1947 Rise
Our purpose is to help startups go mainstream in 🇮🇳!
1947 Rise Podcast is helping in accelerating the speed of reverse brain drain
We do this by interviewing India-born, overseas-trained who have moved back to India and built massive tech companies themselves and/or helped enable the tech ecosystem
1947 Operators Podcast is helping in increasing the number of operator-angels in the startup ecosystem.
We do this by unpacking the investing journey of the best operator-angels in India.
Latest episodes
Jul 12, 2021 • 37min
3: Raghav Chandra (Urban Company)
Raghav Chandra is the Co-Founder & CTO of Urban Company. Urban Company is the largest home services platform in India and UAE, with recent expansion to Australia and Singapore.
SHOW NOTES
The journey from growing up in India to moving to the US and then moving back to India (1:00)
His thought process for making the move back to India (7:00)
How did Buggi and later Urban Company come about (12.30)
Times, when he thought this could be it at Urban Company (19:20)
Skills that he picked up from his experience in the US that ended up becoming valuable in India (24:00)
His favorite failure and the learnings from it (29:00)
What does success mean to him (33:30)
What do his friends know him for (35:30)
Jun 27, 2021 • 35min
2: Mukund Kulashekaran (Urban Company)
Mukund Kulashekaran is currently the SVP at Urban Company (valued at $2.1b). Previously he was the CBO at Zomato, which is looking to go public soon and is currently valued at $5.4b.
SHOW NOTES
Journey from growing up in India to moving to the US and then moving back to India (1:00)
His thought process for making the move back to India (2:25)
How did Zomato and later Urban Company come about (3:50)
Times when he thought this could be it at Zomato / Urban Company (8:30)
Favorite stories at Zomato / Urban Company (8:45)
His advice to India-born, US-trained Indians thinking about moving back to India (12:40)
Skills that he picked up from his experience in the US that ended up becoming valuable in India (15:50)
Those who are thinking about moving back, what skills and experiences they should optimize for (19:35)
His favorite failure and the learnings from it (21:35)
What were the turning points in his life (24:50)
A book that changed his life. what are one to three books that have greatly influenced his life (28:40)
What do his friends know him for (32:00)
What keeps him going (33:40)
Jun 12, 2021 • 47min
1: Abhinav Sinha (OYO)
Abhinav Sinha is currently the global COO & CPO at OYO. He launched and built OYO in SEA, UK, US and other foreign geographies.
Headquartered in Gurgaon, OYO is the fastest-growing and second-largest hotel chain in the world. OYO is spread across 800 cities in 80 countries. Most recently it was valued at $10 billion.
SHOW NOTES
Journey from growing up in India to moving to the US and then moving back to India (1:06)
His thought process for making the move back to India (4:59)
How did OYO come about (7:48)
Favorite stories at OYO (17:20)
His advise to India-born, US-trained Indians thinking about moving back to India (21:12)
Skills that he picked up from his experience in the US that ended up becoming valuable in India (28:10)
His favorite failure (31:22)
What was the turning point in his life (36:00)
A book that changed his life. what are one to three books that have greatly influenced his life (39:22)
What keeps him going (42.48)
What do his friends know him for (44.45)
Jun 7, 2021 • 39sec
1947 Rise Introduction
It’s a podcast that helps India-born, US-trained Indians get integrated into the Indian tech ecosystem and inspires them to move back to India to build massive tech companies and/or help enable the tech ecosystem.
We do this by interviewing India-born, US-trained Indians who have moved back to India and built massive tech companies themselves and/or helped enable the tech ecosystem.
