Tag: season01

Suchita Salwan of LBB on building a discovery platform for Indian millennials

Helping India’s over 500 million internet users find what they are looking for is the Holy Grail for everyone from Facebook and Google to Flipkart and Amazon. Little Black Book (LBB), an online discovery and shopping platform cofounded by Suchita Salwan, a 29-year-old former marketing executive with BBC India, is fast becoming the go-to place […]

Kausshal Dugarr of Teabox on disrupting a legacy biz with a billion cups of tea

Welcome back to the second episode of The PlayBook – a brand new podcast from FactorDaily bringing conversations with the doers and inventors about how they build products of impact in India. In the first episode, we discussed “How Anand Jain used frugality lessons from childhood to build CleverTap.” In this episode, I sat down […]

How Anand Jain used frugality lessons from childhood to build CleverTap

Welcome to The Playbook. A brand new podcast from FactorDaily bringing conversations with the doers and inventors about how they build products of impact in India. The idea is to get under the hood, go behind the scenes, and offer deep insights from their playbooks of building products and ideas that matter. Founded in May […]

Vijay Shekhar Sharma on the life of a founder

So who is Vijay Shekhar Sharma? Depending who you ask in India’s technology and startup ecosystem, the answers will range from “that crazy guy” to “overly obsessed entrepreneur”, “trying to fight too many battles at the same time”, “a desi entrepreneur”, “rags to riches story” and so on. If you ask us at FactorDaily, we’ll […]

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on handling criticism and trolls

With over a million Twitter followers and hundreds of thousands on other social platforms, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw keeps a really visible and busy profile. This fan following also brings trolls and critics who can get really personal at times.

How Rohith Bhat built an app development powerhouse from small town India

“When Steve Jobs went on the stage in 2008 to announce the App Store, he showed the first 500 apps, and the five of them were built in this building, in Udupi,” Rohith Bhat, founder of Robosoft tells me as I sat down to record this episode of Outliers in Udupi, a small temple town […]

Santhanalakshmi Arvind on what it takes to be the family of a startup founder

Much before startup ideas find their way to colourful pitch decks, the founders, at least the ones with families, seek some kind of emotional, social approval. That approval is not make or break, but important. Who gives that approval? More often than not: the founder’s family: parents or/and spouses. They, of course, almost instantly give […]

Viral B. Shah on why engineers need empathy about users

The American civil aviation regulator’s next-generation collision avoidance system is built on a relatively new programing language called Julia. You can thank Viral, who along with Alan Edelman, Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Keno Fischer and Deepak Vinchhi, built the language the next time you have a safe flight in the U.S. airspace. Like every profession, […]

Vishwas Chitale on the dairy of the future

The first time I heard of Chitale Dairy was about eight years ago when an executive at one of the top Indian retailers asked me to check out how a dairy in Maharashtra’s Sangli village was using radio frequency tags to track cattle. Back then, most RFID deployments at retailers were bleeding and not delivering […]