Prime Venture Partners Podcast

Padma Parthasarathy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/padma-parthasarathy-427a04/) ,  SVP and Global Head, Consulting and Digital Services at Tech Mahindra (https://www.techmahindra.com) chats with Sanjay Swamy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theswamy/) Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .Padma Parthasarathy heads the global consulting team at Tech Mahindra – a team engaged in business consulting, as well as technology and business process advisory & re-engineering services. One of her key focus areas is assisting clients with their digital transformation strategy. She is also responsible for the growth of digital business at Tech Mahindra. She works with global clients on redefining their products and services, business models, and processes to take advantage of digital opportunities.Listen to the podcast to learn about1:10 - Padma's 25+ years long career journey. From IIM-A to now heading global consulting @ Tech Mahindra6:28 - ‘Understanding what your customer needs and wants, rather than what your solution is doing’11:00 - How the digital initiatives have helped India leapfrog14:00 - Advice to youngsters who are building their career17:10 - Why you should stay technical as long as you can20:05 -  ‘You don’t require only technology or only soft skills, you need combination of both.’Read the full transcript here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/padma-parthasarathy-svp-and-global-head-consulting-and-digital-services-tech-mahindra/)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

Meeta Malhotra (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meetamalhotra) , Founder The Hard Copy (https://thehardcopy.co/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .On the podcast, they explore the power of personal brand for founders, how to get started with building a brand narrative, measuring branding success and many other interesting things about startups.   Meeta is a brand strategist and serial entrepreneur. She was one of twopartners at Ray+Keshavan, India’s leading brand and design consultancy,acquired by WPP in 2006. She then co-founded Kinetic Glue, a SaaSenterprise collaboration platform, acquired by Fortune 500 company, BMCSoftware in 2013. In 2015, Meeta became one of three partners at Varana, asustainable luxury fashion brand, with a store in Mayfair, London. She iscurrently focused on her fourth venture, The Hard Copy, an online publicationthat chronicles the design and innovation ecosystem in India.Through her career, Meeta has helped to create industry-leading brands likeAirtel, Kotak, Thoughtworks, Ashoka University and Vistara Airlines. She isalso an angel investor with companies like YourStory and LetsVenture in herportfolio.Listen to the podcast to learn about1:44 - Why ‘Brand’ is a misunderstood word5:00 - ‘If you don’t shape the brand narrative someone else will do it.’9:00 - How founders can start building their brand12:30 - How to measure your efforts towards brand building17:10 - Why B2B startups also need marketing19:00 - Learning to distinguish between good design & bad design22:50 - ‘Don’t be afraid of AI, learn to work with AI.’Read the full transcript here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/building-your-brand-narrative-meeta-malhotra-founder-hard-copy/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.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

Mekin Maheshwari (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mekin) Founder and CEO of Udhyam (https://www.udhyam.org/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .They discuss hiring and building a technology team, lesson learned while heading HR at Flipkart, problem Mekin's startup Udhyam is trying to solve and more.An engineer by education, Mekin has had entrepreneurial roles throughout his career. Notably, he joined Flipkart in 2009 to head technology. After having built a strong technology foundation and a great team, he moved on to running two new businesses before finally heading their HR for his last 2 years at Flipkart.Listen to the podcast to learn about0:45 - Mekin’s career journey. Yahoo, Flipkart & now Udhyam3:10 - What made Mekin join Flipkart in it’s early days?8:30 - 'Product market fit is not enough, you also need to find engineering fit'10:55 - Building great teams - Lesson learned, best practices & mistakes16:40 - Mekin’s transition from heading engineering to heading HR at Flipkart20:25 - 'Unlike engineering you can’t undo a decision in HR easily'22:15 - What is Udhyam & what is it trying to accomplish?Book recommendations by Mekin (https://medium.com/@mekin/mgmt-hr-leadership-reading-list-cbfe86ae9fd6)Opportunity (https://twitter.com/EMC_Delhi/status/1196701618810605568) for Delhi entrepreneurs to interact with school students as part of Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum by Udhyam.For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/how-build-effective-technology-team-mekin-maheswari-founder-udhyam/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.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

