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'YOU CANNOT PREDICT FUTURE': Upstox Co-Founder Shares Big Hack On Investing, Wealth Creation
Co-founder shares investing philosophy and how Upstox empowers retail Indians to build wealth by removing brokerage fees and complexity.
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How Jaydeep Barman Built a 1500 Crore Food Empire Without a Single Restaurant
Unconventional model of building multiple restaurant brands from centralized kitchens
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How Nikolay Storonsky Built a $45B+ Fintech Empire
Profile explores how Revolut CEO took the no-fee fintech model global, from London startup to international banking app serving 50M+ across 35 countries.
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How to Launch a Social App People Actually Use: Andrea's Secrets from BeReal
Founder shares how BeReal grew from zero to tens of millions through viral authenticity
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James Dyson: 5,127 Prototypes
The 5,127 failed prototypes over 15 years: Dyson kept building the bagless cyclone vacuum until number 5,127 finally worked.
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Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
New CEO vision for AI-first instant home buying and selling platform
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Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
Profile of how Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by eliminating commissions and barriers to investing, fundamentally changing how retail investors participate in markets.
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Swiggy Founder on Creating a Winning Pitch Deck and Logistics as a Moat
Strategic insight into competitive differentiation and early fundraising approach
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Young Turks Reloaded: Albinder Dhindsa, CEO of Blinkit
Deep dive into Blinkit's quick commerce strategy and market dominance
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Blinkit Founder Albinder Dhindsa Shares Incredible Journey of Building Quick Commerce
Personal account of scaling 10-minute delivery to billions in valuation
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Block ft. Jack Dorsey - A controversial hack week project becomes the #1 financial services app
Dorsey's Square (now Block) grew from a hackathon project into a multitrillion-dollar payment platform, now expanding into bitcoin and blockchain finance.
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FinTech Diary SE02 EP16: In conversation with Anish Achuthan, Co-founder & CEO, Open
CEO discusses Open's dual-sided fintech platform for Indian businesses and founders, explaining how modern banking infrastructure can serve underbanked entrepreneurs.
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From Dropouts to Billionaires: The Journey of Zepto Founders
Story of two teenagers who became billionaires by solving a neighborhood problem
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How a Stanford Dropout Built 60,000 Crore Empire: Aadit Palicha, Zepto
Stanford dropout's strategy of building India's fastest-growing e-commerce company
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How Affirm built the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) industry, with President Libor Michalek
How Affirm created the BNPL category and changed consumer credit
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How Liquid Death built a $1.4 BILLION brand around water | Masters of Scale
Billion-dollar canned water brand with perfect storytelling and brand positioning
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Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma's Vision for India
Founder on empowering 1.4 billion Indians through financial technology
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The Inspiring Story of Swiggy: India's Leading Food Delivery Service
Complete journey of India's food delivery giant from concept to market leadership
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The Paystack Mafia Building Africa's Tech Future
Documentary about how Paystack founder Shola Akinlade built Africa's first major fintech unicorn, later acquired by Stripe, spawning a wave of fintech startups.
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The Story Behind Zepto With Founder Aadit Palicha
Stanford dropout on building India's fastest-growing e-commerce company
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15 Years of ZOMATO: The Profitability Journey
From early losses to profitability, Zomato's evolution as a business model
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A Masterclass in Secondhand Fashion with ThredUp's CEO
CEO on sustainable fashion and customer education
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Ben Francis Story: From Garage Startup to Billion Dollar Empire
Fitness apparel founder builds billion-dollar brand
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Bonobos Co-Founder on What Makes a Successful Apparel Brand
Menswear founder shares brand building lessons
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Brian Chesky, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb: Designing a 10-star Experience
Chesky retraces the three air mattresses on his apartment floor and unpacks the 10-star experience framework, the definitive Airbnb origin talk.
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Fireside Chat with David Velez: Nubank's Decade of Innovation and Impact
Founder David Velez shares Nubank's 10-year journey disrupting Latin American banking with 130M+ customers across three countries, built without traditional bank infrastructure.
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Founder Stories with Taavet Hinrikus (Transferwise)
Co-founder discusses Wise's origin as the solution to real cross-border transfer problems, built on the conviction that the existing money transfer system was fundamentally broken.
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Gymshark CEO: How I Built A $1.5 Billion Business At 19!
