Raj Shamani's Figuring Out

Order my first book 'Build, Don't Talk' here: https://amzn.eu/d/eCfijRu--------------Subscribe To Our Other YouTube Channels:-   / @rajshamaniclips     / @rajshamani.shorts  -------------In this episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani talks with Co-founders of SUGAR Cosmetics, Vineeta Singh and Kaushik Mukherjee.-------------------------Link to watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxy8d1MA8aE -------------Timestamps:00:00 Intro02:02 Why you should never do BOGO06:58 Benefits of MBA15:19 What to do after B-School?17:36 How to start to make it big in life?19:47 How did they start dating?24:48 How to decide your business model?31:25 Why did their first startup fail?32:38 Looking at the bigger picture34:39 Sunk Cost Explained36:46 Why should you complete rather than compete?44:43 What was completion for them in the beginning?49:00 Why did they start?55:52 Gamification Explained01:02:47 Guess the Price Game-------------------------------About Raj ShamaniRaj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.To Know More,Follow Raj Shamani On ⤵︎Instagram @RajShamanihttps://www.instagram.com/rajshamani/Twitter @RajShamanihttps://twitter.com/rajshamani

Order my first book 'Build, Don't Talk' here: https://amzn.eu/d/eCfijRu--------------Subscribe To Our Other YouTube Channels:-   / @rajshamaniclips     / @rajshamani.shorts  -------------In this episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani talks with Sathvik Vishwanath, Co-Founder and CEO of Unocoin.Sathvik Vishwanath is a successful entrepreneur whose heart and soul is into innovative and disruptive technologies! His business journey started with VentureNext in 2008 writing customised scripts for businesses in a virtual world called SecondLife.-------------------------Link to watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxiNMJHMWdU -------------Timestamps:00:00 Intro00:48 How Long till India gets Comfortable with Crypto?07:30 Traits of a Speculative Technology becoming Mainstream Technology15:14 ​​Sathvik Vishwanath’s Early Days22:14 Opportunities for Common People26:42 His journey & How he started building the platform in 2013?34:40 Why Unocoin doesn’t Advertise Aggressively?42:33 Top Currencies that Look Promising48:30 Why Didn’t He Go to IIT?52:40 What Does it Take for a Young Person to Make it Big in Today’s World?59:30 Conclusion-------------About Raj ShamaniRaj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.To Know More,Follow Raj Shamani On ⤵︎Instagram @RajShamanihttps://www.instagram.com/rajshamani/

Order my first book 'Build, Don't Talk' here: https://amzn.eu/d/eCfijRu--------------Subscribe To Our Other YouTube Channels:-   / @rajshamaniclips     / @rajshamani.shorts  -------------In this episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani talks with Ashish Kashyap, the Founder & CEO of INDmoney and the co-founder of several businesses like Goibibo, PayU, and many others. He is one of the finest professionals and entrepreneurs and devotes himself wholeheartedly to achieve what he desires. Ashish Kashyap is a person who is always ready to capture opportunities and works in many companies. He also has an amazing capacity to gather people behind him and have them perform with intensity. -------------------------Link to watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEzkDvHs0IM -------------Timestamps:00:00 Intro03:33 How can someone ask the right questions?07:30 Perspective on Decision Making10:12 Is Patience Necessary for Becoming Wealthy?15:53 Power of Compounding21:12 What does it take to Build a Startup?26:26 FOMO in Cryptocurrency Market29:10 What is Resisting Indians to Create Wealth33:35 Why People Should Join Startups rather than MNC's36:29 Top 3 Things for Personal Growth41:09 Dream Team for A Startup in India42:43 Top 3 Skills for a Dream Team of A Startup46:45 Is Influencer Economy Sustainable?49:00 How to Approach/Reach out to People54:35 Biggest Opportunity for Raj Shamani58:05 What should Raj Shamani do to improve 10x 1:00:25 Game of Squash?1:00:48 OutroAbout Raj ShamaniRaj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.To Know More,Follow Raj Shamani On ⤵︎Instagram @RajShamani

Order my first book 'Build, Don't Talk' here: https://amzn.eu/d/eCfijRu--------------Subscribe To Our Other YouTube Channels:-   / @rajshamaniclips     / @rajshamani.shorts  -------------In this episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar, the prince of Udaipur.Mr. Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar of Udaipur is the youngest child of Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur and Smt Vijayraj Kumari Mewar of Udaipur. Belonging to the Royal family of Mewar, he is a direct descendant of such luminaries in Indian history such as Maharana Sanga and Maharana Pratap.Watch the video till the end and subscribe to the channel for more pieces of value like this! Link to watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YISBMsC-rX4-------------Timestamps:0:00 Teaser0:25 Video starts1:56 Checkout Coinswitch2:32 Introduction4:07 Do you have a pressure when you take decision because you are supposed to maintain your family's legacy6:42 How should we handle disagreement between family and kids?11:38 Is everything crafted by the family you're born in?14:18 Have you been ever pressured by anything?16:13 What is the most inspirational thing that your family did?19:00 How to differentiate between a friend and an enemy23:30 Have you ever looked at other people and felt that there was something was not in your life and you missed it30:13 How did you not let this entitlement get in your head? 37:28 How do you become a better learner?43:30 Should you focus on improving your strengths or work on weaknessAbout Raj ShamaniRaj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.To Know More,Follow Raj Shamani On ⤵︎Instagram @RajShamani

