming for success in new environments. He shares experiences with founders worldwide, offering insights into building bridges between cultures.

Join us in this enlightening episode as we explore the groundbreaking mission of Kibo, an initiative by Trestle Labs dedicated to ensuring that no school, college, or office denies or discontinues education or employment for anyone facing disability, language, or literacy barriers. Discover how Kibo is making education and employment digital and inclusive for everyone, especially for those capable individuals hindered by an unsupportive ecosystem.

Since its inception in 2017, Kibo has been committed to empowering people through AI-powered technology solutions. These solutions enable real-time listening, translation, digitization, and audio conversion of printed, handwritten, and digital content across multiple global languages, with a special focus on unserved and underserved Indian, African, and Asian languages.

In this episode, we delve into Kibo's revolutionary product designed to aid blind individuals. This device allows users to listen to any book they place under it, transforming the way they interact with written content and opening up a world of knowledge and opportunities.Also we get to know about their learnings and experience in Shark Tank India.

In this episode, we sit down with Sameer Ahirrao, Executive Director of BConnect, and Viraj Raut, a sponsor of the event, to explore the journey of BConnect.

BConnect aims to empower Maharashtrian professionals by creating a vibrant ecosystem that celebrates entrepreneurship, innovation, and community strength. Our guests share insights into how BConnect provides resources and opportunities to help professionals unlock their potential and chart their own paths with confidence.

Hear from industry leaders like Anand Deshpande (Persistent Systems), Ramesh Raskar (MIT Media Lab), and Hanmant Gaikwad (BVG Group). Participate in workshops on go-to-market strategies, real estate, digital marketing, and AI governance. Connect with top companies at the career fair and pitch your startup idea to investors. Enjoy a performance by the renowned Sarma Art group.

Gain insights from experts, enhance your skills, expand your network, and explore new opportunities.

In this episode of PitchCafe Podcast we sit down with Indy G., the visionary founder of Plasmagrid. Indy shares his journey from working at Google to founding his own AI startup, offering a unique perspective on the transition from a tech giant to an entrepreneurial venture. He discusses the foundational concepts of applied AI, emphasizing its significance in solving real-world problems and transforming various industries.

Indy delves into some of the most pressing and challenging problems in applied AI today. He explores the complexities of predicting future situations, such as patient outcomes in healthcare, and how AI is being leveraged to make these predictions more accurate and reliable. Additionally, he provides an overview of the innovative projects and work being done at Plasmagrid.

As an AI founder, Indy shares the top three lessons he has learned throughout his journey, offering valuable insights for aspiring entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts. He also discusses the best practices for managing data in an AI startup, emphasizing the importance of data quality and management in achieving successful AI outcomes.

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n this episode, Soundarya shares her transformative journey from corporate professional to entrepreneurial trailblazer and advocate. After her studies at Columbia University, she ventured beyond corporate confines, confronting U.S. immigration hurdles with determination. Experience her riveting narrative of self-publishing "Admitted" during the pandemic, empowering study abroad aspirants and fostering real-world impact among immigrants.

Explore Soundarya's resilience through bureaucratic challenges and personal setbacks, emerging victorious and paving the way for others. Whether navigating the visa process or seeking entrepreneurial inspiration, her story offers practical guidance and invaluable insights. Celebrate her unwavering commitment to empowering others and making a real-world impact.

In this episode, Step into the future of construction with Navneet Aron Founder and CEO Livio and Aron Developers.🚀 Discover how their tech-driven, Lego-like metal framing is changing the game.

With 100+ top-notch engineers and designers, Livio's making waves across the Bay Area. 🌉From concept to completion, Livio's Lego-like building systems have enabled efficient and precise construction, leading to successful projects across the Bay Area

They have transformed every aspect of the business: from acquisition and capital formation to operations and pre-sales/pre-leasing. Their proprietary tools and platforms streamline deal evaluation, investor management, and construction management, ensuring efficiency and transparency at every step.

Join us as we unveil the secrets behind Livio's success and their vision to dominate the USA construction scene. Don't miss out on the revolution! 🛠️

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In this episode, Chandan takes us on a captivating journey through his entrepreneurial endeavors and ventures into uncharted territories. From building vibrant communities to navigating the ever-changing landscape of business, Chandan's insights are as refreshing as a perfectly brewed cup of coffee.

Chandan Perla is a 21-year-old entrepreneur extraordinaire who spearheaded the creation of the country's largest student community as the former head of community product at Bluelearn. With a diverse skill set ranging from deep research to event management and culinary arts, Chandan brings a unique blend of technical prowess and creative flair to every endeavor.

Join us as we explore the intersections of passion, perseverance, and possibility. With each anecdote and reflection, Chandan offers a glimpse into the future of entrepreneurship and education, leaving us inspired to embrace our own paths of experimentation and growth.

So, grab your favorite beverage, settle in, and let's sip on some wisdom together at the Pitch Cafe. ☕️✨

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As Women's History Month is celebrated, Divya shares her experiences as a STEM leader, from her early days at IIT Kharagpur to her current role as a founding senior software engineer at a cutting-edge machine learning startup.

Divya's journey encompasses a myriad of achievements, including earning her PhD in Computer Science from UC Davis, working at tech giants like Google, and mentoring IIT startups. Throughout the conversation, Divya reflects on her path, offering insights into the challenges and triumphs she encountered as a woman in male-dominated spaces. 🌟

Listeners gain valuable perspectives on topics ranging from navigating the competitive landscape of IIT admissions to thriving in the structured environment of Google, and ultimately, finding fulfillment in entrepreneurial endeavors. Divya's story serves as a testament to the power of resilience, determination, and self-drive in breaking barriers and paving the way for women in STEM. 💼💡

Join us as we celebrate the achievements of Divya Chittimalla and honor her contributions to the advancement of women in technology during Women's History Month and beyond. 🎉🚀

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Today we have Shree Srikanth, ex-Googler, mom of two, IIT-Madras whizkid, who has been in the tech industry for the past 17 years. She is the co-founder of an amazing startup called Minerva. Minerva is a company dedicated to supporting and empowering busy parents.

Their goal is to take the work out of parenting, and we are here to assist you with a wide range of household research and tasks. Get paired with a local person & watch Minerva's magic unfold. Minerva assists parents in various activities from managing their kids and how to spend quality time with them, to home maintenance and travel, and so many other things. It takes the stress out of the constant mental issues that parents face while growing up their kids. Their services are definitely the biggest revolution in the way how parenting actually happens today.

Watch this podcast till the end to learn more about Minerva in detail.

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In this episode, we speak with Chitra Nayak, a seasoned board member and executive with vast experience in global business growth and transformational change. Chitra reflects on her journey with Neythri and discusses the key areas where female founders often need support, offering insights into strategy, operations, and leadership.

We also dive into product-led growth strategies and the importance of using the right metrics to measure success in businesses of all sizes. Chitra shares her thoughts on building effective leadership boards for tech companies, highlighting the significance of diverse perspectives, particularly the role of women in leadership.

To close the conversation, Chitra shares an inspiring story from 2024 that captures the shifting dynamics of business and technology. Her extensive background in scaling businesses and launching new products makes this episode packed with valuable takeaways for entrepreneurs and leaders.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Introduction

02:05 The Beginnings of Neythri: Building the Foundation

03:50 Key Areas Where Female Founders Often Need Support

07:57 Critical Go-to-Market Insights for Startups

11:00 When Does a Product-Led Growth Strategy Truly Succeed?

13:23 Essential Metrics for Measuring Success in Small vs. Large Businesses

16:00 Constructing the Ideal Leadership Board for a Tech Company

19:21 Perspectives on Women Representation in Leadership Roles

21:43 A 2024 Story That Deserves to Be Told

24:34 Conclusion

✨ ABOUT ME ✨

Hello, my name is Vidyangi (Vida) Patil. I am a mindset coach, author, and speaker. Five years ago when I started understanding success hacks for individuals, startups, and larger organizations little did I know I would end up working with mentors hail from Silicon Valley at Stanford University, MIT Media Lab, Singularity University, and incubators and accelerators.

All the way from guiding AI/ML startup founders in winning pitch competitions, and bagging investor appointments to helping youth entrepreneurs and women land their dream job or promotion, I plan to spill the beans of wisdom to launch you higher wherever you are in your life.

I have successfully coached communities in social impact initiatives during COVID. Every week you will see new videos from me on career, personal growth, and technology trends to onboard your rocket ship to success!

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In this episode, we are joined by Ritu Malhotra, CEO, InterviewByte.co. After an accomplished career spanning 20+ years as VP and Director in Banking and Tech, Ritu embarked upon startups that reimagine and redefine work-life for companies and professionals. Her experience spans shaping the market development strategy, market research, growth, product design, technical research, and product development of products that leverage AI, NLP, Data, Gen AI, and UX. During this time she frequently built MVPs for her startup and others, and advised startups, also. Currently Ritu is the CEO of InterviewByte.co, a startup that she founded and leads, which provides next-gen interviewing automation and co-pilots using generative AI, for precision hiring in finance. Ritu holds three full-time degrees in business and engineering with a focus on strategy and entrepreneurship, and has held a FINRA certification.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro

01:20 Idea of building InterviewByte

03:18 What problem are they solving?

04:15 Using previous skill set

06:13 Selecting the most important features

08:20 Experience of building a community

09:50 Using other tools to operate InterviewByte

12:35 Lessons to share for founders

15:00 Outro

ABOUT ME

Hello, my name is Vidyangi (Vida) Patil. I am a mindset coach, author, and speaker. Five years ago when I started understanding success hacks for individuals, startups, and larger organizations little did I know I would end up working with mentors hail from Silicon Valley at Stanford University, MIT Media Lab, Singularity University, and incubators and accelerators.

All the way from guiding AI/ML startup founders in winning pitch competitions, and bagging investor appointments to helping youth entrepreneurs and women land their dream job or promotion, I plan to spill the beans of wisdom to launch you higher wherever you are in your life.

I have successfully coached communities in social impact initiatives during COVID. Every week you will see new videos from me on career, personal growth, and technology trends to onboard your rocket ship to success!

Follow Me On My Other Social Media Handles

Instagram: / vidyangi

LinkedIn: / vidyaangipatil

Twitter: / vidyaangi

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Medium: / vidapatil

Website: https://vidyangi.com/

My New Book: https://vidyangi.com/books

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In this episode, we are joined by Ritu Malhotra, an innovative entrepreneur who brings over two decades of leadership in Finance and Tech. Ritu's expertise in AI, NLP, and UX has shaped her journey, from founding InterviewByte, a platform designed to streamline and scale the hiring process for finance roles to leading Dialoggbox, a startup leveraging machine learning and telecom integration for cutting-edge speech-to-text solutions.

Ritu shares the inspiration behind InterviewByte, the key challenges it solves, and how her previous skill set played a crucial role in its development. We dive into the process of identifying and prioritizing features during the platform’s creation, as well as the lessons Ritu learned from building a community around her ventures. She also discusses the tools she uses to operate InterviewByte effectively and shares valuable insights for founders navigating the tech startup world.

This conversation is packed with actionable advice and insider knowledge, perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to scale their ideas. Don’t miss out on Ritu’s story and the strategies that have driven her success.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro

01:20 Idea of building InterviewByte

03:18 What problem are they solving?

04:15 Using previous skill set

06:13 Selecting the most important features

08:20 Experience of building a community

09:50 Using other tools to operate InterviewByte

12:35 Lessons to share for founders

15:00 Outro

✨ ABOUT ME ✨

Hello, my name is Vidyangi (Vida) Patil. I am a mindset coach, author, and speaker. Five years ago when I started understanding success hacks for individuals, startups, and larger organizations little did I know I would end up working with mentors hail from Silicon Valley at Stanford University, MIT Media Lab, Singularity University, and incubators and accelerators.

All the way from guiding AI/ML startup founders in winning pitch competitions, and bagging investor appointments to helping youth entrepreneurs and women land their dream job or promotion, I plan to spill the beans of wisdom to launch you higher wherever you are in your life.

I have successfully coached communities in social impact initiatives during COVID. Every week you will see new videos from me on career, personal growth, and technology trends to onboard your rocket ship to success!

🌟 Follow Me On My Other Social Media Handles 🌟

📷 Instagram: / vidyangi

📝 LinkedIn: / vidyaangipatil

📱 Twitter: / vidyaangi

🎙 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

✍🏻 Medium: / vidapatil

🌐 Website: https://vidyangi.com/

📕 My New Book: https://vidyangi.com/books

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Welcome to a new episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast! 🎉

In this one, we delve deep into the realms of product-led marketing and product growth with Pramod Gosavi. With a distinguished career spanning roles as a board observer at JupiterOne, investor at 11.2 Capital, and prior positions at VMware, Pramod brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about B2B SaaS and enterprise space, particularly with startups in context.

We talked about the intricacies of product-led growth, dissecting what it truly means for founders in today's dynamic market landscape. Drawing from his extensive background in product management and engineering, Pramod shares valuable insights garnered from his time at both startups and Fortune 500 companies.

Join us as we navigate through the shifting paradigms of 2024 and how they've redefined the strategies and approaches towards product growth. Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, or simply curious about the future of enterprise software, this conversation promises to be enlightening and thought-provoking.

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Today we have Monish Shah, the Founder and CEO of Streetz. Their startup is centered around bringing a revolution in the retail industry of Gujarat. With its disruptive model, Streetz helps Offline Retail Stores gain an online edge through Hyperlocal e-commerce. They are hoping to clock ₹1 Crore in Revenue in just 11 months after starting operations. 🤯

With over 13 years of experience working with multiple companies from the similar sector like Swiggy, Flipkart, and Shuttl, Monish aims to create an exclusive pan-India platform to sell Gujarati snacks and emerge as a global destination for all things ‘Gujju'.

