Musafir Zindagi Ke: Recent Episodes

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Anshu Agrawal is currently working on his own startup in the fintech space. He worked at CRED as an early Product Manager and in the Founder's office during the Zero to One Phase of CRED. He graduated from BITS Pilani in 2020 with dual degrees including an engineering degree with a focus on Mechanical.

You can connect with Anshu on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshuagrawal240/

What we talked about?

1. Joy of creation

2. Early days at CRED

3. Kunal Shah in real life

4. Why Product Management?

5. Problem solving

6. CRED Advertising and growth

7. Importance of hiring right

8. Future of work

9. Hindi and career

10. Cricket and CRED

11. CRED Customer Segmentation

12. Sports, Discipline, Teamwork and Sportsmanship

13. Leadership and being a manager-leader to people

14. Startups - Problem First & Oppurtunity first

15. Zomato & CRED Mint

16. Which 10% of startups succeed?

17. Is it too bad to fail at building startups today?

18. Raising money v/s building a company

19. Glorification of raising VC money

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Gaurav Sangle is the Co-Founder of Stratzy, an algorithmic trading platform for the Indian securities markets. They have recently released a new idea called "Ideas", where you can trade on ideas. He is my batchmate from BITS Pilani, Goa.

You can checkout Stratzy on the Play Store and connect with Gaurav on Twitter at: @the_sangle

What we talked about?

1. What is Stratzy doing?

2. Indian Financial Advisory Market

3. Challenges to algorithmic trafing in India

4. Financial Literacy in India

5. "Clubs" in colleges

6. Studying at BITS Goa

7. Building a Startup

8. Amazon's Customer Obsession

9. How AWS Started?

10. Why coding is important?

11. SpaceX and Reusable rockets

12. Apple & IBM

13. Innovators Dilemma(Book recommendations)

14. Ola Electric

15. Yulu and Bounce

16. What are ESOPs?

17. Investing in Startups

18. Olympics & Sports

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Sarthak Singh is a Venture Capitalist, working for Info Edge Ventures, focusing primarily on Seed Stage investments. He was my senior at BITS Pilani, Goa and we worked together on a number of occasions. He also runs a Clubhouse room on Startups and investments.

What we talked about?

1. What makes a good leader?

2. What role does your college life play in your adult life?

3. How important are your relationships with people?

4. Pillars of college life

5. Venture Capital

6. Startup ecosystem in "Bharat"

7. Chinese investments into India

8. Money v/s Wealth

9. How do you define Wealth?

10. Actions speak louder than words

11. Stoicism

12. "This too shall pass"

13. "Memento Mori"

14. Taking time off work

15. Global Warming

16. Automation & Creativity

17. MAFA

Reach out to Sarthak on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/singh-sarthak/

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Aanis Narnolia is the Co-founder of Youth India Foundation, a social entrepreneurship organization working across 7 states with over 7000 members to empower social entrepreneurs and future leaders. He is also the Director of Youth India Socio Entrepreneurs.

What did we talk about?

1. Youth India Foundation

2. Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs

3. Building a company

4. Finding followers

5. Jack of all trades

6. Generalists vs Specialists

7. Internet

8. Jio and India

9. Startups in India

10. Internet Democratizers

11. Specific Skills

12. Why I started this podcast?

13. New age sport fascinations

14. The Roast of Weed - College Humor

15. All India Bakchod(AIB)

16. Reading as a Habit

17. Reading as a Culture

18. Mediums of consumption

19. Teachers and Teaching

20. Authoritarian Regimes

21. Materialism

22. Are leaders held accountable?

23. Schools and how to live teaching

24. Free media

25. Inclusion in India

26. Nobel Laureates from India

27. Good Economics for Hard Times

28. Building for India

29. Mahatma Gandhi and Satyagraha

30. Learning v/s Experimenting

31. Biographies

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I met Shekhar some 4 months back on my last trip to Auroville. I caught up with him again this month when I visited Auroville again. Shekhar is a Research Scholar in the field of Development Studies. He is an avid traveller and is currently working towards his PhD.

