Crosstalk

We often hear stories about founders who have built a unicorn company

But there are also many other people other than the founder who are the backbone of that unicorn company and join it in the early days.

Super excited to share one of many such stories that we don't often hear of Prateek

Prateek joined Meesho as employee #7 (today it has over 1000+ employees) - at a time when Meesho was still making the market believe the concept of social commerce. From zero to a billion, he's seen it all! 

In this podcast, Prateek shares phenomenal insights on the following 

1. What did he factor in before joining Meesho

2. How he, his role and the company evolved together

3. How he went about building a team

This podcast is super insightful for anyone keen on joining an early-stage startup and even for those who are managers at growth-stage companies!

In this episode, we have a detailed chat with Harpreet, the author of the book "Let's Build a Company: A Start-up Story Minus the Bullshit"

In this book, Harpreet, the co-founder and CEO of CoCubes (Acquired by Aon Hewitt), has documented his journey where he has shared insights and actionable frameworks for founders to learn from. The book has received immense love and admiration from the Indian startup ecosystem given that it's one of the very few books that have come out talking about building a company in India and sharing the on-ground reality. 

In this podcast we dive deeper with Harpreet where he shares insights on the following; 

1. Building company culture 

2. Principals for hiring talent 

3. Relationship management with co-founder, colleagues and family

4. Navigating the highs and lows of building a company 

5. Organizational structuring 

Arjun Malhotra (GP, Good Capital) and Ankit Singh (iSpirt) dive into breaking down the future of the lending infrastructure in India. Starting the conversation with the on-ground reality for the credit need for SMEs, Ankit shares details on how Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN) plans to address the massive problem of access to credit.
Diving deeper, Ankit talks about how the cost of serving the customer through OCEN will make it feasible for facilitating the credit demand.
Tune into this episode to learn more about where the opportunity lies, and how intermediaries will plug into the open credit enablement network.

In this episode, Arjun Malhotra (Founding - Partner Good Capital) speaks to Miten Sampat about his journey before and after CRED.
Miten shares his view on the Indian startup ecosystem, his investment thesis as an angel investor, his work at Times Internet, and what led him to join CRED.  
Miten dives deep to explain the opportunity CRED is tapping on, and his role in building CRED.

In this episode, Sonal, Co-Founder of Sequoia-backed startup Fittr, shares her transformational journey from growing up in Canada, moving to London to work for Deloitte, joining a community in India as a customer to then becoming its co-founder.

Sonal walks us through her thoughts on pursuing one's passions, her experience transitioning from corporate culture to startup culture, and most interestingly, the values and insights on building an efficient community.

Tune into the first episode of Crosstalk Conversations with Aditi, Co-Founder Locale.ai to learn more about her journey on building a location intelligence platform. Aditi shares her story on why she started Locale.ai and how she hustled her way up to building a team that came together to solve the same problem on the basis of which Locale was started.