Podcast · Episodes ~60 to 90 min

Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar

Jivraj Singh Sachar · Indian Silicon Valley Podcast Free Intermediate India

This is a long-running India-first founder show where operators walk through how they actually won ground here, including going deep in one market before chasing pan-India reach. Because the guests build for Indian buyers and Indian cities, the expansion questions are grounded in local density and reference-ability rather than a Silicon Valley template. Use it to hear how founders reasoned about where to concentrate first when they were not starting from a metro network.

  • India-specific founder conversations on scaling, distribution, and market expansion, not generic startup advice.
  • Recurring theme of winning depth in one segment or geography before spreading thin, told through operators like Rebel Foods and Swiggy.
  • A catalogue of 200 plus episodes, so you can pick a founder whose market looks most like yours and learn from their sequencing.

The question it answers

  1. Is it smarter to go niche by industry or niche by city first when I'm building outside the big startup hubs?

Read with it

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