Young founder builds global fitness empire
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Licious Co-Founder Abhay Hanjura - D2C Sector & Becoming A Unicorn Company
Premium fresh meat delivery founder shares path to unicorn valuation and trust
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PhonePe Founder Sameer Nigam on Why Bengaluru Is India's Startup Capital
Founder insights on why Bengaluru leads India's startup and fintech ecosystem
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Startup Street: FreshToHome Co-founder Shan Kadavil On Fundraise and Growth
Building direct-to-consumer supply chain for fresh meat and fish across India
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We Built Olipop: A $20 Million A Month Soda Company In 5 Years
Healthy soda startup scaling fast with gut health positioning and D2C model
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What's REALLY in Your Supplements? Ritual Founder & CEO
Transparent vitamin company founder explains mission
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Zomato Founder Deepinder Goyal's Untold Story: Why He Shies Away from Public
Intimate portrait of India's reclusive tech founder and philosophy behind building
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Zomato Success Story: How Deepinder Goyal Built a Unicorn
Complete documentary of Zomato's rise from startup to India's food delivery leader
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Zomato's Secret to Dominating the Food Delivery Market
Strategic breakdown of how Zomato built profitability and competitive moat
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From A Small Town In Jharkhand To A Unicorn: Story Of Spinny's Founder Niraj Singh
Tier-3 founder who built India's largest used car marketplace with customer-first philosophy
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How Liquid Death's Founder Started A $700 Million Water Brand | Founder Effect
Edgy water brand built on irreverent marketing and social virality genius
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PhonePe Is Made In India, Will List In India: How Sameer Nigam Built A Unique Unicorn
Founder explains keeping Indian payments infrastructure local and building for India first
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PhonePe's 7 Year Journey: Co-Founder Sameer Nigam on UPI Digital Payments
PhonePe's dominance in digital payments and UPI ecosystem leadership
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The 'Fresh Way' To Creating An Online Meat & Fish Store - Shan Kadavil, FreshToHome
Direct-to-consumer fresh meat and seafood creator eliminating middlemen
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The Rise and Fall of GoPro | GoPro
Nick Woodman rode surf footage to an $11B camera empire, then watched phones erase the niche. A hardware single-product cautionary tale.
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The Rise and Fall of Peloton | Peloton
John Foley's Peloton went from lockdown darling to $50B collapse by reading a demand spike as permanent. A lesson in scaling on a bubble.
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Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia: Growing the Sustainable Company
Chouinard tells how a climber blacksmith hand forging pitons built Patagonia while calling himself a reluctant businessman who put the planet first.
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Fintech Will Be Massive - Brian Barnes, M1 Finance CEO Interview | Joseph Carlson Ep. 142
Founder shares M1's vision as a personal finance platform combining automated investing, checking, and lending, managing $8B+ for 500K+ customers.
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Jupiter Founder Jitendra Gupta on building a neobank and a new era of financial services
Founder shares how Jupiter rethought Indian neobanking for millennials, combining full bank accounts with investing and lending in one app.
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Limeroad Founder and CEO Suchi Mukherjee Success Story
Female founder's journey building India's fashion discovery platform for personal style
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The PhonePe Journey With Sameer Nigam
How PhonePe became India's leading digital payments platform and fintech powerhouse
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How Microsoft Ruined Skype | Skype
How the app that defined video calling lost the decade to bad acquisition integration, so Zoom could win the moment it mattered.
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Unheard Success Story of Urban Company by Raghav Chandra, Co-Founder
How Urban Company scaled home services marketplace to unicorn status
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Michael Seibel - How to Plan an MVP | Justin.tv / Twitch
Seibel uses Airbnb, Twitch and Stripe's embarrassing first versions to prove you should ship a lean MVP in weeks, not fall in love with it.
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The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry | BlackBerry
Shows how Lazaridis and Balsillie's certainty that the iPhone was a toy sank a market leader. A study in incumbent hubris.
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How to Turn Your Fears Into Wins | SUGAR Cosmetics
Vineeta Singh on walking away from a 1 crore job offer and turning fear into fuel to build a beauty brand.
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Michael Seibel - Building Product | Justin.tv / Twitch
The Twitch co-founder's loop for building something people want: talk to users, ship fast, measure, and cut features ruthlessly.
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma Biography: Paytm Founder Success Story
Journey of building digital payments from scratch, pioneering mobile wallets in India
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Blitzscaling 07: Mariam Naficy on Lessons From The Dot Com Days and Knowing When To Blitzscale | Minted
Naficy contrasts her dot-com bust startup Eve with Minted's crowdsourced-design model to show when it is actually safe to blitzscale.
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Blitzscaling 12: Nirav Tolia on Growing Nextdoor and the Path to Monetization | Nextdoor
Tolia on building a real-name neighborhood network city by city and holding off monetization until the network was dense enough.
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Blitzscaling 18: Brian Chesky on Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale | Airbnb
Chesky on why the Samwer brothers cloning Airbnb forced them to go global in a year, and the art-school outsider path to founding.
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Hiring and Culture with Patrick and John Collison and Ben Silbermann (HtSaS 2014: 11) | Stripe / Pinterest
Stripe and Pinterest founders on how deliberate early hiring bar and written values shaped culture more than any perk once they scaled.
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How to Run a User Interview with Emmett Shear (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 16) | Twitch
The Twitch co-founder on extracting what data cannot show: ask about past behavior, not hypotheticals, to redefine your product.
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Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz) | Y Combinator
Idea, product, team, execution multiply together; Facebook and Asana co-founder Moskovitz strips the glamour myth off startup life.
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Optimal Traits and Sustainable Advantages [Entire Talk] | Eventbrite
Eventbrite's founders on what they did early to build durable advantages: relentless talent development and continual product evolution.
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Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Three stories, one arc: connect the dots, love and loss, then death, closing on Stay Hungry Stay Foolish.
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