It was great catching up with him and talking on the show. We covered topics like:

1. Development Studies

2. Getting out of your shell

3. Gender Studies

4. Importance of Debates

5. Left and Right in Politics

6. Why being flexible in political ideology helps?

7. Understanding your biases

8. History of Religion

9. Hinduism, Islam and Christianity

10. Influence of conquerors v/s thinkers

11. Sikhism

12. Secularism

13. French Secularism

14. Parliamentary system of India

15. Political Landscape in India

16. Karan Thapar

17. Mann ki Baat?

18. Indian Media

19. Delhi Riots and Ravish Kumar

20. Nayak The Real Hero and Ravish Kumar

21. Depth of News

22. Responsibility of Media

23. American and Indian Media

24. Was George Orwell right?

25. Chinese Cultural Revolution

26. Maoism and Communism

27. Mao Zedong

28. Taiwan and Hongkong

29. Chinese foreign policy

30. American Influence in Indian Society

31. Djibouti

32. Hambantota International Port

33. Why do we do podcasts?

I wish him all the best for his future adventures!

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Shaurya is currently working at Niyo solutions, a Fintech Company trying to "Build for Bharat". He previously worked at multiple startups and graduated from BITS Pilani, Goa in 2020. We had an enthralling conversation about various topics, including but not limited to:

1. What does Niyo do?

2. Financial Inclusion in India

3. Building for Bharat

4. Bloatware

5. Why it's difficult to build for India

6. Split screen in Mac vs PC

7. Microsoft and Apple - Macintosh

8. COVID & COVID Handling in India

9. 3rd wave of COVID?

10. WFH and Lockdown

11. Online Education

12. Walled Gardens

13. BITS Pilani!

14. Electric Future

15. Elon Musk

16. Terraforming Mars!

17. Space Exploration

18. How we take space photos?

PS: The logo for this podcast was created by Shaurya. Thanks bhai :)

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I sat down with Mohit Bhandari, cofounder at Stratzy, to discuss life and startups in general. We discussed on: 1. Stratzy 2. Startups 3. Elon Musk 4. Tesla 5. Internet 6. Technical Revolution 7. COVID Handling 8. Armenia Azarbaijan 9. Isreal Iron Dome 10. Isreal Hamas conflict 11. American Wars 12. Narendra Modi 13. Vaccine Diplomacy and Intellectual Property 14. COVID Winners and Losers 15. Fiction 16. Relationships 17. DOGEcoin 18. Memes

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This time I sat down with my brother, a BITS Pilani Bio and Mechanical student, currently in his third year. We talked about a lot of things like: 1. Generalists v/s Specialists 2. YouTube 3. Cambridge Analytica 4. Internet 5. Virtual World of 21st Century 6. Digital Identity 7. Artificial Intelligence and it's ethical implications 8. Anime 9. Japanese Art 10. Practice v/s Talent 11. Memes 12. Monalisa 13. Expressing Yourself 14. Paintings

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This time I sat down with Vinamra, whom is I met in Bangalore through a mutual friend. We talked about a lot of things like: 1. Free will 2. The world 50 years from now. 3. Mental conditioning 4. Role of big tech 5. Silicon valley  6. California 7. Marijuana 8. Cultural significance

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Conversation with Nipun Arora, currently working at CRED. I met Nipun on my recent trip to Spiti Valley. It was fun to discuss topics such as Gurgan to Gurugram, Future of Battery Technology, Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, Music Clans, "we should imitate" and COVID 19.

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Back at it with another podcast with Dhruv Sharma, currently working at Udaan. We discuss various topics like Golf, Startups and relationships. Dhruv definitely had some unique perspectives and this episode was completely out of the blue.

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In the first podcast, we talk about DMX, who recently died from Drug Overdose, how emotions shape us and why crying is important. We also had an impromptu jam session with me on the Guitar and conVIth rapping.