For this, they also received pre-seed funding of ₹1.89 crores from an angel investor, Sagar Shah who sees huge potential in their startup.

Watch this podcast till the end to learn from the founder's journey of what he plans to do, mistakes to avoid while building a startup, and much more!

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In this podcast episode, we're excited to talk with Sai Prasad Venkatachalam, the person who started Sai Aashraya Trust. Sai Aashraya Trust helps people in faraway places get better health care. 💛

Sai Prasad tells us how he started this group and why he cares so much about helping others.

He talks about the big steps they took to help people who don't have easy access to doctors or hospitals. 👨‍⚕️

He also shares how they work with local and national governments to make health care better for everyone, and talks about breaking the stigma around leprosy and reaching out to remote areas like Arunachal Pradesh.

A big focus is their super-specialty hospital project, set to change many lives. Sai Prasad gives us a peek into their dedicated medical team and the impact they're making. ✨

This episode is packed with inspiring stories and insights into making healthcare accessible for all. If you're into stories of innovation, compassion, and change, this is for you. 🙌

Make sure to watch it till the end, and like, share, and subscribe for more!

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In this episode, we have with us Ivan Linn, the mastermind behind the captivating soundscapes of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, as we delve into the future of music and artificial intelligence. we talk about Linn's turning points and thee profound impact of music on the minds of listeners.

We also talk about the fusion of AI and music, black box sound processing, and get a sneak-peek into Wavv's backend processing!

Do watch this conversation till the end!

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In this episode, we're excited to have Monica L from OKX as our guest. Monical is a Growth Manager at OKX, a leading name in the world of cryptocurrency and fintech. She brings a unique perspective on how technology is changing finance. 💼

We'll be discussing her journey in the crypto and Web3 spaces, and how she's contributing to OKX's growth. OKX isn't just a cryptocurrency exchange; it's a hub for NFTs, DeFi, and Web3 wallet services, and Monical plays a vital role in all these areas. 🌐

Monical will share insights on the services OKX offers, how retail transactions work in this new age of finance, and the importance of smart contracts. If you're curious about how AR/VR tech is reshaping finance, you won't want to miss her thoughts on that too. 📈

So, if you're into crypto, Web3, or just keen on where fintech is heading, this is the episode for you. Stay tuned to learn from one of the best in the business. 🚀

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Embark on a deep dive into the dynamic world of crypto and Web3.0 with Dafu (Eric) Gao, Partner at OnePieceLabs—a leading Web3 incubator.

The evolution of WEB3 and its impact on the digital landscape has been extraordinary. Take a journey with Dafu as he shares insights into the unique challenges and opportunities presented by Crypto during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We'll also gain an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the inner workings of OnePiece Labs, understanding the driving force behind the OnePiece Venture fund and the specific traits sought in promising startups

For a thought-provoking discussion on the cutting-edge technologies propelling WEB3 adoption and the potential challenges that may shape its future, watch this till the end!

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Welcome to a new episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast! 🎉

This one is a startup masterclass with Anand Vidyanand, the President & Chief Commercial Officer at Firework. Anand, a Stanford grad with experience at Taboola and Salesforce, spills the beans on how Firework hit a whopping $750 million valuation and raised a cool $200 million.

We talked about the secrets behind Firework's success, the signs that shout 'time to pivot,' and how Firework smoothly sailed through three major pivots! We even talkd about the support startups get from VCs, the key factors in building a startup, Anand's tips on solving real-world business problems, and so much more!

Curious about VC fundraising? Do watch it till the end!

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Welcome to a new episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast! 🎉

For this episode, we have Hannah, a scientist, entrepreneur, and writer, hails from Jiangxi, China, grew up in central Pennsylvania, and lives in the Bay Area

As the co-founder and CEO of Interface Biosciences, a venture-backed biotech company, she's at the forefront of leveraging the microbiome to enhance human health and combat inflammatory diseases. With a focus on conditions like inflammatory bowel disease, eczema, and rheumatoid arthritis—each impacting millions—Hannah sees AI as a game-changer in drug discovery for these complex diseases. Interface Bio's comprehensive pipeline generates high-quality biological datasets, paving the way for AI to revolutionize the future of microbiome innovation and address significant unmet medical needs.

Watch this entire conversation till the end to learn more about the person behind all these victories, and his invaluable insights on what makes and breaks a startup, mistakes to avoid while starting up, and much more!

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Welcome to a new episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast! 🎉

This time, we have Mohit Aron, a tech wizard known for transforming the way we handle data storage and cloud systems. He's the brain behind Cohesity, a company specializing in managing different types of data. But before that, Mohit was CTO and co-founded Nutanix, a company now valued at over $6 billion! At Cohesity, Mohit secured an impressive $400 million in funding from big names like Sequoia and Google Ventures. This financial boost has fueled Cohesity's development of top-notch storage solutions for various data needs—think backups, testing, managing files, and more. Mohit's ideas and innovations not only helped Nutanix grow but also revolutionized how we manage and store data in the tech world.

Watch this entire conversation till the end to learn more about the person behind all these victories, and his invaluable insights on what makes and breaks a startup, mistakes to avoid while starting up, and much more!

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Welcome to a new episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast! 🎉

Join us as we dive into the world of angel investing and philanthropy with a true trailblazer, MR Rangaswami, the Founder of Indiaspora. In this conversation, we uncover the remarkable journey of a multi millionaire investor and philanthropist who has made waves in the startup ecosystem.

Discover MR Rangaswami's incredible rise in the investment world and how he earned a spot among Forbes Magazine's Top 100 Investors. He shares the driving forces that kept him going, and the pivotal moments that shaped his unique perspective on the startup landscape. His insights are invaluable for anyone interested in getting involved in non-profits.

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Welcome to another episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast! 🎙️💛

In today's episode, we sit down with Patricia Liu, a recognized figure in startup pitches and investor relations. Dive into Patricia's journey as she shares personal stories, accomplishments, and her passion for startups. 🌟

Patricia offers her unique perspective on crafting impactful pitch decks, discussing the right balance of detail and clarity. She emphasizes the importance of truly understanding and connecting with your audience, offering tips on refining public speaking and ensuring your message resonates. 📊

Listeners will gain insights into common mistakes founders make and the intricacies of an effective pitch presentation. Patricia also touches on post-pitch strategies, discussing optimal engagement times with investors. 🚀

As we wrap up, Patricia delves into fostering a growth mindset and enhancing critical thinking for entrepreneurs. 🧠

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Welcome to a new episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast! 🎉Join us today with Peeyush Rai, CEO and Founder of Weav AI, an inspiring figure who's been at the helm of multiple successful startups. His journey, from co-founding consumer data startups to being Vice President of Engineering at Vera, has made him a force in the tech industry. 🚀

In this episode, Peeyush shares insights into the thrilling world of GenAI, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities in this field. We delve into the differences between standard AI and GenAI, the costs and complexities of building Foundation models, and the impact of innovations like ChatGPT on the startup landscape. 🧠

We also explore ethics in AI, the future of the Preliminary Generative AI Technology Stack, and practical tips for budding entrepreneurs in the tech space. Peeyush's vast experience and wisdom offer a treasure trove of insights for anyone interested in technology and entrepreneurship. 💼

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Today we sit down with Simha Sadasiva, co-founder and CEO at Ushur. In this episode, Simha shares his thrilling journey of raising a whopping $50 MILLION in Series-C funding, an adventure filled with insights and lessons you won't want to miss. 💰

Simha has been working in the business for more than 20 years. He's led companies through some pretty big events, like an IPO (that's when a company goes public), and some big deals called M&As (mergers and acquisitions). He's even made hundreds of millions of dollars with new products. 👏

In this episode, Simha shares his experiences of growing Ushur and getting that massive $50 million funding. 📈 We often hear people saying things need to change, but what does it take to actually make a difference? Simha tells us how Ushur is shaking things up.

Simha also gives us the scoop on what Ushur's product is all about. 🚀 Plus, he shares the moment he decided to start his own company. If you've ever thought about starting a business, you'll want to hear this.

A successful company needs a great team. Simha talks about how he picks the right people to work with him, which is super helpful if you're thinking about starting your own team. 💼

Getting money for your business can be really tough. Simha shares some great advice about how to get funding. If you're thinking about starting a business, you won't want to miss this! 🎯

Finally, have you ever wanted to work with someone like Simha? Then stick around until the end. He'll let us know if Ushur is hiring and how you can join his team. 🎉

This episode is packed with insights and stories from Simha's journey. Whether you're dreaming of starting your own business, looking to invest, or just curious about the tech world, there's something here for you. Tune in and join the fun at the Pitch Cafe Podcast! 🎧🎙️

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Welcome to another episode of the Pitch Cafe podcast. Today we Have Mr. Dheeraj Pandey with us! 🎙️

Dheeraj Pandey is the co-founder and former CEO of Nutanix, a cloud computing company that provides software-defined storage and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. He obtained his master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

In this episode, we'll dive into "The Paradoxes in Entrepreneurship" that will make you think and spark meaningful conversations. Get ready to explore vulnerability, authenticity, customer focus, and more! Join us for an insightful discussion that will broaden your horizons. 🌟💭

In the beginning, we'll explore the power of embracing vulnerability and how it can lead to personal growth and stronger connections. We'll also discuss the difference between being honest and staying true to yourself, and how these qualities impact building trust. 🤝💪

Next, we'll tackle the balance between optimism and caution in our fast-paced digital world. It's important to maintain a positive mindset while staying aware of potential challenges. 🌈⚠️

The podcast takes an interesting turn as we discuss finding the right balance between embracing chaos and maintaining order. We'll delve into the benefits and challenges of managing chaos effectively for success. 🌪️✨

We'll also dive into the concept of customer focus and its impact on businesses. Is it just a passing trend or a long-term strategy? We'll explore how prioritizing customer satisfaction and loyalty can drive business success. 👥🎯

Lastly, we'll cover captivating topics like developer-led growth, treating employees as valued customers, the collaboration between design and AI, and even explore the anticipation of the next big disruptive force. This episode is packed with inspiring ideas and insights that will leave you motivated and curious about what lies ahead. 🚀💡

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Welcome to the Pitch Cafe Podcast! ☕️ Join us as we sit down with our incredible guest Gaurav Sabharwal, a passionate entrepreneur with a strong focus on value systems and building global high-performance teams. With decades of experience co-creating and running successful tech-enabled businesses, our guest brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. 🌍

🌟 In this episode, we dive deep into our guest's mission and the driving force behind their passion for making a difference in the business world. Gain invaluable insights and inspiration as they share their experiences and expertise. 🌟🔥

💡 Discover the power of democratizing frameworks as our guest emphasizes inclusivity and collaboration in the business community. They provide practical strategies for making business frameworks accessible to all, fostering growth and innovation. 💼🤝

🚀 Our guest's expertise extends to implementing these frameworks in large-scale organizations. With their own successful experiences, they share valuable advice on introducing strategies, navigating challenges, and driving positive change within established companies. 📈💼

🎯 Explore the specific market our guest targets and the incredible impact their approach can have. Learn how the joy of performing mindset revolutionizes productivity and fuels growth in B2B startups. Gain insights into the future of joy of performance and the exciting possibilities it holds. 🌍✨

🎧 Join us for this captivating conversation as we humanize entrepreneurship, delve into building high-performance teams, and uncover the transformative potential of impactful frameworks. Don't miss out on the Pitch Cafe Podcast's latest episode featuring our extraordinary guest – an entrepreneur, Co-Founder/CEO at JOP, and a true visionary. ☕️🎙️

In today's episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast, our guest is Surbhi Kaul, VP of Global Customer Experience at Juniper Networks who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table ✨.

During our conversation, Surbhi shared why CX is a top priority at Juniper, highlighting its crucial role in meeting customer expectations and driving business success 🎯. She discusses the decision to double down and bet on CX, showcasing the strategic significance of this approach 💡.

We dive into the different phases of CX, uncovering how it evolves and matures over time ⏳. Surbhi emphasizes the influence of AI on Juniper and its products, revealing how advanced technologies are transforming the customer experience landscape 🤖.

As we explore Surbhi's contributions, we learn about the CX Forum and its operations, gaining valuable insights into this platform 🌐. Surbhi also shares her endeavors to empower women in the product industry, offering advice and inspiration for aspiring professionals 💪👩‍💼.

Beyond her professional achievements, we take a moment to delve into Surbhi's background and personality, gaining a deeper understanding of the person behind the expertise 🌟. We also touch upon the topic of work-life balance, as Surbhi shares her experiences and perspectives ⚖️.

Join us on the Pitch Cafe Podcast as we engage in an enlightening conversation with Surbhi Kaul, where we unravel the future of customer experience and the transformative impact of AI.

