The Neon Show

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

In this episode of The Neon Show, Vishwa (Co-founder of ZenDuty) is joined by Rahul Sasi (Co-founder of CloudSEK) and Ananda Krishna (Co-founder of Astra Security). 

They share how AI feels magical now. And how as founders they are trying to sprinkle this magic everywhere from how building products to building teams and everything that matters.

This episode is packed with valuable insights for anyone interested in startup culture, productivity, and AI magic. Tune in!

Due to some technical issues, there are disturbances in the audio in a few parts.  We apologize and hope to deliver the best production quality in all our future episodes.

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00:00 Everything is being Reimagined!

00:41 Meet the New Hosts

01:08 Founders' Biggest Time Killer

05:10 Why entrepreneurs should fail fast?

11:19 Will your job inevitably change?

17:40 How AI has reimagined engineering jobs?

19:13 PMs & Designers have New workflows

20:35 Why everyone should learn to Prompt?

24:14 Is your team using AI Budgets efficiently?

26:59 Do people trust AI chatbots?

32:18 Does sales still need humans?

35:53 Do we expect empathy from AI?

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In this episode, we sit down with two exceptional founders. One who is going after the biggest category, and one who created a new category and became its leading player.

Vijay Rayapati (Co-founder, Atomicwork) and Khadim Batti (Co-founder, Whatfix) share their hard-earned insights on what it truly takes to build a great company.

From closing million-dollar deals remotely to building AI-native organisations and cultivating long-term leadership, this conversation goes deep into the real playbook behind enduring companies.

Watch if you’re a founder, a team builder, or simply someone who wants to understand how great companies are actually built.

0:00 – Trailer

01:37 – The Viral Meme Story

03:28 – What the Founders Admire About Each Other

07:20 – Navigating US–India Work Timings

08:39 – Hiring & Retaining Talent

15:54 – Why Founders Need Mentors

24:53 – When Employees Think Short-Term

31:48 – Building Organic Leadership

35:58 – Hunger vs Humility

39:58 – Building Company Culture

44:55 – Why Abolish Designations

51:38 – What is Founder’s Mentality?

54:44 – Large vs New Categories

01:00:44 – When Things Go Wrong

01:02:41 – Handling Board Pressure

01:06:45 – Never Compromise on Customer Service

01:13:58 – What to build is becoming harder

01:18:57 – FOMO in AI

01:25:10 – AI Will Remove Bureaucracy, Not Jobs

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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.

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Check us out on:

Website: https://neon.fund/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/

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Connect with Siddhartha on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/

Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7

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CRM is a category often equated with its market leader, Salesforce.

Hence, companies and investors question the viability of building a business in this space.

Nilesh Patel, founder of Leadsquared, who built a Unicorn in CRM, joins us today.

We discuss the category, the business, and its competitors.

With Byju’s as their first large deal, Edtech brought over 40% of their customers.

Then the industry went through a downfall, but Leadsquared survived by a well timed expansion.

From lack of capital restricting entry into the US market, to fast-forward today, where they have gone global.

Nilesh shares his thoughts on the skills founders need and the decisions they have to make -on exits, acquisitions, and hiring.

Tune in for more!

0:00-Trailer

1:35 – Building Leadsquared

3:19 – First large deal with Byjus

7:12 – Fundraising from Private Equity

9:58 – CRM as an Undesirable Investment

12:10 – Should Co’s enter the CRM Space?

13:35 – How to price SAAS in India?

15:23 – Diversifying beyond EdTech

16:49 – How to build market differentiation?

20:29 – Highest annual deal of <$10M

23:37 – India spends $500M-$1B on CRM

26:39 – Are Indian founders underpricing?

28:40 – GTM in the US Market

33:26 – What would Leadsquared do differently?

47:32 – When Should a Founder Exit?

49:03 – How AI Will Transform CRM

55:09 – Views on Byju Raveendran

56:55 – When founders think like VC’s

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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.

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Check us out on:

Website: https://neon.fund/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/

Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShoww

Connect with Siddhartha on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/

Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7

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Meet Sharad Sanghi who built India’s first data center, he spent 25 years building Netmagic, India’s largest data center company. He came to India in 1995, worked at VSNL as the country was discovering the internet, and built a company focused on internet for businesses.

Now he is building Neysa, an AI cloud startup, which recently raised $50M to help businesses adopt AI, all from India. 

With Neysa businesses can use AI without writing a lot of code or use five different tools to run it. And do everything—train models, test them, deploy them, and monitor them—in one single dashboard.