Order my first book 'Build, Don't Talk' here: https://amzn.eu/d/eCfijRu-------------In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with Co-Founders of Zoo Media, Suveer Bajaj and Pratik Gupta.Zoom Media is India’s first independent media network, with 7 agencies under its ambit, a workforce of 300 people, a 100 crore + turnover, with three offices across India and sights on global expansion.  -------------------------Link to watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZZxd6_KdmI Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:42 Future of Content11:26 How to be Prepared for the Future?16:33 How to Stay Relevant?21:23 How do they Keep up with the Trends?23:43 Role of Culture in Media and Advertising26:18 How to Find the Right People?27:56 How to Retain Gen-Z as Employees?35:16 Why do People Quit?52:12 How can People Kill It?58:14 The Next Billion Dollar Opportunity?59:23 Outro-------------About Raj ShamaniRaj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.To Know More,Follow Raj Shamani On ⤵︎Instagram @RajShamanihttps://www.instagram.com/rajshamani/

Order my first book 'Build, Don't Talk' here: https://amzn.eu/d/eCfijRu--------------Subscribe To Our Other YouTube Channels:-   / @rajshamaniclips     / @rajshamani.shorts  -------------In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with CA Rachana Ranade. She is a Chartered Accountant, YouTuber and an entrepreneur. She is the founder of Rachana Ranade and Associates. Rachana makes videos related to financial world, the stock market, business models of big brands, market strategies, etc on her YouTube channel.Rachana Ranade also has her own website where she sell various courses ranging from the stock market, money management, mutual funds, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, value investing and much more. In this video, she shares all her stock market and investments secrets. She also shares her experiences and perspective on less discussed topics extending from simplified teaching to personal finance to investing strategies to how to trust people.-------------Timestamps00:00 Intro01:58 Sponsored by Coinswitch02:38 The Art of Simplification06:50 How To Understand Things The Best Way10:00 How to Trust Information Online13:40 Why is There a Sudden Surge in Investing18:40 Will The Ripple Effect Continue24:34 What Formal Education Didn't Teach Her29:43 Flawed Concept of Piggy Banks32:26 Problem with Women Investing37:32 Will India ever be Financially Literate39:20 Why India is way behind in Financial Literacy42:30 Absence of Role Models44:48 What is Her Time Management Strategy49:36 The Process of Idea Generation52:10 The Process of Research and Shoot55:17 The Team55:55 5 Things to Consider Before Investing59:28 This or That01:00:58 Viva of Rachana Ranade01:04:15 Outro

Order my first book 'Build, Don't Talk' here: https://amzn.eu/d/eCfijRu--------------Subscribe To Our Other YouTube Channels:-   / @rajshamaniclips     / @rajshamani.shorts  -------------In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani talks with Co Founders of Dr. Vaidya, Arjun Vaidya and Trisha Rajani.Arjun went to Brown University for his undergrad and moved back to India in 2013 working in a private equity firm. When his grandfather died during late 2016, he left his job and began his journey of building Dr Vaidya in 2017.Arjun's wife, Trisha Rajani having completed her undergrad from University of Warwick has worked at companies like Goldman Sachs, and Nykka began working with Arjun as a COO for building Dr. VaidyaDr. Vaidya’s repackaged the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda for modern consumers and emerged as India’s largest Ayurveda brand online. In 4 years, they successfully reached over 1.5m+ consumers across 500+ cities and 16,500+ pin codes in India and launched 80+ products.In this podcast they shared, why they started Dr. Vaidya', how to build a consumer brand in India, how to build trust in Indian consumers, key principles of building a brand. Watch this podcast till the end if you want to build a FMCG business or want to know how FMCG businesses works in India.-------------------------Link to watch the podcast:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oPVgTeasz8  -------------Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:45 Moat and The Vaidya's story 07:40 Arjun's Experience at Private Equity12:52 Trisha's Backstory and UK 18:00 Her stint with Nykaa and Intellecap20:45 Why did Arjun started Doctor Vaidya?26:45 The Perfect Storm27:10 How to have clarity in Life and Entrepreneurship?35:20 How to become indispensable and what now?40:20 What sets them apart and helping founders?44:28 How can people differentiate themselves?52:25 How to build trust?55:03 Transparency57:15 What's the future?57:48 Key Principles of Building a Brand?01:05:56 Pitching New Ideas01:15:18 Outro-------------

