On the first episode of Season 9, we have the opportunity to host Kosta Panagoulias on the show. He's a serial entrepreneur & has just recently made a successful exit from Web4Realty. 

He is also a fellow podcaster, and is the host of the show "Founder Views", considered to be one of the top-rated business podcasts. 

Here we discuss his views on:

- How to scale a bootstrapped company vis-a-vis a funded one

- Hiring

- Real Estate 

For the Season finale, I have a very special guest, Mr. Sanjay Vidyarthi.

In his career spanning 34 years, he’s worked across industries, across the globe & even built a very successful services startup, iQor which went from 0 - 400 cr in just 10 years with 9 of them being awarded as "Global Best-in-class".

22 of his supervisors are CEOs of various Public companies in US & India. 

For the past 5 years, he’s focused on the Agri space & is the Founder of Bharat-to-India Connect, & co-Founder of Agritech Enablers.

We discuss it all:

- How to build a Valuable company

- Importance of culture in a startup

- Why quality means lower cost

- Traits while hiring the team

A very focussed discussion around agriculture with Mr. Raghavan, who's been a Food & Agribusiness Leader with a 360 degree view of complex "Geo-Political, Environmental, Socio Economic, Techno-Commercial & Cultural" perspectives of Agri Food Value Chain in Asia Pacific. 

He's a regular speaker at Agri Food industry events/ conferences having started off in the rural marketing space. He's currently the Head of Policy Advocacy & External Affairs at Samunnati. 

In this episode, we discuss all facets of agriculture: marketing, why focus is needed in this space, why / why not to turn vegan, the role of technology etc.  

Note: All views are his personal views only and not of his current / previous organisations he's been associated with. 

It took me 8 seasons & 37 episodes before I found the first Marketing Person to feature on the show. Mr. Dhruv Talwar, GM of Corporate Affairs of the Godrej Group. 

Being a branding person myself, I’ve finally got THE perfect marketer on today’s show which LinkedIn also validates - he's in the elite Creators Day & has over 50,000 followers on the platform. 

He’s won a lot of accolades & awards - has spoken in diverse industries like consumer goods, real estate & hospitality sectors. 

We discuss how Godrej differentiated itself to win 14 global awards, become #1 in the real estate industry, the very elite "Ambassadors Club". 

We also discuss his takeaways from the 6-week Alt-MBA course by Seth Godin.  

Today's guest is Pranav Sanghvi who’s a prolific investor. He’s the Managing Partner at Dot In Network, Principal at MABS Family Office & Managing Partner at Patronus.

What differentiates him from the rest of the investor fraternity is that he's also a DJ, a Music Producer & even an Electronic Music production designer! 

If that's not enough, he's even a Certified Scuba Diver!

Listen to a very interesting show where he shares not only his investor thesis, but also his penchant for music & scuba diving. 

On the first episode of Season 8, I have the opportunity to host Girish Aivalli - one of the most dynamic leaders I know. 

He’s the Chairman, South Asia for AgTech Hub for Innovation; has authored 4 books & also has his own You Tube video series - Tata Katha!

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In the Season Finale of the very special "Game Changers" Season, I’ve got a very special guest, Mark Kahn, on the show today. He’s one of the biggest names in the Venture Capital space & is the Managing Partner at Omnivore.

He set up India's first Agri-focussed fund way back in 2011 & is revolutionising this space. 

Just last month, Omnivore won the reputed IVCA Award for Social Impact!

Today’s guest is our first guest from Sweden - Jamal Reimer. He is someone with who I share a common passion - closing large deals! 

He closed his first mega deal way back in 2012 in Oracle- for a whooping $50 mn! 

He coaches enterprise sellers & startup CEOs how to close mega deals in his workshops. 

Not surprisingly, he recently authored the book “Mega Deal Secrets”.

On the third episode of the "Game Changers" series, we have a guest, who's been interviewed by the likes of ABC, CNN, BBC, Thomson Reuters etc. 

He's Martin Stark, the Founder & CEO of World Gay Boxing Championships happening in Sydney in 2023. 

We discuss about:

- How he had his first amateur fight at the age of 47 after suffering from 2 comas; 

- Diversity & inclusion;

- How critical D&I is for small businesses as well;  

- And his new found passion for boxing

Season 7, "Game Changers" is the season where I host trend-setters across industries who've redefined leadership.

Our second guest of the season is Mr. Hetal Sonpal, who is a proven leader in global MNCs like LinkedIn, Microsoft, Intel & Wipro across countries; then moved on to being a successful angel investor, a TedX speaker, a Half IronMan & even an author!

The quest continues & he's even pursuing his PhD from IIM Kozhikode. 

We have a wonderful chat around his just-released book "Against All Odds"; his view points on "Influencing without Authority", and what drives him from one mountain peak to the next!