Prime Venture Partners Podcast

#75 Building Large Global Businesses From Small Indian Cities with Rohith Bhat Founder & CEO 99Games

Oct 28, 2021

34:15

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Episode notes

Scaling a Business in a Smaller Town

02:43

How Do You Discover in the Customer Need and the Market Opportunity?

02:49

Do You Have Multiple Businesses?

01:55

Introduction

3min

What Was the Cult Following of an Apple?

2min

What Are Some New, Interesting Areas That Would Be Interesting?

2min

99 Games and Robo Soften Exit

2min

Scaling a Business in a Smaller Town

3min

Design Lab - How Do You Teach People Engineering?

2min

The Biggest Innovations Happen Because of Constraints

2min

Build Great B to S Companies Out of India

2min

How Do You Discover in the Customer Need and the Market Opportunity?

3min

10.

What Is the Best Way to Exit a Company?

3min

11.

How Did You Get a Meaningful Valuation Like River Company?

2min

12.

Do You Have Multiple Businesses?

2min

13.

Monotization in India

4min

14.

The Prime Venture Partners Pordcast - It's Free to Play for the World Market

2min

Rohith Bhat, Founder & CEO 99Games chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.

Rohith is a parallel entrepreneur who started three companies: Robosoft Technologies, Global Delight and 99Games. Robosoft Technologies started in 1996 and had Apple Inc. as the first customer. Robosoft was acquired by TechnoPro of Japan in 2021 for $100m+. Rohith is now focussing all of his attention towards growing 99Games profitably towards scale.

Listen to the podcast to learn about

01:50 - Starting the Entrepreneurial Journey with Apple
05:00 - New Opportunities: Metaverse Gaming + NFTs
08:00 - Building a Large B2B business from Udupi
15:30 - The Game Changer: Democratisation of Distribution
21:00 - The Process of Selling Your Startup Successfully
29:00 - Monetisation of Gaming Businesses

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