Figuring Out with Raj Shamani

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In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with CA Rachana Ranade. She is a Chartered Accountant, YouTuber and an entrepreneur. She is the founder of Rachana Ranade and Associates. Rachana makes videos related to financial world, the stock market, business models of big brands, market strategies, etc on her YouTube channel.

Rachana Ranade also has her own website where she sell various courses ranging from the stock market, money management, mutual funds, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, value investing and much more.

In this video, she shares all her stock market and investments secrets. She also shares her experiences and perspective on less discussed topics extending from simplified teaching to personal finance to investing strategies to how to trust people.

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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:58 Sponsored by Coinswitch
02:38 The Art of Simplification
06:50 How To Understand Things The Best Way
10:00 How to Trust Information Online
13:40 Why is There a Sudden Surge in Investing
18:40 Will The Ripple Effect Continue
24:34 What Formal Education Didn't Teach Her
29:43 Flawed Concept of Piggy Banks
32:26 Problem with Women Investing
37:32 Will India ever be Financially Literate
39:20 Why India is way behind in Financial Literacy
42:30 Absence of Role Models
44:48 What is Her Time Management Strategy
49:36 The Process of Idea Generation
52:10 The Process of Research and Shoot
55:17 The Team
55:55 5 Things to Consider Before Investing
59:28 This or That
01:00:58 Viva of Rachana Ranade
01:04:15 Outro

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In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani talks with Co Founders of Dr. Vaidya, Arjun Vaidya and Trisha Rajani.

Arjun went to Brown University for his undergrad and moved back to India in 2013 working in a private equity firm. When his grandfather died during late 2016, he left his job and began his journey of building Dr Vaidya in 2017.

Arjun's wife, Trisha Rajani having completed her undergrad from University of Warwick has worked at companies like Goldman Sachs, and Nykka began working with Arjun as a COO for building Dr. Vaidya

Dr. Vaidya’s repackaged the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda for modern consumers and emerged as India’s largest Ayurveda brand online. In 4 years, they successfully reached over 1.5m+ consumers across 500+ cities and 16,500+ pin codes in India and launched 80+ products.

In this podcast they shared, why they started Dr. Vaidya', how to build a consumer brand in India, how to build trust in Indian consumers, key principles of building a brand. Watch this podcast till the end if you want to build a FMCG business or want to know how FMCG businesses works in India.

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Link to watch the podcast:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oPVgTeasz8 

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
01:45 Moat and The Vaidya's story
07:40 Arjun's Experience at Private Equity
12:52 Trisha's Backstory and UK
18:00 Her stint with Nykaa and Intellecap
20:45 Why did Arjun started Doctor Vaidya?
26:45 The Perfect Storm
27:10 How to have clarity in Life and Entrepreneurship?
35:20 How to become indispensable and what now?
40:20 What sets them apart and helping founders?
44:28 How can people differentiate themselves?
52:25 How to build trust?
55:03 Transparency
57:15 What's the future?
57:48 Key Principles of Building a Brand?
01:05:56 Pitching New Ideas
01:15:18 Outro

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In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with Nikhil Kamath. He is the co-founder of Zerodha, a Fintech company which is India's largest trading platform. He Co-Founder Zerodh with his older brother Nithin Kamath in 2010 in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. The company is mostly bootstrapped.

Nikhil Kamath dropped out of school as he hates going to school. He was 17 when he got his first job at a call centre. And then he started trading in stocks, later he took up trading seriously and now, Kamath, a billionaire, is leading the country's most successful stock brokerage firm.

In this video, he discusses how he moved out of his house and went from working at a Call Centre to Building up One of the Largest Businesses and becoming India's Youngest Billionaire. He also shared how he made money my trading in stocks, investing and financial mistakes most people make, what is the difference between trading and investing, mistakes people should avoid while trading and everything related to stock market, investing, trading and wealth creation.
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Link to watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpg78ouK54I
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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
01:01 Sponsored by Coinswitch
01:28 Talking Points
01:53 Why he moved out of his house
04:18 How he Made Money by Stock Trading
06:00 How he started selling insurance
07:58 Do we really need to be Good at Sales
09:25 What is the Best Way to Learn Sales
11:40 What did he do After the Call Centre Job
16:43 Investing VS Trading
18:35 Mistakes to Avoid in Trading
23:48 Why aren't Most Indians Financially sound
29:25 Which Philosophy in Life has helped him
31:00 Why do we feel compelled to act smart
34:47 Is Socialism a Problem?
38:44 Are Leakages ever going to Stop?
39:17 Rapid fire with Nikhil
43:50 Outro

0:00 Introduction
1:25 How did Anant lost 6 lacs in 10 minutes 
04:25 How small cap shares work
04:37 Story continued
05:23 Investing vs Hoping
05:43 How should you approach investing?
05:57 How Raj Started in investing?
07:33 Advice for direct stock investors
08:27 Investing in Mutual funds
10:15 Why should young people get into mutual funds?
12:13 Why making goals is important
13:55 Why are Indians not investing money?
16:01 Pain vs Gain
18:06 Is the next market crash/correction/opportunity coming?
18:18 The thing about opportunities
19:25 Is the IPO bubble going to repeat what happened in the 1999-2001?
22:02 How Anant's financial journey started?
23:31 Anant's favourite book: Rich Dad Poor Dad
23:41 Story continued
24:43 Anant came to Mumbai and his realisation
26:39 When Anant went back home
27:20 How he spent only 5lacs out of 50
27:55 Are CA and CFA degrees necessary to start stock investing?
29:05 Anant's thought on books
30:08 3 books you should read
30:28 Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch
30:55 Raj's biggest moneymaker : SpiceJet
32:15 Good things take time
32:35 Raj's Case study
34:00 Fun money and Casino
34:38 Case study continued
35:15 Raj's strengths
35:59 Crypto story
40:42 Learnings from this study
41:05 A beautiful analogy
41:47 Raj's dad thoughts

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In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with Ashok Ramachandran.  He is the CEO & President of Schindler India. He is among the youngest CEOs in the history of Schindler Worldwide & has headed several countries over the last 10 years.  Ashok was awarded ET 40 under 40 in 2019 – A definitive list of India Inc’s top business leaders.

