#38 Ankur Warikoo on Building a Personal Brand with Storytelling

Ankur Warikoo, Co-founder Nearbuy chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners.

Ankur Warikoo is an  Internet entrepreneur, motivational speaker and an angel investor.
He is the co-founder of  Nearbuy  (where he served as the CEO from 2015-2019). He was previously the CEO of  Groupon  India + APAC, MD of Rocket Internet  India, Co-founder at Accentium Web, and a management consultant at A.T. Kearney.

He holds an MBA degree from The Indian School of Business, an MS Physics from  Michigan State University and a BS from Hindu College, Delhi University .

Listen to the podcast to learn about:

2:31- The importance of storytelling for everyone

8:08-  Are people uncomfortable to share stories in the Indian startup ecosystem?

12:45 - The right way to get feedback

19:07- Building up your social media

27:28- Developing skills and overcoming the initial inertia 

31:12- Thoughts on doing things that look like a distraction to others

32:54- Why everyone should have a failure resume

Read the complete transcript here.

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