
Use Case Podcast
1) Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions
For over five decades, Azim Hashim Premji has been one of the trailblazers of India Inc. Taking over his family business of vegetable oils at the young age of twenty-one after the untimely demise of h...Show More
2) The story of Royal Enfield - a cult?
Few brands inspire the kind of devotion that an Enfield does. Its distinctive look and feel, the sound of its engine and the image that it creates of its rider have all contributed to putting the bran...Show More
3) Investing in Deep Tech & AI with Manish Singhal, Pi Ventures
In 1956 at the Dartmouth workshop, the idea we’ve now come to know of as artificial intelligence was sown. John McCarthy of Dartmouth college named the field, Artificial Intelligence. After the initia...Show More
4) Venture Debt - the what, why and when not! With Ishpreet Singh, Stride Ventures
There is a saying that debt is often cheaper than equity. Our topic for today is venture debt, which has become mainstream in the Indian start-up ecosystem of late. In 2019-20, the total amounts raise...Show More
Venture Debt - the what, why and when not! With Ishpreet Singh, Stride Ventures
52:14 | Aug 3rd, 2021
5) Term sheets are F*ing complicated; Kushal Bhagia explains them best!
Why this topic for this season’s first episode - A few days ago, one of my best friends from college got an offer from a Thrassio like set up to buy X% stake in her D2C company. Now she had bootstrap...Show More
6) Pricing strategies for Indian startups
One of the most common things you hear in the world of startups is “We weren’t able to monetise.” The theme that often plays out is this - the team gets excited about an idea - they start working on i...Show More
7) How to measure and value a SaaS company? With Shripati Acharya, Prime Venture Partners
If you’re a data driven professional, in all likelihood this episode is for you. There are also some interesting analysis techniques I came across this week, that I thought I’d share. Check them out a...Show More
8) Pratik Poddar, Nexus VP on Outcomes, Ed-Tech, VC investments and more
The importance of thinking in outcomesWhen Gaurav Munjal, the founder and CEO of Unacademy was pitching to Nexus, he was asked - how could a company offering video test prep solutions scale in a count...Show More
9) SPACs, IPOs, Indian Private Equity landscape and more with Gopal Jain, Gaja Capital
Byrne Hobart called it “the Vegas Wedding Chapel of liquidity events” - quick and easy. One of the hottest trends of 2020 among late stage tech companies was to go public via a SPAC or Special Purpos...Show More
SPACs, IPOs, Indian Private Equity landscape and more with Gopal Jain, Gaja Capital
33:34 | Jan 25th, 2021
10) ⚡️The BigBasket Story: From being written off to $2+ Bn valuation
Why are Amazon, Reliance, Walmart backed Flipkart, and several others competing for a piece of the action in online grocery retailing? Consider some numbers from Redseer:⚡️Grocery is expected to be a ...Show More