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PODCAST

Stars & Startups with Varun Vummidi

We discuss entrepreneurship, technology, products, business & Startups. Indian startup founders, investors and the best operators in the business world. stars.substack.com

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66:53

₹ 350 Crore Profit, 3M users & Rainmatter Investments...

Stars & Startups with Varun Vummidi ·

2020/09/03

EP36: {Nithin Kamath, Co-founder & CEO of Zerodha}Hi Stars!I’m super excited for you to hear this episode. I got a chance to catch up with Nithin Kamath after a few kind introductions. Thank you to those who made it happen.Recently Zerodha has been in the news for being a bootstrapped Unicorn along with the likes of ZOHO, homegrown tech companies that have inspired many. The scale and profit numbers for this bootstrapped company is mind boggling. More recently they have been in the news for a

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75:56

Re-Commerce, 1M Refurbished Mobiles & Chinese...

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2020/09/01

EP35: {Mandeep Manocha, Co-founder & CEO of Cashify}Hi Stars!Before I tell you a bit about the episode, wanted to share that Mandeep & team at Cashify are running an initiative to help kids in need with the Donate for Education campaign. Take a moment to check it out, you can save the planet and support kids who are unable to participate in online classes.Now about the episode. Have you ever wondered what to do with that old phone that you have sitting around? Or have you ever wanted to buy a

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62:41

Zynga, 1mg & making healthcare affordable and...

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2020/08/27

EP34: {Gaurav Agarwal, Co-founder of 1MG}Hi Stars!Healthcare is a coveted space for tech startups in India, because of the enormity of challenges you could solve and the sheer size of white spaces that are available to be solved. 1MG is probably at the forefront of really understanding Indian health data with over 90 million users on their platforms. I have a super fun chat with Gaurav Agarwal, the CTO & co-founder of 1MG on his time in the Valley, and how 1MG is working towards making healthcare

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64:18

Neo Banking & the Evolution of Banking {Vinay of NiYO}

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2020/08/25

EP33: {Vinay Bagri, Co-founder & CEO of NiYO}Hi Stars!On the episode we discuss Vinay's fascination with Salary Accounts, banking and its evolution and what’s Neo about NiYO.We chat with Vinay Bagri, the co-founder & CEO of NiYO, a Fintech that was founded in 2016 offering a digital banking solution for salaried employees. NiYO started off by digitizing the entire payroll and benefits process for contract workers in manpower supply companies - the atypical blue collar worker who earns Rs 15,000 per

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61:14

100M users, 400k apps and the Vernacular OS journey...

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2020/08/22

EP32: {Akash Dongre, Co-founder of IndusOS}Hi Stars!August is a blockbuster month. For one, we have a lot more kickass founders coming your way. This episode allows us to take a look at another mammoth problem being solved at scale. I chat with Akash, the CPO at IndusOS - the creators of the largest App Store outside of the play store with over 100 million users and thousands of apps created for the vernacular audience. IndusOS currently powers the app store on many of the Samsung phones and have

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62:27

One Billion devices, Nokia & the 8 C's of...

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2020/08/18

EP31: {Sreevathsa Prabhakar, Founder of Servify}Hi Stars!The latest episode features a startup that likely covers the premium smartphone on which you’re likely reading this email & subsequently (hopefully!) listening to or watching the Podcast! Very few companies give service capabilities much thought. Indians too are not very demanding of service and service requests arise only for less than 3% of all mobile handset sales. Servify saw this as an opportunity to solve for globally, from India. A

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38:18

Chatbots, 2 Billion Conversations & Reliance JIO...

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2020/08/15

EP30: {Aakrit Vaish, Co-founder & CEO of Haptik} Hi Stars!On EP 30, I chat with Aakrit on the Conversational AI space, his startup journey and the sale to Reliance Industries in April 2019, in a very candid conversation.The conversational AI, chatbot space has seen a lot of action across the world after messaging services like the Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp have started enabling such interactions at scale. As one of the leading players from India, Haptik has been able to reach over 100 million

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55:57

The Gig economy & the Future of Work {Niranjan of...

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2020/08/12

EP29: {Niranjan Nakhate, Co-founder of Futwork previously called Frapp}Hi Stars!I speak with a founder who has built a company in a space that has now been coined as the "Future Of Work." A space that basically means the future is driven by the gig economy, an array of jobs offered to those willing to perform it at their convenience. We dig into this concept, how gig/task work is playing out for the millions who are out of work or are ready to

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83:56

Building Growth teams, Scaling & Marketing for Startups

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2020/08/06

EP28: {Damandeep Singh Soni, Marketing at WeCash, MilkBasket, Mobikwik}Hi Stars!This episode is going to be a little different from other Stars & Startups Episodes. Think of this episode as a Growth Masterclass. Startups and businesses all too often don’t identify how to grow their users, plan acquisition and do things that help them grow during the early days. We explore a few concepts to help build the growth function, build trust with customers, demystify and think through concepts that you may

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53:55

Venture & Angel investing, and Navigating through...

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2020/08/04

EP27: {Alok Mittal, Co-founder & CEO of Indifi}Hi Stars!I chat with Entrepreneur turned Investor turned Entrepreneur Alok on this episode of the Stars & Startups Podcast. Alok Mittal is an IIT Delhi graduate who you can say has become a fixture in the Indian startup ecosystem. Alok is currently the cofounder and CEO of Indifi, a debt financing platform for Indian SMEs. On the episode we chat about the JobsAhead journey, making it to venture investing, some of his learnings along the way and learning

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64:36

Value SaaS, the Indian SaaS landscape and why it's...