In today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with Nikhil Kamath. He is the co-founder of Zerodha, a Fintech company which is India's largest trading platform. He Co-Founder Zerodh with his older brother Nithin Kamath in 2010 in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. The company is mostly bootstrapped. Nikhil Kamath dropped out of school as he hates going to school. He was 17 when he got his first job at a call centre. And then he started trading in stocks, later he took up trading seriously and now, Kamath, a billionaire, is leading the country's most successful stock brokerage firm.In this video, he discusses how he moved out of his house and went from working at a Call Centre to Building up One of the Largest Businesses and becoming India's Youngest Billionaire. He also shared how he made money my trading in stocks, investing and financial mistakes most people make, what is the difference between trading and investing, mistakes people should avoid while trading and everything related to stock market, investing, trading and wealth creation.-------------------------Link to watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpg78ouK54I-------------Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:01 Sponsored by Coinswitch01:28 Talking Points01:53 Why he moved out of his house04:18 How he Made Money by Stock Trading06:00 How he started selling insurance07:58 Do we really need to be Good at Sales09:25 What is the Best Way to Learn Sales11:40 What did he do After the Call Centre Job16:43 Investing VS Trading18:35 Mistakes to Avoid in Trading23:48 Why aren't Most Indians Financially sound29:25 Which Philosophy in Life has helped him31:00 Why do we feel compelled to act smart34:47 Is Socialism a Problem?38:44 Are Leakages ever going to Stop?39:17 Rapid fire with Nikhil43:50 Outro

0:00 Introduction1:25 How did Anant lost 6 lacs in 10 minutes  04:25 How small cap shares work 04:37 Story continued 05:23 Investing vs Hoping 05:43 How should you approach investing? 05:57 How Raj Started in investing? 07:33 Advice for direct stock investors 08:27 Investing in Mutual funds 10:15 Why should young people get into mutual funds? 12:13 Why making goals is important 13:55 Why are Indians not investing money? 16:01 Pain vs Gain18:06 Is the next market crash/correction/opportunity coming?18:18 The thing about opportunities 19:25 Is the IPO bubble going to repeat what happened in the 1999-2001?22:02 How Anant's financial journey started?23:31 Anant's favourite book: Rich Dad Poor Dad23:41 Story continued 24:43 Anant came to Mumbai and his realisation 26:39 When Anant went back home27:20 How he spent only 5lacs out of 5027:55 Are CA and CFA degrees necessary to start stock investing?29:05 Anant's thought on books30:08 3 books you should read30:28 Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch30:55 Raj's biggest moneymaker : SpiceJet32:15 Good things take time32:35 Raj's Case study 34:00 Fun money and Casino34:38 Case study continued35:15 Raj's strengths35:59 Crypto story40:42 Learnings from this study 41:05 A beautiful analogy 41:47 Raj's dad thoughts

Order my first book 'Build, Don't Talk' here: https://amzn.eu/d/eCfijRuIn today’s episode of Figuring Out, Raj Shamani is in conversation with Ashok Ramachandran.  He is the CEO & President of Schindler India. He is among the youngest CEOs in the history of Schindler Worldwide & has headed several countries over the last 10 years.  Ashok was awarded ET 40 under 40 in 2019 – A definitive list of India Inc’s top business leaders.There is a lot which we can learn from his experience and in this podcast he has shared all his learnings. He highlighted the importance of communication skills and importance of networking. He shared how being a conversationalist helped him in his career. He strongly believes that formal education is out-dated and every youngster must focus on personality development to get ahead in life. He also shared about the corporate culture and how people can create an impact at their workplace. We discussed that how people can find the right job and what skills should one need to be a perfect candidate. Watch this podcast till the end to know how you can step up the corporate ladder, how to build the right habits and how to be disciplined in life to achieve all your goals.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction01:40 The corporate culture05:30 Creating impact in the workplace11:00 Finding the right job16:35 Skills and values in a perfect candidate19:35 Stepping up the corporate ladder24:20 How can young people influence the workplace30:55 Building habits31:40 Mindfulness35:00 Developing focus40:45 How can people been disciplined?46:00 Rapid fire with AshokWatch the whole podcast on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ao_sUWuT0EAbout Raj ShamaniRaj Shamani is an Entrepreneur at heart that explains his expertise in Business Content Creation & Public Speaking. He has delivered 200+ speeches in 26+ countries. Besides that, Raj is also an Angel Investor interested in crazy minds who are creating a sensation in the Fintech, FMCG, & passion economy space.To Know More,Follow Raj Shamani On ⤵︎Instagram @RajShamanihttps://www.instagram.com/rajshamani/