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Meet the co-founder of PotHoleRaja, Sourabh Kumar, who tell you about making communities live better by building accident free roads.

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Fixing The Most Indian Of Problems 'Potholes' - The Story Of PotHoleRaja | The UpStream Life

00:00 - Introduction
00:00 - Introduction
02:15 - The journey of the founder and the business
07:00 - Community can play a vital role in fixing potholes
14:30 - The ready mix to fix a pothole
19:00 - The business of PotHoleRaja
28:41 - Working with the government
37:22 - The next 18 months for the company and the new product.
44:52 - Unreported accidents in India because of potholes.
49:00 - Influences

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Meet Rohit Kochar the founder of Bert Labs, who is helping corporations and governments achieve business transformation goals on ESG with technology. Watch this podcast to learn about building a profitable Al business.

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00:00 - Introduction
02:16 - Beginning of Bert Labs: is the impact of AI real
11:10 - Integrating AI with existing industrial systems
24:21 - The cost-saving from using AI and the business of Bert Labs
29:44 - Supervised AI learning &  the benefits to industry
34:40 - ESG goals are real and these goals are not esoteric
39:18 - Building a company that can leave a lasting legacy
44:43 - Creating the perfect balance of clients & profit making.
49:44 - Know the rigour of building a product to succeed
55:18 - Learning & unlearning, having a problem led approach
59:00 - Meeting Jack Welsh and the books that inspire

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In this episode Vipul Singh [Co-Founder & CEO at AEREO] elucidates how the government has been progressive about drones and why several large businesses want to use drone applications.

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00:00 - Intro
01:50 - Drones are mainstream in India now, startups are the stakeholders
06:18 - New drone regulations have positively changed the way the ecosystem is built
11:00 - Drones have mapped 200K villages in India
24:00 - AEREO is a stack and not a drone company
28:26 - Overcoming the struggles of a technology company
35:30 - Government loves drones now because of the opportunity
41:40 - Building deep technology in India
50:20 - Localising the drone ecosystem

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In this episode of The UpStream Life  We talk to Prasanna, Managing Partner of Upekkha. Upekkha, a fund and accelerator program, has been helping more than a 100 companies carve out a name for themselves at the global level.

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00:00 - Intro
01:56 - The Journey Of Upekkha & What Is Upekkha Solving
09:10 - Managing Pricing & Selling To The Right Customer
14:11 - The Mistakes That Prasanna Made That He Does Not Want You To Make.
20:23 - Upekkha's Company Portfolio And Performance
25:57 - The Idea Of A Flywheel From A Business Context
29:33 - Managing Marketing And Sales When Going International
36:00 - Winning Tech Contracts In The USA Is Easier Than In India
36:53 - The Upekkha Fund And Team
42:33 - Changes In Technologies  And Running An Organization In The World Of AI
49:17 - Leaders Also Need Mentors

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In this episode of The UpStream Life we talk to Rohit Agarwala, the founder, has created a novel way of discovering news on social media for all generations.

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00:00 - Intro
02:00 - Content-consumption patterns and the way it's changing
03:10 - The Barely Opinionated story
09:35 - Making news relevant for the current generation
15:45 - Content creation & scaling the business
20:18 - Barely Opinionated's plans for the future
29:30 - Advantages of being in the business of content
39:45 - Challenges and opportunities in building the Barely Opinionated community
42:25 - How do digital platforms & algorithms support content creators?

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In this episode of The UpStream Life we talk to Vatsal Kanakiya, the founding team member of 100x.VC about Indian tech companies going global. Find out why 100X.VC has become the platform for Indian companies to raise capital.

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00:00 - Intro
02:00 - Startups that are making the difference since 2018. 
06:00 - 100x hypothesis on startups.
11:30 - Looking at deals closely. 
17:00 - Communicating the value of tech.
20:24 - Cheque sizes and valuing money. 
28:30 - Startup investments that worked and did not
33:31 - First principles from a business & tech perspective. 
40:00 - New age businesses are rapidly scalable. 
43:00 - Vatsal and his thoughts on books & business

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In this episode of The UpStream Life we bring you the founder of Offineeds, one of India's largest gifting platforms. Srikanth Acharya has survived three phases of running this business- the eager startup founder, a founder who loses everything & yet bounces back, and the current phase being building India's largest gifting stack.

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00:00 - Introduction 
01:31 - Why get into the gifting business? It started with a prank! 
05:18 - Build a business don't chase VC money until you have clarity.
10:00 - Toughest years of building Offineeds - How Offineeds made a comeback?
15:20 - Fixing distribution is the key to winning in commerce. 
22:03 - Every company must tell stories to their stakeholders.
28:30 - Staying disciplined and committed. 
32:33 - The business of Offineeds.
40:53 - Organising the gifting industry and handling clients.

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In this episode [The UpStream Life] We have Sanchit Malik, the co-founder of Pazcare, talks about building a tech business that enhances employee experience in the insurance buying and claims settlement process.

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00:00 - Intro

01:52 - Building Pazcare as platform with seamless experience 

05:52 - Convincing Insurance companies and third party assurance companies about the Pazcare platform.

16:57 - You must buy insurance. 

25:25 - How does the app work for employees?

30:00 - Sachin's inspirations 

35:38 - Having mentors at an early age. 

42:06 - The world is optimistic about India.

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In this episode I talk to serial entrepreneur and co-founder of QubeHealth about the future of healthcare in India and why we need a way to pay for healthcare. What you will get from this interview is a way to build a great business around healthcare and fintech. You will also hear Chris's business ideas and what he wants QubeHealth to become in a few years.

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00:00 - Intro
01:13 - What is QubeHealth solving?
07:38 - Building a frictionless healthcare payments ecosystem in India. 
14:50 - Using the QubeHealth platform to pay
18:43 - Managing payments out of pocket & where QubeHealth plays a role
24:42 - Chris's evolution as an entrepreneur 
31:32 - Who are the stakeholders of QubeHealth?
35:15 - Being a boxer while away from the company. 
39:00 - Being resilient as a founder.

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife we bring you Sanjay Dasari, the co-founder of WayCool.

Sanjay talks about building a tech-enabled food value chain company. India is a nation rooted in agriculture, but tech and tech-enabled agriculture has its own complexities to thrive as businesses. Sanjay Dasari tells us why the timing is just about right for agriculture to be data led. 

00:00 - Intro

00:50 - The business of WayCool

07:11 - Organising the unorganised in agriculture & how the WayCool name was born

15:13 - The Omni-Channel and Omni-Product approach to drive agtech

19:12 - The world of private labels and why the B2C play makes sense 

28:15 - Why kiranas or small stores are here to stay in India. 

32:23 - Technology that helps the farmer to maximise the value of their asset

41:15 - Why is the tech side exciting in agriculture?

46:33 - Favourite books & Movies.


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