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Welcome to #40 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Today we have Jivraj Sachar joining Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha to discuss - 

1. Account Aggregator Network

2. Prosus Acquiring BillDesk

3. Bikayi's Fundraise

4. Zerodha gets approval to launch their Mutual funds

5. Apps for Bharat fundraise

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Mohit is the founder and CEO of Ultrahuman, a healthtech platform. He is a second time founder and had previously found Roadrunnr, a logistics and supply chain startup. In this episode he spoke about the Nuances of Building in healthcare through first principles, Principles for Building an International Brand, Optimizing user Experience and more in his interview with Roshan Cariappa!

Key highlights: 

(00:00) Introduction

(01:40) Doing things differently with Ultrahuman v/s Runnr

(04:50) Building for the healthcare market

(07:17) Consumerization of healthcare

(08:54) Trends in Adoption of Healthtech

(10:50) Going from Idea to Product to Company with Ultrahuman

(14:40) Making ultrahuman a part of people's lifestyle

(16:52) Future evolution of Ultrahuman

(19:00) Nuances of Building in Healthcare through first principles

(21:25) Optimizing user experience in Healthcare

(24:06) Customer acquisition, retention and monetisation

(27:43) The Ultrahuman ecosystem

(29:45) Hiring globally from day 1 

(32:57) Building an International Brand 

(35:39) High level challenges Mohith is solving 

(39:58) Mohith's workout routine

(42:38) Stories of Cyborg users

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohit-kumar-1014a326/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/deeppurpled

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Rohith Bhat is the founder of Robosoft technologies and is the founder and CEO of 99Games. He built Robosoft Technologies from a tier 2 city in India over 2 decades ago with Apple as their first client and recently got acquired by Technopro of Japan. In this episode he spoke about going from startup to getting acquired, how the process of it, what it is like to build a startup from a second tier city and more in his interview with Roshan Cariappa.

Key Highlights:

(00:00) Introduction 

(01:35) Highs and Lows of getting acquired

(02:14) That Day After Feeling 

(04:21) The Process of Acquisition

(08:52) Building in a tier 2-3 city like Udupi

(13:19) Stories and Anecdotes from the early days of Robosoft

(15:42) Building for the Apple Ecosystem

(19:38) Working with Japanese clients

(21:40) Choosing customers and projects 

(23:05) Building customer empathy in your teams

(25:06) Building an engineering culture

(27:26) Genesis of 99 Games

(32:11) Mindset shift required to move from services to products

(35:14) Looking into the future of 99 Games

(38:04) Optimism for the future

(39:49) Advice for new founders

(41:49) Closing remarks

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rohithbhat

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

​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​

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Welcome to #39 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss - 

1. Freshworks files for IPO

2. Prime Venture Partners Raise $75Mn 

3. Ola Electric to raise a Billion Dollars

4. Delhivery's Acquisition of Bengaluru startup Spoton Logistics

5. Khatabook raises $100mn in series C

6. Fundraises by indiagold, Bewakoof Curefood and others

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Amrit is the co-founder and CEO of Zetwerk, a B2B marketplace focused on make-to-order custom manufacturing. In this episode Amrit spoke about transforming Indian manufacturing industry as the next go to destination for the world, simplifying complex sales cycles, increasing customers' life time value and more in his interview with Roshan Cariappa.

Key highlights:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:06) Amrit's journey thus far

(03:12) Controlling last mile delivery

(05:41) Advice on building in the Manufacturing space

(08:49) Zetwerk's value proposition to large enterprises

(12:34) Simplifying complex sales cycles

(15:01) Increasing LTV of customers 

(17:18) Managing supply & demand 

(19:01) Aligning different offerings to a single mission

(20:29) Scaling an offline business

(23:01) Funding the right experiments 

(25:25) Hiring and Enabling people 

(27:42) Amrit's mindset shift for Zetwerk to succeed

(30:25) India as the next manufacturing destination of the world

(33:11) Being part of the Indian startup ecosystem

(35:26) Amrit's Books/Podcasts recommendations

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Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrit-acharya/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/acharyaamrit?s=20

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

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Raj is a serial entrepreneur and has founded several startups. He is currently the co-founder and the chief vibe officer at Stoa School, a business school that aims to induct people into startups and help people start their own business. In this episode he spoke about Building an audience before building the product, why setting a vibe is important, nuances of enabling a cohort based learning experience and more in his interview with Roshan Cariappa. 

