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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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41:30

Jai Jawan to Jai Dukan. Serving the country via...

Stars & Startups with Varun Vummidi ·

2021/07/08

Hi Stars!Karthik served with the Indian army in hard combat and had successful stints with marketplaces such as eBay in the US and Flipkart in India before launching Jumbotail along with his Stanford University batchmate Ashish Jhina.On this episode I chat with why Karthik & Ashish united behind this problem, and we deep dive into the business & the inspiration for Karthik to leave the military service and pursue entrepreneurship.Listen on: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Apple Podcast | Google

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40:27

{Jitendra - FITTR} on Creatinga Multi-Million $$ ...

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2021/06/29

Hi Stars!The latest episode is with Jitendra Chouksey, aka JC, Founder & CEO of FITTR. FITTR has a highly engaged 2 million strong community focused on getting healthy and transforming themselves with the help of FITTR coaches, using the resources available. On this episode we chat about the journey from a small WhatsApp group that was created to assist a few friends and colleagues to becoming the platform it is today. Listen on: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Apple Podcast | Google

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43:50

Cryptocurrency & the path to 5 Million Users in 6...

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2021/05/27

Hi Stars!Apologies for the sporadic episodes and the long gap between the last episode! Hope you and your family are safe and well during this crazy time. Go get vaccinated, please don’t wait.Listen on: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Stitcher— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Founded by 3 friends Govind, Vimal & Ashish, friends from NSIT in 2017, CoinSwitch is now backed by bluechip fintech investors like Ribbit Capital, Paradigm and Sequoia

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54:52

Pivots and the story to selling a majority stake to...

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2021/03/10

Hi Stars!Are you enjoying the new episodes of S&S? Do write to me! Also, do recommend amazing founders & stories that are worth spreading from the Startup scene in India.On the episode, I speak with someone I have known a while from the early days of Indian e-commerce. I chat with Harsh Shah, an alumnus of the IIT, Bombay, and a co-founder of Fynd. Harsh is also an angel investor with over 19 investments. In this conversation we chat about the many pivots Fynd made to find their mojo, the business

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48:30

600k users & creating a Brand for Generations...

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2021/03/03

EP52: {Ankit Garg, Co-Founder of Wakefit}Hi Stars!Ever wondered what the deal was with foam mattresses? Is it better that coir? Listen in.Ankit Garg of Wakefit is on the show this week, Wakefit is a mattress brand that has been offering Indian customers the ability to buy a mattress online and have it home delivered at a very affordable price. Bringing down the cost while making it convenient to upgrade old mattresses. In the conversation we chat about the size of the mattress market, building a

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48:55

Building a Customer Centric Furniture Brand {Rajiv of...

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2021/02/23

Hello Stars!Yes, been a while but we're back with a packed episode!On this episode, episode 51, I speak with Rajiv Srivatsa a co-founder of a well loved consumer brand in the digital age, UrbanLadder. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Stitcher— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —Super fun chat with Rajiv on building a consumer brand in India. UrbanLadder was likely the big daddy of the Direct 2 Consumer trend in India. No retail

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55:01

Gaming & Biohacking {Rahul of Junglee Games}

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2020/11/05

EP50: {Rahul Bhardwaj, Co-Founder & COO of Junglee Games}Hi Stars!We hit 50 episodes with this one. Thank you to every one of you for subscribing, sharing and encouraging me to do this. Really 🙏On the blockbuster 50th episode, I chat with my friend and mentor, Rahul. Junglee Games has seen tremendous success in eights years since founding in 2012, with millions of users across multiple skill based games on Web and Mobile. Junglee today has over 25 million users and clocks more than $600M GMV.Prior

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53:00

5M users, ₹ 150 crore in Cashbacks and Affiliate...

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2020/10/29

EP49: {Rohan Bhargava, Co-Founder of CashKaro}Hi Stars!I speak with Rohan on building a business offering cashbacks that works with over 1500+ e-commerce websites. Famously, Cashkaro is a Ratan Tata backed startup. Rohan shares why he & his wife Swati gave up lucrative jobs in finance, moved back to India from London. We also chat about how affiliate businesses operate and a lot more on this extremely intriguing conversation! Price sensitivity is lower in smaller towns vs urban centres. We actually

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41:32

EP48: Affordable Real Estate Ownership & Fractional...

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2020/10/22

EP48: {Sudarshan Lodha, Co-Founder of StrataProp}Hi Stars!On the episode I have Sudarshan to chat about Strata. The startup is bringing a new innovative approach to investing in real estate, one that is data-driven and allows the investor to own a fraction of a highly desirable asset and also a way to make it the most accessible real estate investment you could have. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | StitcherDo check Beandeck.com

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47:51

EP47: 100M deliveries and building AI for Logistics...

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2020/10/15

EP47: {Nishith Rastogi, Co-Founder of Locus}Hi Stars!Nishith is a BITS Grad and was an engineer at Amazon where he met his co-founder Geet, an IIT grad. They set out to launch a chat network that morphed into what is today Locus.Locus is a tool that plugs into the supply chain of an enterprise and starts automating all human decisions in the process; they automate route planning, traffic management, address correction, network planning, etc.. Locus is backed by some stellar investors and also

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52:58

Freelancer Marketplaces & Building Gupshup for over...

