261: Why PhonePe bet on UPI when everyone chose wallets | Sameer Nigam | Unstarted
Sameer Nigam, founder and CEO of PhonePe, joins Unstarted for a candid conversation on building a company that now serves over 700 million u...
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Matrix Moments, by Matrix Partners India, is a podcast series dedicated to the founders, startups and all those within the ecosystem, through candid conversations on what we think it really...
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260: Shiprocket's Saahil Goel on their IPO, PMF & Building AI for Bharat | Unstarted
Saahil Goel, co-founder and CEO of Shiprocket, joins us for a candid deep-dive into how a self-taught coder from Delhi built the logistics a...
259: How two founders sold to a billion-dollar company with no factory | Wootz Work | Unstarted
Our first-ever episode with co-founders. Karan and Himanshu of WootzWork join Avnish to talk about building a hardware and manufacturing exp...
258: Started with ₹8 Lakhs and built a Billion Dollar Company | Abhishek Bansal, Shadowfax
What happens if you fail with everyone's money? Abhishek Bansal never let himself ask and he thinks that's the only reason Shadowfax exists....
257: India's biggest deep-tech exit that nobody knew of | Ravi Annavajjhala | Nxp
Most people assume serious AI silicon can only be built by a giant, in the cloud, burning hundreds of millions of dollars. Ravi Annavajhala...
256: How the Ex-Unacademy COO built an edtech solving India's healthcare skills gap | Vivek Sinha
How much money is enough to make starting up safe? Vivek Sinha thought he knew: ₹50 lakh in the bank. The day he hit it, he quit. Vivek is t...
255: From PhD to 26 FDA Clearances: Building AI in Healthcare | Prashant Warrier
What do you do when you've built the technology first and the first customer who tries it tells you it's not working at all? Prashant Warrie...
254: Secrets of building The Whole Truth | Shashank Mehta, Founder and CEO | Unstarted
He built a ₹100 crore brand from scratch in two years. His company rated him 2 on 5. So the question stopped being am I good at this? and be...
253: The Harvard Grad who quit her job to build a deodorant for women | CEO, Laani | Unstarted
Nirja Bhatt looks intimidating on paper: Columbia, Harvard Business School, strategy consulting. But she calls herself "a duck in water” i.e...
252: How Country Delight grew its revenue to ₹200 Cr a month | Chakradhar Gade | Unstarted
Chakradhar Gade had the résumé everyone's supposed to want: engineering, CFA, a hedge fund, and felt like he'd lost himself inside it. So he...
251: Running two profitable unicorns in India | Asish Mohapatra, OfBusiness | Unstarted
Are entrepreneurs born or made? Asish Mohapatra is certain it's the second and he'll tell you plainly he's good at maybe 3 of the 10 things...
250: What sports taught the Head of Spotify India about building a business | Unstarted
Can you be a founder without ever founding anything? Amarjeet Batra has spent 25 years building other people's companies, first Baazee, eBay...
249: PhonePe CTO on how they are using AI at scale | Rahul Chari | Intelligent Indians
What does it actually take to build AI for 70 crore users? Vikram sits down with Rahul Chowdhury - co-founder and CTO of PhonePeto talk abou...
248: Got Rejected from 100 banks and then built a $7.5 Billion company | Razorpay Story | Harshil Mathur
Harshil Mathur started Razorpay after quitting the highest-paying job on his campus, a role his whole family had just celebrated, because he...
247: 23 years old and raised $45M in series B to build Pronto | Anjali Sardana | Unstarted
Anjali Sardana grew up in northern Virginia, studied biology at Georgetown, worked at Bain Capital — and then, without telling her parents,...
246: He built India's #1 Data Centre and is now building its AI backbone | Sharad Sanghi, CEO - Neysa
India's GPU footprint is on track to grow 40x by 2030, from ~50,000 today to a couple of million. That number is bigger than any public fore...
245: Building a brand that is used by 20% of India's D2C Market | Chirag Taneja, CEO - GoKwik | Unstarted
Chirag Taneja built GoKwik into 1 in 5 D2C checkouts in India. But the path there was a series of bets that didn't work, jobs that didn't la...
244: Built a ₹1000 Cr brand with ₹5 lakh | The Souled Store Story | Unstarted
Most founders can't tell you the moment they decided to build. Vedang Patel can. He was 23, a finance analyst with IIM seats in hand, and he...
243: Why Indian AI founders are not building in India | The Reality of Indian AI
India's AI moment is louder than its rank. 100M+ ChatGPT users. #2 globally in usage. Still 76th in the world on per capita penetration. So...
242: Building India's most viral sneaker brand | Utkarsh Gupta | Unstarted
What do you do when the resume is perfect but the work isn't yours yet? Utkarsh Gupta grew up in the Dainik Jagran family in Kanpur, a thirt...