Welcome to the Pitch Cafe podcast! In today's episode, we are thrilled to have Sharad Sanghi, Chief Executive Officer of NTT Ltd. in India & Managing Director & CEO of Netmagic Solutions, join us for an insightful conversation. 🎙☕💛

Sharad's impressive academic background includes a degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and a Master’s degree from Columbia University, New York. He is also the proud recipient of IIT Bombay’s Distinguished Alumnus Award 2021. Sharad is a true example of what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, to generate returns for all stakeholders, and be deeply connected in everything one does. 💼

As a pioneer in the Indian cloud computing space, Sharad has a keen telescopic vision that continues to help NTT's India businesses become a leading force in the technology services industry. His leadership has been instrumental in leading Netmagic, now NTT Global Data Centers & Cloud Infrastructure India Ltd., to achieve newer heights and become a leader in the Datacenter market in India. 🌟🚀

During the podcast, Sharad shares his journey as an entrepreneur, how he scaled his company, his take on risk, and the story of merging with NTT. He also reveals exciting announcements for NTT India and shares his rules for finding co-founders/team members. 🎉

In this episode of the Pitch Cafe podcast is a must-listen for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, technology, and making a positive impact on the world. Tune in now to hear from one of the leading minds in the industry and gain valuable insights that can help you take your career to the next level! 🔊

In today’s episode of the Pitch Cafe podcast, we have Nidhi Mathihalli, Founder of Helping Vision with us! 💛😄

Nidhi is a sophomore from Silicon Valley who joined ASEI as a student member after being awarded the ASEI Silicon valley Emerging Technology Award at the 2020 Synopsys Championship. 🤩

She founded Helping Vision in the fall of 2021, with the goal to improve the lives of the visually impaired. Their plan is to provide visionless communities and schools with AI-assisted technology in order to help them better navigate and decrease the amount of time it takes them to complete their everyday tasks. ✨

In this video, we talk about her journey, her high school life, the motivation behind building Helping Vision, the biggest learning of a high schooler, and a lot more!

Make sure to watch the video till the very end! 🙌😊

Bees are more important than humans, because if humans don't exist the earth will not be impacted, if bees don't exist it does. An avid traveler- thrilling speaker- content geek and much more, Omkar, is the Co-Founder & CEO at BHyve.io a multifaceted nextgen leader, as you will see - he has taught courses in Design Thinking, MVP Management, Negotiation, and Cultural Psychology. He led collaborative initiatives and curriculum co-creation efforts with MIT Media Labs, Harvard Business School, University of Bath, and Imperial Business school.

BHyve enables large organizations to document tacit knowledge, increase Employee Productivity and reduce knowledge attrition.

Omkar trained in Organizational Psychology, Cross-cultural psychology, and psychometric evaluations.

Omkar's interest lies in creating peer learning algorithms, instructional design, and corporate digital strategies.

During his tenure, he trained 25000+ Students across India, USA & UK in design thinking,

400 + Teachers in India with respect to the future of education and 25+ corporate houses such as Siemens, WPP, WNS in the domain of business agility.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Rohin Parkar CEO & Co-Founder of Spintly, with us. 😄💛

He is an eternal learner who believes in intellectually honest learning. Currently solving problems within the Access control and smart buildings space. Working every day to revolutionise and simplify access control with mobile and cloud-based access. 🤩

Rohin is a seasoned wireless technology leader with extensive hardware/product development and leadership experience. founded Spintly in 2018. Prior to founding Spintly, worked on the development of 2G,3G, 4G(LTE),5G, Wifi and IoT Technologies.

We had a wonderful discussion on his startup Spintly and the reason behind he built it, how to find the right cofounder, the story behind raising funds, scaling your business in silicon valley, and much more! 🔥🎇

Make sure to listen till the very end! 😄🙌

In today’s episode of the Pitch Cafe podcast, we have Suyash Singh, Co-Founder, and CEO of GalaxEye, with us.😄💛

Suyash is an alumnus of IIT Madras and has previously worked as Data Analyst and then as a machine vision researcher at TCS. He is currently working on exciting, futuristic & important technologies around Space Technology & Electric Vehicles. 🔥

He is also the Founder & Ex-Team Head at Avishkar Hyperloop, a team representing IIT Madras in the Hyperloop Pod competition, he manages a team of 40 members.

Suyash attended SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition 2018 and developed a method for System Simulation. 🤩

In this video, we will talk about his current venture GalaxEye, the technology behind GalaxEye, and his viewpoint on the space race. He also shared his experience of meeting Elon Musk.

To learn more, listen till the end! 😄🙌

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have someone who can manage work and life outside work with excellence and she spills her beans effortlessly. So much clarity in thinking and execution, only a mom, a sportswoman, an artist and a person who can throw an event for 500-800 attendees every two weeks can do. Shubha Prithvi Raj, President of Kannada Koota Northern California and also the Director, Technical Program Management at RingCentral, with us! 💛🤩

She is a software engineering professional with a solid history of effective technical product program management, recognized for developing and launching software solutions for Unified Communications, wearables, web-connected printers, cloud storage, payment integration, and mobile apps (iOS and Android). 🔥🎇

Her core competencies include Technical Program Management, Agile Development Process, Project Management, Client Relationship Management, Web Services, and Security.

In this video, we discuss her experience at Kannada Koota, skills that women don’t use, managing a non-profit organization, and a lot more! 😄

To know more, watch the video till the very end, and comment down your favourite part of this podcast! 😄🙌

In this episode, we talk to Sanchit Garg who is building an app to improve emotional intelligence of employees at work✨. Executive coaching that is accessible to C-level execs is now being made available to all employees with Sanchit's new app and venture InnerFit 🏋️‍♂️🏥. Why is mental health becoming an issue and what he is doing to solve this, please listen on ...Why did he leave the comfort of his home and move to Silicon Valley, and pick this problem to solve, listen on..👇👇

Sanchit is a startup and venture leader driven by meaningful goals🧘‍♂️. A serial entrepreneur, brilliant IITian, right now, on a mission to empower millions of people with emotional intelligence aka inner fitness. He believes in the power of the product & community to scale emotional intelligence.

Before InnerFit, he founded TravelTriangle for "Holiday Experience" that achieved market leadership with $100mn+💰 ARR and a team size of 700+.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Vandana Tilak, Founder of Jupiter 360 Foundation! 💛😄

Vandana is a dynamic social entrepreneur, and internationally recognised photographer, artist, poet, writer, speaker, vocalist, and visionary leader with proven fundraising, marketing, and sales skills to lead teams and pivot on the ever-changing revenue generation landscape.

She shares her motivation behind starting Jupiter 360, exciting moments, the pathway of building Jupiter 360, and much more! She also shares the secret tip to scaling a business! 🤩💲

And finally, she will sing an amazing song for us! Make sure to watch the entire episode and comment on your favourite part below! 😄🙌

In today’s episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Bharath Kumar with us! 💛 API market places are a super hot trend and DigitalAPICraft (DAC) is all set to automate the marketplace experience! Imagine not having to worry about dealing with the nitty gritty of API deployment. DAC is not only as a technology but also a customer-centric solution.

Bharath Kumar is the founder and CEO of DigitalApiCraft. He is here with us to share his journey of how he started his company and give us more insights about the API industry.

Before starting DigitalApiCraft, he worked in Apigee, IBM, and GalaxE Solutions. In this episode, we discussed how he started his company from scratch and what was the inspiration behind it.

DigitalAPICraft is a leading Product and SaaS Company in API and Cloud Engineering space. It helps enterprises build their API Ecosystems while also delivering solutions to complex problems for financial and telecom enterprises globally. It has strategic partners for several financial institutions in their Open Banking and PSD2 journey.

Make sure to listen till the end! 😄🙌

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have the Co-Founders of Conektto: Ram Sathia and Amol Dewhare.💛

Conektto helps to bridge the gap by bringing the platform capabilities of auto-code generation and autonomous API testing and making it possible by the capabilities of the platform.

In this episode, we discuss the potential of API and how Conektto is helping to make the experience of API seamless with their customer while also working on the technology of API, to create high-quality API to empower business owners.

Check out their website👇

https://app.conektto.io/signin/

Make sure to listen till the end! 😄🙌

In today’s episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Ashish Kothari with us! 💛

Ashish Kothari is the founder and mastermind behind Happiness Squad. He is here with us to talk about his latest book, Hardwired for Happiness.

Prior to founding Happiness Squad and writing the book "Hardwired for Happiness," he spent 25+ years in consulting, including the last 17 at McKinsey & Co., a premier management consulting firm, helping thousands of clients and their organisations achieve breakthrough performance by building new mindsets and capabilities. He is a trained ontological coach and a lifelong student of human thriving.

In this episode, we discuss how we as individuals can attain happiness and how it also plays an important role for organisations in order to be more productive and successful.

Don’t forget to check out 👇

happinesssuqad.com

Make sure to listen till the end! 😄🙌

In today’s episode of the Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Sumeet Gala with us! 💛

When you talk about e-commerce, trust is the fundamental connection between human beings which no technology can replace. This was also one of his fundamental thoughts when he started Sellia.

Sellia is an online peer-to-peer marketplace for corporate employees to buy, sell, and rent items/houses from each other.

As a classified marketplace for corporate employees, it targets working professionals with disposable income who value trust and time while selling or buying online, as their tagline says: "Buy, Sell, and Rent with people you can trust!"

With his 17+ years of experience working in companies like Adobe and Yahoo, he is a passionate problem solver who has mentored more than 500+ software engineers.

In this episode, we discuss his journey as a founder and what led him to start his own venture in the P2P (Peer to Peer) marketplace with Sellia.

Make sure to listen till the end! 😄🙌

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Vasudha Badri Paul, with us! 💛

Never be afraid of #learning, make it your life long buddy says Vasudha, an energetic, influential and amazing woman leader who showed me the power of #persuasion and #positivethinking. 💛 She is also among the top 20 B2B #Marketing #Influencers to follow in 2022. She leads by #example and her #leadership style is empowering her #team and followers.

She is a B2B and B2D (Developer) Marketing leader specializing in digital content strategy & implementation/community evangelism and growth hacking.

With her stellar career spanning companies like Microsoft, Intel Corporation, Cisco, Alan AI, she has very mature advice for career aspirants and marketing strategists✨

In this episode, we discuss how to be successful in marketing, the marketing lessons she learned, the traits of a successful woman business leader, her experience of writing a book and making a movie, and a lot more!

Check out her latest movie venture here, and join the bandwagon: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vasudha/rickshaw-a-feature-film?ref=user_menu

Make sure to listen the video till the end! 😄🙌

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Vikrant Karvir, CEO & Co-Founder at Pulse42.io with us! 😄💛

Pulse42.IO is a SaaS startup, which is making the lives of engineering and tech leaders easy by providing tools in observability, rapid visibility into software delivery lifecycles, helping understand the process maturity of different teams, and improving productivity. Pulse42 streamlines engineering, operations, and finance across your product portfolio and hear it from the founder and CEO himself on how purlse42.io is making the lives of C-suite execs easier✨

Vikrant is an expert in refining concepts, putting together functional teams, raising venture or internal capital, building customer and partner ecosystems. He has a great track record in creating the sales funnel, building sustainable revenue streams, and creating multiple exits or scale-up trajectories.

We will discuss everything about Pulse42.io, difficulties faced by tech leaders, the reason for him starting Pulse42, software delivery problems, and a lot more! Make sure to listen it till the very end! 😄🙌

In today’s episode of the Pitch Cafe podcast, we have Neil Fernandes, co-founder of Enroute AI with us! Named as the most promising tech startup of 2022, by FoundersBeta, 😃💛 Enroute AI was shortlisted for the FalconX Accelerator's Immersion Program 2022. Neil completed his B. Tech from NIT Karnataka and his MS from the University of Michigan. He had a keen interest in algorithms for transportation, which eventually led him to build San Francisco, California-based Enroute AI. 🚗 Enroute AI employs 10 people, powers approximately 50,000 deliveries every month, and is releasing new features nearly every week. Neil shared how his company is different from other competitors and talks about its features like real-time GPS tracking, route optimization, efficient management, etc. ✨

In today’s episode of the Pitch Cafe podcast, we have Vinay Bhardwaj with us. 😃💛 Vinay is a friend who has never failed to make me laugh even in the toughest situations. He is in an engineering leadership position, investor, and board member of many non-profit organizations. But is a huge rage on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and other platforms for his short humorous videos and hugely popular Kannada YouTube Channel for his media company ಕಿತ್ತಾಕ್ಬುಡ್ತೀವಿ - Kittaakbudteevi Films Inc [KFI] https://www.youtube.com/c/Kittaak He is fueling the Bangalore-California startup ecosystem and is a champion of the local Kannada Koota chapter, which is growing in popularity throughout the United States. We had an insightful conversation where we discussed his early life and journey, his source of inspiration, what to do when you’re stuck, dealing with stressful situations, moving on from failures, and a lot more. ✨

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Nikita Jagadeesh, Head of Marketing at Instabase.😃💛 From startup to scale up, she has deep, tried and tested hacks on marketing, listen on! If you are a startup or a new marketing org. trying to scale, thinking deeply along the lines of volume versus focus, identifying customer segment and pain points of your customer, juggling with your very first hires, how can you do more with less? As a leader or even just a career aspirant in your organization, how do you work on your confidence, is it a skill set? In this fantastic podcast, learn more from candid insights from a Silicon Valley's woman leader... Nikita completed her graduation (Economics & Business Administration) from the University of California, Berkley, and then did MBA from Harvard Business School. 🔥 She has plenty of experience in marketing and product management. Apart from Instabase, she has worked for companies like Deloitte Consulting, Credit Suisse, McKinsey & Company, and Nutanix! ✨ In this video, she talks about purpose, profit, lessons in marketing, career, confidence, and a lot more! If you’re someone who’s aspiring to have a bright future, this podcast is for you!

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Mona Sabet, Chief Corporate Strategy Officer at UserTesting, a company that believes businesses succeed when they understand the human connection. 💛😄 Her leadership philosophy is truly refreshing as she talks about building your genius by. embracing 1- Confidence over certainty ✌️ 2- Tribes over teams 🎳 3- Why over What ⚖️ Mona excels in driving accelerated growth in the tech business, both inorganically & organically through acquisitions, technology partnerships, equity investing, building high-performing teams, and scaling business operations. ✨ She talks about the most essential traits of women leaders, frameworks and NGOs she’s associated with, problems faced by women in this patriarchal society, and a lot more!

