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5 episodes from Founder Thesis · all channels

  1. How Rajesh Jain built a profitable $100mn ARR MarTech business with no VC money (Netcore Cloud)

    Most founders chase venture capital like oxygen, but the man who pulled off India's first major dot-com exit built a bootstrapped SaaS...

  2. The Series A VC Reshaping Indian Startup Funding | Rajeev Kalambi @ Cactus Partners

    Most founders chase the billion-customer dream and the unicorn lottery at the same time. This India VC funding strategy conversation...

  3. Is Venture Capital Built to Break Founders - Amrit Chandan @ Lorefully

    Most founders pitch VCs without understanding the math that decides their fate, and Amrit Chandan learned this the hard way after raising...

  4. From Stanford Chip Designer to Decoding the Human Brain | Siddharth Panwar @ NeuroDx

    Most Indian AI startups are racing to build chatbots for Indic languages. Dr. Siddharth Panwar took a different bet, building India's...

  5. What VCs Miss When Evaluating Lending Startups: Alok Mittal (Indifi)

    Six months before India's first real credit cycle hit, one MSME digital lending founder quietly stopped approving 30% of his eligible...

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