Prime Venture Partners Podcast

Sameer Nigam Founder & CEO, PhonePe chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about:02:30 - Betting on opportunities03:35 - Moment of Serendipity05:00 - Smartest decision made07:30 - Growth phases of UPI10:30 - The most competitive sector in India12:45 - Why PhonePe is succeeding15:12 - Zero MDR18:40 - Value Vs Cost21:10 - Competition is a good thing25:00 - New opportunities for Fin-tech entrepreneurs30:45 - Why India needs hyperlocal apps34:00 - PhonePe's acquisition by Flipkart38:15 - 2020 Sameer's advice to 2010 SameerRead the complete transcript hereEnjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

25 Guests 1 EpisodeA special episode on the podcast this week. On this episode we share with you nuggets from our first 25 episodes. Let us know which one is your favourite. Time stamp:0:24 - Sachin Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO HackerEarth1:28 - Nakul Shenoy, Mentalist & Mystery Entertainer2:23 - Rajesh Magow, Co-Founder & Group CEO MakeMyTrip3:35 - Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Co-Founder Info Edge(Naukri) 5:10 - Miten Sampat, Ex- CSO Times Internet7:11 - Paras Chopra, Founder & Chairman Wingify8:40 - Sanjay Jain, Partner Bharat Innovation Fund10:37 - Sangeet Paul Choudary, Founder Platformation Labs12:05 - Padma Parthasarathy, Senior VP Tech Mahindra13:19 - Meeta Malhotra, Founder The Hard Copy   15:29 - Mekin Maheshwari, Founder Udhyam16:47 - Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners 19:00 - Neeraj Aggarwal, Co-Founder & COO xto10x Technologies20:15 - Saikiran Krishnamurthy, Co-Founder & CEO xto10x Technologies22:00 - Anshuman Bapna, Ex-CPO MakeMyTrip 23:30 - Sanjay Anandaram, Mentor & Investor25:00 - Prasad Kompalli, Co-Founder & CEO mfine26:14 - Ashwin Ramesh, CEO Synup27:32 - Bala Parthasarathy, Co-Founder & CEO Moneytap29:36 - Anshul Rai, Co-Founder & CEO Happay30:40 - Ankit Gupta, Co-Founder Quizizz31:25 - Byas Nambisan, CEO Ezetap32:50 - Sumit Chhazed, Co-Founder OTO Capital33:35 - Rajeev Srivatsa, Partner Antler India35:01 - Vinay Bagri, Co-Founder & CEO Niyo  Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy, partner Upekkha Catalyst chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners. About Prasanna: Experienced CTO - 15 yrs Industry experience. Last 3yrs CTO at Microsoft Venture (largest accelerator in India). Prev: Product @ Amazon, Architect Elina Networks, EntrepreneurListen to the podcast to learn about:0:50 - What does Upekkha do?02:50 - "You are the easiest person to fool"06:50 - High quality customer discovery10:08 - Principles of Value SaaS11:41 - Re-earn your customers every month15:30 - Accelerating your customer acquisition process19:10 - Value based pricing26:00 - Planning exits31:00 - "Today's tech leaders buy tomorrow's tech companies. Yesterday's tech incumbents buy today's tech startups"Read the complete transcript hereEnjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Harshil Mathur, Co-Founder and CEO,  Razorpay, chats with Sanjay Swamy Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the episode to learn about:2:51- Razorpay's early days and original thesis4:40- Why developer centric way to approach the market9:12- Mistakes made and lessons learnt during early days10:59- Maintaining the innovation spirit while scaling 14:59- The difficulty founders face in taking tough decisions17:18- How to avoid culture dilution as the company scale20:53- How Razorpay caters to both SME and Enterprise customers27:02- How to adapt and find new opportunities30:10- Advice to young entrepreneursRead the complete transcript hereEnjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Ajit Mohan, Vice President and Managing Director of Facebook India chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.On this episode Ajit talks about his intrapreneurial journey at Hotstar and Facebook's Vision for India.Listen to the episode to learn about1:42- Building Hotstar as an intrapreneur4:46- New culture needs new heroes8:24- Consumer marketing as a differentiator12:57- The emotional and cultural evolution of the Indian consumer18:08- The willingness of the customer to pay20:35- When ads are not seen as an interruption22:34- Measuring the success of engagement23:49- Ajit on Facebook's vision for India27:41- Ajit's  thoughts on the role of JioRead the complete transcript here.Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Mohandas Pai, Chairman Aarin Capital and Manipal Global Education chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Mohandas Pai is a Padma Shri Awardee and former CFO and Board Member at Infosys. He is also the co-founder of Akshaya Patra, the world's largest midday meal program.  