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TRANSFIN. LongShorts with Nikhil Arora and Sharath Toopran

TRANSFIN. Podcasts

Welcome to LongShorts! A TRANSFIN. Podcast where Nikhil Arora and Sharath Toopran converse with entrepreneurs and business operators running successful startups, profitable SMEs and family promoted firms on one end, and top investment professionals representing VC/PE/credit funds on the other. The objective is to bring out an "actionable" perspective converging the world of business and investing.

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S5 Ep78: Does JAM Trinity and PDS Ensure the...

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2020/05/01

With Covid-19 unleashing an economic crisis at an unprecedented scale, the role of new age Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM) infrastructure with India's legacy Public Distribution System (PDS) in providing much needed relief to the poorest of the poor, be it in cash or in kind, cannot be understated. In that backdrop it was a real pleasure to pick the brain of Astha Kapoor, Co-founder of the Aapti Institute, to hear her views on the government's INR1.7Lcr relief package. As a public policy

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S5 Ep77: How is India handling Coronavirus with Dr...

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2020/04/24

We spend some valuable time with Dr Arun K Chopra, a Senior Cardiologist at Fortis Escorts Hospital Amritsar, who is part of his hospital's Covid 19 response team, to understand India's strategy behind its handling and response against the Coronavirus outbreak, starting from the stringent lock down to the rationale behind targeted testing. Dr Chopra gives a medical perspective to the disease and its mechanics (e.g. did you know about "nasal shedding" which allows an infected person to continue

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48:04

S5 Ep76: What Drives Corporate Governance Issues in...

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2020/04/20

Professor Shashwat Alok from ISB Hyderabad is the perfect person to throw light on what drives corporate governance issues in India. Well, the country has been an excellent breeding ground for corporate governance, or shall we say corporate misgovernance case studies, be it Satyam, IL&FS, DHFL, ICICI, and now Yes Bank. Prof Alok discusses why corporate governance often fails to translate from rules and processes to actual execution, touching upon a multitude of themes be it risks of

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S5 Ep75: Viral Return of the Indian Bank NPA

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2020/04/09

Welcome to our WFH podcast season opener where we bring Anuj Dayal, a Credit Markets commentator, and look at the new paradigm faced by Indian banks in a post Covid-19 world. Anuj brings his rich experiences from the world of structured credit and private equity and deconstructs the manifold challenges (i.e. rising NPA, depressed growth, liquidity and funding crunch) faced by Indian financial institutions and lending at-large in this hour and half long conversation. We talk of the ills unleashed

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S4 Ep74: LongShorts: Touch-and-Go

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2020/03/29

The world has changed a fair bit since our last episode. The Covid-19 outbreak has been a wrecking ball disrupting health care, supply chains, economies, and lives all over the world! We, like most people, are working from home, which makes it an ideal opportunity to shoot a podcast and talk to you all. Listen in as we do a run through and make sense of recent economic policy announcements (i.e. the Finance Minister and Reserve Bank of India’s packages) in the aftermath of this unprecedented crisis,

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S4 Ep73: LongShorts: Win, Lose or Law

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2020/03/16

We know the next season of LongShorts is yet to officially come out but what’s the harm in another “In Between Seasons” special? Like we said before, we take our breaks rather seriously! An English novelist once wrote, “There are three sorts of lawyers – able, unable and lamentable.” Our guest this week is of the fourth sort: commendable. Sonali Malhotra comes from a family of lawyers, and this helped her get a foothold in the profession at an early age. In this episode of LongShorts, she

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52:41

S4 Ep72: LongShorts: School's Up! Now What?

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2020/03/09

While gearing for LongShorts and Adda's upcoming season with brand new podcast equipment, we just couldn't resist an opportunity to chat with Divya Gupta, Founder & CEO at Dialogue Room. Yes we take our breaks rather seriously. Talking with Divya was an absolute pleasure. A corporate lawyer by training she launched Dialogue Room to target business, finance, and life knowledge gaps by leveraging on conversations with expert networks, value add events and one on one coaching. Today we chat

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57:39

S4 Ep71: LongShorts: Finish the Paperwork

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2020/02/24

In our season finale, we catch up with Shivam Singla, Founder of Leegality - an eSign, eStamping, and document workflow platform. Shivam is a lawyer by training graduating from the National Law School of India University in 2016. He straight up got bit by the entrepreneurship bug, kicking off Leegality for helping businesses "digitize and optimize documentation workflows, enabling them to execute and manage 'paperwork' 100x better - without paper". Describing Leegality as "we are to agreements

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17:34

S4 Ep70: Adda: A Brief History of Time and Google's...

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2020/02/20

In our final episode of this season of Transfin. Adda, we journey back in time to understand why the RBI's accounting year is different from the Government's fiscal year, and why that is different from our calendar year. The answer takes us to 12th century Europe and Rome in the 1st century BCE! Then, we travel back to the present and discuss how Google has one leg in the future. The tech giant is engaged in a unique experiment to use architecture and aesthetics to encourage its employees to eat

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S4 Ep69: LongShorts: To Infinity and Beyond!?

