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SeedToScale | Curated by AccelPitching Jewelry for the Digital Age: Inside BlueStone’s Original Deck | PitchCraft Season 2In this episode of PitchCraft Season 2, Gaurav Singh Kushwaha, Founder and CEO of BlueStone and Prashanth Prakash, Partner at Accel, revisit the 33-page idea-stage deck that launched one of India’s most enduring jewelry brands.
Back in 2011, BlueStone didn’t even have a website or sales to show. It only had a conviction that India’s jewelry market was ripe for disruption. Gaurav reflects on the choices that shaped the pitch: why jewelry was one of the few categories resistant to horizontal marketplaces, how consumer behavior was shifting from family jewelers to brands, and why design had to be the compan...
2025-09-1140 min
Theology & Ethics128: The Return of Paganism & Gravity Conference 2025 (with Prashanth Daniel)Welcome to the Theology & Ethics podcast! In this episode, the KC team (and guest Prashanth Daniel, founder of Reasonable Truth) discuss the return of Paganism in culture, and the upcoming Reasonable Truth Gravity Conference dedicated to the same topic.The conference is on April 12th at Gateway Seminary in Ontario, CA. Register now at:https://reasonabletruth.org/conf2025/Prashanth Daniel is a writer and speaker whose passion is to train and equip Christians to understand, articulate and defend their faith as winsome ambassadors of Christ, specifically in the fields of theology, philosophy and...
2025-04-0733 min
Practical AIGraphRAG (beyond the hype)Seems like we are hearing a lot about GraphRAG these days, but there are lots of questions: what is it, is it hype, what is practical? One of our all time favorite podcast friends, Prashanth Rao, joins us to dig into this topic beyond the hype. Prashanth gives us a bit of background and practical use cases for GraphRAG and graph data.Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale...
2024-09-2555 min
Changelog Master FeedGraphRAG (beyond the hype) (Practical AI #288)Seems like we are hearing a lot about GraphRAG these days, but there are lots of questions: what is it, is it hype, what is practical? One of our all time favorite podcast friends, Prashanth Rao, joins us to dig into this topic beyond the hype. Prashanth gives us a bit of background and practical use cases for GraphRAG and graph data.
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2024-09-2555 min
OncotargetOncotarget’s Top 10 Papers Published in 2023 (Crossref Data)Crossref is a non-profit organization that logs and updates citations for scientific publications. Each month, Crossref identifies a list of the most popular Oncotarget papers based on the number of times a DOI is successfully resolved.
Below are Crossref’s Top 10 Oncotarget DOIs published in 2023.
10: Everolimus downregulates STAT3/HIF-1α/VEGF pathway to inhibit angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis in TP53 mutant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28355
Authors: Md Maksudul Alam, Janmaris Marin Fermin, Mark Knackstedt, Mackenzie J. Noonan, Taylor Powell, Landon Goodreau, Emily K. Daniel, Xiaohua Rong, Tara Moore-Medlin, Alok R. Khandelwal, and Cherie-Ann O. Nat...
2024-02-1505 minChangelog Master FeedOpen source, on-disk vector search with LanceDB (Practical AI #250)Prashanth Rao mentioned LanceDB as a stand out amongst the many vector DB options in episode #234. Now, Chang She (co-founder and CEO of LanceDB) joins us to talk through the specifics of their open source, on-disk, embedded vector search offering. We talk about how their unique columnar database structure enables serverless deployments and drastic savings (without performance hits) at scale. This one is super practical, so don’t miss it!
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2023-12-1941 minPractical AIOpen source, on-disk vector search with LanceDBPrashanth Rao mentioned LanceDB as a stand out amongst the many vector DB options in episode #234. Now, Chang She (co-founder and CEO of LanceDB) joins us to talk through the specifics of their open source, on-disk, embedded vector search offering. We talk about how their unique columnar database structure enables serverless deployments and drastic savings (without performance hits) at scale. This one is super practical, so don’t miss it!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge clou...
2023-12-1941 minChangelog Master FeedVector databases (beyond the hype) (Practical AI #234)There’s so much talk (and hype) these days about vector databases. We thought it would be timely and practical to have someone on the show that has been hands on with the various options and actually tried to build applications leveraging vector search. Prashanth Rao is a real practitioner that has spent and huge amount of time exploring the expanding set of vector database offerings. After introducing vector database and giving us a mental model of how they fit in with other datastores, Prashanth digs into the trade offs as related to indices, hosting options, embedding vs. query op...