Sharad has a lot of perspective to share—as someone who was at the forefront while India adopted the internet, and now, the AI wave.

If you're building in AI, part of an enterprise exploring AI, or simply thinking about where India is in the AI race—this episode is for you.

0:00 – Trailer

02:00 – How Neysa makes AI easy & cheap?

04:37 – From datacentre to AI

06:54 – 1200 GPUs & 15 Clients

07:24 – Selling internet to Businesses

12:03 – Why India Needs Local AI Clouds

13:20 – How Neysa Plans to Stand Out

15:14 – Is Scaling a Hyperscaler Easy?

19:26 – Can India Shift from IT to AI?

26:40 – AI in Large Enterprises vs Mid-Market

27:51 – AI Revolution vs Cloud in 2006

31:06 – What’s the Moat for AI Startups?

33:08 – Is Private Data the Real AI Goldmine?

35:59 – Why Product & GTM Matter Early On

38:06 – Why Scaling must come before Demand

42:12 – OpenAI’s edge on Deepseek?

44:52 – How should enterprises navigate AI?

46:32 – Did Only NVIDIA Predict the AI Boom?

48:17 – Founder 1.0 V/S 2.0

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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.

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Check us out on:

Website: https://neon.fund/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/

Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShoww

Connect with Siddhartha on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/

Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7

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In this episode of The Neon Show, we bring you into the room with someone who’s spent over a decade backing India’s most ambitious companies.

We're joined by Prayank Swaroop, Partner at Accel. With over 14 years in venture capital, Prayank walks us through his journey of discovering and building expertise in specific sectors—from cybersecurity and developer tools to SaaS and marketplaces—and how VCs identify the categories they truly understand.

We dive into how Accel chooses best founders, and the balance between backing founder versus business across stages. Prayank shares his candid thoughts on why India has been slow and late to the AI race, and what a realistic way forward could look like for Indian startups.

He also offers a glimpse into Accel’s evolving investment thesis around AI, sector by sector, and talks about how the enterprise landscape is changing—and what that means for Indian founders building in this space.

Tune in!

0:00- Trailer

1:45 – Finding Great Founders

6:30 – What We'd Do Differently

10:16 – Sector Expertise Matters

13:15 – Where AI Money Should Go

18:00 – Accel’s GenAI Bets

21:18 – Sector-Wise Thesis in AI

23:24 – Growth means Product in AI

26:45 – Rise of Founder-Influencers

29:10 – $650million India Fund

31:35 – Beyond Roti, Kapda, Makaan

34:07 – Why Accel is Big on Content

36:03 – 15 Years in VC

38:16 – Highs & Lows of VC Ecosystem

43:36 – Knowledge Compounds in VC

49:45 – Conviction over Consensus

51:06 - Conclusion

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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.

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Check us out on:

Website: https://neon.fund/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/

Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShoww

Connect with Siddhartha on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/

Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7

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Is it time for investors to move beyond the valley when analyzing India?

Dev Khare, Partner at Lightspeed agrees. 

He shares with us an interesting view on two funding models:

The Silicon valley model begins with raising millions of dollars & going through huge negative cashflow for years. Hopefully building a great product or maybe even creating a new market. And a few years later, comes out with super fast growth & revenue potential of millions & billions of dollars.

Whereas, in the Compounder model companies raise little to no funding in early days. They don’t go to negative cash flow, instead growing slowly. Not at 3x ,but at 50% and keep at it for some 10 years building a large company. Thus becoming profitable in a few years following a slow J curve, and raising rounds only to accelerate growth.

India has built exceptional companies in the software industry following this model. 

But, we can all sense that lack of approval for India’s enterprise products, which we can confidently say has been achieved in the consumer markets.

With 13+ years at Lightspeed, Dev has backed companies like PhysicsWallah, Razorpay, PocketFM, ShareChat, Darwinbox, Portkey.ai, Qure.ai, and Accel Data. 

Prior to VC, Dev started as a product manager then founded his company Covigo, a developer platform for mobile applications.

This episode promises an interesting discussion on building companies in enterprise.

0:00- Trailer

1:12 - Early days at Lightspeed India

8:11 - Learning curve of an Investor

11:52 - How OYO fixed supply when Airbnb didn’t

16:37 - Is organic acquisition now the norm?

19:02 - India must rediscover its AI edge

20:20 - Compounder v/s silicon valley companies

23:26 - Why Freshworks & Zoho chose mature markets?

27:40 - Can India create SAAS category leaders?

29:18 - Enterprise startups cap at 30%

33:07 - How a $3.2B company found its niche

37:42 - AI services & AI led services

40:37 - Lightspeed’s Investment thesis

45:34 - Why we have 70% second-time founders?