Mohan has served as the Chairman of the Board of SEBI, and is now a Board Member of the National Stock Exchange in India.He has helped start over 10 different funds in venture, growth, and public markets. He also leads a private equity fund - Aarin Capital - along with Manipal Group Chairman Ranjan Pai that invests in life sciences and education companies.Listen to the podcast to learn about:2:18- The digital ecosystem in India9:35- India as being large but a different opportunity15:16- The direction of doing business in India19:21- The role of both entrepreneurs from the smaller towns in India as well as the opportunities for all entrepreneurs in the metros23:45- The opportunities for the private sector and startup ecosystem to work with the governmentRead the complete transcript here.Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Taavet Hinrikus, Co-Founder Transferwise, chats with Sanjay Swamy Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Taavet has been building internet businesses since 1997. He has been Skype's director of strategy until 2008, joining the company as its first ever employee.And then he moved on and found his own venture Transferwise.Listen to the episode to learn about:2:05 - Why Estonia has been one of the pioneers in adoption of digital technologies 4:16 - Early days at Skype8:30 - How do you grow a team to 200 in 12 months13:04 - Birth story of TransferWise17:39 - How to not end up with technology debt19:53 - What is the magic formula to convince the right talent to join your team?21:11- Transparency as a core value 24:48 - Quick learning and adaptation to grow in a fast changing world.Read the complete transcript here.Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Ajay Hattangdi is the co-founder & Managing Partner at Alteria Capital.Ajay is one of the early pioneers of the Indian venture ecosystem and has worked with startups for over 20 years. He started the country’s first venture debt program in 2005. He is currently the co-founder and managing partner at Alteria Capital. Prior to co-founding Alteria Capital in 2017, Ajay was the founding CEO of SVB India Finance, India's first and largest provider of alternative financing solutions to venture backed companies. He led SVB India as CEO from 2007 through a buyout in 2015 following which, SVB India was renamed InnoVen Capital. Through the next phase of his work at InnoVen Capital, he was responsible for introducing venture debt in other markets in Asia, having set the strategy and supervised the Group’s expansion into South East Asia and ChinaListen to the podcast to learn about:1:31- Ajay's journey from Citibank to Alteria Capital2:38- What is venture debt?4:45 - Value proposition of Venture debt7:30 - Where can you use Venture debt8:30 - What is the right time for an entrepreneur to think about Venture debt12:00 - Assessing a company looking to raise Venture debt14: 34 - Best time for a company to raise Venture debt17:38 - What are the downsides of taking venture debt19:25 - How a venture debt firm evaluates23:40- What are the interest rates, equity warrants, duration27:11- Myths and misconceptions about venture debtRead the complete transcript hereEnjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Paddy Upton is a celebrated cricket coach, a mental performance coach and a business leader who coaches business leaders as well.Along with Gary Kirsten as Head Coach, Paddy Upton was appointed Mental Conditioning and Strategic Leadership Coach of the Indian National cricket team in 2008. Under Kirsten and Upton, the team attained the  ICC top test team ranking for their first time (2009), and went on to win the  ICC World Cup  in 2011. Between 2012-2018 Paddy has been Head Coach in 12 professional T20 cricket seasons, for five different teams across three tournaments, including the  Indian Premier League , Australian Big Bash League  and the Pakistan Super League . His accomplishments as Head Coach include leading the  Rajasthan Royals team from four years near the bottom of the IPL log to IPL Semi-finalists and Champions League finalists  in his first season (2013), including a record 13 straight home wins. Listen to the podcast to learn about:1:53- Journey to India’s World Cup win as a performance coach5:13-  How should one go about cultivating mental fitness and mental agility8:38- Figuring out what motivates and excites you14:37- Looking at the other end of spectrum, the fear part16:45- Focusing on the process, the input metrics18:20- Paddy on building a team19:59- Assessing the willingness to learn21:41- Picking people in leadership positions23:04- Characteristics of a great Captain25:31- How to make it collectively work as a teamRead the complete transcript here.Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

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 everyone8:08-  Are people uncomfortable to share stories in the Indian startup ecosystem?12:45 - The right way to get feedback19:07- Building up your social media27:28- Developing skills and overcoming the initial inertia 31:12- Thoughts on doing things that look like a distraction to others32:54- Why everyone should have a failure resumeRead the complete transcript here.Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback