The Guest for this episode is Nishita Agarwal

Nishita is co-founder of Papa Pawsome and is a dog lover at heart. She has turned her love for dogs into her profession by founding Papa Pawsome, a celebrated and award-winning pet grooming brand that has garnered numerous accolades.

An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur with an MBA degree, she went on to work at Tata Motors in Business Marketing. In her career, she has worked with various brands like DB Corp Ltd., TCS Consultancy Services, Ogilvy & Mather.

Her passion for dogs and commitment to excellence makes Papa Pawsome a distinguished brand in the pet industry.

The Guest of this Episode is Vinay Singhal, the founder of India's largest regional OTT platform, STAGE.

Vinay had earlier founded the content platform WittyFeed, which went on to grow 200mn+ users, before being shut down overnight, in a tragic set of events.

If there was ever a collection of stories of coming back from wilderness and growing a second time, Vinay's story will surely be RIGHT UP THERE.

Coming from an extremely simple background, growing up in a village, son of an ordinary shopkeeper, Vinay does not have big dreams, but also taking lot of steps towards fulfilling many of them.

Hear some really heart wrenching and awe-inspiring stories of courage from Haryana da puttar, Vinay Singhal.

The Guest on this Episode is: Yashish Dahiya

Yashish is the CEO and Co-Founder of the insurance aggregator and global technology company, PolicyBazaar.

He co-founded the company in 2008 which altered paradigms in the insurance industry by shifting the power of information to end-users.Ten years since the company’s inception, it became the largest insurance aggregator in India and is valued at over US$1.65 billion.

Yashish Dahiya received a B.Tech. in Textile Technology from IIT Delhi in 1994, a PG Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad in 1996 and an MBA from INSEAD in 2001.

Mr. Dahiya is an avid sportsperson and is the Indian masters swimming champion and represents India at world masters swimming championships regularly.

He holds the 3rd fastest half ironman timing and the 5th fastest Ironman timings amongst Indians across all age groups and has the fastest timings in his age group.

Before starting his entrepreneurial journey with Policybazaar, Mr. Dahiya was the Managing Director of ebookers.com, a leading pan-European online travel distributor and worked as a strategy consultant with Bain & Co. in their London Office.

He exemplifies exceptional personal discipline and considers running and swimming as two of the biggest joys of his life. Despite being at the helm of one of the hottest enterprises in the country, he believes in frugal living because it helps him reduce clutter in his life.

The Guest for this episode of our Entrepreneur Special season is Swagat Sarangi !!

Swagat Sarangi is the Co-Founder of Smytten, India's largest product discovery and trial platform. Swagat has over 20 years of experience across various industries - Internet & Technology, FMCG, Management consulting, Oil & Gas, and IT.

Before co-founding Smytten, he headed the Business Marketing vertical at Google. In the formative years of his career, he has worked as a Consultant at McKinsey and Customer Services Manager at Unilever.

He has a wealth of experience in varied fields such as Product Marketing, Brand & Communication, Digital Marketing, Strategy consulting, Project Management, Account management, and Modern trade retailing.

Swagat is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB) where he completed his MBA in Marketing and Finance and was also a recipient of ISB's torchbearers' award.

He completed his B.E. (Hons.) in Mechanical from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS).

Hear some heartening and some heart-wrenching stories from an entrepreneur on his journey of courage.

Welcome to Yet another season of Courage Talks.

This is one of the most anticipated seasons - Entrepreneur Special!!

The Guest for this episode is Piyush Jain

Co-Founder and CEO of CarePal Group, India's leading healthcare financing platform in India, which was incubated and accelerated at Harvard Innovation Lab (USA).
Piyush has a very strong investment banking, management consulting background, having worked in emerging markets, multi-industry, tri-sector, startup and tech venture spaces.
7+ years of investment banking and management consulting experience focused on corporate finance, M&A, equity and debt capital markets activities and corporate strategy in telecom, media, technology, financial institutions for clients in US, Europe, Middle East, and Asia
Enriched perspectives having worked in the private sector, (BCG, J.P. Morgan, Ernst & Young), and non-profit sector (Instiglio). Silicon Valley startup experience at SoFi.

Currently, he is Co-founder and CEO of ImpactGuru.com, India’s leading healthcare financing platform and advisor to leading global and Indian venture capital funds.
Piyush has work and educational experience globally across myriad cities including in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Kolkata

Hear some really awe-inspiring and heart wrenching stories of courage from Piyush on this very special episode of Courage Talks

The Guest for this episode is Ashutosh Garg

Ashutosh Garg, has 25+ experience in corporate including ITC and 8 years in the aerospace industry

He founded Guardian Pharmacy in India in 2003 and grew it to the second largest pharmacy chain in India.

