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  • EP 78 : Building in Fintech | Anand Agrawal (Co-Founder & CTO, Credgenics) | Engineering Manager Series

    Anand Agrawal founded Credgenics, a platform working with financial institutions, Banks, NBFCs to improve their collections efficiency using technology in 2018. Prior to founding Credgenics Anand held the position of Senior Data scientist at 1MG and Urban Clap before. In this episode Anand gives insights into building a product in the fintech space, how enterprise customers impact product roadmap and more!   

    Some highlights of this episode are: 

    Engineering Innovation at Credgenics 

    Working with legacy systems 

    Integrating Multiple systems

    Building for the Banking ecosystem 

    Next level of automation in Banking 

    Deciding on the product roadmap 

    Being a founder and CTO simultaneously

    Connect with Anand 

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandagrawal3/ 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/anand_iitd 

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    51 min
  • EP 78 : Building in Fintech | Anand Agrawal (Co-Founder & CTO, Credgenics) | Engineering Manager Series

    Anand Agrawal founded Credgenics, a platform working with financial institutions, Banks, NBFCs to improve their collections efficiency using technology in 2018. Prior to founding Credgenics Anand held the position of Senior Data scientist at 1MG and Urban Clap before. In this episode Anand gives insights into building a product in the fintech space, how enterprise customers impact product roadmap and more!   

    Some highlights of this episode are: 

    Engineering Innovation at Credgenics 

    Working with legacy systems 

    Integrating Multiple systems

    Building for the Banking ecosystem 

    Next level of automation in Banking 

    Deciding on the product roadmap 

    Being a founder and CTO simultaneously


    Connect with Anand 

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandagrawal3/ 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/anand_iitd 

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    51 min
  • EP 77 : Design, Startups & the Creator Economy | Abhinav Chhikara (Founder, 10K Designers)

    Abhinav started his career in designing back in 2011. Since then, he has worked with 50+ founders and startups across USA, Europe and India.


    Building the design team from scratch & helping build one of the biggest live learning platforms in the world - Unacademy, Abhinav wanted to fix the state of design education. He started 10K Designers -  an invite-only masterclass on becoming a UI/UX designer - to enable the next generation of designers and product thinkers.


    In this episode, get insights on -  

    - The 10K Designers community (1:14) 

    - Collaboration between design & product (5:34) 

    -  Data-driven designing (12:32) 

    -  The design process (15:40) 

    -  Qualitative aspects of design (24:04) 

    -  Brand & design (30:50) 

    -  SaaS design trends (37:07) 

    -  Design overlapping with other functions (43:56) 

    -  10K Design curriculum (47:06) 

    -  Advice for designers (49:29) 

    -  The creator economy (54:18)


    Connect with Abhinav -  

    Linkedin - https://in.linkedin.com/in/abhinavchhikara 

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/abnux


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    1 hr 2 min
  • EP 77 : Design, Startups & the Creator Economy | Abhinav Chhikara (Founder, 10K Designers)

    Abhinav started his career in designing back in 2011. Since then, he has worked with 50+ founders and startups across USA, Europe and India.


    Building the design team from scratch & helping build one of the biggest live learning platforms in the world - Unacademy, Abhinav wanted to fix the state of design education. He started 10K Designers -  an invite-only masterclass on becoming a UI/UX designer - to enable the next generation of designers and product thinkers.


    In this episode, get insights on -  

    - The 10K Designers community (1:14) 

    - Collaboration between design & product (5:34) 

    -  Data-driven designing (12:32) 

    -  The design process (15:40) 

    -  Qualitative aspects of design (24:04) 

    -  Brand & design (30:50) 

    -  SaaS design trends (37:07) 

    -  Design overlapping with other functions (43:56) 

    -  10K Design curriculum (47:06) 

    -  Advice for designers (49:29) 

    -  The creator economy (54:18)


    Connect with Abhinav -  

    Linkedin - https://in.linkedin.com/in/abhinavchhikara 

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/abnux


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    1 hr 2 min
  • EP 76 : Crypto for India | Nischal Shetty (Founder, WazirX)

    Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast does not constitute investment, financial, trading, or any other sort of advice. Do conduct your own due diligence and consult your financial advisor before making any investment decisions.


    Bitcoin is a new alternative asset class. It has been around for over a decade and withstood two global recessions. In 2017, Nischal Shetty founded WazirX, which today has grown to become India's largest cryptocurrency exchange. Nishcal is a Blockchain influencer on Twitter with over 50K followers. He's on a mission to involve everyone in the blockchain revolution and has been a part of online campaigns like #IndiaWantsCrypto that evangelises the adoption of cryptocurrency in India.  


    Prior to starting WazirX, he founded Crowdfire after an all-night coding session. 


    In this conversation, Roshan talks to Nischal to explore more about -

    - Nischal's journey thus far (01:16) 

    - Starting WazirX (3:31) 

    - Building trust in a new category (07:19) 

    - Educating customers with the right information (13:30) 

    -  Influencing crypto policies & regulations (16:23) 

    - Evangelising crypto-community in India (21:41) 

    - WazirX - The business (24:35) 

    - Being acquired by Binance in 2019 (32:58) 

    - Transitioning to decentralised finance  (34:48) 

    - Future for crypto in India (38:25) 


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    Connect with Nischal -

    Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nischalshetty

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/NischalShetty

     

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    Found this episode informative? Let us know by hitting the like button & subscribing to our channel. You can also Tweet or DM us on - 

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator 

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup

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    42 min
  • EP 76 : Crypto for India | Nischal Shetty (Founder, WazirX)

    Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast does not constitute investment, financial, trading, or any other sort of advice. Do conduct your own due diligence and consult your financial advisor before making any investment decisions.


    Bitcoin is a new alternative asset class. It has been around for over a decade and withstood two global recessions. In 2017, Nischal Shetty founded WazirX, which today has grown to become India's largest cryptocurrency exchange. Nishcal is a Blockchain influencer on Twitter with over 50K followers. He's on a mission to involve everyone in the blockchain revolution and has been a part of online campaigns like #IndiaWantsCrypto that evangelises the adoption of cryptocurrency in India.  


    Prior to starting WazirX, he founded Crowdfire after an all-night coding session. 


    In this conversation, Roshan talks to Nischal to explore more about -

    - Nischal's journey thus far (01:16) 

    - Starting WazirX (3:31) 

    - Building trust in a new category (07:19) 

    - Educating customers with the right information (13:30) 

    -  Influencing crypto policies & regulations (16:23) 

    - Evangelising crypto-community in India (21:41) 

    - WazirX - The business (24:35) 

    - Being acquired by Binance in 2019 (32:58) 

    - Transitioning to decentralised finance  (34:48) 

    - Future for crypto in India (38:25) 


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    Connect with Nischal -

    Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nischalshetty

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/NischalShetty

     

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    Check out The Daily Reader: https://www.tinyurl.com/wanttobeadailyreader 

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    Found this episode informative? Let us know by hitting the like button & subscribing to our channel. You can also Tweet or DM us on - 

    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator 

    Twitter - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup

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    42 min
  • EP 75 : Engineering for Scale | Anshu Prateek (Head of Engineering - Grab)
    Anshu heads the SRE and engineering infrastructure (systems) operations for Grab Financial Group across SE Asia on AWS, Azure, GCP, AzureStack, and bare metal servers. Being the first member of the team and the first few engineering hires in Bangalore, he worked on greenfield project to establish engineering best practices using containers, cloud agnostics stack, IAAC, and CI/CD and grew the SRE team to 10 while helping to grow the engineering team to 200.

    Prior to joining Grab in 2017, Anshu worked with Freecharge, Jio, Aerospike, and Yahoo.  

    Managing exponential scale 
    25:15 - Balancing innovation & growth 
    32:27 - How have Dev-Ops evolved? 
    41:20 - Being an engineering manager 
    53:14 - Nuances of the 0 to 1 Journey   

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    Connect with Anshu -  
    Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshuprateek/ 
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    1 hr 2 min

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