Farid Ahsan, Co-founder & COO ShareChat chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about01:00 - Founding ShareChat: Rejections & Insights12:45 - How First-Time Internet Users Use Internet20:00 - Content, Commerce, Livestreams & Monetisation36:00 - Dealing with Down Moments as a FounderClick here to read the full transcriptFound Farid Ahsan's journey insightful? Next, listen to Harsh Jain CEO and Co-Founder of Dream Sports. In this episode Harsh talks about Raising Money(100+ rejections and lessons), Forgiving nature of large TAMs, Tier 2,3 Consumers(Sachets Not Bottles), Web3, Play to Earn, Sports NFTs and much moreEnjoyed 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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Tanmay Bhat, Comedian, YouTuber, Investor chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about02:00 - Advertising -> TV -> Stand up & Originality12:00 - What makes something interesting?18:00 - The Power of Short Feedback Loops24:00 - How to Find the Next Super Creators32:00 - Asking the Right Questions as a Creator36:00 - Platforms & Their Rockstars40:00 - Startup Founders & Bollywood ActorsClick here to read the full transcriptEnjoyed Listening to Tanmay on creators, creativity and creator economy?  Next, listen to Donna Griffith, a corporate storyteller where she explains How to Talk About Your Competition, The Power of Origin Stories & How to Make Impactful Demo Videos and more.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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Ashish Kashyap, Founder & CEO INDmoney chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Ashish is the founder of INDmoney. He is also the Founder & ex-CEO of ibibo Group (goibibo, redBus & PayU). Prior to founding ibibo Group, Ashish was the Country Head of Google India, wherein he set up the India facing operations from ground up. Listen to the podcast to learn about05:00 - Founding & Scaling the ibibo Group(goibibo, redBus & PayU)14:30 - Making Financial Services Easily Accessible with INDmoney29:00 - Cryptocurrency: Regulation & Opportunities33:00 - 3 Important lessons From 20 yr Journey36:00 - Entrepreneurship Opportunities in IndiaClick here to read the full transcriptFound Ashish Kashyap's journey inspiring? Listen to Ryan Graciano and Credit Karma’s journey next to learn more about the Fintech ecosystem, adjacent opportunities, the Thin-File Problem, monetisation of Credit Karma, how entrepreneurs should plan exits and more. 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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

On this special episode we have our three partners Sanjay Swamy, Shripati Acharya and Amit Somani discuss 10 yrs of Prime, the India Opportunity, the Evolution of Indian Entrepreneur and much more. Listen to the podcast to learn about01:00 - The Meaning of VC as a Startup13:00 - Indian Startup Ecosystem: 2010-2022 |  Ambition, Talents, Unicorns, IPOs, Exits37:00 - 10 Yrs at Prime: Lessons LearnedClick here to read the full transcriptEnjoyed 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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Anand Subbaraj, CEO Zuper chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Anand is a seasoned entrepreneur and a product leader and with the team at Zuper he is enabling service organizations globally to transform customer experience with an intelligent field service and customer engagement platform. Listen to the podcast to learn about02:30 - Why Anand and team started Zuper07:00 - Making the Invisible Workforce Visible15:30 - Lessons from Microsoft: Global Mindset, Accountability & Discipline20:00 - Building a Global SaaS Business: Acquiring Customers & Building Culture24:00 - Emerging Trends Disrupting Service IndustriesClick here to read the full transcriptEnjoyed listening to Anand sharing his experience building a global SaaS business from India+US? Next listen to Sachin Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO HackerEarth as he shares his insights on moving the SaaS business to the US, leveraging the power of communities, key decisions Sachin and team made that lead to success, his philosophy behind hiring and more.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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Kirthiga Reddy, Growth-stage Investor & Technology Executive Ex Facebook & Softbank chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Kirthiga is President, Athena Technology II, the third in a series of all women-led SPACs bringing leading talent, access to capital and transaction experience to enable a market leader to access the equity capital markets. She is Founding Investment Partner of F7 seed fund. She serves on the Board of Directors for WeWork and Pear. Previously, Kirthiga was the first female Investment Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $100B+ SoftBank Vision Fund. She led a portfolio of $5B+ across 9 investments, two new unicorns, three companies publicly listed (IonQ, WE, PEAR). Prior to SBIA, she was Managing Director, Facebook India and South Asia for over six years, starting as their first employee in India. She started one of the global operations offices that now serves over 3.5B people. Listen