For our 100th episode, we're bringing six founders onto a single stage:

- Sreevathsa Prabhakar, Founder & CEO of Servify

- Kanika Gupta Shori, Co-Founder & COO of Square Yards

- Ronnie Screwvala, Entrepreneur, investor, and Chairperson & Co-Founder of upGrad

- Vaibhav Khandelwal, Co-Founder & CTO of Shadowfax

- Abhay Singhal & Mohit Saxena, Co-Founders of InMobi

They've built some of the most consequential companies to come out of India, and they're sitting down with us live today.

Two founders joining us today:

Vivek Ravisankar (HackerRank) on whether tech hiring is actually fixed, what AI does to the job of being an engineer, and where the human sits when machines write most of the code.

Kanav Hasija (MeltPlan) on why construction productivity has been falling for 50 years, what pre-construction planning has to do with everything that goes wrong on a build, and why Bessemer backed him at less than a year old.

One founder built India's largest PM community from a single meetup. The other sold his startup to Pine Labs for Rs 88 Cr and immediately started a new company in New York with the same co-founders.

Suhas Motwani (The Product Folks) on building a 30,000-member community entirely on patience, why product managers make great community builders, and what internal product work teaches you that no startup ever will.

Ishan Rakshit (Shopflo, Sortment) on raising from Tiger Global at seed, building checkout infrastructure for 1,000 D2C brands, selling to Pine Labs, and why he started over the moment it closed.

Three founders. One who's kept a tech company alive for 40 years and just took it to Europe. One who built a wearable that stimulates your brain to fix focus and mood. And two who turned RC cars into a Rs 30 Cr brand in 16 months.

Sahil Shah (TM Systems) about cybersecurity, intelligence and Entrepreneurship.

Dhawal Jain (Mave Health) on what tDCS actually does to the brain, and whether India will pay INR 29,500 f

Vinay Jaisingh & Afshaan Siddiqui (Legend of Toys) on going from ISB to RC cars, hitting Rs 30 Cr ARR in 16 months, and why they give every customer free repairs for life.

On today’s episode of The Offline Network, we have:

1/ Vedant Gupte (Trackk) is reimagining how Gen Z invests — AI-powered stock discovery, one of India's youngest registered brokers, backed by Lightspeed and Info Edge.

2/ Vinay Agastya (Ctruh) is building the infrastructure layer of the spatial internet — browser-native 3D experiences for any brand, no app downloads needed. Shark Tank India S5 alum, $4.5 Mn raised.

3/ Ajay Rao (Emiza) has spent a decade building warehousing and fulfillment for Indian SMBs — 27 warehouses, 14 cities, $24 Mn raised.

This week on The Offline Network, Utsav and Dhruv sit down with three founders building very different parts of the India opportunity — one who built a generational education brand, one who is fixing how Indian families pay for education, and one who bootstrapped three global SaaS products without raising a rupee of VC.

1/ Ankit Dudhwewala built CallHippo without a technical background and without raising VC — three SaaS products, $20 Mn+ combined revenue, all bootstrapped.

2/ Eela Dubey built EduFund — now helping 250,000+ Indian families plan and finance their children's education.

3/ Aakash Chaudhry co-built Aakash Institute into one of India's largest test prep networks — 300+ centres. Now building again with Sparkl: One-on-one live tutoring.

This week’s news: 

• Reliance just posted India’s highest-ever annual profit at ₹95,754 crore - and the Jio IPO is on the horizon. 

• India opened its 5th-gen AMCA fighter programme to private industry for the first time - Tata, L&T, and Bharat Forge in the race. 

• The government approved ₹33,660 crore to build 100 industrial parks to go after India’s 1.8% global export share. 

• Lane Brown’s Vulture piece exposed the machine behind tech launch virality - 65,000 bots, 50,000 daily videos, all manufactured. 

• We get into why VCs need to build owned media now that capital is abundant.

• And the Will Smith eating spaghetti video is back - this time, AI can actually do it.

Our guests are Darshil Rathod and Shreyans Sancheti, co-founders of Linkrunner — AI-powered Mobile Measurement Partner. They built the attribution tool they wished existed when they were running BlueLearn, going head-to-head with AppsFlyer and Branch with a product designed ground-up for Indian consumer apps.

A platform making grassroots sport visible. An AI companion speaking India's languages. Plus — SpaceX's S-1, India's electricity milestone, and Karpathy joining Anthropic.

1/ Sidhhant Agarwal

Founder of SportVot — the platform digitising grassroots sport in India and globally. 3.5 lakh matches digitised, 30 sports, 20,000+ kabaddi athlete profiles. Raised Rs 32.7 Cr. Now in APAC, MENA, and Europe.

2/ Rohan Chaudhary

Founder & CEO of Rumik AI — building Ira, an emotionally intelligent AI companion for India. 35M+ messages in 4 months; 1M+ installs, 40-min average sessions, $6.5M raised.

News:

• SpaceX files S-1 — $1.75T valuation, Starlink at $11.4B revenue, 10.3M subscribers

• India hits 260.5 GW peak demand; 50% non-fossil power capacity achieved 5 years early

• Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pretraining team — OpenAI co-founder, ex-Tesla AI lead

Today on the show:

Shashi Kumar (Akshayakalpa Organic) — built India's first certified organic dairy company from a farm on the outskirts of Bengaluru, survived six shutdown scares, and scaled to Rs 395 Cr

News we cover

• Tata & ASML sign $11B deal to build India's first commercial chip fab in Dholera

Two founders building what's next — while India's economy hits a turning point.

Anushka Sharma (Quenzy) — bootstrapped a prebiotic soda brand that sold out in 2 hours, ex-Google and Amazon 

Nakul Kelkar (Affogato AI) — built an AI video agent with 1.5M users, backed by YC

News:

• India's rupee under pressure as gold imports widen the trade deficit

• Zepto gets SEBI nod for $1.2B IPO — quick commerce goes public

• Rapido raised $240M in fresh primary funding led by Prosus, valuing at $3B post‑money

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