Sameer Gandhi shares lessons from the startup journeys of Dropbox, Spotify and DJI
What do Dropbox, Spotify and DJI have in common? Great founding teams, obsessive focus on details and, of course, their core products. Another common factor across these and several other successful companies of this decade is venture investor Sameer Gandhi who’s now a partner at Accel. (Disclosure: Accel India is the lead investor in SourceCode […]
How AngelList works
Organisations, like people, can be outliers too. Since December 2016, I have had conversations with 59 individual outliers; a journey where me and hopefully you too, have learned with each episode. With this episode of Outliers podcast, we’re breaking away from the mold and expanding these conversations to companies and organizations that are outliers in […]
Kailash Katkar shares his journey from slums in Pune to building India’s largest antivirus sw company
When he was 19 years old, Kailash Katkar started fixing calculators and even drew screen paintings for living. Then, one day, he saw a computer for the first time while repairing calculators at a bank. “I asked what’s inside the glass walls and why was it air conditioned. They said it was to keep the […]
Harsh Mariwala of Marico on his biggest failures and what he learned from them
This isn’t the first time we’re discussing entrepreneurial journey and how it’s lonely, and filled with failures and self doubt. But unlike the do’s and don’ts in entrepreneurship dished out by experts and mentors who have absolutely no experience in building anything. When a veteran entrepreneur such as Harsh Mariwala openly shares his biggest entrepreneurial […]