The Startup Operator

Satya Prabhakar is the CEO of Sulekha, an Indian firm funded by GIC, Norwest and Mitsui . He worked at Honeywell as an engineer and AT&T as a business manager before founding Sulekha with Sangeeta Kshettry. Having been a founder for over a decade in the Indian Startup Ecosystem, he brings insights about working with SMBs, the secret to a long living business, building for Bharath and more in this episode.

Some Key highlights in this episode are:

Working with SMBs

Building a sustainable business with profits

Evolution of the Indian Startup Ecosystem

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Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/in/satyaprabhakar

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -   

Priya Mohan is a banker and founder turned investor. She was co-founder at Vidyartha, an edtech startup that was acquired by BYJU's. In this episode she Priya brings insights from both a founder and an investor's perspective, what she thinks about startups and more!  

Some highlights of this episode are: 

-The story of Vidyartha 

-Choosing between a lifestyle startup and running a VC startup 

-Aligning various priorities 

-Life of a founder after acquisition 

-Priya's recent investments  

-Advice to the founders 

-How should founders look at valuations? 

Connect with Priya: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyamohan246/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/priyavidyartha  

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Andrew Stotz is a serial entrepreneur, an active value investor and a podcaster where he talks to people about their worst investments in life. In this episode he talks about the most common mistakes that businesses often make and how to solve for them.

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

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/anand_iitd 

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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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On this episode of the Startup Operator Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussed Startup fundraises in the past week, SEBI's new listing norms and how they impact the startup ecosystem and SPAC opportunities for Indian Startups and more.

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

Twitter - https://twitter.com/NischalShetty

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -