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Startup Garage episodes

  • #37 Middle East, Investing & Crypto Ft. Dr. Marc Nassim, Awad Capital

    Dr. Marc Nassim is the Partner & Managing Director at Awad Capital, one of the top investment banks in the Middle-East region. Dr. Nassim holds a PhD. in Finance and has spent about two decades working and investing across sectors for family offices, sovereign funds and HNIs.

    In this episode, Kushal and Vaibhav talk to him about the middle east investment landscape, the IB process of evaluating new deals, about getting into IB and crypto-currency.
    To follow Dr. Marc Nassim: Twitter | LinkedIn

    39 min
  • #Breakdown7: Network Effects & WhatsApp
    You'll often hear startup founders talk about network effects. Many businesses use strong network effects as a moat to keep competition at bay. In this breakdown episode, Vishal Mehndiratta aims to explain the basics of network effects and how WhatsApp probably has the strongest of them!
    3 min
  • #36 What Winning Looks Like (Part 2) Ft. Robert Hussey
    This is the second part of the chat with Robert Hussey (Bob), CEO, Nirvana Water and Founder, POP Radio. Bob started his company in the early 1980s, took it public on NASDAQ, and then faced a hostile takeover bid which he fought. The company got acquired at an above market Cash-Flow Multiple and Bob has since become a private equity investor.
    In this episode, we chat with him regarding the hostile takeover attempt and life after the acquisition.
    46 min
  • #Breakdown6: Mayhem On Wall Street - Archegos Capital
    Some analysts are calling the Archegos Capital margin-call failure, the 'Lehman Fraud' of this decade, and the impact it has had on the wealth of US corporations and banks is way more than the current estimates. Prime bankers lending to high-rollers with levered bets on a select few stocks might just be the bubble we're awaiting.
    3 min
  • #35 Philosophy & Capital Ft. Cathy Guo, Antler India
    Cathy Guo is a founder-turned VC, currently managing investments at Antler India. She has been a part of First Principles and True Beacon, and has started Dunya Labs, a blockchain startup based out of Bangalore, India. In this episode, we talk to her about how philosophy and entrepreneurship are connected, about her journey in China, US and India and about what she's building at Antler.
    33 min
  • #Breakdown5: NFTs Explained
    You have most probably heard of NFTs and the frenzy going on around these digital collectibles. Christie's recently auctioned a digital artwork, which was essentially a green signal for the asset class. In this episode, we breakdown and explain NFTs and why are the becoming so valuable and popular! Marketplace for NFTs: www.opensea.io
    4 min
  • #34 Of VCs & Technology Ft. Dr. Srikanth Sundararajan, General Partner, Ventureast

    Dr. Srikanth is currently a General Partner at Ventureast, one of the oldest venture capital firms in India (started around 1997), and has raised and deployed about $400 Million USD. In the past, he has held the post of CTO for HCL and Cognizant and prior to that he was an entrepreneur. Srikanth also is a visiting professor at Indian School of Business and IIT Bhubaneshwar among a few other universities.


    In this episode, we speak to him about the transition from being the CTO of large enterprise-tech businesses to being a venture investor, about the SaaS market in India and a bunch of other things he is passionate about (cricket!).

    47 min
  • #Breakdown4: Domino's Pizza Turnaround

    The Domino's Pizza turnaround is a legendary corporate tale of customer centricity. The company's share, after IPOing in 2004, went down to $3/share in 2008 and currently trades levels of $360/share.

    In this short episode, let's look at how Patrick Doyle turned the pizza company around.

    3 min
  • #33 The Partying Polymath Ft. Shaun Gold

    Shaun Gold, is a former nightlife ninja, where his business was creating and promoting the some of the most exclusive parties and events in Miami. He is a true polymath, has written 4 books, lectures at universities and currently, is starting up again, this time in the mental health space: The Youtopian Journey.

    In this episode, we talk to Shaun about starting a nightclub in the pre-social media era, building relationships with some of the top celebrities and entrepreneurs in the US and about mental health (for entrepreneurs and millennials).
    Check out Shaun's books here.

    55 min
  • #32 VC For Everyone Ft. Jesse Randall, Founder, Sweater
    The venture capital asset class has gained immense popularity in the past decade. But still, only a select group of people and institutions have access to it. In this episode, we talk to Jesse Randall, Founder and CEO, Sweater about how he is opening up venture capital for the retail investors.
    Jesse has started companies in the past and also works with various startups on their fundraising and growth at Deviant Strategy. He is a brilliant marketing mind and hence we try to understand from him, marketing in the venture capital industry.
    49 min

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This series of podcast is about starting up. The ups, the downs, the burns, the chills, everything. Unplugged.