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have a leading corporate manager, Preethy Padmanabhan, Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing at Freshworks, with us! 😄💛 Preethy has 20+ years of high-tech and leadership experience across marketing, product, sales & engineering. She is a strategic problem solver and connector who helps people to work as a team and bring exponential growth. 📈 Preethy has an Executive MBA from UCLA Anderson graduating with distinction, focusing on Entrepreneurship & Marketing. She has an undergrad from BITS Pilani, India. ✨ She will talk about her inspirational journey, experience at SV Business Journal Woman of Influence, Freshworks, etc.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Rennu Dhillion, Founder of Genius Kids Development Inc, with us! 😄💛 Rennu is your one-stop shop for learning how to raise kids to uncover their inner genius. Parenting is about coaching and being a friend and uplifter to your child, she says. Listen all the way to the end with rapt attention, Rennu never lets you lose attention even for a second!! She is one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, and her venture Genius Kids franchise is responsible for developing, training, and implementing the in-house curriculum. She has also produced numerous learning sites and mobile applications for children and families to access excellent learning programs. Rennu is a women empowerment leader and author of books like ‘Raise Confident Children!’ She specializes in early education, public speaking, activism, & modeling. ✨ She shares what motivated her to start Genius Kids and insightful advice for parents on raising their kids. She also talks about her experience at the House of Lords.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we’ve Vivek Dahiya, podcaster SCI-AI is with us! 😃💛 He is also the Founder of ‘Fika 'N' Tikka’ and now a seasoned Product Manager with significant experience building SAAS and Tech products. He is also experienced in building API products and has helped teams by developing product Vision, product roadmap, writing EPICS, and User Stories. 🔥 Apart from being a great PM, he is also passionate about Podcasting, Blogging, Astronomy, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Independent science research. 🤩 Vivek talks about, Science and AI-based podcast series, SCI-AI. The podcast hosts renowned names in the field of Science from esteemed organizations, institutions, and AI research-based organizations.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have a super-human 🦹‍♀️ Toastmaster, Abhijeet Joshi with us! 😃💛 Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs and Abhijeet is part of the 12 Toastmasters clubs! 🔥 Abhijeet has 15 years of experience with a background in product development, lithium-ion, materials, and reliability testing. He is also skilled in cross-functional team management and effectively contributes to the matrix or functional organization. He will tell us whether it’s possible for everyone can become a good at public speaker, how to improve communication, and how these skills helped him get promoted at work etc.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Munisha Mirchandani with us.😄💛 She has lived in over five countries, with three kids, always launching a new business! How did she do it? Learn more in this super exciting conversation with Life Coach Munisha Mirchandani.. She is an experienced Financial Planner & Wellness Advocate, Life, and Wellness coach & mentor specializing in helping you create a global life of physical, mental, and financial wellness in your own style. ✨ Manisha is a globe-trotter and also a mom to three kids. She shares her learnings and experiences from her journey to different countries like England, Canada, etc. 😃 She explains why people need to take care of themselves and what her life looks like as a life coach. It’s difficult for many people to find happiness and peace, Munisha shares her message for everyone on how to be happy in life. 🤩

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Preeti Shrikhande Founder & CEO of Vivensity with us. 😃💛 Preeti is a wellness-entrepreneur, bringing technology to mental health and wellness for the student community. Her encounter with Sadhguru, her journey at Kailas and Yoga training in Hrishikesh, India are all noteworthy. She is truly a nextgen wellness visionary helping build future leaders with great self-awareness at Vivensity! Preeti is passionate about human well-being in all its aspects - physical, emotional, mental, and intellectual. She has master's degrees in Computer Science and Statistics.🔥 She has an experience of 28+ years of experience in several technology companies including Sun, Paypal, Rational, Broadvision, and Compubahn, in roles from developer to Vice President. 🙌 She is an experienced technologist and executive coach with plenty of experience in software architecture, design, development, engineering management, quality, and process improvement. She talks about herself and what motivated her to build Vivensity. She also shares her experience as a corporate coach and talks about the concept of the ‘Aurobindo Style’. ✨

In today’s Pitch Cafe, we have a Women Leader, a revolutionary thinker, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, Founder & President of Breast Cancer Hub. 💛😃 Dr Lopamudra Das Roy (Distinguished Cancer Scientist-Research Professor), a Social Entrepreneur, resigned from her career to creating BCH as a full-time Pro bono voluntary service, saving lives globally by making impactful sustainable changes working at the grassroots level, bridging the gap between the Developed & the Developing countries. ✨ She received her Post-Doctoral fellowship from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA in Cancer Immunology & MBA from Northwestern University-Kellogg School of Management, Chicago. 🤩 Awarded with "100 Global Women in Leadership", "Global Achievers Award", "Honored as one of the five inspiring women around the world leading the fight against Breast Cancer", "USA President’s Lifetime Achievement Award", Bestowed with “Exemplary Social Worker Award”, “Global Role of Cancer Awareness Award"; "Truly dedicated Social Activist Award”; “Award of Excellence for Humanitarian service”. 😍🔥 She shares why breast is still a taboo in our highly sophisticated and educated society of ours. She also talks about the vision, mission, and business model of Breast Cancer Hub & BCH Wings.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Rahul Tyagi, Co-Founder: SECQAI, with us! He talks about quantum computing and quantum computers and the ecosystem around them. Quantum computing is a type of computation that harnesses the collective properties of quantum states, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement, to perform calculations. The devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. He is an alumnus of London Imperial College. He’s an expert in the domains like AI, Quantum Computing, and Cyber Security. Rahul shares his experience of getting into the world of startup and how quantum computing can be used to solve small case problems. He also advises entrepreneurs on how they can access this technology efficiently.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Gitanjali Paithane, COO & Co-Founder, InternMart | Career Discovery for High School Students, with us. 😃💛 Recently I visited an International Women’s Day Event at FalconX B2B Accelerator in Silicon Valley. This was a place where I met numerous Women Leaders and our guest is one of them! 😍 She’s an Ed-tech leader and her startup is called InternMart. This is her 3rd startup after great success in her previous two. Gitanjali talks about the myths in education and skill development and shares her opinion on this matter. She shares the attributes and vision of her High School Student based startup InternMart. She also expresses her opinion on gender bias and how to fight it. 🙌

BreakTheBias Wishing you a happy #womensday2022! Here's to all the wonderful women in my life. “To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.” YOU'VE GOT THIS GIRL! She is also a startup marketing strategist, tech enthusiast, speaker & mentor. She was also the Silicon Valley Business Journal's Woman of Influence 2021! 😍 She started her career as a Software engineer at Cisco Systems and carved her way to becoming a marketing entrepreneur helping startups. She is a mentor at leading accelerators like Founder Institute, CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, and an advisor at Loyal VC. 🔥 In this video, we will be discussing how to get customers on a digital platform and how to make your startup succeed through hard work and marketing. 🙌 She will tell us about the myths in marketing, and how her initiative Step2Growth works to overcome all this.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Sanjay Sawhney, Co-founder of Tala Security (3 successful STARTUP EXITS). He is an experienced engineering leader and entrepreneur with a 20+ year background in software, security, storage, and networking. 💛😃 He has a successful track record of leading top-notch teams, delivering best-in-class solutions, and competing in new market categories. He is an execution-oriented individual who combines enthusiasm for creativity with business pragmatism. 😍 In this video, he shares his experience and the operational challenges of a CISO. He also shares his insights on the domains of his expertise like Networking, Security, Storage, and Distributed Computing and advises the leaders in the technology domain. ✨

Healthcare is up for disruption and decentralized technologies are In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I have one of my old friends, Akshay Sharma, CEO of hotg.ai with me! 😃💛 He is an entrepreneur and investor who builds edge computing, privacy, AI, and decentralized tech. 🤩 He shares how he implements the idea of AI and Deep Learning in medical science. He explains what Federated Learning is and why AI is the future of health care. He tells the audience that tokenizing everything is possible and will happen soon. 🙌 He’s among the founding engineers of Doc.ai and Human API, was the CTO of doc.ai where he built the research and technology to bring AI into healthcare. ✨ He also runs the novel digital biomarkers workgroup for the decentralized clinical trials under the IEEE standards association.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Arvind Rapaka with us.💛😊 He is a 3-times successful exit entrepreneur and now is on his 4th startup. 🤩 At present, Arvind is at a VP-level position in a startup called Dragonfruit AI. He has also worked for big companies like Yahoo! He is a person with Midas Touch. 🔥 In this video, he talks about his journey and shares how childhood #scienceprojects like generating electricity invoked curiosity in him. He shares the 3 pillars to build a successful product/service for customers. 😃 Arvind advises founders not to be intimidated by the ever-evolving complexity in technology as technology is just a vehicle, it’s not the driver 🚗, however, the founder is! He discusses the problems he faced while building AI-based startups and how to overcome these challenges.

In today’s episode of Pitch cafe, we are back with the second part where I talk with Madan Padaki, Founder - CEO, 1BRIDGE. Madan is the co-founder and director of Sylvan Advisors, in the field of education management; CEO and MD of Head Held High Services, a social enterprise for rural youth, and former co-founder of MeritTrac Services, a skill assessment, and testing company. Madan explains the fact that the biggest problem our country faces is job creation and also brings light to the fact that the startup can be the way to provide more jobs to the youth! In this video, he shares his experience of visiting a college on the outskirts of Bangalore. He shares his idea of changing the narrative of being a startup. He discusses the myths of scaling and traction by sharing an example of the Brahmins Coffee Bar. He also advises the young entrepreneurs and the changes they can make. He also talks about his dream!

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Sunil Cherian, CEO of Copperwire Systems, a Silicon Valley blockchain applications company, that helps easily unlock, accelerate and maximize value from Blockchain technologies. 😃💛 He is the cocreator of Tada SC, a recently-launched breakthrough supply chain suite of applications, that aims to make your supply chain safer, faster and smarter. 🤩 He is not only an expert in the supply chain, crypto, blockchain but also a person with an interest in philanthropist initiatives in education. He is also an Angel Investor! 🔥 In this video, Sunil shares his journey with the audience, he tells us how living in Silicon Valley positively impacted his life! He shares his views on failure and advises young entrepreneurs on Startups. 🙌 He explains how supply chain management can impact the stocks, a country’s economy. Decentralized systems like blockchain are crucial for Web 3.0.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Nilesh Trivedi, Principal Investor, J-Venture. 😄💛 Nilesh describes himself as a company-maker/company-builder. He has over two decades of Operational, Technology Management, and creating new businesses experience at fortune corporations and early-stage companies and helped create and guide more than a dozen new companies from the ground up. 🤩 Early in his career he designed and developed products ranging from VoIP, Security, video, data communications infrastructure, data center technologies, and telecom networks. In this video, Nilesh explains what a venture capitalist (VC) is and the job they are supposed to perform. He shares that the goal of J-Ventures is connecting people, investing in people, and building business. 🙌 He also shares some solutions to problems that the startup founders may need help with. Nilesh shares his views on Flipped Venture Model. 😇 Everything he says is refreshing, this is a fresh mind envisioning the future of the startup-venture ecosystem.

Welcome to another episode of Pitch Cafe. Today I talk with Puja Kapoor, Founder & CEO at Newmom.me. She’s on a mission to change the perspective about motherhood that general people possess. 💛😃 She's helping new moms to have healthy and happy motherhood, and supporting them in their ever-evolving journey. She has 15+ years of Product Management and Marketing experience in ML/AI, Mobile, Finance, and Healthcare. 😍 Today’s podcast is very special, it answers crucial questions on motherhood, about human beings. Did you know both men and women suffer from postpartum depression? 😥 It's a common notion for people to believe that motherhood is a god-gifted quality that every woman possesses. Becoming a mother isn’t an easy job, it may take time for people to adjust, to settle with the transition. In this video, Puja shares her journey of Newmom.me, she also shares what was like to be a student of IIT Roorkee. She also tells us what made her quit her corporate job and start her brilliant initiative. 😊 She also differentiates the perspective people have on motherhood and what it is really like to be a mother.

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Madan Padaki, Founder - CEO, 1BRIDGE. He is one of the top influencers in the domain of education and entrepreneurship across many countries! 🤩 He is the co-founder and director of Sylvan Advisors, in the field of education management; CEO and MD of Head Held High Services, a social enterprise for rural youth, and former co-founder of MeritTrac Services, a skill assessment, and testing company. Madan describes how he feels about himself. He shares his contribution to 1BRIDGE. 🔥 He also shares the idea and definition of unicorn and says ‘Unicorn is a startup that can create a billion smiles. ‘ 💛 He shares his opinion on the word ‘social entrepreneur ‘, he also tells that ‘India is a land of billion entrepreneurs.’

Can we promote #mental #wellbeing and meaningful human connections through creativity? ✨ In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Deepa Vivekanandan with us. 💛 She is the Founder and CEO of MixLife, a startup focused on #creativity and #wellness. She was a product manager at Google for machine learning in fighting abuse - particularly focused on improving online conversations through machine learning. She was also a product leader and innovator on Youtube. She is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University. 😍 She shares how creativity played a pivotal role in her well-being- in managing work-life harmony. To get a precise idea about creativity, self-expression, overcoming negative states, etc. watch the video till the end!

Can we promote #mental #wellbeing and meaningful human connections through creativity? ✨ In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Deepa Vivekanandan with us. 💛 She is the Founder and CEO of MixLife, a startup focused on #creativity and #wellness. She was a product manager at Google for machine learning in fighting abuse - particularly focused on improving online conversations through machine learning. She was also a product leader and innovator on Youtube. She is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University. 😍 She shares how creativity played a pivotal role in her well-being- in managing work-life harmony. To get a precise idea about creativity, self-expression, overcoming negative states, etc. watch the video till the end! 🙌😃

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00:00 - Intro

02:00 - Why She Found MixLife

04:05 - How Does Deepa Help People Express?

