The Startup Operator

The biggest irony about over-night success stories is that they were in years of making. Kaagaz Scanner came under the spotlight after it received a special mention at the AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Challenge. 

In this episode of The Startup Operator Podcast, we have with us Snehanshu Gandhi, who co-founded Sorted.AI in July 2019 as a personal assistant that would make you more productive. And as a part of its utility products is Kaagaz Scanner. Roshan talks to Snehanshu about his founding journey and how he plans to scale the app business.

Connect with Snehanshu - 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/gandhisnehanshu

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

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Razorpay has been one of India's most prominent fintech businesses that have seen rapid growth since its inception. The company was founded in 2014 as India's first payment gateway for startups & SME businesses.  

Vedanarayanan, or Veda, manages the SME growth mandate, P&L covering marketing & sales for RazorPay. He has helped build and grow multiple digital products & brands across verticals for almost two decades.   

Join Roshan Cariappa as he talks to Veda about aligning sales & marketing functions and how to scale functions with a data-driven approach.

An engineer turned investor, Anurag Ramdasan heads Investments at 3one4 Capital, that recently raised $100 Million to fund early-stage startups. Some of the portfolio companies include such as Yulu, Luscious, PocketAces, and much more. Anurag works extensively on the investment side managing evaluations of new startups and doing diligence on them. Anurag also spends a lot of his time working with portfolio companies and their founding teams across tech, product, business strategy, and fundraising. He also founded Code for India in 2013 to help engineers build tech for social impact. Join Roshan Cariappa in conversation with Anurag as they talk about investing in India's growth story.

An author, CEO, & an Operator, but firstly, Jessie Paul is a marketer. In her marketing career spanning over 25 years, she has grown from being an account executive at Ogilvy & Mather, to being the Chief Marketing Officer of Wipro where she helped quadruple the giant's revenue. In 2010, Jessie  founded Paul Writer, a marketing advisory firm, that works with global and Indian clients to maximise marketing impact. She has also authored the book "No Money Marketing" which is a must-read for any marketer. Listen to this episode as Roshan talks to Jessie about how marketing has evolved with time.

An explorer, technology enthusiast, and entrepreneur, Amanda is currently heading Buffer's diverse group of product partnerships & integrations. In a career spanning over a decade,  she has helped build valuable partnerships for companies such as Shopify & Buffer. In this episode, Roshan speaks with Amanda to understand more about building partner ecosystems.

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After having completed his studies in the US, Narayanan "Nadu" Ramakrishnan returned to India to build assistive technology products that empower mankind. He is currently the CEO of Avaz -  a company that creates assistive technology products to empower children and their caregivers.  Children with difficulty in communicating use Avaz to select pictures from a vocabulary of 5000+ words, from which the app creates a sentence that is spoken out with a natural-sounding voice.   In this episode of The Startup Operator Podcast, Roshan chats with Narayanan about how Avaz is leveraging technology for social good and explores how social entrepreneurs are impacting society.

Aviral is a senior associate at Guild Capital, focusing primarily on early-stage startup investments. He has led Guild's investments into Wink&Nod, MegaExams, Qrius, and NurseryLive.   On the side, he also runs a fascinating blog www.ajuniorvc.com focused on startup and investing trends, and regularly posts on Linkedin and Twitter.   In this episode of The Startup Operator Podcast, Roshan talks to Aviral about his journey from college into the startup world and his unique insights into early-stage startup financing.

Akshay was one of the first hires from Uber's expansion to India. A lawyer turned operator turned 'Solepreneuer', Akshay currently works with founders of high-growth startups on their external affairs and strategy.   In this episode of the Startup Operator Podcast, Roshan talks to Akshay about his days from Uber and how the cab aggregator managed to build such a successful business in India.