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2020/08/02

EP26: {Prasanna Krishnamoorthy, Partner & CEO of Upekkha}Hi Stars,My guest from EP04 Krishi Fawani had spoken highly about the Upekkha Value SaaS Accelerator that his company Hashtag Loyalty was participating in. Had a chance meeting with Prasanna and loved what they had to say and invited him to be on the Podcast. Value SaaS means great founder outcomes, we want to help a 1,000 founders build great businesses that deliver on a lot of value for customers, employees and themselves.Apple

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82:06

2 Unicorns, 1 Decacorn and the process of building...

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2020/07/28

EP25: {Sameer Verma, MD of NexusVP}Hi Stars!Sameer has been an early-stage investor in over 38 companies that include 2 Unicorns & 1 Decacorn. On the episode I speak with Sameer Verma of NexusVP about some of his investments, the startup ecosystem, and about investing. More recently though, Sameer’s investee company Postman was in the news for putting India on the map for creating a category creating unicorn! Do listen to this episode in its entirety there are some fun anecdotes in the conversation

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65:01

{Varun & Anand, Co-founders of 91Springboard}...

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2020/07/23

EP24: {Varun Chawla & Anand Vemuri, Co-founders of 91Springboard}Hi Stars!For the first time on the Stars & Startups show I host 2 guests, it was a lot more complex than I expected but I think we did quite well to pull this off! In this conversation with the co-founders of the contemporary co-working pioneers in India - 91Springboard, we cover a lot of ground. Did you know that they moved their HQ to Goa in 2018?!Listen to the episode on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | StitcherAmong other

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55:21

{Rahul - Arkam Ventures} Solving for the needs of...

Stars & Startups with Varun Vummidi ·

2020/07/21

EP23: {Rahul Chandra, Co-founder of Arkam Ventures}Hi Stars!On the latest edition of the Podcast, I host venture investor Rahul Chandra, who just launched his new fund Arkam VC, they have already started to deploy capital! It is a Middle India focussed fund with a very interesting thesis and an even more incredible list of LPs.We touch on a range of topics on the episode, including his book the Moonshot Game that was published by Penguin Random House. We also discuss agri investments, reverse

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62:09

{Raghav - UrbanCompany} Services-at-Home, 10 million...

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2020/07/16

EP22 {Raghav Chandra, Co-founder of Urban Company} : Solving for the services-at-home segment, 10 million downloads and $175M fundHi Stars!You’re likely a user of UrbanClap. Aren’t you? On the episode I chat with Raghav Chandra, co-founder of Urban Company, formerly called Urban Clap. Raghav had earlier worked at Yelp and Twitter prior to pursuing his startup in India, as a solo founder - a ride sharing platform called Buggi. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcast | Google

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73:47

{Girish - Magzter} on 55 million app downloads and...

Stars & Startups with Varun Vummidi ·

2020/07/15

EP21: {Girish Ramdas, Co-founder & CEO of Magzter}Hi Stars!My chat with Girish was so much fun and for a moment it felt a bit like Joe Rogan when we discussed life, staying fit and so much more beyond the amazing ways in which Magzter is disrupting content delivery and how they're bringing print online.Listen to Episodes on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | StitcherEarly iPhone users had very few app choices. Options were likely to have included Magzter on the the App store. Were you an

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51:29

COVID, Coffee, Cafes and the Third Wave

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2020/07/09

EP20: Coffee, Cafés and the Third Wave {Matt Chitharanjan, Co-founder of Blue Tokai Coffee}With Episode 20, we’re ending week 10 on the podcast with the story of a popular coffee shop and coffee company that has seen demand for premium Indian coffee grow and capture the mind space of Indians looking to consume GOOD coffee.With the growth of their brand they have also seen competition rise and their cafe business gain popularity. On the episode I chat about their 8 year journey and the business of

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57:12

{Bhavik - GetVantage} on ItzCash journey, Mindfulness...

Stars & Startups with Varun Vummidi ·

2020/07/07

Hi Stars!On EP19 episode I chat with Bhavik Vasa, he’s the Ex — Chief Growth officer at ItzCash and managed the business after the acquisition by EBIX. He was instrumental in the ItzCash journey to acquisition. Bhavik & I discuss his journey, the acquisition, mindfulness & his latest venture GetVantage.— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — ——————————————→ We also have a coffee giveaway as we approach EP20! All you have to do is sign up the Newsletter & tag me & the Podcast on social media of your

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51:38

A Coffee giveaway & EP18 on building a sports league...

Stars & Startups with Varun Vummidi ·

2020/07/04

Hi listeners, we’re now on Episode 18! An episode where we chat with {Abhinandan of X1 Racing} about building a sports league in India.If you have some time I urge you to check out the library of content from awesome doers (17 episodes) that maybe useful to you. Share your favorite episode with me via Twitter?Listen to Episodes on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | StitcherWe have a Blue Tokai Coffee Giveaway following EP20 with Matt Chitharanjan that drops this coming week!I’m going to

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56:54

EP17: {Aloke Bajpai, Co-founder & CEO of IXIGO}

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2020/07/01

170M users and a 14 year journey building the Google for travelHi subscribers, On the latest episode I chat with Aloke Bajpai, CEO of IXIGO, who’s a well respected founder in the Startup ecosystem and is a travel industry veteran. Aloke & Rajnish have been in the travel business since the time they graduated from IIT in 2001. First with their jobs working at the Spanish travel major Amadeus and then building IXIGO as a travel search player in India even before flying was commonplace like it is today

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