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2020/02/17

Nakul Jain heads Inverted Prism (https://www.invertedprism.in/about-us/) and has been designing and executing career exploratory programs for more than five years. In his own words, he's an "on paper" Mechanical Engineer who found his true calling in the world of education, realising how travel experiences can be powerful in shaping one's views around academic and professional choices. In this fascinating conversation, we reminisce on our own journeys and how the Indian educational system often

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S4 Ep68: Adda: Engineering Lessons from Nature and...

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2020/02/13

This week, we begin our chat by discussing why bullet trains' engines are elongated, why airplanes are shaped like bats, and what sharks and professional swimmers have in common. We do this by delving into the colourful world of biomimicry - the science of finding solutions to human problems by searching nature's designs for answers. And then we take a wide detour into the world of sports - specifically, the controversy surrounding the Nike Vaporfly shoes in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics

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S4 Ep67: Adda: When Nike Fakes It and The Dark...

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2020/02/06

We touch on two topics today. First, the counterfeit goods industry - how big it is, how powerful, how damaging, and how we can ensure that the things we buy online are real and original. (Spoiler alert: Simi says she'll go home and smell her shoes to make sure they're not fake!) And then we discuss the gaming industry, which is bigger than you may think. We delve into its often-ignored dark side - overtime, no extra pay, cyclical lay-offs, and generally dubious labour conditions.

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S4 Ep66: LongShorts: The Art of Scale with Ravi...

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2020/02/03

We catch up with Ravi Kaushik, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital (VC) firm, as he reflects on his philosophy to identify disruptive VC opportunities. From spotting great Founders, going deep dive when it comes to addressable markets, to the value of primary research during diligence, Ravi is "inherently excited by India's consumer opportunity" and looks out for any product that passes the "tooth brush test". He also shares his take on what filters can make more sense

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S4 Ep65: LongShorts: Monetizing Knowledge

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2020/01/27

Kinner Sacchdev has been closely tied with the knowledge economy for close to a decade now. From education consulting, crafting stories for brands and products, to creation of Knorish (https://knorish.com/), Kinner is a firm believer in the power of learning. In the gig economy where content can be one's single biggest differentiator, Knorish enables hobbyists, professionals and experts to create and monetize their content. And while chatting about different models at play in this space, we also

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S4 Ep64: Adda: China's Panda Diplomacy and The...

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2020/01/23

Did you know that pandas are more than just cute, squishy animals? They're also symbols of China's geopolitical ambitions and diplomatic outreach. This week in Transfin. Adda, we delve into the dark underbelly of China's "Panda Diplomacy" to panda-stand (sorry) Beijing's motives. And then, we take a sharp turn and discuss something very different happening on the other side of the world. Silicon Valley's tech giants are joining hands with healthcare institutions (like hospitals and research

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S4 Ep63: LongShorts: Making Education Work

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2020/01/20

We're joined by Umang Jain, Co-Founder of StudyPad (makers of Splash Learn), a company of "hard-working and slightly nerdy people who are passionate to change the way an entire generation of kids learn". Umang started his journey as an EdTech entrepreneur almost a decade back, and having scaled up SplashLearn from being a Math-focused learning product for kids in the US, to now expanding to other geographies, new subject matter and broader age groups, he has had a front row seat of how technology

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S4 Ep62: Adda: What Influences the Influencer and Why...

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2020/01/16

One of the biggest trends of 2019 was the rise of the Influencer industry. Approached by virtually all sectors for brand marketing and charging by the millions, Influencers are the ambassadors of the zeitgeist. What drives this unique industry, why is it experiencing a sudden boom, and how big is it really? These are some questions we tackle in this week's Adda. Second, we talk about skin whitening (or skin lightening or the more Indian sounding fairness creams) - an industry that is objectively

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S4 Ep61: LongShorts: The Only Thing Indians are...

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2020/01/13

This episode is very different from our usual routine. We will not talk about Business or Finance. Because let's face it...nobody's talking about it right now! Even with the United States conducting air strikes against Iran, no one in India seems to notice. What is being noticed is the ongoing sense of disillusionment, rage, and confusion that has gripped many Indian cities and academic campuses thanks to Article370-Ayodhya-CAA-NRC-Jamia-JNU in the age of WhatsApp and Twitter. It is the

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S4 Ep60: Adda: The New Age of News and Podcasts to...

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2020/01/09

We begin the first Adda episode of the New Year by discussing what could be the overarching theme of 2020 - the shifting sources of news. We live in an online world, in an age of Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Universities, where social media has become a news platform on its own. How will this affect the dissemination and reception of news? And how are teenagers driving this tectonic shift? Then, we chat on what we do - i.e., podcasts! How and why has this medium blossomed in recent years and why

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S4 Ep59: LongShorts: Sun is Shining

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2020/01/06

We hear a lot about solar energy and how it can help the environment. But as retail customers does that pitch really work? What if we rather start looking at solar energy as an investment opportunity? Well...Pranesh, our guest this week, has made a viable business out of it, so we thought its best to ask him ;) Pranesh (Chaudhary) has worn many hats. From the world of analytics at Capital One to transformation strategies for large financial institutions - more than three years ago he decided to

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