The One Percent Project- Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Resilience

About Abhishek Nag:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Abhishek Nag. Abhishek is the Director of Business Development at Netflix, previously with Facebook, Uber, Hike and National Instruments. He is also an Angel Investor in 40+ startups. He is a graduate of RV College of Engineering and Indian School of Business, ISB.In this conversation he discusses:The future of the internet in the next 50 years.How the product is the key driver of Market Entry and Growth?His learning from working at Facebook and how Facebook landed to be a social media giant?What did Scared Games do for Netflix India?Adoption Vs Retention- Which is more important?Experience investing in 40+ seed and pre-seed stage start-ups.Rapid Fire:The hardest thing about your job? It’s the fact that I'm basically now doing these two jobs. And I'm trying to be good at both of them and better and better every passing day. But there are only 24 hours in a day. So, the hardest thing is prioritizing by constantly wanting to do both Netflix and investing really, really well. One book or a blog that has influenced you personally and professionally?Built to Last, I can think of many built to last, Principles by Ray Dalio, Crossing the Chasm.Your most favourite superhero?I probably don't have a favourite superhero. But if I had to pick one, it would be Batman.

About Deboshree Dutta:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Deboshree Dutta. She is Group Product Manager at Paypal, Founder & CEO of RoomPlays and blogger with 150K Instagram followers. In this conversation she talks about:What is product management and how to access product success?How she built her blog Design Play took it to 150K followers?Her experience being an entrepreneur and building RoomPlays.Rapid Fire:One book or a blog that has made the most difference to you?Will say two books, one book was lean startup. I think that has been brilliant. From day one. From the time I started into product management all the way till I'm doing everything that I do even today, I treat it as a Bible and I'd recommend that to anybody who if you haven't read it. The other one that I really liked is by Arianna Huffington. It's called thrive and that is essentially about mental wellness, meditation, gratitude. It basically talks about how we define success only by typically just two pillars, which are like money and happiness or money and career success, but there's a third leg to this three legged stool, which is your mental happiness and I think her book speaks to me every day. I think it's I highly recommend if people haven't read it, I highly recommend reading thrive by Arianna Huffington.Hardest thing about your job?Patience. I think a lot of times we try to have these brilliant ideas, and we want to see them in action. But like I said, you need to bring people along with you and you need to work through the kinks. It takes time to make magic happen. So patience is something I'm learning to do to have.Your most favourite superhero?I don't have one. But I would say I love how I built this as a podcast. So every time I listen to one of Kendra Scott, or Kate Spade, or Reid Hoffman, or any of their journeys, and how they've gone from just giving it a shot, like not losing hope that has been that's really why I started replays, like learning from the humility and just for me that they are all superheroes, and I highly recommend how I built this if someone if folks are not listening to that podcast.Three ways to support the podcast:#1 Share the episode with family and friends on social media with #OnePercentProj using the share button on the site.#2 Take a few seconds to give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. This helps new folks find us organically. Rate#3 Leave a review if you feel inclined. We read every single message and love feedback. Review

About Omid Scheybani:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Omid Scheybani. Omid is of Iranian origin who was born and bought up in Germany. He kicked-off his career with Google in Dublin, then moved to Google US and was responsible for Google’s LATAM cloud business, landed up heading international expansion for the Chinese bike-sharing unicorn platform Ofo and now he is with Robinhood, Fintech unicorn in the US. Omid's vast experience across different international markets allows him to draw comparisons between regions in ways few can.In this conversation, he talks about:What does scaling a business mean?What are the various tangible and intangible accepts of scaling a business?His learning from growing Google's cloud business in LATAM, being the global head of international expansion for Ofo and launching this own eCommerce platform Flamingo in China.Why has Robinhood been able to disrupt such an established industry in the US?Rapid Fire:One book or a blog that has made the most difference to you?The Monk How Sold His FerrariHardest thing about your job?Making yourself visible in a fast-growing business Your most favourite superhero?My Dad.Three ways to support the podcast:#1 Share the episode with family and friends on social media with #OnePercentProj using the share button on the site.#2 Take a few seconds to give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. This helps new folks find us organically. Rate#3 Leave a review if you feel inclined. We read every single message and love feedback. Review

About Deborah Quazzo:My next guest on The One Percent Project is the Managing Partner of GSV Ventures and the Co-founder of ASU Summit, the incredible Deborah Quazzo. Coursera, Course Hero, Guild Education are among a few Edtech unicorn outliers that GSV has invested in over the years and Bill Gates, Barack Obama, George Bush are among the few superstars whom she has hosted over the 11 years of the summit. In this conversation she talks about:Her career: How she got into Venture Capital, after having worked for the likes of JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch and why EdTechThe 5P framework to analysis and valid businesses and ideas. How businesses with Purpose the fifth P, will have a higher outcome.Why is the Asian EdTech market attractive, especially India and Indonesia?How companies are utilising EdTech platforms for upscaling their employees?The impact of Covid on primary, secondary and tertiary education?How the GSV team grooms its portfolio of companies?The key difference between the US and the Asian ecosystemHer learning from organising the ASU EdTech Summit and hosting guests such as Bill Gates, Barack Obama, George Bush, Byju and many other superstarsThree ways to support the podcast:#1 Share the episode with family and friends on social media with #OnePercentProj using the share button on the site.#2 Take a few seconds to give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. This helps new folks find us organically. Rate#3 Leave a review if you feel inclined. We read every single message and love feedback. Review

