Founders Unfiltered

By A Junior VCBusiness Entrepreneurship

Founders Unfiltered episodes

August 29, 2020 Ep12: Creating new products ft. Razorpay's Harshil Mathur
Harshil was turned down by over a hundred banks when he started Razorpay in 2014. Instead of fretting over it, he spent the time talking to businesses and building a payment gateway to solve their problems. Their customer-centric approach made them one of India's best payment solutions. Once users trusted him to handle payments, branching out into banking services was natural.
Today 800,000 businesses rely on Razorpay for payments, bank accounts, and loans. Join us as we talk to Harshil about his journey and creating new products.
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52 min
August 23, 2020 AJVC Unfiltered 6: Will Pharmeasy Win E-Pharmacy’s Intense Battle?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss pharmeasy and India’s multi-billion dollar and rapidly growing e-pharmacy industry. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Will Pharmeasy Win E-Pharmacy’s Intense Battle?
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16 min
August 14, 2020 Ep11: Early days of a startup ft. Finshot’s Shrehith Karkera
Shrehith is one of the founders of Finshots.
He met his co-founders in business school and they started writing and gradually built an audience but it was not enough to pay the bills. Just when they were running out of funds, one video went viral which helped them take the company to the next level. Today, Finshots delivers one 3 min read per day to over 100,000 subscribers on India's most important financial developments.
Join us as we talk to Shrehith about his journey and the early days of starting a company.
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33 min
August 09, 2020 AJVC Unfiltered 5: Is InMobi Asia’s Advertising Dark Horse?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss InMobi, India’s first unicorn and one of the pioneers of the Indian tech revolution. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Is InMobi Asia’s Advertising Dark Horse?”
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18 min
August 01, 2020 Ep10: Building a Rocketship ft. Gojek’s Kevin Aluwi
Kevin is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Gojek. In just a few years, he helped to build Indonesia's first decacorn.
Kevin started his career in investment banking but moved back to Indonesia where he worked for e-retailer Zalora which was founded by Rocket Internet. That’s where he met his co-founder and good friend Nadiem. Kevin joined Nadiem as the CFO of the company in 2014 but as the company grew, his role evolved. Gojek grew like crazy - 100% month over month for a 12 month period. Few people have experienced that kind of growth.
Join us as we talk to Kevin about how we built the rocketship and what he learnt on his incredible entrepreneurial journey.
43 min
July 26, 2020 AJVC Unfiltered 4: Will Amul’s Epic Milk Run Win India’s Consumption Marathon?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss the Amul and India’s white revolution that Amul inspired, converting Indian from a Milk deficit national into the world’s largest producer of milk and milk products. Join us for a behind the scenes peak at the A Junior VC piece “Will Amul’s Epic Milk Run Win India’s Consumption Marathon?”
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23 min
July 18, 2020 Ep9: The Startup Hustle ft. FamPay’s Kush Taneja
Kush is the founder of FamPay. He started the company while he was still in college. He built FamPay with sheer determination and hustle. Today, just a year after Kush graduated from college, FamPay brings cashless convenience to millions of teens and their parents.
Join us as we talk to Kush about his incredible entrepreneurial journey. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast
34 min
July 12, 2020 AJVC Unfiltered 3: Will Khatabook Uncover Bharat’s Elusive Fortune?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss the Indian fintech ecosystem and the rapid growth of the digital ledger Khattabook. Join us for a behind the scenes peak at the A Junior VC piece “Will Khatabook Uncover Bharat’s Elusive Fortune?”
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23 min
July 04, 2020 Ep8: Thinking Big ft. Nuclei's Ankur Joshi
Ankur is the Co-founder and CEO of Nuclei. He has founded a successful restaurant chain and was part of the founding team of Tapzo a venture-backed startup that sold to Amazon. He first learnt to think bigger when he moved to Mumbai to study engineering, well before starting his entrepreneurial journey and he kept thinking bigger at each step in his professional life. Join us as we talk to Ankur about his entrepreneurial journey and the importance of think big.
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31 min
June 28, 2020 AJVC Unfiltered 2: Is EdTech India’s Next Global Export?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss the rise of the edTech industry and how it has bombed and rapidly evolved in India since the 2000s. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Is EdTech India’s Next Global Export?”
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20 min