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Every resource founders actually use, in one library.
The essays, videos, podcasts, books and tools behind every answer across eChai's hubs, from starting up to go-to-market, D2C, founder money and AI, each with a note on why it is here.
What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.
- India's most-watched long-form business podcast, hosted by a founder who himself builds creator-led D2C brands (House of X),... Spotify Podcast · D2C Figuring Out with Raj Shamani, Founders, Brands & Business Raj Shamani
- A practicing CA explaining GST and basic legal literacy for entrepreneurs in plain audio form, useful for the commute before... Apple Podcasts Podcast · D2C Tax Yatra Yashika Jain (Chartered Accountant)
- A step by step walkthrough of the Meta ad strategy behind some of the largest DTC brands, from someone who has operated and... Splitbase Podcast · D2C A Facebook Ad Strategy Used to Grow the Biggest DTC Ecommerce Brands, Explained Step by Step (with Nik Sharma) Nik Sharma
- A current, ecommerce specific conversation on how Meta's growing automation is changing what a media buyer actually spends... 7-Figures & Beyond Podcast, Stryde Podcast · D2C Ecommerce Meta Ads Trends & Insights For 2025 (Episode 53) 7-Figures & Beyond Podcast, Stryde
- Foxwell's agency manages Meta spend for hundreds of DTC brands, and here he makes the counterintuitive case for compressing a... Cobble Hill Podcast · D2C What actually moves the needle on Meta right now, with Andrew Foxwell Andrew Foxwell
- Two working media buyers walk through a real multi-million-dollar Advantage+ test built around a single broad campaign carrying... Perpetual Traffic Podcast · D2C Episode 705: Killer Meta Advantage+ Case Study: 1 Campaign, 1 Ad Set, 50 Ads Ralph Burns, John Moran
- Taylor Holiday's team built a forecasting framework across 1,000-plus brands; this podcast is where they think out loud about... Common Thread Collective Podcast · D2C Ecommerce Playbook Podcast Common Thread Collective
- Ralph Burns has run performance marketing at scale for over a decade, and this episode makes the case, with a real client story... Perpetual Traffic Podcast · D2C Episode 680 (Part 1): Why ROAS Sucks: The New Marketing Metric Everyone Should Use But Aren't Ralph Burns
- A first-hand account of moving from product-led growth to enterprise sales and the pricing changes that made the revenue work,... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · podcast episode · GTM Why Private Equity Paid $8.4 BILLION for Smartsheet Prime Venture Partners with Praerit Garg
- Vembu walks through the actual mechanics: the pivot after the dot com crash, ManageEngine turning profitable on Google ads, and... Mixergy Podcast · Full episode · GTM "The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur" Talks About How He Built Zoho Into A Bootstrapped Powerhouse, with Sridhar Vembu Andrew Warner with Sridhar Vembu
- Has the diagnostic that is genuinely useful: if people cannot tell what you do, or you get compared to the wrong competitors,... Intercom Podcast · Full episode with transcript · GTM Ambient Strategy's April Dunford on what marketers get wrong about positioning Geoffrey Keating with April Dunford
- Founder led selling with the receipts: 500 personalised cold emails in a month, a first customer signed before the product... SaaS Club Podcast · Full episode · GTM 3 Years of Zero Traction Then Finding Product-Market Fit (Whatfix, Khadim Batti) SaaS Club with Khadim Batti
- The tactical half of her thinking: founding documents, operating principles, titles, and how to actually get a large team... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · Full episode with transcript · GTM Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of Stripe) Lenny Rachitsky with Claire Hughes Johnson
- Zenoti's Sudheer Koneru and CleverTap's Anand Jain on customer acquisition and business model choices while building global... SeedToScale by Accel Podcast · 55 min listen · GTM Scaling your Startup Anand Daniel
- Rare conversation that ties category creation directly to pricing power and to reading real product market fit signals in... a16z Podcast · 37 min · GTM a16z Podcast: Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning Martin Casado, Michel Feaster, Sonal Chokshi
- Chargebee's Krish Subramanian and Accel's Shekhar Kirani on what the India cost and talent advantage really buys you when you... SeedToScale (Accel India) Podcast · 45 min listen · GTM Building SaaS Business Out of India for the Global Market Shekhar Kirani, Krish Subramanian and Anand Daniel
- Twenty four minutes on what building an audience from India actually looked like: started in 2018 knowing nothing about... The Neon Show Podcast · 24 min listen · GTM Podcasting to Investing: breakdown of our journey Nansi Mishra and Siddhartha Ahluwalia
- Two things you will not hear elsewhere: get pricing right before ten million dollars of revenue because after that even minor... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · 45 min listen · GTM Ashu Garg, General Partner Foundation Capital on Enterprise Software Mega Trends, GTM Strategy and Pricing as an Evolving Process Shripati Acharya
- Kiran Darisi (Atomicwork) and Sreedhar Peddineni (GTMBuddy), both out of the Freshworks lineage, on why per seat pricing stops... The Neon Show Podcast · 80 min listen · GTM If Big AI Goes Everywhere, What's Left for B2B SaaS? 25 Years, 4 Startups, 3 Eras of SaaS Siddhartha Ahluwalia
- The second S-curve is the part most retellings skip. Once existing WhatsApp resellers ran out, the pitch changed to starting a... The Neon Show Podcast · About 60 min · GTM Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho Vidit Aatrey
- The definitive first customers account: guest posts with publication specific beta invite codes, 4,000 dollars in month one,... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · About 49 min · GTM From Guest Blogging to $8M ARR with SaaS Content Marketing Paras Chopra
- The richest India origin account of moving from founder led selling to a sales organisation, with the actual price ladder, the... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · About 54 min · GTM 7 Steps to SaaS Go-to-Market Fit After Product-Market Fit Khadim Batti
- Batti on category creation and building a global go to market flywheel from Bengaluru while targeting US buyers from the very... Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar Podcast · 49 min · GTM E115 - Mastering Global GTM w/Whatfix's Khadim Batti Khadim Batti
- The research that came before the product is quantified here: 80 plus customer interviews, more than 200 hours of recorded... The Founder Thesis Podcast Podcast · Long-form interview · GTM The Architect of Onboarding: Srikrishnan Ganesan and the Rise of Rocketlane Srikrishnan Ganesan
The hubs
Starting Up
Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers.
GTM
Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it.
D2C
Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first.
Wealth
Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth.
How Founders Use AI
How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic.
Glossary
Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit.
eChai Partner Brands
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