Shripati Acharya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shripatiacharya/) and Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing partners at Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) sit together to discuss Shripati's early investment picks, lessons learned from investing in public markets, how founders can prepare themselves to build a successful company and more.Shripati Acharya, throughout his career, be it as a business lead at Cisco or as a co‐founder of Snapfish, the world's largest photo site acquired by HP or at Transarc, which was acquired by IBM, Shripati has combined his passion to build great teams, an extraordinary desire to excel and a keen eye for spotting the tales.Shripati has also worked alongside Mr Nandan Nilekani on the UIDAI project. Having spent substantial parts of working career in the United States and India addressing worldwide markets, Shripati brings a global management perspective. He enjoys the great outdoors and has hitchhiked through Europe and trekked the windswept mountains of the Himalayas and the Andes.Listen to the podcast to learn about0:52: How Shripati started investing in public markets1:55: Early picks & lessons learned from them4:15: Investing in Amazon & HDFC Bank8:15: A company's advantage is not just it’s product. There’s more to it...9:20: Lessons learned from public market investing that helped in private market investing10:30: Why public markets took long to realise the potential of SAAS companies?15:05: Product vs Service. What Scales?16:30: Lessons startup founders can learn from public market companies17:45: Why reading transcripts is a must for startup founders18:30: Amit's experience of MakeMyTrip’s transition from a private company to a public company21:20: How a company changes its strategy when it transitions from a private company to a public company23:00: Role of luck in investingFor transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/lessons-learned-investing-public-markets-shripati-acharya-managing-partner-prime-venture-partners/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.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

Neeraj Aggarwal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/neeraj-aggarwal-b741131/) , Co-Founder and COO xto10x (https://www.xto10x.com/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .In this episode, you will learn what company operating system entails, best practices on people, org and culture and Neeraj's stint at Flipkart and Eat.fit.Neeraj has played a key role in scaling two of the most talked-about companies in the Indian start-up ecosystem. At Ekart, his team made several breakthroughs in both service quality and cost, achieving 99%+ perfect delivery and doubling productivity across all facilities almost every year. At Eat.Fit, he built on his experience both as an operating leader and as a people leader - scaling the Eat.Fit business as well as leading the People Operations function at Cure Fit.Listen to the podcast to learn about0:45 - Neeraj’s journey from a corporate job to an early stage startup2:30 - How xto10x helps growth stage startups 6:00 - Working sessions & decision making sessions. How to use them effectively at your company7:35 - L0-L3 metrics. What do they mean?9:53 - ‘People forget that company itself is a product.’12:20 - How a company manifesto makes the founder more accountable14:50 - How to make a really strong operations orgThis 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

Saikiran Krishnamurthy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saikiran-krishnamurthy-669998152/) (Saiki), Co-Founder and CEO xto10x (https://www.xto10x.com/) chats with Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) .On this conversation, they discuss how the idea of xto10x originated at a breakfast table with Binny Bansal, how business design can help with product-market fit, change management and a lot.Saiki spent 15 years at McKinsey & Company which he left (as a Senior Partner) in early 2015 to move to the startup ecosystem, first as the Head of Ekart (Flipkart’s supply chain business) and then as the Head of Marketplace at Ola.Across his 18+ year career, he has built deep global experience in strategy, operations and organisation and applied these as a senior leader in the startup ecosystem, using a product-first approach to solving business problems.Listen to the podcast to learn about1:25 - Why Saiki, Neeraj & Binny started xto10x2:30 - Learnings from McKinsey that proved useful at Flipkart & Ola5:30 - How a growth stage startup can be ready for the next set of problems7:30 - How to do self-assessment as a founder10:45 - Why do orgs stop adapting11: 55 - Why you should think of org as a product13:40 - How org design affects hiring process14:45 - Questions to ask when hiring for leadership position16:30 - Why founders should spend time on storytelling17:45 - How founders can continue to stay relevantFor transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/growing-your-organization-xto10x-saikiran-krishnamurthy/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.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