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2020/10/12

EP46: {Beerud Sheth, Founder of Elance & Gupshup}Hi Stars!On this episode I speak with Beerud Sheth, who was the co-founder & CEO of the poplar freelancing work platform Elance in 1998, that is now Upwork. Beerud went on to found Gupshup a could messaging platform that has seen its share of twists and turns in the messaging and communications space since 2004 and now processes over 4 billion messages a month. Beerud joined us from his home in California for this

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51:48

Humanizing the Sales Process using AI {Shruti of...

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2020/10/06

EP45: {Shruti Kapoor, Co-founder & CEO of Wingman}Hi Stars!Wingman offers a virtual assistant that assists sales reps close deals faster, guiding the rep with relevant information they need in real-time. Shruti Kapoor, an IIM alum, chats with me about sales and of course Wingman. We discuss how Wingman is humanizing the sales process, where the sales person can focus on listening rather than being distracted with other aspects of a sales call. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Apple

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46:56

Consumer & Fintech Investing, and 54x returns {Vikram...

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2020/10/01

EP44: {Vikram Chachra, Co-Founder of 8i Ventures}Hi Stars!We’ve had 4 of Vikram’s portfolio companies on the podcast already; Madhu of YAP, Ankit of Signzy, Rajan of Slice and Matt of BlueTokai! Vikram is in the process of launching his $ 50 million fund and took the time to have a chat with me about his investment philosophy and the journey being a founder.Vikram is a SRCC, XLRI & NYU grad who started up a mobile shopping startup in early 2000's and later went on to run the mobile division @

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38:48

Pre-owned Car Business in India, a 32Billion USD...

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2020/09/29

EP43: {Amit Kumar, BusinessHead of OLX CashMyCar}Hi Stars!On this episode I catch up with Amit to discuss the state of the pre-owned car business in India and its increasing relevance to the audience while organizing an unorganized segment.— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Stitcher— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —OLX Group is a Naspers company, a global consumer internet group and one of the largest

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53:07

RegTech & Moving on from Blockchain {Ankit of Signzy}

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2020/09/24

EP42: {Ankit Ratan, Co-Founder of Signzy}Hi Stars!Regulation is probably one of the key pillars of banking. Sometimes it does become an excuse for being the thing that ails the experience. All of that is changing now with the emergence of Reg-Tech. The use of Video KYC, Aadhar authentication layer, digital lockers & the India Stack is enabling a lot of that change. One of those companies that is quietly enabling the BFSI sector is Signzy.Ankit, a silver medalist from IIT Delhi (2011), had worked in

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44:36

Serving the the Millennial Customer {Rajan of Slice}

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2020/09/22

EP41: {Rajan Bajaj, Founder of Slice}Hi Stars!On the episode I speak with Rajan Bajaj, the founder of Slice, an IIT grad who spent a few months in Flipkart before wanting start out on his own. He went on to start a business that morphed into what is today Slice - a prepaid card that has a credit line that caters to first time job seekers. Slice is targeting 5 million first time credit seekers every year who have little access to credit products designed specifically for them. We chat about how

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56:32

Investing in InsureTech & Health across the World...

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2020/09/18

EP40: {Shwetank Verma, General Partner of Leo Capital}Hi Stars!I sit down with Shwetank, a General Partner and co-founder of Leo Capital, an early-stage venture investor operating in India and SouthEast Asia. Leo Capital focuses on Digital Health, InsurTech and FinTech. Shwetank, prior to founding Leo Capital he headed open innovation at MetLife Asia, where he created and led (Collab), and was entrepreneur who created a healthcare and education ventures in

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50:18

Telemedicine in India & taking it to 101 countries...

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2020/09/16

EP39: {Dhruv Suyamprakasam, Co-founder & CEO of iCliniq}Hi Stars!I speak with a founder who moved his company from Bangalore to his hometown Coimbatore to start healthcare venture iCliniq. We talk about Telemedicine, starting up in Coimbatore, the struggles of to signing up the first doctor for the platform and convincing thousands of doctors from across the world to embrace their platform. More recently, COVID has helped with a massive upsurge with over 5x growth post

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52:18

EV Opportunity for India & the Whatsapp connection...

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2020/09/11

EP38: {Bharath Devanathan, SVP of Growth & EV at Bounce}Hi Stars!On this episode I chat with Bharath about Electric Vehicles and how India is on the path to start seeing a lot more action in the EV space as governments have now stepped in to accelerating the switch from ICE to EVs. We also chat a little about Bharath’s time at Yahoo! On the email team as well as as playing Ultimate frisbee.— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —Apple Podcast | Google

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51:05

Making Trekking Accessible in India & Making a...

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2020/09/08

EP37: {Arjun Majumdar & Sandhya Chandrasekharayya, Founders of IndiaHikes}Hi Stars!On this episode, I’m changing it up a little as I catch up with the founders of India Hikes. India’s premier hiking company that started way back in 2008. Started with the hope of making hiking accessible to more Indians, so that they can enjoy the nature that India has in abundance. Right from the western ghats to the mighty Himalayas. Yes, this is not much of a tech conversation but a story that I wanted to share

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