Key Highlights:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:08) Lessons from turning ideas into products and companies

(14:28) Building an Audience before building Product

(17:20) Why is Conventional B-School Education broken 

(20:20) Necessary skills for a 21st century B-School Grad

(23:22) Staying Relevant to your TG

(26:46) Designing the Stoa School curriculum

(29:27) Nuances of Enabling a cohort based learning experience

(32:31) Working on a vibe and how they translate into everyday choices

(35:38) Having people pay only for practical stuff

(38:16) Stories from Stoa alums

(40:26) Raj's optimism for the future

(43:22) Raj's Books and Podcasts recommendations

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Connect with Raj:

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kunksed

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

​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​

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Welcome to #38 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Special guest Digjay Patel joins Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha to discuss - 

1. Fundraises by Ultrahuman, Rapido, Smallcase, Zupee

3. India's most valuable SaaS - Postman

4. Mint - Cred's latest lending product

5. MSME credit by Facebok

6. New Unicorn - Zetwerk

7. Behind the scenes of Food Delivery Business

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Ankur is a serial entrepreneur and has founded startups in multiple fields. He is the founder and CEO of Nuclei, a fintech startup. In this episode he spoke about his decision making principles, building with the customer nuances of building for banks and more with Roshan Cariappa. 

Key Highlights: 

00:00 Introduction

01:05 Ankur's Decision making principles

05:46 Thinking big and building Sustainably 

09:58 Delivering Consumer tech DNA to banks

11:55 Nuclei's common Usecases

13:29 Building with the customer

17:54 Choosing your stakeholders

20:57 Nuances of Selling and Building for banks

23:03 Domain knowledge

26:33 How have banks changed post pandemic

29:20 High level challenges Ankur is solving at Nuclei

31:19 Ankur's Go to market strategy

32:28 Optimism for the future

34:36 Key point to remember before stepping into the restaurant business

37:20 Ankur's books and Podcast recommendations

40:34 Closing Remarks

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/1ankurjoshi/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ankurjoshi

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Abhishek Goyal is the co-founder of Tracxn, a startup enabling faster and easier deployment of Venture Capital to startups through their platform. He has also been an investor in several startups like flipkart, delhivery and the like. In this episode he spoke about going  from Idea to product to company, the nuaces of building a data and research platform, balancing human intervention and tech innovation and more with Roshan Cariappa.

Key Highlight:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:25) What is driving the current fundraising frenzy

(05:55) Are we at peak FOMO?

(09:22) Abhishek's investment thesis

(12:56) Difficult problems that startups CAN solve

(14:08) Founders of 2008 vs Founders of 2021

(15:57) Abhishek's thoughts on SaaS

(17:55) Abhishek's thoughts on Fintech

(19:58) Abhishek's thoughts on Edtech 

(22:26) Building Tracxn - going from Idea to product to company

(24:45) Nuances of building a data & research platform

(26:57) Balancing Human Intervention & Tech Innovation

(28:39) How are teams structured at Tracxn

(32:48) SaaS pricing Strategies

(35:08) Nuances of Selling to VCs

(37:07) The skill of Sourcing and Organizing proprietary data

(38:33) High level challenges Abhishek is solving at Tracxn

(39:39) Why should startups partner with tracxn?

(41:17) What's coming up next at Tracxn

(42:16) Books and Podcasts Abhishek recommends

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Connect with Abhishek:

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhishekTracxn

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

​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​

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Welcome to #37 episode of The Startup Operator Roundup. Special guest Jayadevan PK joins Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha to discuss -