07:55 - How Did Deepa Overcome PTSD?

10:50 - How does MixLife Help People Burnout?

15:41 - What’s Next for MixLife?

17:45 - Making Corporate Employees Break the Loop

20:42 - How To Assemble Communities?

23:15 - Advice of The Day

25:00 - Outro

✨ Hashtags ✨ #startup #entrepreneur #mindfulness #womenshistorymonth2022

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Dr. Deepak Sekar. You may know him from his role as Founder and CEO of Chowbotics, which built the world's first fresh food-making robot named “Sally.” 💛😊 He completed his B. Tech. from IIT Madras, and his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Recently he co-founded Prof Jim to transform e-learning for kids. 😍 In this video, Deepak will explain to us what patenting is exactly and why is it so important to get a patent. He discussed the pros and cons of having a Patent. He explains the costs related to applying for a patent and also shares methods to reduce the cost. 💰😁 He explains the fact as to why investors love patents. He also shares how he comes up with brilliant ideas! He has around 186 patents to his name. So to learn more about IP and patenting from the expert join in ✌ Make sure to watch the video till the end! 😊 And subscribe to my channel for more videos like this! 😃

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00:00 - Intro

01:50 - Stepping in Startup World

02:48 - Why File an IP?

05:30 - His Read on Google-Motorola Acquisition

06:40 - Patenting

09:25 - Journey to Patent

13:00 - His Landscapes of Patent

15:20 - Types of Patent 16:20 - Today’s Takeaway

17:10 - Outro

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with BITsian Shourya Agarwal about building the nextgen social metaverse platform 😄 He is the co-founder & CEO of Flam, which is the world’s first Augmented Reality (AR) based social media network built for a global audience. Flam launched its first consumer product ‘FlamCards’, which are printed videos 👀 Internet was massively adopted because people can socialize via the internet. The idea was to develop a social media that stays forever so people don't have to keep moving from one platform to another, and hence came Flam! ✨ In this video, Shourya shares his experience about what happened in the early stages of Flam, and why consumer companies need to focus on customers rather than logic 🤝🏻 He tells us, how easy it is to create AR Content on Flam, and which type of AR Content can be shared on their platform 😀 Get ready to be amazed by some ‘Shourya Moments’ and explore deep in the metaverse and Augmented Reality 😁 To learn more about Flam and AR, watch the video till the end! ✌ And subscribe to my channel for more videos like this! 😃

00:00 - Intro

01:50 - Who is Shourya Agarwal?

02:38 - Why Internet Became Massively Adaptable?

05:00 - How Did Such An Idea Occur to Them

06:47 - The Other Co-founder

08:42 - Is Flam Creating a Parallel Universe?

09:38 - Early Days of Flam

10:38 - An Expert’s Advice

11:37 - A Shourya Moment

12:24 - Why Customers Love Flam?

16:15 - Why is Flam Cam So Special?

18:00 - Compatibility of Flam Camera

19:28 - Usability of Flam

22:22 - Experience at the US

24:00 - Metaverse is the Future

28:08 - Approaching Investors

30:15 - Flam-Prologue

32:50 - Reason Behind the Name

35:15 - Message for Youth Entrepreneurs

36:06 - Outro

In this episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, I talk with Marcel Linza at 3Fit Fitness Center😁It was exciting to talk to mentors in the physical and mental fitness space and see how it impacts professional success. People usually think fitness is all about weight lifting and drinking supplements. But fitness is more than that. Physical activity or exercise can improve your health and reduce the risk of developing several diseases. It can have immediate and long-term health benefits. Most importantly, regular activity improves your quality of life.🤗 Marcel is a super fitness coach and is the Owner of ‘3Fit’. 3Fit provides integrated coaching for fitness and nutrition and teaches you tools to positively impact your overall lifestyle. 3Fit is completely customized for the user’s needs.💪 In this video, I had the privilege to take a close look at 3Fit and also experience some personal tips from Marcel himself. Marcel Illustrates some of his training methods and routines. He also explains how his strategies work along with real-life scenarios 👀 He also talks about the psychological interpretation of working out 🤩 To learn more about fitness and get pro tips, watch the video till the end✌ And follow my channel for more videos like this! 😄

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro

00:22 - Reason for Visit

01:20 - Who is Marcel Linza

02:41 - Marcel’s Idea of Fitness

04:04 - A Tour Of The Gym 04-14 - Training With Sandbags

06:40 - What is 3Fit

09:24 - Understanding Yourself Is Important

11:30 - A Look At The Resistant Bands

16:18 - Trying The Slam Ball

17:45 - Online Classes are also an Option

21:30 - Psychological Interpretation of Working-out

23:52 - The World Is Your Gym

29:45 - You’re Always Adapting to What You're Doing

31:44 - Marcel’s View On Meditation

33:10 - Parting Thoughts

34:46 - Outro

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Raju Reddy 😃 BITSian, and legendary silicon valley investor successfully launching founders from India. He talks about building new kinds of societies as he explains about Kakatiya Sandbox - a novel innovation ecosystem for FRESH MINDS and a lot more! He is the founder and former CEO of Sierra Atlantic, a company that grew to be a best-in-class global services company over a period of 17 years 😃 Raju is the Co-founder of Kakatiya Sandbox, an initiative in rural Telangana (India) building an ecosystem for long-term, positive social impact. He is an active TiE Silicon Valley charter member and served as Convener for TiEcon 2016 ✨ He enjoys working with young entrepreneurs and mentoring them to build great global companies 🔥 He is an entrepreneur and an angel investor. In Silicon Valley, he is grooming founders to build organizations with value 🤩 Previously, Raju spent 10 years at Intel. He enjoys working with young entrepreneurs and mentoring them to build great global companies. Raju currently serves on the board of Belong, GreyOrange HealthCube, and Seclore and previously on redBus (acquired by Naspers), Esspresso Logic (now CA), Hitachi Payments, and CognoVision Solutions Inc. (now part of Intel) 😊 Raju is currently a Board member of RAND Corp Center for Asia Pacific Policy, FalconX, and EnActe Arts. He previously served as the Chairman of BITSAA Intl., the alumni body of BITS Pilani. In this video, Raju points out how students working and doing internships while they are in college can bring out fresh Entrepreneurial mindsets. He talks about his and his colleague’s initiative SVQuad(Silicon Valley Quad) with Kanwal Rekhi, BV Jagadeesh, and Manu Rekhi discusses the traits he looks for in a founder when he wants to invest 😁👌

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Intro

2:19 Who Is Raju Reddy As A Person?

4:50 His Experience From School In The Past

7:15 Why BITS Pilani Is Said To Have A MIT Culture

9:25 How Investment For The BITS Students Was A Success

11:40 Promoting Entrepreneurial Mindsets

17:22 Ecosystems Raju’s is A Part Of

20:24 What Is SVQuad?

23:05 Traits Of A Good Founder

27:18 What is Kakatiya Sandbox?

35:18 Programs Of Raju’s Brilliant Initiative

46:03 How Can Youth Entrepreneurs Join Kakatiya Sandbox

49:19 Parting Thoughts And Conclusion

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Reethu George 😁 We talk about her thought process while she was making the shift, Why we feel conflict, can somebody be happy without a purpose, what’s going on with women in this digital world, her views on social media, services she offers at ClarityBrew, her niche, difference between a friend and a coach, her theories and techniques, the market for coaching, the future of ClarityBrew, and much more! ✨ Reethu George is an Online Conflict Management Coach. She’s a trained Conflict Coach and Certified Professional Life Coach 😊 She’s also the Founder of ClarityBrew, a boutique online coaching company helping women who are confused about their future, gain clarity and direction. 😃 They are on a mission to transform the lives of women experiencing interpersonal conflict and inner conflict by helping them resolve their conflict and supporting them to respond to conflict more effectively through a 1:1 coaching process. 💛 Subscribe to my channel for more videos like this! ✌

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro

03:45 What was she thinking while making the shift?

08:54 Why do we feel conflict? 10:50 Can somebody be happy without a purpose?

13:11 What’s going on with women in this digital world?

14:38 Her Views on Social Media 16:05 What are the services she offers at ClarityBrew?

16:55 What is her niche?

17:35 Difference between a friend and a coach

18:53 Her Theories & Techniques

20:14 How’s the market for coaching?

21:32 Where do you see ClarityBrew in 5 years?

25:01 Contact Details & Parting Thoughts

ABOUT ME Hello, my name is Vidyangi (Vida) Patil. I am a mindset coach, author, and speaker. Five years ago when I started understanding success hacks for individuals, startups, and larger organizations little did I know I would end up working with mentors hail from Silicon Valley at Stanford University, MIT Media Lab, Singularity University, and incubators and accelerators. All the way from guiding AI/ML startup founders in winning pitch competitions, bagging investor appointments to helping youth entrepreneurs and women land their dream job or promotion, I plan to spill the beans of wisdom to launch you higher wherever you are in your life. I have successfully coached communities in social impact initiatives during COVID. Every week you will see new videos from me on career, personal growth, and technology trends to onboard your rocket ship to success!

👉Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vidyangi/

👉LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidyaangipatil/

👉Twitter: https://twitter.com/vidyaangi

👉Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10x-success-hacks-for-startups-innovations-and/id1498304770

👉Medium: https://vidapatil.medium.com/

👉Website: https://vidyangi.com/

👉My New Book: https://vidyangi.com/books Helping Women Gain Clarity and Direction | Reethu George | Pitch Cafe Podcast EP 6

How to generate leads and sell like a pro? Whether you are a founder or an employee, selling will take you far in scaling and succeeding your brand. In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Sandeep Chandrasekhar. 😊 We talk about how to generate leads using email marketing, cold calling, contextualizing, and customizing your efforts to connect with your lead. Also, how to pursue sales even if you are an introvert, sales as a game, playbook for new salespersons, enjoying what you’re doing as you sell, how to close the deal with a client, are sales leaders better leaders, the important rules for sales, and much more! ✌ Sandeep is an account executive at Deliverr Inc. It is a fulfillment platform enabling eCommerce sellers to cost-effectively deliver their products to customers within 1-2 Days. ✨ He is focused on helping retail & supply chain technology organizations close B2B deals & expand sales & revenue pipelines. Value combination of lean methodologies, storytelling, teamwork, data, & user behavior to identify market opportunities, making informed decisions & executing the right tasks. 😁 Subscribe to my channel for more videos like this! 😄

CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 04:38 How to Generate Leads?

10:06 How to Make Sales as an Introvert?

12:27 Sales as a Game

16:16 Playbook for New Salespersons

23:21 Enjoy What You’re Doing 25:52 How to Close the Deal with a Client?

30:59 Sales Leaders are Better Leaders? 33:29 The Important Rules for Sales

37:22 Outro

ABOUT ME Hello, my name is Vidyangi (Vida) Patil. I am a mindset coach, author, and speaker. Five years ago when I started understanding success hacks for individuals, startups, and larger organizations little did I know I would end up working with mentors hail from Silicon Valley at Stanford University, MIT Media Lab, Singularity University, and incubators and accelerators. All the way from guiding AI/ML startup founders in winning pitch competitions, bagging investor appointments to helping youth entrepreneurs and women land their dream job or promotion, I plan to spill the beans of wisdom to launch you higher wherever you are in your life. I have successfully coached communities in social impact initiatives during COVID. Every week you will see new videos from me on career, personal growth, and technology trends to onboard your rocket ship to success! 👉Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vidyangi/ 👉LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidyaangipatil/ 👉Twitter: https://twitter.com/vidyaangi 👉Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10x-success-hacks-for-startups-innovations-and/id1498304770 👉Medium: https://vidapatil.medium.com/ 👉Website: https://vidyangi.com/ 👉My New Book: https://vidyangi.com/books.

In Episode#3 of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Dharam Singh, CEO, PgMP, PfMP, PMP, RMP, ACP, PBA, DASM, DASSM, PMI-ATP 😃 If you are to manage your life effectively, don't you think you need to plan it well? Where do you begin planning whether it is your company's next big deal or your child's school project? https://lnkd.in/gYYUNhgT Planning your startup and life with project management 🔖 Effective planning and management are key to business success, and today we have Dharam Singh with us, CEO at VCare Project Management, to give us amazing advice on this topic. He's an entrepreneur in the Project Management space, also he is an Angel Investor for a few startups in the Silicon Valley.😇 He's a Leading PgMP & PfMP mentor. With his very own School of Project Management. This Podcast is extremely informative for achieving goals in an organization through successful management.🤩 He shares his email id in this podcast and gives an opportunity to the viewers to directly contact him by mentioning our channel. If you want to manage your goals effectively in the near future, this podcast is definitely for you ✌ -

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro

05:16 What is Project and Program Management, What are the Salary ranges?

07:58 One example where tools give you an advantage?

15:49 Is there an increase in salary if you have an MBA?

18:20 Recommendation on switching from a technical role to Project Management 25:14 - About his funding on a new startup

ABOUT ME

Hello, my name is Vidyangi (Vida) Patil. I am a mindset coach, author, and speaker. Five years ago when I started understanding success hacks for individuals, startups, and larger organizations little did I know I would end up working with mentors hail from Silicon Valley at Stanford University, MIT Media Lab, Singularity University, and incubators and accelerators. All the way from guiding AI/ML startup founders in winning pitch competitions, bagging investor appointments to helping youth entrepreneurs and women land their dream job or promotion, I plan to spill the beans of wisdom to launch you higher wherever you are in your life. I have successfully coached communities in social impact initiatives during COVID. Every week you will see new videos from me on career, personal growth, and technology trends to onboard your rocket ship to success!

