Solving India's Weight Problem: Tushar Vashisht, HealthifyMe - Backstage With Millionaires
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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 30:18 - Goa Saga 33:02 - Pivot to AI 37:32 - Growth during COVID 41:02 - 1 Billion dreams 44:28 - Outro  Tushar started his professional career as an analyst at Deutsche Bank. He returned to India to work on an ambitious government project of Aadhar in 2010.   He started Healthifyme in 2011 as a project to help people to keep track of their calories.  Since then, HealthifyMe has served over 30 Million users and is now present in over 5 countries worldwide.   Tushar and his team have an ambitious goal of helping to 1 Billion people on their journey to being fit.  Connect with us:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/bwmillionaires/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/backstagewithmillionaires/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/backstagewithmillionaires/  Discord: https://discord.gg/XySGGhXKepSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5rGPalovc6AKsfbOyjh32p #startup #entrepreneur #health
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