48:18 - Will ITC & Jio acquisitions set a trend?

52:37 - Are software IPOs sparse?

55:34 - India’s enterprise buyer market is small

1:04:47 - Missed investments & Lessons

1:06:28 - Why is India having a lag effect in AI?

1:10:19 - Has India built global enterprise products?

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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.

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Check us out on:

Website: https://neon.fund/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/

Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShoww

Connect with Siddhartha on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/

Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7

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This video is for informational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the individuals quoted and do not constitute professional advice.

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In this episode, Avnish Bajaj, Founding Partner at Z47 (formerly Matrix Partners India), shares what it takes to build one of India's most competitive VC firms and land the best startup deals.

With over 20 years of experience, Avnish has been at the forefront of India’s venture capital industry. He co-founded Matrix Partners India in 2006 after a successful entrepreneurial journey with Baazee.com, which he later sold to eBay, serving as its Chairman & Country Manager.

From founder to angel investor to VC, Avnish has done it all—scaling businesses, backing category-defining startups, and navigating the challenges of venture investing. His portfolio includes Ola, Razorpay, Country Delight, Practo, Quikr, and many more.

Tune in as we dive into his insights on winning the best deals, building a top-tier VC firm, and the evolving startup ecosystem in India.

0:00- Introduction

2:58 - How Founders Should Choose VCs?

9:02 - Z47 as an Operator-Led VC

15:32 - Generalist vs. Specialist VCs

20:24 - India’s VC Ecosystem in Last 20 Years

6:38 - First-Time vs. Second-Time Founders

31:48 - Founder-Market Fit Explained

35:18 - How LPs Allocate Money in India?

46:22 - How Investors Bet on Countries & Assets

52:09 - Can Tech Founders Run Multiple Businesses?

57:06 - Is India’s Market Ahead of Entrepreneurs?

1:01:10 - Rapid Fire: How Z47 Picks Founders

1:03:44 - Is Seed Stage Funding the Only Battle?

1:11:21 - When VCs Like the Founder, Not the Market

1:14:11 - Z47’s Work Ethic

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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.
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Check us out on:
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Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShoww

Connect with Siddhartha on:
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Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7
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In this episode of The Neon Show, we have Sharad Sharma, founder of iSPIRT, the technology think tank behind India Stack, Health Stack, and other digital public goods. 

If you want to understand where India’s digital space is headed, how AI can shape its future, and why strategic autonomy is critical, this episode is a must-watch!

0:00 – Introduction
03:12 – India’s aim to prevent digital colonization
05:00 – Democratising digital infrastructure
07:09 – UPI’s 2012 vision: intraday loan for Rajni
12:50 – The origin of ‘DPI’ & misconceptions in India
14:46 – Can India keep its first-mover advantage in DPI?
16:15 – How UPI lost to Brazil’s PIX
17:49 – Introduction to MOSIP & DEPA
19:22 – Did UPI fail to detach from government control?
20:33 – The world evaluates DPI with India’s 5 sutras
22:48 – DPI interoperability & India’s global leadership
25:23 – Managing $2-3 billion funding in India’s DPI ecosystem
27:03 – Why India must stay paranoid: The David vs. Goliath mindset
30:09 – Sam Altman doubted India’s AI, now wants in
33:25 – Facebook opposed net neutrality in India, backed it in the U.S.
36:46 – Regulatory Innovations: Cable TV, mutual funds & OTAs
40:19 – Did GST replace 4 tax filings with 36?
44:05 – Does India have a regulatory framework for digital?
51:06 – Scaling 10-100 with help from educational institutions
53:02 – Breaking away from Visa & Mastercard
55:47 – The ‘Stay in India’ checklist to bring back talent
59:58 – Grading India on DPI globalization
01:00:57 – U.S. antitrust battles & how they shaped big tech
01:08:25 – Building India’s AI ecosystem using its data advantage
01:12:50 – Picking India’s battles in AI: healthcare as an opportunity
01:15:00 – Can India build its own AI assistants?
01:17:56 – Why India must update academia & build industrial labs
01:22:18 – DEPA: Enabling Low-Cost Access to Non-Public Data
01:27:55 – UPI was age & color blind, DEPA won’t be
01:31:06 – How will India approach AI regulation?
01:39:05 – Creating ‘landing spots’ for Indian AI talent
01:41:53 – Five key actions for India’s AI success
01:45:01 – Hiring call for India’s AI & DPI visionaries
01:51:55 – Building Co’s for India’s strategic autonomy
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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.
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Check us out on:
Website: https://neon.fund/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/
Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShoww

Connect with Siddhartha on:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/
Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7
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In this episode, we have Vishal Jain, CEO of Zerodha Fund House, who brings over two decades of experience in building ETFs and passive investment products.