There is a lot which we can learn from his experience and in this podcast he has shared all his learnings. He highlighted the importance of communication skills and importance of networking. He shared how being a conversationalist helped him in his career. He strongly believes that formal education is out-dated and every youngster must focus on personality development to get ahead in life.

He also shared about the corporate culture and how people can create an impact at their workplace. We discussed that how people can find the right job and what skills should one need to be a perfect candidate.

Watch this podcast till the end to know how you can step up the corporate ladder, how to build the right habits and how to be disciplined in life to achieve all your goals.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
01:40 The corporate culture
05:30 Creating impact in the workplace
11:00 Finding the right job
16:35 Skills and values in a perfect candidate
19:35 Stepping up the corporate ladder
24:20 How can young people influence the workplace
30:55 Building habits
31:40 Mindfulness
35:00 Developing focus
40:45 How can people been disciplined?
46:00 Rapid fire with Ashok

Watch the whole podcast on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ao_sUWuT0E

About Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.

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In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with Sanjyot Keer. Sanjyot Keer is an entrepreneur, chef and digital content creator. He is the founder of Your Food Lab which has garnered millions of views on the internet.

He was interested in cooking since childhood and wanted to be a chef. He got the chance to work on the sets of MasterChef season 4 after which he decided to go to London for further studies but couldn't go due to financial difficulties. Then he started working with his father at his factory and began making videos on the weekends. People started recreating his recipes at home and after that he began Your Food Lab.

In this podcast he discussed, what was his inspiration to become a chef, how did he break the stereotypes and made his career in cooking being a male. We also discussed how people can make money by cooking, what are the earning avenues available and how to convince your parents to pursue an conventional career path.

Watch the podcast till the end to know this roller coaster journey of Sanjyot and how he is making millions by cooking food.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
04:45 Your inspiration to become a chef?
09:00 Breaking stereotypes
15:20 Why choose Content Creation as a career?
18:00 Earning money as a chef
22:00 Your earning avenues
24:00 Standing out in the culinary world
29:40 Convincing parents for unconventional careers
38:30 Killing excuses
44:10 Does the wife do the cooking at home or you?
46:30 Rapid fire with Sanjyot!
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About Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.

To Know More,
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In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with Kunal Shah. Kunal Shah is an angel investor, founder of CRED and previously founded FreeCharge. CRED is a members-only credit card bill payment rewards platform that incentives and rewards members for clearing their bills on time.

He has served as a part-time partner at Y Combinator and an advisor at Sequoia Capital.

Kunal dropped out of college to pursue his entrepreneurial journey. In this podcast we discussed why he dropped out of college, why female participation in the workspace is important for India,  we also discuss the secret to creating wealth and how to get rich. Watch the podcast till the end to know complete details.

Link to watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU0f5GLJMHE
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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
03:38 Dropping out of college?
06:10 The curse of fame
09:00 The unlimited ways to create wealth
14:20 Spending time and money
18:45 Inspiration for your Businesses
23:30 Can India create billionaires?
26:00 Changing female participation in the workspace
28:00 Learning
29:40 Kunal's take on content creation
35:10 Kunal's reason to get into finance/making money?
38:50 Are Credit Cards bad?
41:15 Rapid fire with Kunal

About Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.

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Jitendra is a serial entrepreneur in the Indian Fintech space who has built products like Citrus(now acquired), Lazy Pay & Jupiter in the last 10 years. With having a 300+ members strong team and being backed by Sequoia Capitals, E-context Japan & Ascent Capitals, Here are the things he has spoken about in this podcast.

• How did he manage to be a serial entrepreneur?
• What is his take on the payment ecosystem in India?
• Why do Indians prefer a bank over a lending platform?
• Challenges he faced in the Fintech Space from being a Non-Tech Background.
• What are the top 3 components of a perfect Business Plan?
• How to look at the trends while starting up? How is Jupiter different from others?
• His top 3 book recommendations for early entrepreneurs.
• His learning curve throughout his journey.
• How did they get 30k+ organic users in two weeks?
• His take on movies, family & sectors for the future.

Varun, Shashank & Abhinav are 3 young folks who came together from different domains & backgrounds and built startups, India’s first and Largest student community, and are now building a platform called ‘Avalon Scenes’ with investors like Kunal Shah, Tanmay Bhat, Gaurav Munjal, and many more.
Any startup and tech enthusiast would love to keep a pen and a notebook with him while listening to this podcast.

Here are some topic these brains discussed-

• Creator Economy
• How they started
• How to find the right co-founder
• Who are smart people
• How to differentiate yourself in the market
• What is their aim with Avalon Scenes
• Future of content
• Strategy to make good content
• Company Secrets

Rachna Ranade is a Pune-based chartered accountant, teacher, entrepreneur, and YouTuber. She has more than 10 years of experience in the field of auditing and has a YouTube channel 'CA Rachana Phadke Ranade' with 2.5M subscribers where she posts videos about the latest trends in the stock market, finance, how to save money, etc.

In this episode, she talks about-

• Her YT journey
• How to grow on YT?
• Key factors to focus on to stand out among the rest.
• Skills one should have to be an asset.
• How to overcome the Analysis-Paralysis before investing.
• RoadMap to invest for different types of people.
• What to know before investing
• Her future goals