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IPO is a comma, not a full stop. Harsh Binani had the American dream — McKinsey, Chicago. Safe. Predictable. But a lesson from his grandfather stayed: “Exit is as important as entry.” So in 2016, he moved back to India & built Smartworks. Started with co-working. It didn’t

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The World Is Moving Its Offices to India 🇮🇳 Post-independence, India built 1 billion sq. ft. of office space. What’s wild? ~800 million of that came in just the last ~20–22 years. And now, the next ~1 billion sq. ft. is expected in the next 10–15 years. That’s how fast India is

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No TV. No computer. $300. One-way ticket. That’s how Surojit Chatterjee's story started in a small Indian town. Here’s what happened next: → Built Google’s mobile ads from 0 to $50B+ → Helped scale Flipkart in its breakout years → Took Coinbase public as Chief Product

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Company SAHI, aur banda bhi Sahi. Podcast dropping soon… Sat down with Dale Vaz to unpack Amazon → Swiggy → Sahi → India’s fintech future. Dale Vaz

Company SAHI, aur banda bhi Sahi.
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Sat down with Dale Vaz to unpack Amazon → Swiggy → Sahi → India’s fintech future.

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Most Indians who move to the US stay there. Dale Vaz did the opposite — he came back to India to build his legacy. 11 years at Amazon (Italy/Spain/India launches). CTO at Swiggy (14 cities → nationwide scale → IPO). Now building Sahi, an AI-first trading platform cutting noise,

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The problem isn't lack of information. It's too much of it. Most Indians know how to buy a stock. Very few know what to do with their money. Dale Vaz said it best: “People don’t lack tools. They lack clarity.” Too much noise. Too many tabs. Zero confidence. He’s building a

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Career ka confusion, Leap ka solution. Podcast dropping soon… A deep dive with Arnav Kumar on education, careers, mentorship, and why he’s building an AI-first platform to guide students to the right global opportunities. arnav Leap Scholar

Career ka confusion, Leap ka solution.
Podcast dropping soon…

A deep dive with Arnav Kumar on education, careers, mentorship, and why he’s building an AI-first platform to guide students to the right global opportunities.

<a href="/arnav_kumar/">arnav</a> <a href="/LeapScholar/">Leap Scholar</a>
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Most of us didn’t choose our careers. We followed marks, rank, “log kya kahenge” — and hoped it works out. I sat down with Arnav Kumar (Founder, Leap) who’s fixing exactly that. What stayed with me: • Lower-middle-class kid from Ranchi → parents bet everything on education •

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For years, the path was: build in India → scale in the US. Founders like Arnav Kumar from Leap are flipping it: Build a global business from India. Day 1. Why? ✔️ Talent is here ✔️ Ambition is here ✔️ Customers are here India isn’t just catching up. India is leading. 🚀🇮🇳

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Robots won’t steal your job. They might save your life. I had Mahesh Krishnamurthy on the pod. His journey: → Made computers “talk” through light at Intel → 7 years on secret autonomy projects at Apple → Built self-driving tech at Lyft → Founded Vayu Robotics — acquired for

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Be relentless. Be around relentless people. Design your life so that most of your time is spent with them. And don’t forget — have fun. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Did this in 2025. Looking to accelerate in 2026 ✨

Be relentless.
Be around relentless people.

Design your life so that most of your time is spent with them.
And don’t forget — have fun. Don’t take yourself too seriously.

Did this in 2025.
Looking to accelerate in 2026 ✨
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Luxury in India is changing. Not because Indians got richer. Because Indians got pickier. I saw this up close on my podcast with Nibhrant Shah, founder of Isprava—one of the people who redefined luxury villas in India. He didn’t just build homes. He built an ecosystem: →

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India’s AI story is just getting started. But the ecosystem for AI founders is still being built. I sat down with Aakrit Vaish, who moved back in 2013 with one mission: build an AI ecosystem for India. From Haptik (AI assistants before ChatGPT), to TEAM, to Peercheque to

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India’s biggest AI risk isn’t compute. It isn’t capital. It isn’t policy. As Aakrit Vaish put it recently, it’s this: Will our best talent believe they can build from India? According to him, there’s only one real risk to India’s AI story: 👉 the story doesn’t play out, and

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300,000 livelihoods. 98% of India’s pin codes covered. 3M lives impacted. In 10 years, Ankit Agrawal built InsuranceDekho into India’s largest agent-led insurance platform — after walking away from UBS in NY because he saw something broken: low insurance access in a 1.4B

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In 1995, a guy quit his dream job in the US, moved back to India with no plan, no job, no safety net — and built a $10 billion empire. This is the story of Sharad Sanghi, the man who introduced data centers to India. → grows up in Bombay, loves math → gets into IIT Bombay →

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A $7.2B AI company started because employees couldn’t find information inside their own company. That company is Glean. Its founder, Arvind Jain, grew up in Jaipur. His parents didn’t know what IIT was. He says he “accidentally” became an engineer. Fast forward: →

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From IIT Delhi to Stanford PhD to raising $27M before having a product. That's Karan Goel story. No revenue. No product. Just strong research, strong demos, and strong conviction. What does Cartesia do? In simple language: It helps businesses automate conversations. If you’re a

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The uncomfortable truth about India's IT industry — For decades, India's biggest export was talent. Brilliant engineers, sent overseas, as a service. Karan Goel of Cartesia thinks that era is over. Not in 10 years. In 2 to 3 years. But here's what excites him more than the