About Aviral Bhatnagar:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Aviral Bhatnagar, Founder of  “A Junior VC” Community and he is A Junior VC at Venture Highway. Aviral is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Aviral’s Quora responses have more than 30M views and his start-up essays have led to the creation of the 20,000-member strong “A Junior VC” Community and earned him 170,000+ follower on LinkedIn. In this conversation he talks about:Non-Linear Decision Making & How it has benefitted AviralBuilding a community- A Junior VC, AJVC: Why & How?Views on the Indian Venture Capital EcosystemWhat does intellectual honestly mean to Aviral and why is it important in a founder?How has Amazon been able to penetrate Bharat?Are Indian start-ups improvising or innovating?Aviral's views on investing in a bottom-up start-upHow Amul & Haldirams have been able to build multi-billion businesses by listening to the customer at scaleRapid Fire:One book or a blog that has made the most difference to you?Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, Harry Potter series and Alex Ferguson's biography. Hardest thing about your job?Saying No.Your most favorite superhero?My Dad.

About Sanjay Mehta:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Sanjay Mehta, Founder & Partner at 100X.VC and Mehta Ventures Family Office. Sanjay has invested in 150+ Start-ups across sectors with a 86% internal rate of return. In his words “Most startups will fail, so you can say everything sucks and be right most of the time. Although you never lose money with that strategy, you never make any either.”In this conversation:He shares his learning from investing in Start-upsThe ethos of 100X.VCHis advice for new angel investors & VC on brand building and mentorshipHis “So What” strategy while evaluating a business ideaRapid Fire:One book or a blog that has made the most difference to you?Straight from the Gut, Jack Welch. That's a book which I read in my earlier days in my college times, and that that had a good impact.Your most favourite superhero?Peter Thiel.How do you see competition?Most welcome. Competition should exist. That grows the market.

About Abhinav Jain:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Abhinav Jain, Founder CEO Shop101 & Dash101. A graduate of IIT Kanpur and IIM Ahmedabad. Abhinav in this conversations talks about: His entrepreneurial journey from Bain & Company to Shop101Building for Bharat How to create a reseller ecosystemHow Shop101 has been able to generate a positive contribution margin as the business has grownRapid Fire:The hardest thing about your job?Not knowing what the next day will entail. Every single day is very different.One book or a blog that has changed your professional and personal outlook.The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz.Your most favorite superhero?Iron Man.Three ways to support the podcast:#1 Share the episode with family and friends on social media with #OnePercentProj using the share button on the site.#2 Take a few seconds to give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. This helps new folks find us organically. Rate#3 Leave a review if you feel inclined. We read every single message and love feedback. Review

About Devaiah Bopanna:My next guest on The One Percent Project is the hilarious and talented Devaiah Bopanna, Co-Founder at All Things Small and Former Head writer at AlB. I was introduced to Devaiah and his work through an article about his recent nationally acclaimed CRED IPL ads series that he co-wrote with his ex-AIB colleagues. The series is a bold attempt by CRED, the Celebrities and the Script-Writer using celebrities to poke fun at advertisers’ obsession with celebrity endorsements.”. Devaiah in this conversations talks about:About His Career from Engineering to Creative WritingHow he failed his first interview with AIB and then went on to being AIB’s Head WriterWhat it takes to lead a group of highly talented and ambitious writersThe impact of OTT platforms in the new media worldHis process of creative thinking and script writingRapid Fire:The hardest thing about your job?Thinking.One book or a blog that has changed your professional and personal outlook.The Illicit Happiness of Other PeopleHow would you define your career in one word in the next 10 years?Interesting.The most creative person you have ever worked with?Everyone at AIB, definitely Tanmay BhatDefine Tanmay Bhat in one word.Relentless.

My next guest on The One Percent Project is Matthew Lee, partner Progression Fund. This is an interesting conversation on many fronts. Matt defines his career in Venture Capital as an early-stage startup from pre-seed to now at product-market-fit with Progression fund that he built with musical.ly / TikTok alums, what he learnt about his himself and the VC space when he was in the pre-seed learning stage with a 67M fund and investing as an angel.His take on why Progression Fund is a consumer-focused fund, when the YCs and Greylocks of the world are bullish on B2B. How Gen Alpha are digital natives, treat Alexa as a human and could turn out to be the richest generation ever.We also discuss the opportunity that foundations such as Bill & Melinda Gates bring for Venture Capital funds through the startups these foundations are funding which is solving hard problems with a bottom-up approach in emerging economies. 

About Frank Lantz:My next guest on The One Percent Project is Frank Lantz, Director at the NYU Game Center and Owner of Everybody House Games. Frank was a creative director at Zynga as well after his social gaming company Area/Code was acquired by Zyna in 2011. I discovered him and his work while reading The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova. Maria in the book talks about him and his expertise in game design as she mastered Poker. This led me to explore game design and understand how does this new age discipline work and impact our lives. This is an interesting conversation with Frank on: How games are designed and built and their impact on societyThe brilliance of games such as Chess, Go and PokerHow entertainment companies such as Netflix see Epic Games and sleep as their primary competitorRapid Fire:What is the hardest thing about your job?Email A book or a blog that has transformed your personal and professional life.meaningness.com a wonderful website by a guy named David Chapman, who was an early researcher in AIIf not a game designer, then what?CartoonistThree ways to support the podcast:#1 Share the episode with family and friends on social media with #OnePercentProj using the share button on the site.#2 Take a few seconds to give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. This helps new folks find us organically. Rate#3 Leave a review if you feel inclined. We read every single message and love feedback. Review