Episodes
It all began in late 2008, amidst Abhinav Das' GATE exam. In a pivotal moment of realization, he abandoned the exam midway, recognizing that pursuing a master's degree wasn't his true calling. Instead, he crafted a business plan on the spot, birthing the concept of 'Evomo - Evolving Mobility'.
The objective behind Evomo was straightforward: to replace the ubiquitous jugaad vehicles prevalent in rural India with Rural Utility Vehicles (RUVs). These RUVs were envisioned to be cost-effective,...
Published 03/04/24
00:00 Intro
02:52 Building Ather S340 and 450
09:15 Indian EVs vs Chinese EVs
19:29 Can India become the biggest electric vehicle exporter?
28:10 Indian EV industry (wave 1)
33:30 Struggles of building an EV company
40:40 How Ather almost shut down
52:09 The hardware wave
58:10 How to take feedback
1:04:48 Asteroid mining is the future
1:09:59 The future of the energy industry
1:15:45 Outro
Published 11/13/23
00:00 Intro
01:50 From a Bedroom, to a Basement
05:53 Hiring in 2005: a Big Challenge
10:26 Building Culture, Organically
11:10 Running a Global Company in India
14:16 Being Profitable and Bootstrapped
16:16 Three Near-Death Experiences
22:40 Milestones and the Path Ahead
Pallav Nadhani founded FusionCharts at the age of 17 in an effort to earn himself some extra pocket money. He succeeded in doing so, and now, 17 years later, he has more pocket money than he knows what to do with....
Published 10/09/23
Pravesh Pandey is one of the most renowned faces in India's Hotel and Restaurant Industry. He started his career with ITC Hotels back in 2002, where he was a Guest Service Coordinator.
He spent the next decade of his professional career in senior positions at key companies like P&O Cruises, Lizard Lounge, Henry Tham Lifestyle Restaurant, and Hard Rock Cafe.
In 2020, Pravesh started Bissi Bissi Oota, which is India's first QSR brand serving home-style meals that are 'Shuddha',...
Published 10/02/23
Candice Lock's journey from her upbringing in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, oto her tech career in New York is a tale of cultural fusion and culinary passion. Growing up in a Cantonese family, she later found herself at the Copacabana salsa club in New York, where the Latinos affectionately referred to her as "Chinita," meaning "little Chinese girl" in Spanish. Her love for Latin American cuisine, especially Mexican food, blossomed during her time in the city that never sleeps.When Candice moved...
Published 09/25/23
When Anubhav was a kid in school, he used to flip phones. That's the start of his business venture even though he didn't know that's how business worked. During his teenage, his parents wanted him to do his UPSC exam and become an IAS Officer but he chose entrepreneurship without his parent knowing about it.He moved from Delhi to Indore to start his entrepreneurial journey and decided to start selling chai. They came up with a business plan to start selling chai and decided to open their very...
Published 09/18/23
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When Nicolas moved to India from France for an internship, he was struck by nostalgia for the sandwiches from his homeland. And so, he embarked on a culinary journey. In 2015, he took a bold step and launched a food truck called Paris Panini in Bengaluru, with the aim of introducing gourmet French street food to the city.Paris Panini was among the pioneering food trucks in Bangalore, housed within a converted old-school van. Its weekly route quickly...
Published 09/11/23
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Ankit got his start building an online community called YouthPad, with the tagline “Have your say” - the website’s goal was to bring together the youth of Delhi NCR onto common platform, and he ran this platform from 2007 to 2010 when he got a job working at Flipkart.By 2015 Ankit had proven himself to be a formidable intrapreneur, and was promoted to the position of Chief Business Officer - everything was going well for Ankit, but in 2016, after...
Published 09/04/23
00:00 Intro
04:04 How Matt started a coffee business
07:13 Challenges while roasting coffee in India
08:58 Blue Tokai's marketing strategy
09:49 Blur Tokai's ₹40 lakh roaster
11:19 The raise of Blue Tokai
15:25 Opening their first location
21:25 Challenges faced while expanding
24:28 How Shivam Shahi joined Blue Tokai
27:01 Becoming a cafe
28:39 Delhi Police seals Blue Tokai locations
32:03 Evolving coffee culture in India
32:43 Blue Tokai during the pandemic
34:56 Blue Tokai post...
Published 08/28/23
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When Bert Mueller first visited India in 2010 he never could have anticipated that he’d spend the next decade of his life building a business there. Today he runs a profitable 50+ location QSR chain called California Burrito - they did ₹110 crore in FY22.
Bert Mueller started California Burrito with two American co-founders, Dharam Khalsa and Gaelan Draper. They each put in $15,000, and were able to raise an additional $250,000 from family and...
Published 08/21/23
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00:00 Intro04:26 How Samosa Party started10:27 How Samosa Party got it's name11:25 From B2B to B2C18:58 Expanding the brand30:12 Diksha joining as a co-founder33:03 Samosa Party during the pandemic44:54 Expanding to different cities50:47 Outro
Amit Nanwani and Diksha Pande started Samosa Party in 2017, with an aim to provide a hygienic yet authentic alternative to India’s favourite snack.Before starting Samosa Party, Amit was a developer at INTEL,...