From launching India’s first-ever ETF with Benchmark AMC in 2001 to now leading the country’s first passive-only AMC, Vishal has contributed through various roles to India's financial markets.

We break down:
- The history of mutual funds in India from the 1960s to today’s ₹68 Lakh Cr AUM industry.
- Why index funds & ETFs are transforming retail investing.
- How retail participation is growing (but why 2/3rd of investors still hesitate).
- Vishal's investing philosophy is rooted in a belief in India's growth story, beyond the obvious goal to beat inflation.
- The role of gold as a portfolio hedge, even for those bullish on India.
- Zerodha Fund House’s vision—Can passive investing truly take over?

If you're curious about where India's investment space is headed and how you can position yourself wisely, this episode is a must-watch!

2:10 - History of mutual funds in India
7:09 - Exchange-traded funds
10:13 - Employee Provident Fund in ETFs
11:01 - Why COVID increased trading activity?
12:36 - Is now a good time to invest?
14:02 - How Vishal builds his portfolio
16:18 - Trends in India’s mutual fund adoption
17:44 - Why only 1/3rd of retail investors buy mutual funds?
21:36 - Can investment markets learn from OTT growth?
22:52 - Does India need more mutual fund providers?
23:51 - Is India’s growth limited to the top 1%?
27:06 - Can you buy mutual funds w/o a demat account?
28:07 - Physical gold vs. gold ETFs
29:34 - Who’s buying mutual funds?
33:11 - What’s driving usage of financial products?
34:26 - AI’s role in customer acquisition
36:40 - What’s Zerodha Fund building?
38:32 - Risk & return across asset classes
40:12 - Is Vishal bullish on India’s future?
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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.
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Check us out on:
Website: https://neon.fund/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/
Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShoww

Connect with Siddhartha on:
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A seasoned investor who ran India's Finance Ministry.

This week on The Neon Show, we welcome Jayant Sinha—Investor, Policy Maker, and former Minister of Finance & Civil Aviation.

Mr. Sinha shares how the government builds innovative investment solutions for startups and large-scale funding programs for institutions.

He played a key role in launching a ₹2,000 crore Fund of Funds, which invests in startups through domestic VCs. He was also instrumental in establishing India’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, managing ₹39,000 crore in assets as of 2024.

As Civil Aviation Minister, he worked on policies like UDAN to make aviation more inclusive and played a key role in DigiYatra, driving digital transformation in air travel.

Mr. Sinha is focused on policies that drive India’s economic growth in a climate-conscious way. From research to action, he is working across policy, investment, and technology to shape India’s path towards Net Zero.

Read Jayant Sinha’s Latest book : “India’s Green Startups:Entrepreneurs That are Driving Growth” - https://www.amazon.in/India%EF%BF%BDs-Green-Startups-Entrepreneurs-Paperback/dp/9353458633  

00:00 - Highlights
03:01 – Growing up in a diplomat household
05:34 – Working at McKinsey
06:48 – The Opportunity cost of a political career
08:03 – From Harvard to Hazaribagh
09:18 – Exposure to Policymaking & elections
11:52 – First electoral win in 2014
14:37 – Twice chosen as Union Minister
15:33 – Arun Jaitley: Also an Excellent Advocate
16:55 – India’s Sovereign Wealth fund
18:17 – Higher Education Financing Agency
19:32 – Taxation of Alternative Investment Funds
20:17 – Fund of Funds for Domestic VC’s
21:47 – Aviation Reforms: UDAN & Digiyatra
30:26 – Privatization of Air India
33:32 – India’s vision to lead globally
35:42 – India's path to a green future
39:31 – The CO₂ blanket effect
42:04 – Nuclear fusion as a zero-carbon solution
44:24 – Why land will be hotter
46:13 – How climate change affects Economy
48:57 – India’s Net Zero Goals
50:04 – $1 Trillion Investment to Finance Net Zero
55:00 – Scaling green businesses in India
56:26 – Global North’s carbon responsibility vs India’s emissions
1:00:52 – Chronic health effects of pollution on children
1:02:07 – What India can learn from Beijing
1:06:42 – India’s Net Zero Bill & global legislation
1:08:08 – Personal connection to The Environmental Cause
1:12:47 – Trump’s impact on the global green mission
1:15:05 – Why India must invest in R&D
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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.
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