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Welcome to #83rd episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Finance Ministry issues clarification on UPI charges
2. Sequoia Surge launches its 7th cohort
3. Deeptech accounts for over 12% of Indian Startup Ecosystem
4. IRDAI proposes a new platform for insurance sales & services. 
5. Google harvests the most amount of data among big tech firms.
...and more!

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Episodes Mentioned in this Roundup:

Last Roundup:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/WP6GQHCmlMQ
Apple: https://tinyurl.com/R82Apple
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/R82Spotify
Google: https://tinyurl.com/R82Google
Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/R82Amazon

Building a Deep Tech Startup | Ashwini Asokan (Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/roejuSfMHpU
Spotify: https://cutt.ly/AshwiniSpotify
Apple: https://cutt.ly/AshwiniApple
Google: https://cutt.ly/AshwiniGoogle

Building Commercial Drones - Vipul Singh (Co-founder & CEO, Aarav Unmanned Systems)
Youtube: https://youtu.be/kbhXDMq2uHs
Audio Links: https://www.startupoperator.in/s1e127

Disrupting Insurance | Abhishek Poddar & Saurabh Arora (Founders, Plum)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ii9wwIQE4HE
Spotify: https://cutt.ly/PlumSpotify
Apple: https://cutt.ly/PlumApple
Google: https://cutt.ly/PlumGoogle

Building a Hub for Data Teams | Prukalpa Sankar (Co-founder, Atlan)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/bs93nW1PMik
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/PrukalpaSpotify
Apple: https://tinyurl.com/PrukalpaApple
Google: https://tinyurl.com/PrukalpaGoogle

Sell Anything Online - Suumit Shah (Founder & CEO - Dukaan)
Youtube: https://youtu.be/mGF1S_I-glw
Apple: https://cutt.ly/EP144Apple
Spotify: https://cutt.ly/EP144Spotify
Google: https://cutt.ly/EP144Google
Amazon: https://cutt.ly/EP144Amazon

Building the University of the Future - Abhimanyu Saxena (Co-founder, Scaler Academy)
Youtube: https://youtu.be/hHKM5jQEz68
Apple: https://cutt.ly/EP137Apple
Spotify: https://cutt.ly/EP137Spotify
Google: https://cutt.ly/EP137Google
Amazon: https://cutt.ly/EP137Amazon

Building a SaaS business with Thiyagarajan | Co-founder - Upekkha | The Startup Operator
Youtube: https://youtu.be/468fr6aw4Ag

Should you fund your SaaS startup with revenue? | Prasanna Krishnamoorthy (Partner - Upekkha)
Youtube: https://youtu.be/Nnh8MSOdh4s

EP 179 : Pioneering the Drone Revolution - Ankit Mehta (Co-founder & CEO, Ideaforge Technology)
Youtube: https://youtu.be/36b5TlarBZQ
Apple: https://tinyurl.com/179Apple
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/179Spotify
Google: https://tinyurl.com/179Google
Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/179Amazon
Our Website: https://startupoperator.in/s1e179

Building a Core Science Startup - Ezhil Subbian (Founder & CEO, String Bio)
Youtube: https://youtu.be/edQSsOeJOXI 
Apple: https://cutt.ly/EP152Apple
Spotify: https://cutt.ly/EP152Spotify
Google: https://cutt.ly/EP152Google
Amazon: https://cutt.ly/EP152Amazon

Consumerization of Healthcare - Mohit Kumar (Founder & CEO, Ultrahuman)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Pp-9b5k5wLk
Spotify: https://cutt.ly/MohitSpotify
Apple: https://cutt.ly/MohitApple
Google: https://cutt.ly/MohitGoogle
Amazon: https://cutt.ly/MohitAmazon

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Sreedhar is a serial entrepreneur and has founded 3 startups. He is currently the Co-founder of GTM Buddy, a SaaS startup that enables sales people do better. In this episode he spoke about the core skills that helped him startup thrice, how to sell to large enterprises, creating a new category and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:
00:00 Introduction
01:17 Core Skill sets that helped Sreedhar startup 3 times
06:57 Sreedhar's learnings from his past ventures
09:53 Advice on Selling SaaS to large enterprises
14:13 Importance of getting the right customers
17:43 Competing against the incumbents
23:24 Advice to founders pioneering a new category
26:01 The unique challenges in sales enablement
29:29 What is GTM Buiddy and it's use cases?
37:37 Advice for founders in the $0-1 journey
38:29 Getting people to prioritise buying decisions
40:51 Sreedhar's thoughts on the Indian SaaS ecosystem
43:37 Books and Podcast recommendations

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreedharpeddineni/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SPeddineni100

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Welcome to #82nd episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Paytm holds first AGM since Going Public
2. SBM Banks halts onboarding new customers for fintechs
3. PhonePe announces e-commerce play with new ONDC app
4. Indian restaurants look beyond Swiggy, Zomato for delivery
...and more!