Managing partner at Prime Venture Partners (https://primevp.in/) , Amit Somani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesomani/) chats with Anshuman Bapna (https://twitter.com/bapnaa) , former CEO mygola.On this conversation, they chat how entrepreneurs can avoid hitting the wall when it comes to picking the startup idea, dealing with hard times, becoming transparent in communication with employees and investors, running the acquisition process and a lot more.Anshuman Bapna is the Founder of mygola. He co-founded and sold RightHalf.com while in undergrad at IIT Bombay.After his MBA at Stanford, Anshuman spent two years in Google's Strategic Partnerships team negotiating Adsense deals with large travel partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about0:53 - Lesson learned from the Mygola journey.6:45 - How to decide if you are on to something big8:45 - Down days - ‘Annus Horibalis’ at Mygola12:10 - How to build a culture of transparency13:50 - You get energy from your closest relationships. Don’t ignore them.16:15 - ‘Companies don’t sold, they get bought.’ How true is it?21:20 - ’It’s not just the numbers. It’s not just a spreadsheet. It’s the honest relationship that you’re trying to build with your investors and with your potential acquirers.’For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/anshuman-bapna-serial-entrepreneur-going-through-pivot-acquisition-and-dealing-tough-times/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.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

Startup Mentor, Investor and Advisor Sattva Sanjay Anandaram chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.They chat about entrepreneurship, how to think about your startup idea, culture and navigating through challenges.Sanjay Anandaram has spent over 2 decades as an IT industry executive, an entrepreneur, a VC, an advisor to early stage funds, start up mentor and teacher. He’s a founding partner of JumpStartUp, an early stage VC fund set up to invest in technology and technology enabled businesses that leveraged India.Listen to the podcast to learn about0:56 - ‘A feature is not a product, a product is not a company, a company is not necessarily a business and a business is not necessarily an institution’. Why Amit  has used this quote from Sanjay innumerable times?5:45 - How do you know that your idea could eventually expand into becoming a business or a company?9:10 - Evolution of Indian entrepreneur during the last two decades14:00 - Things young entrepreneurs should watch out for16:25 - ‘Self awareness is an important prerequisite for a founder to determine what his/her limitations are’24:00 - How are we going to build large sustainable companies in India?For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/sanjay-anandram-startup-mentor-investor-and-adviser-indian-startup-ecosystem/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.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

Prasad Kompalli, Co-founder and CEO mfine chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners on Health-Tech startup ecosystem in India.In this conversation, they discuss top challenges in healthcare in India, why patient trust is the most important factor when it comes to health, the thesis behind mfine and a lot more.Listen to the podcast to learn about0:50 - Top challenges in healthcare in India today2:28 - How has health-tech evolved in India in the last decade?3:30 - How has tele consultation evolved in India?7:25 - What was the thesis behind starting mFine?8:45 - How is the experience for a patient on mFine?13:20 - What role is AI playing in healthcare?16:25 - What are the new emerging areas in health-tech?For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/prasad-kompalli-ceo-mfine-evolving-health-tech-industry-india/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.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

Ashwin Ramesh, CEO Synup chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.In this conversation, they discuss how Ashwin got started with business at the age of 14, journey of building Synup, some challenges SaaS entrepreneurs face and moving business to the US.Ashwin Ramesh started off with his venture at the age of 14, and at 18 his company made a million dollars in revenue. He is the CEO at Synup, a company that's trying to make local marketing less complex.Listen to the podcast to learn about0:50 - How Synup was started6:30 - ‘Selling to large businesses requires geographical proximity’7:30 - Building a management team in US12:10 - How moving to New York City & not Bay Area proved advantageous for Synup15:30 - Future plans of SynupFor transcript of this click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/ashwin-ramesh-ceo-synup-getting-your-us-move-right/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.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