Amit Bhawani of PhoneRadar on fighting fanboy temptations to stay honest with the user
How can you be a fanboy and a reviewer of the product at the same time? How can you expect consumer technology product makers to give you their latest gizmos for early reviews if you’ve called their last release “not worth the buy”? I’ve always been fascinated by the world of technology product reviewers and […]
How Zoho works
In June this year, we broke away from the mould to bring you companies, not just people, that are outliers with How AngelList works. If there’s one thing common in most of the companies that appear outliers, it’s their founders. From Steve Jobs to Elon Musk and even Jeff Bezos, the founder’s mentality continues to […]
Nikhil Pahwa on fighting India’s internet battles, being an angry young man
Nikhil Pahwa is an angry young man. But that doesn’t make him an outlier. Pahwa, 37, channelises that anger to build and scale mainstream movements such as the net neutrality campaign against Facebook’s FreeBasics in India more than two years ago. So what’s the source of all the anger and sense of activism? It’s Pahwa’s […]
How Infosys founder Narayana Murthy makes decisions
As I sat down with him to record this episode of Outliers, I decided to stay away from analysing all the decisions he’s taken in his career and, instead, try and understand Murthy’s decision-making framework.
Sanjay Parthasarathy on how running taught him patience as an entrepreneur
Entrepreneurial journeys mean different things to different founders. For some, it’s a way of creating wealth. Many others do it to achieve their “change the world” ambitions. But at its core, entrepreneurship brings a deep personal transformation. Past Outliers episodes with Kailash Katkar, Aneesh Reddy, Manav Garg and K Vaitheeswaran are among conversations that underscore […]
“CIS is like the Kamasutra… a collection of many positions,” says Sunil Abraham
Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has been a digital warrior much before online privacy and data security became fashionable battles to fight in India. Abraham founded CIS in 2008 and established the organization as an important voice for explaining privacy in the social, digital age in India. Over past decade, […]
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 […]