👉Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vidyangi/

👉LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidyaangipatil/

👉Twitter: https://twitter.com/vidyaangi

👉Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10x-success-hacks-for-startups-innovations-and/id1498304770

👉Medium: https://vidapatil.medium.com/

👉Website: https://vidyangi.com/

👉My New Book: https://vidyangi.com/books

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Vineet Johnson and Samir Sahoo 😊 IRegained, is a digital neurotherapeutics company that has developed a clinically validated, therapist-directed, smart, in-clinic, and in-home digital rehabilitation system that empowers chronic stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors to reclaim unassisted use of their upper extremities, including hand usage. IRegained’s portable MyHand System will allow therapists to treat loss of hand function, both in a clinical setting and in the comfort of a patient’s home. 🍀 Vineet Johnson is the founder and CEO of IRegained. His background is in physical therapy and neuroscience. His interest in neuroscience and rehab started 30 years ago as an undergrad student while working on his physical therapy degree in Christian Medical School and Hospital in southern India. He was largely focused on the research of understanding how the hand function is controlled by the brain predominantly in primate models or monkey models 😄 That interest stayed with him which over time eventually led him to understand how the hand function is controlled in the human system and also what happens when someone’s brain is damaged and how to replace this function so that these individuals can reclaim their independence and live an independent life 💛 Samir Sahoo is the COO of IRegained. He always loved fiddling around with things and when he grew up he eventually ended up being a marine engineer and worked in the oil and gas industry. But, he was always passionate about doing something bigger so he did his master of business at Purdue University to do a career shift. He commercialized technologies out of Purdue research park and to get some more real-world experience in the marketing sales and business development side he got a job at Zimmer Biomet, which is one of the largest musculoskeletal companies in the world, as an associate brand manager and then as a marketing manager 😀 When he met Vineet through his connection to MaRS, which is one of the largest incubators in Canada, He met the perfect partner on the science side. So, he can apply the engineering, business, and commercialization aspects to do something good for people ✨ In this podcast, they talk about challenges in commercialization, market analysis, their device, bringing the hardware into the market, implementation of VR, how does it work? financials and partners, and much more! ✌

ABOUT ME Hello, my name is Vidyangi (Vida) Patil. I am a mindset coach, author, and speaker. Every week you will see new videos from me on career, personal growth, and technology trends to onboard your rocket ship to success!

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In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Vishal Gupta 😃 His journey from IIT Bombay Labs to FalconX B2B Accelerator in Silicon Valley was worth a capture on my podcast, I learned every minute I interacted with him. He's the CEO at Seclore. He's an entrepreneur and business development executive with a special focus on the financial service industry. 😁 This podcast is extremely informative for building startups out of university research labs. Vishal's experience in Cyber Security is a north star for Cybersecurity startup founders.🌟 In this podcast, Vishal explains how and why students and entrepreneurs who are new in the field, should focus on the commercial viability of their startup's idea and maintain good contact with customers at every step of the path. ✨ Vishal was able to pivot and monetize even during the pandemic, now you know how valuable his advice and suggestions would be, so listen on.😁

ABOUT ME Hello, my name is Vidyangi (Vida) Patil. I am a mindset coach, author, and speaker. Five years ago when I started understanding success hacks for individuals, startups, and larger organizations little did I know I would end up working with mentors hail from Silicon Valley at Stanford University, MIT Media Lab, Singularity University, and incubators and accelerators. All the way from guiding AI/ML startup founders in winning pitch competitions, bagging investor appointments to helping youth entrepreneurs and women land their dream job or promotion, I plan to spill the beans of wisdom to launch you higher wherever you are in your life. I have successfully coached communities in social impact initiatives during COVID. Every week you will see new videos from me on career, personal growth, and technology trends to onboard your rocket ship to success! 👉Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vidyangi/ 👉LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidyaangipatil/ 👉Twitter: https://twitter.com/vidyaangi 👉Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10x-success-hacks-for-startups-innovations-and/id1498304770 👉Medium: https://vidapatil.medium.com/ 👉Website: https://vidyangi.com/ 👉My New Book: https://vidyangi.com/books A Journey from IIT Bombay Labs to Silicon Valley

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Vishal Gupta 😃 His journey from IIT Bombay Labs to FalconX B2B Accelerator in Silicon Valley was worth a capture on my podcast, I learned every minute I interacted with him. He's the CEO at Seclore. He's an entrepreneur and business development executive with a special focus on the financial service industry. 😁 This podcast is extremely informative for building startups out of university research labs. Vishal's experience in Cyber Security is a north star for Cybersecurity startup founders.🌟 In this podcast, Vishal explains how and why students and entrepreneurs who are new in the field, should focus on the commercial viability of their startup's idea and maintain good contact with customers at every step of the path. ✨ Vishal was able to pivot and monetize even during the pandemic, now you know how valuable his advice and suggestions would be, so listen on.😁

ABOUT ME

Hello, my name is Vidyangi (Vida) Patil. I am a mindset coach, author, and speaker. Five years ago when I started understanding success hacks for individuals, startups, and larger organizations little did I know I would end up working with mentors hail from Silicon Valley at Stanford University, MIT Media Lab, Singularity University, and incubators and accelerators. All the way from guiding AI/ML startup founders in winning pitch competitions, bagging investor appointments to helping youth entrepreneurs and women land their dream job or promotion, I plan to spill the beans of wisdom to launch you higher wherever you are in your life. I have successfully coached communities in social impact initiatives during COVID. Every week you will see new videos from me on career, personal growth, and technology trends to onboard your rocket ship to success! 👉Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vidyangi/ 👉LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidyaangipatil/ 👉Twitter: https://twitter.com/vidyaangi 👉Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10x-success-hacks-for-startups-innovations-and/id1498304770 👉Medium: https://vidapatil.medium.com/ 👉Website: https://vidyangi.com/ 👉My New Book: https://vidyangi.com/books A Journey from IIT Bombay Labs to Silicon Valley

In this episode of Pitch Cafe ☕️, I talk with good friend Deepthi Rao 😃, product leader and angel investor. Some of her investments include Aisle, Just Egg, and Gatsby. It was fun exploring her journey into investing and just how adventurous and open-minded she is!She leads the Product Technical PM role at Facebook Pay. She is also an Angel investor and startup mentor for high-growth, mission-oriented startups in the US and APAC 🚀

If you wish to learn about how you can have a full-time job and get into angel investing listen to this podcast all the way to the end 😊She talks about managing a high-stress full-time product job at Facebook and landing similar jobs in Amazon, Microsoft, and other companies ✌Deepthi is very candid about how and why investing is an enjoyable job. She also has unique insights on how fresh graduates can slowly move into angel investing 😄 She's a person who believes social impact and money can happen at the same time 👩🏻If you are a founder from tier-2 and 3 cities in India, Deepthi is an angel investor who is interested in your work and you can reach out to her via Maker's Bar 😃

NEW PODCAST! BING! with Russ Bevans: Have you ever wondered what it takes to win an Olympic medal? What is the SWEAT and SLOG involved? Well, I can certainly share a taste of it with my podcast with Russ Bevans and this is just to give you a peek into an athlete's oops, a triathlete's life hacks..

Russ Bevans is an industrial designer at Nike who cross-applies his 5-point formula 1) preparation- 2)organization- 3) optimization - 4)determination- 5) perseverance from triathlon training in his professional and personal life.

fitnessmotivation #athletes #olympics2021 #extremesports #sports #fitness #coaches #endurancetraining #positivethinking #positivemindset

Russ Bevans is VP of industrial design and innovation at Nike for 32 plus years. He is not only a design enthusiast but also a fitness coach. He is actually a sportsperson who has won accolades at the national level and has qualified for a lot of international events as well. He has many lessons to share: about his life, about persistence, about training. And today's podcast is focused on how one can train as a sports athlete for a triathlon or an iron man. Triathlon, previously known as an extreme sport, involves a swim of 2.4 miles, a bike of 112 miles, and a marathon distance of 26.2 miles. Russ applies the interesting lessons learned while training for a triathlon or for Ironman in his work and in his design profession, and generally in life as well. His work as a designer requires preparation, organization. optimization, optimal optimization, determination, perseverance just as the training process for a triathlon requires. This is how he is able to balance his life as a designer and a sport person

A fascinating conversation with Akshatha Shetty who talks about her journey in finance in starting a fund, women empowerment, social impact investing, Maker's Bar, and in effect what it takes to survive and thrive as a woman entrepreneur. Some great hacks on maintaining mind-body balance and staying grounded amidst challenging high growth phases in life. Listen on...

An ex-Wipro, Intel, Teradata-ite, and alumnus of BITS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Leave Business School, most importantly a doting mother of two daughters, Singh is not only bringing about positive change in the agricultural domain but also in the workspace for women. This is probably why she has been rightly honored as an exceptional woman leader with a feature in the Top 100 Women in Technology and Top 50 under 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology. She gives valuable advice on career switching, product management, and blazing a trail in disruptive technologies in Agritech.

It was a pleasure doing a podcast with the next-gen leader, and visionary in the education space, Founder-Director, Keystone Education Group, Srilakshmi Reddy. She has built her institution with 4 cornerstone principles, 1- Be prepared for change every day 2- Be realistic 3- Keep learning every day 4- Everything you build should be empathy-centric, at the end of the day in the education business which is a long term growth model and about raising a child and it is a deep and growth and self-reflection centric business and service, at the same time. “When I did my market research I was immune to the words - this can’t be done! I simply could not accept the word “No”. I was working until the last day of my pregnancy because I didn't want my team to feel small in front of challenges life threw at them ... Keystone International School #podcasts #coaching #leadership #school #team #podcast #coaching #leadership #educationsystem #mentoring #lifeskillsforkids

Meet Srilakshmi Reddy the next-gen education leader and visionary who is going about brick by brick meticulously bringing life and meaning back into learning and development skills in India at Keystone International School #womenshistorymonth2021 #edtech #nextgen

WomensHistoryMonth inspired me to bring in Nandini Shenoy, CEO-PinkVilla. Listen to her inspiring story of creating the top Bollywood platform by beginning her journey as a geek from Microsoft who pursued her passion as the top content creator and platform for Bollywood sitting in the US, and her market being in Mumbai, India. Brick by brick she built her villa, PinkVilla, a resounding story of success for all first-time founders.

Talking about creating a predictive/warning system to understand and identify action items for a better healthcare system; Think about technologists like Thiel or Musk running for office. Speeding up governance for better social outcomes, also conversations on corporates helping healthcare sectors in speeding up data governance and on the other hand talk about how to improve adoption of startup products over products from large corporations. An insightful podcast with Sanjiv Goyal, IIT-Alumnus based in the Silicon Valley, and chair of. the conference IIT2020. Learn interesting insights on how IITians succeed in their academics and innovative abilities. Listen to ideas from Silicon Valley thought-leaders like Jyoti Bansal of AppDynamics fame, Nikesh Arora, CEO-Palo Alto Networks and life-member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous donations are behind the creation of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, chair of Akshaya Patra USA, the man behind the Deshpande Foundation that has supported the work of hundreds of emerging entrepreneurs by setting up three other centers: the Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship in India, the Merrimack Valley Social Entrepreneurship Sandbox in Massachusetts and the Pond-Deshpande Center at the University of New Brunswick.

A podcast with Sanjiv Goyal, IIT-Alumnus based in the Silicon Valley, and chair of. the conference IIT2020. Learn interesting insights on how IITians succeed in their academics and innovative abilities. Listen to forecasts during and post-COVID new normal by tech experts, address from PM Modi from India, also what it means to be a go-giver and be successful! Memory experts like Chester Santos talk about having more exposure to facts and experiences to sharpen your memory..a fulfilling, fun, and holistic tech and growth hacking banter..

Podcast with Prem Talreja (30+ years experience in silicon valley) in cloud, semiconductor and being an investor for B2B startups. He talks about raising strategic capital and marketing solutions for small businesses, especially in the pandemic. Visit - svfinancialservices.com/ and svfinancialservices.com/digital-marketing/

Podcast with Prem Talreja (30+ years experience in silicon valley) in cloud, semiconductor and being an investor for B2B startups. He talks about raising strategic capital and marketing solutions for small businesses, especially in the pandemic. Visit - svfinancialservices.com/ and svfinancialservices.com/digital-marketing/

Raj Jaswa explores in depth the nitty-gritty of acquiring your first customer and then repeat customer, focusing on case studies on Uber, Amul India, and the Central Government of India- tourism and commerce. He talks about the top 6 parameters that surprisingly make customer repeatability and reference more likely. Raj Jaswa is an accomplished serial technology entrepreneur. Raj currently teaches Engineering Entrepreneurship at IIT Bombay, IIT Gandhinagar, VNIT Nagpur and TiE Silicon Valley. His most recent role was CEO and Chairman of Dyyno from 2009 to 2012. From 2003-2008, he volunteered full-time for TiE Silicon Valley, serving as President from 2005 to 2008 and s a Director from 2003 to 2004. TiE is the world’s largest nonprofit dedicated to helping entrepreneurs. Raj served on TiE’s Global Board of Trustees for 5 years. Before TiE, Raj was co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Selectica from 1996 to 2002 with customers like General Electric, BMW, Cisco, Samsung, and Dell. Selectica went public in 2000 with a peak market value of $5 billion, and was named to the Forbes 500, Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, Software 500, Inc 500, and Interactive Week 500. Previously, Raj co-founded Opti in 1988, where he served first as EVP of Sales and Marketing and then as President until 1996. During Raj’s tenure, Opti became the world’s largest supplier of chipsets for personal computers, powering the PCs made by IBM, Hewlett Packard, Dell, and Compaq. Earlier in his career, Raj worked for Intel, General Electric, and Chips & Technologies. He received a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay , a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto , and an MBA from Stetson University.

