The Startup Operator

Priya Mohan is a banker and founder turned investor. She was co-founder at Vidyartha, an edtech startup that was acquired by BYJU's. In this episode she Priya brings insights from both a founder and an investor's perspective, what she thinks about startups and more!   Some highlights of this episode are:  -The story of Vidyartha  -Choosing between a lifestyle startup and running a VC startup  -Aligning various priorities  -Life of a founder after acquisition  -Priya's recent investments   -Advice to the founders  -How should founders look at valuations?  Connect with Priya:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyamohan246/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/priyavidyartha   Found this episode informative? Let us know by hitting the like button & subscribing to our channel.    You can also Tweet or DM us on -  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/startupoperator Twitter - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Andrew Stotz is a serial entrepreneur, an active value investor and a podcaster where he talks to people about their worst investments in life. In this episode he talks about the most common mistakes that businesses often make and how to solve for them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Anand Agrawal founded Credgenics, a platform working with financial institutions, Banks, NBFCs to improve their collections efficiency using technology in 2018. Prior to founding Credgenics Anand held the position of Senior Data scientist at 1MG and Urban Clap before. In this episode Anand gives insights into building a product in the fintech space, how enterprise customers impact product roadmap and more!    Some highlights of this episode are:  Engineering Innovation at Credgenics  Working with legacy systems  Integrating Multiple systems Building for the Banking ecosystem  Next level of automation in Banking  Deciding on the product roadmap  Being a founder and CTO simultaneously Connect with Anand  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandagrawal3/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/anand_iitd  --------------------  Found this episode informative? Let us know by hitting the like button & subscribing to our channel. You can also Tweet or DM us on -  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator Twitter - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Abhinav Chhikara, founder of 10K Designers, discusses the 10K Designers community, collaboration between design and product, data-driven designing, the design process, qualitative aspects of design, brand and design, SaaS design trends, design overlapping with other functions, 10K Design curriculum, advice for designers, and the creator economy.

On this episode of the Startup Operator Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussed Startup fundraises in the past week, SEBI's new listing norms and how they impact the startup ecosystem and SPAC opportunities for Indian Startups and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast does not constitute investment, financial, trading, or any other sort of advice. Do conduct your own due diligence and consult your financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Bitcoin is a new alternative asset class. It has been around for over a decade and withstood two global recessions. In 2017, Nischal Shetty founded WazirX, which today has grown to become India's largest cryptocurrency exchange. Nishcal is a Blockchain influencer on Twitter with over 50K followers. He's on a mission to involve everyone in the blockchain revolution and has been a part of online campaigns like #IndiaWantsCrypto that evangelises the adoption of cryptocurrency in India.   Prior to starting WazirX, he founded Crowdfire after an all-night coding session.  In this conversation, Roshan talks to Nischal to explore more about - - Nischal's journey thus far (01:16)  - Starting WazirX (3:31)  - Building trust in a new category (07:19)  - Educating customers with the right information (13:30)  -  Influencing crypto policies & regulations (16:23)  - Evangelising crypto-community in India (21:41)  - WazirX - The business (24:35)  - Being acquired by Binance in 2019 (32:58)  - Transitioning to decentralised finance  (34:48)  - Future for crypto in India (38:25)  ----------------  Connect with Nischal - Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nischalshetty Twitter - https://twitter.com/NischalShetty   ----------------   Check out The Daily Reader: https://www.tinyurl.com/wanttobeadailyreader   -----------------  Found this episode informative? Let us know by hitting the like button & subscribing to our channel. You can also Tweet or DM us on -  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator  Twitter - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Anshu heads the SRE and engineering infrastructure (systems) operations for Grab Financial Group across SE Asia on AWS, Azure, GCP, AzureStack, and bare metal servers. Being the first member of the team and the first few engineering hires in Bangalore, he worked on greenfield project to establish engineering best practices using containers, cloud agnostics stack, IAAC, and CI/CD and grew the SRE team to 10 while helping to grow the engineering team to 200.Prior to joining Grab in 2017, Anshu worked with Freecharge, Jio, Aerospike, and Yahoo.   Managing exponential scale 25:15 - Balancing innovation & growth 32:27 - How have Dev-Ops evolved? 41:20 - Being an engineering manager 53:14 - Nuances of the 0 to 1 Journey   ---------------- Connect with Anshu -  Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshuprateek/ ----------------  Check out The Daily Reader: www.tinyurl.com/wanttobeadailyreader ----------------- Found this episode informative? Let us know by hitting the like button & subscribing to our channel. You can also Tweet or DM us on - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator Twitter - https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -   👉🏽 Stripe's valuation  👉🏽 Policybazaar & Delhivery's IPOs  👉🏽Google Playstore's new policy and more... Some Highlights: Recent startup fundraises  PolicyBazaar & Delhivery Pre IPOs  Stripe's Valuation  Google Play Store Policy  Private pension funds and Startups  ZOHO turns 25   Hit the like button if enjoyed this roundup, and do not forget to share among your operator friends!  Listen to our interviews and conversations with investors, operators, and founders on your favourite podcast platforms. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Deepti Agrawal has been the Director of Engineering at Flipkart for over 9 years and has held multiple roles in the company. She is not only witness to the workings underneath the hood of India's largest e-commerce company but also adding to it's growth and scale.  Prior to Flipkart she held the position of Software development lead at Clickable. In this episode Roshan and Augustus talk to Deepti about innovation, building for scale and more!   Some points discussed in this conversation:  How Engineering varies in different company sizes  How to scale an Engineering team?  Engineering teams Structure at Flikpart  Build, Integrate or Acquire?  Fostering Innovation  New initiatives at Flipkart  What makes a great engineer?  Behind the Scenes of the Big Billion Day  Transition from Engineer to Engineering Manager  If you liked this video, support us by hitting the like button and subscribe and if you loved it, share it with your friends and family.   #startupoperator​ #startup​ #ecommerce​ #flipkart​ #bigbillionday​ #engineers​ #engineeringmanager​ #podcast​ #deeptiagrawal​ #roshancariappa​ #augustusdsouza​ #innovation​ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Pooja Goyal joined Avishkaar as the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer in September 2020. She brings with her over 20 years of global leadership experience in EdTech and product development with the likes of Adobe, KLAY, and PalmSource Inc. Avishkaar robotics kits are already used by more than 100,000 students in over 1100 schools across India. As the co-founder at Avishkaar, Pooja is looking to scale the company to the next level of growth and build a worldwide robotics and coding education brand out of India – a 38-billion-dollar market worldwide. Tune in to get a better understanding of how EdTech companies are changing educational norms with the help of technology. 00:00 - Episode overview  01:04 - Pooja's journey so far  05:18 - Being a serial entrepreneur  08:37 - Learnings from previous startups  12:11 - Avishkaar's founding story  19:27 - Managing stakeholders  30:22 - EdTech and educational institutions  37:19 - Being a VC-investible business Connect with Pooja -   Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/poojasgoyal  Twitter - https://twitter.com/poojasgoyal --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message