He is a certified Business and Executive Coach and coaches / mentors several CEO’s around the World

Ashutosh has served as a director of GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance (www.gavi.org), for 8 years.

In January 1995, he was recognised as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by WEF, Davos.

He is a prolific writer and authored 9 highly acclaimed best sellers

Ashutosh in his new role as a Storyteller, hosts a very successful podcast titled “The BrandCalled You” (DAU 150,000), and has interviewed over 2300 people from 45+countries

A keen golfer, he plays the Indian flute and enjoys reading and listening to Indian classical and vocal music.

Hear some really awe-inspiring and heart wrenching stories of courage from Ashu on this very special episode of Courage Talks

Courage Talks Season 2 Episode 5

Inspired by my father's acts of courage in his biography, ⁠⁠⁠Against All Odds⁠⁠⁠, I invite guests to talk about their experience with courage. Hear their stories of courage that brought out the best in them.

Season 2 is Podcaster Special. I invite guests who got me on their podcasts. So its my good fortune to get them on my show!!

My next Guest is Siddhartha Ahluwalia

Our guest has been an entrepreneur who built Babygogo & Addodoc from 2012-2017, after which he sold his company to SHEROES.

The quest for growing & learning did not stop there as he and his partner decided to start up again to learn from the best founders and investors.Hence Neon, his 3rd company, was born.

After 5 years, he has hosted 250+ episodes & gained 100,000 subscribers on the company’s Youtube channel, The Neon Show and raised two successful Funds of $2 million & $10 million respectively on the Venture Capital side of the business.

Here’s welcoming Neon's co-founder Siddhartha Ahluwalia on Courage Talks

Hear from Siddhartha about his stories of courage that has inspired him in his career.

Courage Talks Season 2 Episode 4

Inspired by my father's acts of courage in his biography, ⁠⁠⁠Against All Odds⁠⁠⁠, I invite guests to talk about their experience with courage. Hear their stories of courage that brought out the best in them.

Season 2 is Podcaster Special. I invite guests who got me on their podcasts. So its my good fortune to get them on my show!!

My next Guest is Akhil Minocha

Akhil Minocha, over last two decades, has successfully incubated and scaled businesses, driving revenue growth across Software Products, Services, (SaaS), Technology, and Telecom. 

At present, Akhil helps enterprise clients on their Digital Transformation Journey through Application Modernization and Cloud . He has held senior roles in companies like Persistent Systems, HCL Infosystems, Intel Technologies and Airtel.

Akhil is a distinguished speaker, author, podcaster, writer, blogger and startup advisor. His podcast series, "Reverse and Onward," attained a #3 ranking on the Apple Podcast Charts in the fitness category in March 2023. 

Akhil mentors and guides entrepreneurs on sales, business development, product strategy, market entry, and innovation and is a Charter Member at TiE-Delhi.

His love for culinary pursuits is evident, describing himself as an avid food enthusiast. Akhil, as a member of the Konfidant Mentorship program at the KIIT School of Management, mentors management students.

Hear from Akhil about his stories of courage that has inspired him in his career.

Courage Talks Season 2 Episode 3

Inspired by my father's acts of courage in his biography, ⁠⁠⁠Against All Odds⁠⁠⁠, I invite guests to talk about their experience with courage. Hear their stories of courage that brought out the best in them.

Season 2 is Podcaster Special. I invite guests who got me on their podcasts. So its my good fortune to get them on my show!!

My next Guest is Divyansh Raj

Divyansh is a content marketing specialist, a podcaster, youtuber and now building a product called Buzzli for LinkedIn Content creators. He has 6 years of experience working as a content creator.
He was part of LinkedIn's Creator Accelerator Program in 2022, amongst India's top 200 creators on LinkedIn.

Hear from Divyansh about his stories of courage that has inspired him in his career.

Courage Talks Season 2 Episode 2

Inspired by my father's acts of courage in his biography, ⁠⁠⁠Against All Odds⁠⁠⁠, I invite guests to talk about their experience with courage. Hear their stories of courage that brought out the best in them.

Season 2 is Podcaster Special. I invite guests who got me on their podcasts. So its my good fortune to get them on my show!!

My next Guest is Pritesh Kumar.

Pritesh Kumar is a seasoned entrepreneur and has built multiple companies in the gaming and education domain in the past.

He hosts Spotify India's podcast on startups called Goventure.

He comes from a small town in Jharkhand and studied computer science at IIT Delhi before venturing into the startup world.- founder of FunctionUp and Host of Goventure Podcast

Hear from Pritesh about his stories of courage that has inspired him in his career.