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

• Google's Android Show: Gemini Intelligence, Googlebooks & Android 17

This episode dives into an infrastructure bet — autonomous industrial robotics.

Manesh Jain breaks down how Flo Mobility is deploying autonomous robots across construction sites, airports, and industrial environments — and what it takes to make robotics work reliably in chaotic real-world settings.

This episode explores three very different frontiers — longevity, industrial intelligence, and AI infrastructure in orbit.

1/ Abhishek Sahu (Founder & CEO, Dreamspan) breaks down adaptive health technology, longevity trends, and what building health hardware in India actually demands

2/ Naman Shah (Founder & CEO, NowPurchase) explains digitising India’s metal manufacturing ecosystem through procurement infra, factory operating systems, and AI-driven intelligence

3/ Awais Ahmed (Founder & CEO, Pixxel) discusses Pixxel’s orbital AI infrastructure ambitions: India’s first orbital data centre satellite

News:

1/ Anthropic gets access to xAI’s 220,000-GPU Colossus supercluster

2/ Skyroot becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn

3/ Pronto hits $200M valuation after raising $20M

India’s AI transition is colliding with a much deeper question: who are we actually building for?

1/ Dharmesh Ba breaks down the empathy gap between Indian founders and users, why “Bharat” behaves differently from “India,” and how UPI, WhatsApp, and digital products are reshaping consumer psychology.

2/ Bharat Pinnam explains how AI-native software creation is changing who gets to build, what real AI builders look like, and why the future developer may not look anything like today’s engineer.

Also covering: • Anthropic’s $1.5B AI consulting venture • Dream11’s pivot into AI-powered investing • Krutrim shifting from frontier AI to cloud infrastructure

Live with us today:

1/ Saurabh Pandey, Founder & CEO of Eloelo Group, building India's go-to platform for entertainment with StoryTV App (By Eloelo group) for microdramas, Master for microlearning and Eloelo for live social entertainment, redefining how people entertain, learn and connect with each other online.

2/ Kiran Gopinath, Founder & Head of Sahamati Labs, the innovation arm of Sahamati, working at the forefront of weaving AI into India's open finance infrastructure.

Watch live Mon/Wed/Fri at 4 PM IST

This episode brings together two very different worlds — elite performance and healthcare systems — with one common thread: decision-making under pressure.

Paddy Upton breaks down what it actually means to build high-performance individuals and teams, lessons from working with Gukesh Dommaraju, and how mental conditioning differs from motivation.

Brijraj Bhuptani explains how SPRY is rebuilding outpatient healthcare workflows with AI — from documentation to billing — and where AI meaningfully improves outcomes.

With us on the show today: Manas Gupta & Srikumar Nair spent 6+ years inside Blinkit — one on data, one on category. They saw how brands were evovlving. They built GobbleCube.

$15M Series A. 400+ brands. HUL, Tata, L'Oréal, ITC, Reckitt. 30+ marketplaces.