February 03, 2021

Founder Stories: Vibhas Jain on Growing Up in India, Not Going to Stanford and Starting Outside Voice

55 minutes

Vibhas Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Outside Voice (Iterative S20), a no-code app builder for WhatsApp. On this episode, we talk about Vibhas (Vibes) childhood growing up in India, getting into and moving to Stanford but never actually attending Stanford, how he met his co-founder and came up with the idea of Outside Voice.

Discussion

(1:00) – Vibe's childhood growing up in India

(6:30) – Vibe's first product idea and trying to convince people to build it

(12:40) – What the feeling of being in SF was like

(19:15) – Where did Vibe's entrepreneurship DNA come from?

(22:00) – Vibe's tries to build the same music app again, years later

(29:37) – Vibes's music app gets on Techcrunch and they meet Sequoia

(38:34) – How Vibes met his co-founder and how Outside Voice was started

(48:35) – When and why should you join an accelerator?

(51:00) – Vibes favorite place to get Indian food in Singapore

(54:00) – Vibes talked himself into a DJing gig by telling them he was a big DJ in India

About Iterative

Iterative is a YC style accelerator focused exclusively on Southeast Asia by the founders of Divvy (a16z, GIC), Weave (YCS14), Decide (acquired by eBay) who have collectively raised $100M+ in VC. Iterative invests US $150K into early stage startups twice a year then works with them intensely for 3 months culminating in a Demo Day.

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