to the podcast to learn about03:00 - "making the most of the opportunities given to you"08:30 - Joining & Scaling Facebook India13:45 - BHAG(100,100,100)20:00 - Facebook IPO and the Mobile Challenge27:00 - Late stage investing at SoftBank34:00 - AI & Data for Good42:00 - Getting Comfortable with Being UncomfortableClick here to read the full transcriptHow about listening to another leading name in the Indian corporate sector – someone who has taken both Facebook and Hotstar forward in India? Ajit Mohan, Managing Director of Facebook India, talks about  his intrapreneurial journey at Hotstar before moving to Facebook along with talking about how new culture needs new heroes, the Indian consumer’s emotional and cultural revolution, when ads are acceptable, how to measure the success of engagement, the customer’s willingness to pay and more. 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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Dilip Asbe, MD & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Mr. Dilip Asbe is the MD & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Prior to this he was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of NPCI. He has played a pivotal role in designing, building, operationalisation and management of large scale innovative payments processing platforms like Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM), Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) and India’s home grown card network RuPay.Listen to the podcast to learn about02:00 - UPI: History, Challenges & Surprises18:00 - Scaling UPI: Building a Resilient system28:00 - Business models & MDR33:00 - New Opportunities: AutoPay, NCMC, e-RUPI39:00 - Internationalisation of UPIClick here to read the full transcriptEnjoyed learning about UPI's history, present and future? Learn more about another ambitious government project with Dr. Ram Sewak Sharma, the Former Chairman of TRAI. He begins the podcast by sharing his passion for learning and technology and moves on to share the motive of building Aadhaar in India, the thrill of working in the Government of India’s most ambitious project, supervising the largest vaccination drive around the globe and ends with valuable advises for young entrepreneurs.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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Harsh Jain, Co-Founder & CEO Dream Sports chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Harsh Jain is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dream Sports, India’s leading sports technology company, with over 140 million users across brands such as Dream11, FanCode, Dream Capital, DreamSetGo, DreamPay and Dream Sports Foundation in its portfolio. He founded Dream11 in 2008, along with co-founder Bhavit Sheth, and led it to become the world’s largest fantasy sports platform. Listen to the podcast to learn about02:30 - Dream & Desire to Solve a Personal Problem08:30 - Raising Money: Analysing Rejections & Building Relationships14:00 - Importance of Large TAM for B2C Hypergrowth opportunities24:00 - Tier 2,3 Consumers: Think Sachets Not Bottles28:00 - Web3, Play to Earn & Sports NFTs31:30 - Make Yourself Redundant & Keep EvolvingClick here to read the full transcriptWant to listen to another expert of the startup ecosystem talk about competition and trends? Listen to the MD and CEO of Info Edge, Hitesh Oberoi, who shares everything about his experience in building Naukri to funding Zomato and their IPOs. Hitesh also talked about the evolving Internet landscape in India, resisting global competition as a startup, how Info Edge makes investment decisions, the nuances that matter while investing in a startup, dealing with the scarcity of talent while hiring, and more. 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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, Co-Founders ixigo in conversation with Amit Somani Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about03:04 - ixigo Founding Story 07:03 - Unconventional Prioritisation14:12 - "more capital killed more companies than less capital"21:18 - Near Death Experiences & Culture30:05 - Future; Thinking Big; Changing the WorldClick here to read the full transcriptEnjoyed 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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Dinesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO IndiaMART chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about01:00 - Founding story of IndiaMART09:00 - IndiaMART’s journey into the domestic B2B space20:00 - Bundling & Unbundling; Verticalization; Superapps25:00 - Opportunities in Indian B2B space29:10 - Keep Learning & Don't Go HomeClick here to read the full transcriptNext, listen to another early internet Indian entrepreneur, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Co-Founder InfoEdge Group.  On the episode we cover  capital efficiency during Naukri’s early years, beating large competitors,  customer insights that led to the launch of Naukri and Zomato, the secrets to crowdsourcing customer feedback, customer-led vs competition-led innovation and a lot more.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: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback