The Hustle Code: Recent Episodes
The Hustle Code Podcast
The Hustle Code, is a series of curated talks with some of the most persistent & dynamic founders and investors in the startup ecosystem.
Here we try to decode the What, Why & How of their hustle, to understand what kept them going during trying times.
Through these stories we wish to embrace the spirit of hustle and inspire people to go out there, reach for the skies and never give up on their dream! The Hustle Code is presented to you by Team Dexter.
Tarun is one of those hustlers who has faced his fears head on and turned it into his strengths. Inability to converse in English or stammering could not deter him, and he became a very successful salesman in Australia.
Mission to democratize education for the people in small towns and villages brought him back to India. He is founder of Vidyakul, a platform which aims to bring quality education in vernacular languages for the people of Bharat.
His mantra for success is - 'Be Yourself' Catch this hustler in a candid conversation with Team Dexter.
0:55 Early childhood
4:30 How he became a salesman
9:20 Overcoming obstacles
12:15 Seed of entrepreneurship - contracting business
14:00 The journey back to India
17:20 Vidyakul vision
19:30 Zero CAC model
20:50 How to find a tech cofounder
22:10 Key challenges for an entrepreneur
24:25 Impact of Covid on vidyakul
25:25 Dealing with noise
27:45 Sailing through the ups & downs of entrepreneurship
30:40 Rapid Fire
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Sandeep is an innovation evangelist & an educator. He has a special skill, which is building innovative hardware centric products. He is founder of BiBox, which he started back in 2012. BiBox focuses on promoting innovative thinking among children in schools and enabling them to build their own bots.
He has been awarded India's Top 10 Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review
Catch this hustler in a candid conversation with Team Dexter
0:45 Initial Journey of Sandeep "The Innovator"
10:00 Overcoming mindset 'Innovation is Difficult'
12:10 Building Bibox
18:35 Deciding the right approach to move ahead
21:40 Financial Crisis & dealing with challenges
23:00 Managing team during tough times
27:01 Culture Building
28:35 Dealing with the pandemic
32:40 Toughest part of entrepreneurship
35:10 Importance of a good support system
38:00 What does Hustle mean for you
38:30 Rapid-fire round
40:17 Advice to young entrepreneurs
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Chinmoy is a serial entrepreneur who has had a successful exit from his previous venture 'Allizhealth'. Currently Chinmoy is running a student shared living venture named 'Hooliv'.
Chinmoy has done his MBA with global management and Strategic planning from the Babson college & has been a recipient of Babson Rising Star Alumni Award & Recipient of Babson Global Student Leadership Award
He is also a Graduate Fellow from F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. Catch him in a candid conversation with Team Dexter Angels
0.55 Early journey before becoming an entrepreneur
3:25 Importance of an MBA
6.20 Genesis of Allizhealth
8.10 Challenges faced while building Allizhealth
12.25 Setting up culture at Allizhealth
17.50 Experience of building a B2B health-tech startup
22.50 Acquisition experience
26.40 Decision of starting HooLiv
30.10 Challenges of starting up in a red ocean
34.00 Impact of covid on HooLiv
36.57 Role of mentors and support system
40.09 Make ambiguity your best friend
41.35 Thoughts on Blitz scaling
47.50 Rapidfire round
49.45 Parting advice to aspiring entrepreneurs
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Anuradha Agarwal is the Founder of MultiBhashi, a simplified Language learning platform for upskilling vernacular speakers in spoken-English as well as refinement of vernacular speakers in their own Indic language usage & associated etiquettes and soft-skills. Catch her in conversation with Team Dexter in the first episode of The Hustle Code.
1:25 Anuradha's early background 2:30 Genesis of Multibhashi 11:55 What does it take to build a great product 14:10 Building a stellar team 16:35 Mistakes & learnings in 'Hiring' 19:00 Thoughts on 'Culture' 21:30 Journey as a solo founder 23:25 Role of a mentor 26:50 Fundraise Journey 29:40 What 'Hustle' means to Anuradha 31:35 The turning point 33:25 Rapid fire with Anuradha
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