Published 08/14/23
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00:00 Intro
1:52 Vijayawada - Barkaas' First Location
7:57 Hustle - The Struggles of Running a Restaurant
10:16 Mangalagiri - Barkaas' Second Location
12:05 Money - The Financials of Barkaas
17:09 Bengaluru - Experiences in Marketing
20:39 Expansion - The Challenges of Franchising
25:05 Scale - Managing 10 Locations
27:29 COVID-19 - Barkaas During...
Published 08/07/23
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There’s an Indian burger startup that is stealing market share from Burger King and McDonald’s. Its founder hadn’t tasted a burger before 2010. Now he’s running a ₹100 crore ARR burger chain with 100+ locations. This is the story of Biggies Burger:
Biraja Rout is from Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He comes from a regular working-class family. In 2010 he got a...
Published 07/31/23
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Sohrab Sitaram began his career as a manager at Taj Hotels. In 2000, he started his first business, No Escape, a nightclub in Connaught Place, New Delhi. Over the next 14 years, he would go on to start numerous restaurants in multiple cities across India, including Tabularasa, Chi Kitchen & Bar, Shalom, and Italic.
Then, in 2013, Sohrab Sitaram was...
Published 07/24/23
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Mainak Sarkar and Pritam Khan started Eatables in 2016 while they were
studying at IIT Kharagpur. This startup was their answer to a problem
they had discovered while visiting restaurants in Kolkata, wherein many
of the restaurant menus that they’d discover online while on campus at
IIT Kharagpur were inaccurate and contained incorrect prices or items...
Published 07/19/23
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In this podcast, we sat down with Venky Balasubramanian to talk about
the story of Plivo, a cloud communications platform that simplifies and
personalises businesses’ customer communications. Every kind of
business, from startups to public companies, can benefit from Plivo’s
enterprise-grade communications platform, which includes a premium
carrier network with connectivity in more than 190 countries, an API
platform for messaging...
Published 07/10/23
In this episode of the Backstage With Millionaires podcast, we sit down with Awis Ahmed, founder of Pixxel, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey.
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:41 Building the pod
00:06:25 Working at SpaceX
00:07:31 Why Awais chose asteroid mining
00:14:11 Why no one got into hyperspectral commercial space
00:22:23 Raising funds to build a satellite
00:32:58 Building the first satellite
00:43:54 Raising funds during the pandemic
00:49:41 How Pixxel generates revenue
00:50:21...
Published 06/14/23
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In this episode of the Backstage With Millionaires podcast, we sit down with Avnish Anand, founder of CaratLane, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey.
00:00 Intro
02:50 How Avnish Got into CaratLane
08:15 First...
Published 06/07/23
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In this episode of the Backstage With Millionaires podcast, we sit down with Arjun Vaidya, founder of Dr. Vaidya's, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey.
00:00 Intro
02:50 Foreign adoption of Indian concepts
06:00 Why Indian brands aren't going...
Published 04/26/23
In this episode of the Backstage With Millionaires podcast, Caleb Friesen sits with Akshay Singhal, founder, and CEO of Log9 Materials, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey.
00:00 - Intro
03:10 - Inefficiencies in Fuel-Cells
05:01 - Disruption during the Pandemic
06:52 - Idea for Corona Oven
14:58 - Getting Back Stronger
28:30 - Tech Behind Log9 Efficiency
33:06 - Log9's Market Share
34:25 - Transition to two-wheeler Batteries
38:51 - Concept of Day Zero
42:42 - Outro
Akshay Singhal...
Published 04/18/23
In this episode of Backstage With Millionaires podcast, Caleb Friesen sits with Abhishek Nayak, founder and CEO of Appsmith, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey. Abhishek started his entrepreneurial journey in 2011, when he built 'GharPay', a platform to let e-commerce companies collect cash payments. He then started 'Clink', a product in the transaction marketing space with the Gharpay team and investors. After Ezetap acquired Clink, Abhishek worked as director of products at Ezetap...
Published 03/13/23
In this episode of Backstage With Millionaires podcast, Caleb Friesen sits with Tushar Vashisht, founder and CEO of Healthifyme, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey. 00:00 - Intro 02:21 - Time at Aadhaar 04:26 - 100 Rs a day experiment 08:00 - Seed for Healthifyme 10:40 - Early days of company 11:58 - Sponsored Segment 13:06 - Initial Money to start 13:49 - Moving To Bangalore 14:55 - Raising Angel Round 17:20 - Meeting co-founder 20:58 - Running out of money 26:18 - $1 Mn Seed Round...
Published 03/09/23
In this episode of Backstage With Millionaires podcast, Caleb Friesen sits with Rajiv Srivatsa, Partner and Investor at Antler India, to discuss his professional journey.
00:00 - Intro 02:13 - Leaving Urbanladder 03:27 - Moving on to Antler 09:42 - How Antler India started? 15:04 - Meeting co-founder(s) 16:46 - How to start a VC firm? 21:39 - Antler's Business Model 26:38 - Founder Hat to Investor Hat 28:33 - Antler India's sectoral focus 30:27 - India: Building for the world 34:01 - Being...
Published 02/27/23
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In this podcast, Caleb Friesen and Gagandeep Reehal, co-founder and CEO of Minus Zero sit down to chat about self-driving vehicles, the journey of Minus Zero, and their future plans.
Minus Zero is India's first startup building fully autonomous vehicles. It was started in 2020 and the team moved their operations to...
Published 02/14/23