Raj Jaswa, silicon valley investor-advisor and serial entrepreneur with multiple IPOs, explores in depth the nitty-gritty of acquiring your first customer and then repeat customer, focusing on case studies on Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco bell. He talks about the top 6 parameters that surprisingly make customer repeatability and reference more likely. Raj Jaswa is an accomplished serial technology entrepreneur. Raj currently teaches Engineering Entrepreneurship at IIT Bombay, IIT Gandhinagar, VNIT Nagpur and TiE Silicon Valley. His most recent role was CEO and Chairman of Dyyno from 2009 to 2012. From 2003-2008, he volunteered full-time for TiE Silicon Valley, serving as President from 2005 to 2008 and s a Director from 2003 to 2004. TiE is the world’s largest nonprofit dedicated to helping entrepreneurs. Raj served on TiE’s Global Board of Trustees for 5 years. Before TiE, Raj was co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Selectica from 1996 to 2002 with customers like General Electric, BMW, Cisco, Samsung, and Dell. Selectica went public in 2000 with a peak market value of $5 billion, and was named to the Forbes 500, Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, Software 500, Inc 500, and Interactive Week 500. Previously, Raj co-founded Opti in 1988, where he served first as EVP of Sales and Marketing and then as President until 1996. During Raj’s tenure, Opti became the world’s largest supplier of chipsets for personal computers, powering the PCs made by IBM, Hewlett Packard, Dell, and Compaq. Earlier in his career, Raj worked for Intel, General Electric, and Chips & Technologies. He received a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay , a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto , and an MBA from Stetson University.

Prof. Khashu is a clinical leader reimagining healthcare, based out of UK and active in the silicon valley investor and startup circle. In part-1 of the podcast he focused on 3Ps (Product-People-Process) and Why-Why-Why approach to product development and also the importance of customer-centric innovation in healthcare. In the current segment, Prof. Khashu explores the future of digital health, provides guidelines on meaningful data sharing, the importance of doctor-patient bonding and eliminating middlemen in the digital transformation of healthcare workflows and a lot more exciting frontiers in healthcare. He hints at data as the next frontier in healthcare innovation and also talks about acceleration of tele-health during COVID19 scenario. Prof. Minesh Khashu focuses on system-wide transformation, and continuous Quality Improvement and Patient-Centred Care. He has experience of clinical management and leadership at hospital, regional and national level including strategic change, system redesign, large scale quality improvement and development of national guidance and multi stakeholder collaboration, and has been a strong voice for improving the conditions healthcare frontline worker addressing the COVID19 pandemic needs. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minesh-kh... Twitter: https://twitter.com/mkrettiwt

Prof. MINESH KHASHU is a clinical leader reimagining healthcare based out of the UK, but also trained in India, Canada and US and is active in the silicon valley investor and startup circle. In this podcast he focuses on 3Ps (Product-People-Process) and Why-Why-Why approach to product development and also the importance of customer-centric innovation in healthcare. He hints at data as the next frontier in healthcare innovation and also talk about acceleration of tele-health during COVID19 scenario. He focuses on system-wide transformation, and Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient-Centred Care.

He has a great blog series on reimagining healthcare system in UK- rethinking NHS, check out his blog on rethinking NHS here: https://mineshkhashu.wordpress.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minesh-kh...

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Podcast links:

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/vidyaangi/prof-minesh-khashu-neonatologist-clinical-leader-reimagining-healthcare-during-covd-19-beyond

Youtube: https://youtu.be/IcpfN5vVcj0

iTunes: coming up..

Part-2 of my podcast on NextGen AI platforms in healthcare with Uttam Ramamurthy covering topics like voice prescription and pick up, critical AI insights in automating emergency department workflows, prediction, and management of diabetes, heart conditions, and more.

[Part 1] with Uttam Ramamurthy talks about NextGen AI platforms in India (with telehealth as a focus). In this podcast with Uttam Ramamurthy, who is currently leading cutting edge AI projects in healthcare at Cerner Corporation, talks about the accelerated pace of AI Adoption in India (accelerated by terms of data, compute and infrastructure). In part-1 of the podcast, Uttam addresses issues related to data explainability, challenges in handling structured and unstructured data on AI platforms, cleansing, ingestion,....listen on.

He has authored insightful blogs on this topic as well, to name a few:

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https://lnkd.in/dQpzXvD

YouTube podcast- 1 , 2 : https://lnkd.in/dxVG_rK; https://lnkd.in/gS7EubV

SoundCloud podcast- 1, 2: https://lnkd.in/dTUm2be; https://lnkd.in/gc6ZSKa

iTunes Podcast -1, 2: https://lnkd.in/dX7s8se; in progress..

#artificialintelligence #telehealth #IoT #datacleansing #explainableai #aiplatforms #compute #healthcareai

Podcast #15 [Part 2] with Uttam Ramamurthy talks about NextGen AI platforms in India (with telehealth as a focus). Part-2 of the podcast focuses on fascinating case studies of AI adoption in telehealth, prescription assistants/bots, emergency department workflow optimization, etc. He brings valuable insights as seasoned AI platforms professional, listen on. He has authored insightful blogs on this topic as well, to name a few: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-trustable-ai-predictions-healthcare-uttam-ramamurthy/ https://lnkd.in/dQpzXvD In this podcast part-1 with Uttam Ramamurthy, who is currently leading cutting edge AI projects in healthcare at Cerner Corporation, Uttam talks about the accelerated pace of AI Adoption in India (accelerated by terms of data, compute and infrastructure). In part-1 of the podcast, Uttam addresses issues related to data explainability, challenges in handling structured and unstructured data on AI platforms, cleansing, ingestion, ...and more

In this podcast with Uttam Ramamurthy, who is leading cutting edge AI projects in healthcare at Cerner Corporation, talks about the accelerated pace of AI Adoption in India (in terms of data, compute and infrastructure). Uttam addresses issues related to data explainability, challenges in handling structured and unstructured data on AI platforms, cleansing, ingestion, also fascinating case studies of AI adoption in telehealth, prescription assistants/bots, emergency department workflow optimization, etc. He brings valuable insights as seasoned AI platforms professional....listen on. He has authored insightful blogs on this topic as well, to name a few: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-generation-ai-platforms-uttam-ramamurthy/

Enjoyed discussing fresh perspectives on unit metrics of clean energy with Nitin Vaish, in our podcast breaking it down to a 35 trillion dollar opportunity. A ray of hope for budding clean and energy tech entrepreneurs.

Can energy be made freely available to everyone, and what will it take? An interesting conversation with investor and innovator Nitin Vaish, about the unit metrics of energy flipping towards cleantech. Nitin addresses topics like the need for cleantech and decarbonization, and how this can be accelerated by trends like Lithium-ion battery costs coming down to a couple of hundred dollars versus thousands of dollars in the unit metrics, electric cars replacing gasoline vehicles, and a Moore's Law of sorts driving technology convergence for cleantech adoption. He has some encouraging and interesting projections for aspiring cleantech and energy entrepreneurs....listen on. Don't forget to check out his latest post on medium.com: medium.com/@nitinvaish

“The cost of just running a coal plant is much higher than starting a greenfield solar plant,” says Nitin Vaish, an emerging and climate change expert, also an investor in the same space. I highly recommend his insightful personal blog which goes in-depth in analyzing metrics related to the climate and energy tech landscape. He talks about batteries, per capita energy cost and how this cost is becoming lower, accelerating the adoption of clean tech: https://medium.com/@nitinvaish

He predicts that eventually, the cost of energy will come down enough to accelerate the adoption of clean energy vehicles. He has truly amazing insights on how agriculture can impact carbon footprint adversely due to the usage of ammonia-based fertilizer, food wastage is contributing to climate change, advances in multiple technologies which can accelerate better energy capacity and adoption of electric vehicles. Please check out the top 100 projects recommended by Nitin on reversing global warming: https://drawdown.org/

In this podcast episode, he shares invaluable insights on corporate venture capital, corporate-startup engagement, and multiple ways for startups to engage with corporations. He touches upon exit strategies during and outside of COVID. This is part-2 of the podcast with Sudhir Kadam, partner at FYDA Growth Partners, Silicon Valley's startup and innovation & growth catalyzer. Sudhir is a seasoned entrepreneur, corporate executive, and academic.

A podcast with Sudhir Kadam who carries a wealth of expertise in the startup and innovation landscape as an investor, seasoned entrepreneur and silicon valley corporate executive and academic. In this podcast episode, he shares invaluable insights on how to evaluate product-market fit pre-, during and post-COVID scenarios, specific guidelines on investment rounds during COVID, assessing cyclic and seasonal technology and business trends to assess your investments, on how to self-disrupt a business during COVID like blackswan situations, and a lot more specific insights to first-time founders and entrepreneurs on how to systematically assess areas of changes or improvements in your business models during a pandemic.

A podcast with Sanjit Dang, a seasoned Silicon Valley investor who has spanned corporate venture capital and successfully had one successful exit per year. His innovative ideas on tapping into upcoming industry trends, and helping corporations work with upcoming startups by U First Capital with the Venture-As-A-Service model. He has been an advisor, mentor, and innovation catalyzer all the way from Richard Branson’s team to the United Nations and Intel Capital. He brings great courage and deep insights to founders during COVID and shares incredibly actionable tips to founders on approaching investors.

Paul Singh, seasoned silicon valley investor, serial entrepreneur, and executive talks about building startups in enterprise space during COVID. How can you train your team to get into a culture of customer success, and why the founder is the first salesperson for the company. It is true that hiring a sales team for a startup's initial success is important, it is equally important for the founder or co-founder with a sales streak to engage deeply with the customer and sales duties. Learn more in this podcast about surviving and thriving in the B2B space during COVID.

Paul Singh, seasoned silicon valley investor, serial entrepreneur, and executive talks about how there is no excuse for digital transformation, and founders and corporations did not have to wait for COVID for reinventing themselves. For startups and large corporations alike, Paul Singh endorses quick experimentation during COVID-situation to see what works and not limit your opportunities because of COVID e.g., Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb were started during the recession. He asks founders and executives to focus on an increase in productivity with remote work facilities, how he decided to roll out his first company amidst the recession, how good entrepreneurship and innovation is about risk avoidance/mitigation, how there is no excuse to quick technology adoption e.g., Kaiser is already prepared for virtual healthcare scenarios, and when COVID hit us, they were ready to roll! Paul also drives home an important message as to not lose your customers to your competitor during COVID, instead, how it is a top priority to invest in learning about your customers, understand their needs, and engaging them. He shares what are his criteria for investing in a founder as well....listen on.

PODCAST#11: Surviving and thriving in COVID times with Ashish Seth seasoned entrepreneur and corporate professional with cross-border stints in both India and Silicon Valley. He advises start-up ecosystems and works on enabling digital tools for professionals to work from home during the COVID-19 lockdown. In his current role, he runs and leads the Partner Program and Strategy at NICE InContact, a leader in cloud contact-centered solutions. He offers valuable and holistic guidance for entrepreneurs and corporates in large organizations in resilience building and anti-fragility in uncertain times.

A few thoughts from podcast-When entrepreneurs plan things, the sales cycle often tends to comes later. Sales should be included in your initial plan because it is the most reliable and efficient way to understand where the market is going. When you’re hit, it helps to know your surroundings.

Plan for the unexpected: It is always good to expect the unexpected, whether as an entrepreneur, a large company, or in your personal life e.g., economic downturns or pandemics. If it’s a problem you’re solving as an entrepreneur, understand if the solution is a painkiller or vitamin. Try to create painkillers.

#covid19 #startupsuccess #sales #productstrategy #b2b

I recently had the chance to have a fascinating conversation with the prolific Shashi Jain, Associate Entrepreneur in Residence and Innovation Manager at Intel. He was most recently in the news for equipping frontline workers with 3D printed protective equipment (PPE) for the ongoing COVID-19 response. Jain is an advisory board member at the Innovation Leader forum and a serial entrepreneur with a specific interest in inducting youth into the innovation ecosystem. His attitude as an innovator is experimental and entrepreneurial - he finds ways not just to improve but also to disrupt existing systems. Read more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creating-pop-up-supply-chain-covid19-ppe-shashi-jain/

Mentoring Entrepreneurs Inside and Outside Intel

For 10 years, he has been an early-stage start-up entrepreneur both in and outside Intel. At Intel, one of his roles with the emerging group incubator is to turn employee ideas into start-ups. He helps new intrapreneurs navigate the corporation, advising them on when to push their roles and when to use the brand to help them. He encourages corporate employees to develop startup skills for intrapreneurial ventures. Outside Intel, he has founded start-ups in image tagging and retail, 3D printing, and manufacturing. He mentors tech entrepreneurs and incubators. As domain experts, they find themselves often too close to the problem. He helps them identify gaps in their work by offering his own experience and expertise as an outsider. Read more: https://medium.com/@vidyangispatil/podcast-9-intels-innovation-coach-sphere-heads-a-maker-movement-for-covid-19-crowdsourced-ppe-877b913365fd

Inspiration, Ideation and Innovation — chat with Naveen Lakkur

For this episode, I had a very stimulating conversation with Naveen Lakkur, the founder and Chief Innovation Coach at the Institute of Inspiring Innovation and a serial author with three books to his name. As a practitioner, he has built companies, mentored and implemented commercial ideas worldwide, and identified methods and models from these experiences that can enrich the experiences of entrepreneurs and innovators.

Mr. Lakkur defines innovation as the creation of something that is new or doing something different or making something better. It is viewed not as an exclusive exercise but a democratic one and an opportunity for all entrepreneurs and executives to expand their horizons by combining creativity with innovation and imbibing human values to generate meaningful ideas.