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Welcome to #81st episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. 75K startups in 75 years of independance
2. SoftBank cautions longer startup winter
3. SEBI’s proposes to regulate fintech run ‘bond trading platforms’
4. Fundraise - Upgrad, Clevertap
...and more!

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Welcome to #80 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Elon Musk & Twitter litigation continues; India is mentioned
2. WazirX and Binance argue over ownership amid amid ED investigation
3. India’s Personal Data Protection Bill withdrawn by the Government
4. CCI raids Cloudtail linking it to Amazon
...and more!

Talk of the Town: https://twitter.com/vaibhavbetter/status/1556304021014851584?s=20&t=7RTbBbal0U5farJvCNrJsA

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Sudheer is an engineering leader and the founder & CEO of Insightly Analytics, a SaaS solution to help companies improve their engineering teams productivity. In this episode he spoke about what a developer's day looks like, how to enable a team as an engineering manager, what qualities to look for while hiring an engineer for early stage and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:
00:00 Introduction
02:06 A Day in the life of a typical developer
05:11 Building a "Code" culture
09:05 Measuring a developer's productivity
12:58 Org Design at Insightly
15:51 Enabling your team as an Engineering Manager
20:39 Dos and Don'ts for a non technical founder
24:08 Qualities to look for in an early stage engineer 
25:26 Idea to Product to Company
30:39 Going from a nice-to-have to a need-to-have
33:33 Transforming data into relevant actionable insights 
36:43 What's coming up at Insightly
38:10 Sudheer's insights from the developer productivity space
40:40 The Engineering Leader Persona
41:59 Books and podcast recommendations

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbandaru/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SudhirBandaru

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Welcome to #79 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Zomato's Anchor Investors exiting as Lock in period ends
2. PM Modi launched India's 1st International Financial Services Centre (IFSC)
3. IIT-M launched ‘Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat’ to promote language technology
4. Google launching street view in India
...and more!!

Talk of the Town: https://twitter.com/kushalbhagia/status/1553276539852439552?t=Bi1FfdJ40Ua7pREKeBpmww&s=08

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Amit is a finance professional turned founder & CEO with NoBroker. It is a 2 sided Marketplace for real estate and is a pioneer in the space. In this episode Amit spoke about the insights he got into the real estate industry as an outsider that gave him an advantage to operate in the space, what it's like building a 2 sided marketplace, how they nurture core culture and more in his conversation with Roshan Cariappa.

Topics:
00:00 Introduction
01:29 NoBroker's 0-1 Journey
03:39 What does Amit look for while Hiring someone
05:44 Insights that gave Amit an Advantage
08:43 Building a 2 sided marketplace
11:34 BTL Marketing that helped no broker grow into a premier brand 
13:25 Process of Expanding to new geographies 
15:08 Managing multiple businesses/verticals
16:57 Prioritizing verticals to add
18:35 Nurturing the core culture
21:39 Principles of Monetization
25:26 Building trust in the ecosystem
26:40 What's coming up at NoBroker?
27:23 Making Frugality a part of your DNA
29:41 What has Amit realised about himself on his journey
31:10 Books and Podcast Recommendations
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-kumar-agarwal-5b30301/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmitKumarA

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Welcome to #78 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussing - 

1. Ashok Soota Third Startup at 79 Years
2. B Capital, Auxano Capital and First Cheque raised funds
3. upGrad and Shiprocket acquired other startups
...and more!!

Talk of the Town: https://twitter.com/jgebbia/status/1550158908898979840?s=20&t=jXGDmToaKtQYwKuwTbgH6Q

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Deepak is a the Chief Data Scientist at BlackBuck. Prior to this he has worked at Citi group, Myntra and Hike as a data scientist. In this episode Roshan and Deepak explore the various aspects of data science, from what skills are necessary to the nature of problems a data scientist solves and when to build a data science function in your start up.

Topics:
00:00 Introduction
01:54 Deepak's Journey as a Data Scientist
03:39 Intrinsic skills that make a data scientist good 
04:44 Key points in the Evolution of Data Science
06:21 The Nature of problems a Data Scientist solves
09:29 Counter intuitive insights Deepak has got
11:04 Blackbuck's evolution
15:20 Converting data to insights
17:40 The AHA moments Deepak has had
20:00 Building a data science function and when it is relevant
22:20 Hiring and enabling Data Scientists
24:08 Working with various teams
25:20 Books and Podcasts Recommendations

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrierdeepak/

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