Learnings from Books

In his first book “Inseparable Twins”, Lakkur introduces the concept of paired principles, such as values and innovation — concepts that are dissimilar from each other but generate a new power when they come together.

The second book, “FOUND: Transforming Your Unlimited Ideas Into One Sustainable Business” is a Book for Ideation, won four international awards, including the ‘USA Best Book Awards’ in the entrepreneurship category. It is targeted at people looking to work smart by helping them categorize different ideas and identify the winning one. No idea is a bad idea, and the book teaches readers to classify them by sorting and distilling, take responsibility and action, and utilize them to bring out their potential. It emphasizes that ideation is a crucial step in the innovation journey that many entrepreneurs tend to overlook.

His third book “a Little Extra™: A Book of Illustrations for Extraordinary Results” uses brief and powerful messages for developing the right mindset for success. Lakkur pushes the point that only a little extra is required to change the outcome, to overcome the gap between the ordinary and extraordinary. All three books emphasize the need to link human values with innovation to make it meaningful and to democratize innovation by giving everyone the knowledge and power to innovate.

Create. Operate. Disrupt.

Lakkur uses Indian mythology or the principle of God as a metaphor to explain the fundamentals of innovation. He identifies the holy Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva with the three letters in GOD — ‘G’ as Generator, played by Brahma; ‘O’ as Operator, the role played by Vishnu, and ‘D’ or disruptor, which is Shiva. Through this, he shows how even godly roles are organizationally well-defined and are metaphors for an innovation journey or a product lifecycle. One has to create, operate, and disrupt, and keep reinventing — these elements are the foundation of entrepreneurship.

Another principle is that of the inseparable twins. The consorts of these gods represent the paired principles that Lakkur proposes. Brahma’s wife, Saraswati, as a goddess of knowledge, counterbalances his role as a generator, rather main resource provider for creation. For Vishnu, the cash flow required for operations — from fundraising to revenue generation to expense management and investment — is represented in the form of his wife, Lakshmi, goddess of wealth. Shiva’s wife Shakti symbolizes the power that is the essential resource for disruption. They are ideally paired to bring optimal results. The takeaway is that entrepreneurs need to realize that it is not a single approach, but the application of these paired principles that enhance their creativity and enables their mission & vision.

In this episode, I interviewed Aakarsh Naidu, founder and CEO of The Startupreneur (along with his brother, Adhikar Naidu) and well-known start-up enabler and talks about essential traits of successful startup founding like networking, identifying a cofounder, when to startup? developing negotiation skills, ecosystem exploration, communication skills, and more. He is an alumnus of the London School of Economics and has valuable experience helping start-ups at NSRCEL – IIMB, one of India’s top start-up incubators.

The Startupreneur works with corporates, government officials, educational institutions, and incubators to provide a support system for entrepreneurs. They help start-ups in the 0–1 stage and the 1-10x stage. At the 0–1 stage, which is when the start-up is about 6 months to 2 years old. The Startupreneur offers an experiential entrepreneurship program that is specially designed for first-time founders. The modules involve founders learning how to build a business model, price their product, negotiate with co-founders, and many more tasks that help build the practical skills that founders need in their everyday business. They also receive feedback on their performance from experienced mentors.

At the 1–10x stage, start-ups have found a good footing in their market but need some added expertise or funding to scale up. Startupreneur offers them an accelerated program that gives them access to the market, institution-based incubators, or venture capital firms, depending on the situation.

Aakarsh believes that more than the theoretical jargon, there are essential skills and qualities that founders need to imbibe to stay in the game.

Big Picture Thinking: This is, Aakarsh says, the default mode of start-up founders, who are always focused on the problem they are solving. This is what differentiates them from a regular business, so they should never lose it.

Leverage Your Network: At the start, Aakarsh built his business almost entirely through his personal network. Founders need to learn how to build networks and then use them effectively; the key is to create a mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship with the people in your network that you want to get on board.

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In this episode, I have an insightful conversation with Nate Ramanathan, Vice President of Operations at AEye, Inc. and a serial entrepreneur. Nate shared some valuable advice about preparing for risk in times like this when the COVID-19 pandemic has created massive disruptions in businesses around the world. Right from when he got word of the virus in December, Nate said he started making preparations—calling his Chinese suppliers, asking them what their plans were, and planning for alternative supply routes. While it may have seemed paranoid at the time, it paid off when China went into a complete lockdown and AEye faced no delays or disruptions.

Nate shares that going through disruptions like the dotcom bubble, the 2007 tsunami, and the mortgage crisis have taught him that things can change in a day and that businesses always need to be prepared. In a globalized world, we must be prepared for geopolitical risks—where events in one part of the world can have far-reaching consequences in other regions. That’s why when he looks at a product, Nate immediately identifies the risks in the supply chain and prepares for the worst. Business continuity, which is his term for effective risk management in business, is of utmost importance to him.

Nate states that scalability is what makes an invention valuable to humanity. Only when an invention can be scaled up can it be of service to many people. With scalability, of course, comes the need to manage risks efficiently. I asked him about how to build resilient business models that can weather any storm. Here are some nuggets of advice that he offered:

Be aware of geopolitical risks
Learn from your experiences. Nate said that people will either forget about the COVID-19 experience or they will build better systems and be better prepared for similar (or worse) situations in the future.
Prioritize risks. Nate follows the Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) template. He recommends putting numbers to the Occurrence of an Event (the likelihood of it occurring), Severity of the Event (what effects it will have), and Detection of the Event (if it can be predicted and negated).
Balance passion and risk management. Start-up founders and inventors tend to be passionate and eager to make their businesses grow. It may be undesirable to burden them with risk management since it may take away their spark or they may become defensive of their product.

Nate also shared some great insights on how intrapreneurs, who lead spinoffs of larger companies, should approach business:

They need to have the mentality of a large corporation and the flexibility of a start-up.
They should have similar incentives as investors.
They need autonomy from the parent company to be able to grow and create independently.

In this episode, I interviewed Aakarsh Naidu, founder and CEO of The Startupreneur (along with his brother, Adhikar Naidu) and well-known start-up enabler and talks about essential traits of successful startup founding like networking, identifying a cofounder, when to startup? developing negotiation skills, ecosystem exploration, communication skills, and more. He is an alumnus of the London School of Economics and has valuable experience helping start-ups at NSRCEL – IIMB, one of India’s top start-up incubators. Aakarsh believes that more than the theoretical jargon, there are essential skills and qualities that founders need to imbibe to stay in the game.

The Startupreneur works with corporates, government officials, educational institutions, and incubators to provide a support system for entrepreneurs. They help start-ups in the 0–1 stage and the 1-10x stage. At the 0–1 stage, which is when the start-up is about 6 months to 2 years old.

For Dr Rao, innovation is more than just an approach to problem-solving, it is part of the DNA of all human beings. It is not a business process, but the fundamental desire within each of us to improve our condition. We just need to mindfully experience the world, reflect on it, learn from it, and grow.

Mindful reflection

The first step toward innovation is to mindfully notice one’s work. It is only when we are continually aware of problems—and their potential solutions—can we grow continually. Dr Rao compares this mindful awareness to a spiritual feeling. While awareness equals mindfulness, mindlessness or mere repetition provides no insights to improvement. What one requires is mindful reflection.

The ‘Aha moment

Learning from one’s mistakes and continuous improvement can lead to a quantum jump, which becomes the ‘aha’ moment of innovation. The ‘Aha’ moment is an awakening which comes through recognition of problems towards an improvement of processes for greater outcomes. To identify this opportunity, one needs both, awareness and reflection, which in turn lead to an awakening—the ‘Aha’ moment!

Mindful project management

Dr Rao provides a framework for mindful project planning for start-ups: 1. Mindful thinking; 2. Mindful processing; 3. Mindful execution. Imbibing this discipline can help entrepreneurs cultivate innovation, harness that energy, and make it a sustainable process. The thumb rule of mindfulness is to be aware of what is asked of you, put those principles into practice, aided by flawless execution at all levels of performance.

Understand your market

His advice to new founders would be to understand what problem the project is solving and tweak the product accordingly. Finding the perfect product–market fit is like finding diamonds in the rough and cleaning, polishing, and embellishing the product, based on active feedback. To learn, absorb, and put things into practice is to constantly keep innovating to improve.

About the interviewer: The podcast host, Vidyangi Patil, is a coach and co-author of The Solution Book.

I recently had the opportunity to speak to Dr Srinivas Rao, the Operating Partner at Phoenix Venture Partners. Over his long career, he has occupied several senior management positions in corporates and has mentored several start-ups.

For Dr Rao, innovation is more than just an approach to problem-solving, it is part of the DNA of all human beings. It is not a business process, but the fundamental desire within each of us to improve our condition. We just need to mindfully experience the world, reflect on it, learn from it, and grow.

Snippet- Understand your market: His advice to new founders would be to understand what problem the project is solving and tweak the product accordingly. Finding the perfect product–market fit is like finding diamonds in the rough and cleaning, polishing, and embellishing the product, based on active feedback. To learn, absorb, and put things into practice is to constantly keep innovating to improve. About the interviewer: The podcast host, Vidyangi Patil, is a coach and co-author of The Solution Book.

Podcast#4 with Fay Rowles-Scoch, a performance coach talks about how her parenting classes miraculously helped transform tough employees and negotiations. Human touch and interaction, social skills basically, by far surpass any other management technique she emphasizes.

Managing tough employees using parenting techniques. Moving from an office desk job to senior management positions, Fay used parenting training to manage her four children. She cross-applied the techniques to team building:

Using Adlerian Psychology for understanding what motivates a certain behavior
Criticizing someone without using blame
Rewarding good behavior
What is the most common reason for an employee to quit? Mostly not being treated well by immediate supervisor
Scheduling your leadership, or special time especially for bad employees, by making time to know your employees, even the shiest leaders have been very successful

In this episode, we speak with Fay Rawles-Scoch, a writer and coach who trains corporates and senior ship crew members in applying parenting principles to enhance the performance of their teams. Drawing from Adlerian psychology, Fay discusses how parenting models can be used to handle difficult employees—for example, in understanding motivations for bad behaviour, expressing criticism without assigning blame, and generating relationships based on mutual respect. The concept of ‘special time’ involving one-on-one interaction is the key component of this exercise. Just as parents are recommended to spend ‘quality time’ with their children, one-on-one interaction can be used to manage difficult employees who draw

negative attention to themselves, much like children. Fay emphasizes the importance of maintaining consistent interpersonal relationships at work in order to help employees overcome their barriers to success.

The central reason for people leaving their jobs is their relationship with their immediate supervisors, which impacts both performance and the desire to stay. Maintaining a timeframe and schedule for engaging with employees is a possible solution. Another concept integral to parenting that is effective in performance management is planning one’s interaction—what she calls “scheduling one’s leadership”—which leads to mutual respect and acknowledgment.

Fay proposes human interaction as the most powerful management and parenting technique, especially in the age of technology. Building critical social skills within an organization by creating opportunities for one-on-one interaction and making employees feel valued underscores the enduring value of human association. Treating one’s worst employee with respect, giving them time, and overcoming one’s conditioning to find fault is the hallmark of this method. This linking of problems and solutions found in two different domains like parenting and corporate training makes this a unique and empathetic approach to performance management.

Books mentioned: Children: The Challenge by Rudolf Dreikurs which Fay uses as a resource PDCtool for training middle management officials on a ship’s crew in performance management.

An interview with Fay Rawles-Scoch, a Performance Management Coach who uses parenting techniques for cost cutting, constructive feedback and negotation

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Arvind Ratnam talks about management hacks for successful product management, being a successful leader in managing engineering and sales. A few valuable guidelines to founders on how to facilitate great solutions..

Some of the topics he covers are:

What are a few frameworks which can be helpful in 4P-5C marketing framework, BCG framework, Ansoff matrix, can be used for e.g., how to move from a hardware to software business, due diligence during mergers and acquisition, going IPO, etc.

How to facilitate productive and crucial conversations between individuals and groups, listening, empathy, etc.

On why people skills are the 'most' critical for product professionals

On why as a head of product, the goal is not to be the smart guy in the room

How to facilitate the career success of your team, in engineering, as a head of product

Sanchit Garg, an, IIT Bombay graduate is a cross-border serial entrepreneur and talks about 10X hacks for founders from his past successful startups.... His first 10X profitable startup was called TravelTriangle from India, and now he is floating his second startup in mental health and wellness space: InnerFit. Let us learn more on how to create 10X startups..

In the podcast he talks about: Trust is KEY to startup teams, do not think about your product when you interview your customers, how stories and metrics make a pitch deck successful, and being able to stick to your idea through upas and downs of a startup journey being a founder's greatest strength, when to use frameworks, and more....

Sanchit Garg, an, IIT Bombay graduate is a cross-border serial entrepreneur and talks about 10X hacks for founders from his past successful startups.... His first 10X profitable startup was called TravelTriangle from India, and now he is floating his second startup in mental health and wellness space. Let us learn more on how to create 10X startups.. In the podcast he talks about: Trust is KEY to startup teams, do not think about your product when you interview your customers, how stories and metrics make a pitch deck successful, and being able to stick to your idea through upas and downs of a startup journey being a founder's greatest strength, when to use frameworks, and more....

VC and scale, founder dating, risk mitigation for startups and more...Vidyangi S. Patil in conversation with BV Jagadeesh, who is a very respected name in the Silicon Valley. BV Jagadeesh is Managing Partner at KAAJ Ventures. He has successfully invested and guided companies such as Nutanix (IPO), Yodlee (IPO), Arkin (acqd: VMWare), Elastic Box (acqd: Century Link), NetMagic Solutions (acqd: NTT), Ocarina Networks (acqd: Dell) and Ankeena (acqd: Juniper) to name a few.