2023-08-0151 minPractical AIVector databases (beyond the hype)There’s so much talk (and hype) these days about vector databases. We thought it would be timely and practical to have someone on the show that has been hands on with the various options and actually tried to build applications leveraging vector search. Prashanth Rao is a real practitioner that has spent and huge amount of time exploring the expanding set of vector database offerings. After introducing vector database and giving us a mental model of how they fit in with other datastores, Prashanth digs into the trade offs as related to indices, hosting options, embedding vs. query op...
2023-08-0151 min
Ratio VeroShould Christians Engage in Boycotts?We've been seeing a lot of boycotts happening in the culture around us. Some people think these are justified while others think they are not. In this episode, Prashanth shows us some scriptural principles on which boycotts should be based but especially how we can engage in them appropriately and biblically.
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2023-07-3013 min
The Metro MinuteLife in the Middle - D is for Discernment with Prashanth Daniel
For our fifth episode in this edition of The Metro Minute, Carrie interviews apologist and Metro parent Prashanth Daniel about the second D in M.I.D.D.L.E.: Discernment! Join middle school principal Carrie Storms from Metro Christian Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the Metro Minute - Life in the Middle edition. We use the acronym M.I.D.D.L.E., which stands for mistakes, identity, development, discernment, lens, and every, as a guide for our content. We're super passionate about the life that happens during this season of growth for kiddos and their families. The Lord...
2023-07-2642 min
Ratio VeroWhy the Death & Resurrection of Jesus MattersChristians around the world just celebrated the Passion Week, Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. But do we really understand the magnitude of the significance behind the Cross? Did Jesus have to die in order for our sins to be atoned for? Wasn't there any other way? And why does it matter that Jesus rose from the grave? In this episode, Prashanth unpacks the fundamental truths behind some of the core beliefs of the Christian faith.
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2023-04-1412 minRatio VeroLessons From Chesterton's FenceThe English theologian, G.K.Chesterton, once famously said that if we come upon a fence that we don't understand the need for, we must first identify its purpose before we uproot the fence. It turns out that this simple thought-experiment has incredible value for the state of affairs in our culture today. In this episode Prashanth unpacks exactly how that applies in our society and how 'Progressivism' as an ideology can actually learn some valuable lessons from the late great Chesterton.
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2023-02-2214 minSeedToScale | Curated by AccelMasterclass #8 | How Infra.Market offers concrete solutions through its construction marketplaceAt their core, marketplaces are in the business of efficiency. Deeply optimized supply was the need of the hour in the world of construction, where access to materials was fragmented and unreliable. Souvik Sengupta of Infra.Market and Prashanth Prakash of Accel talk about transforming the manner in which real estate companies buy for their projects.
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Over the past decade and a half, new-age marketplaces in India have transformed how people buy and sell products and services.
From Flipkart to Swiggy, Urban Company, and Zetwerk, each has reimagined "the bazaars," shaping the future of commerce and livelihood in India. Starting...
2022-11-2947 minRatio VeroThe Brave New World of Your TruthThe term 'your truth' has become ubiquitous in our culture today. But what does it mean? And is it used in a way that corresponds to reality? In this episode, Prashanth traces the euphemism back to its ideological roots and shows how the modern narrative of someone's 'lived experience' actually betrays an entire worldview beneath it.
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2022-09-2415 min
Ratio VeroThe Worldview Behind AbortionIs abortion just a popular idea? Or is there an actual worldview at work behind it? In this episode, Prashanth makes the case that there is a massive philosophically pragmatic and self-centered foundation beneath the abortion movement. And how identifying what that is, is vital to making sense of the idolatrous commitment the culture has for the right to abortion.
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2022-08-0335 min
Ratio VeroSpecial announcement! - Reasonable Truth's 2022 ConferenceReasonable Truth's first ever annual apologetics conference will take place on June 11th at Biola University, La Mirada, CA! Early bird prices of $15 are available until May 28th. If you register on or after that, prices will be $20. If you're a student, you get a special discounted price of $10 (valid student ID will need to be presented at the event). Registration closes on June 8th so make sure to get your tickets as soon as possible!
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2022-05-1101 minRatio VeroDefending the Unborn - Part 2: Dismantling Pro-Choice ArgumentsChristians and pro-lifers are often overwhelmed by the aggressive and emotional rhetoric of the pro-choice camp. How do we engage these arguments in a thoughtful manner? In this episode Prashanth unpacks the flaws in pro-choice reasoning and offers some tried and tested tactics to disarm the abortion rhetoric while also making a sensible case for the sanctity of life.
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2021-12-111h 23Ratio VeroDefending the Unborn - Part 1: The Moral & Legal LandscapeA landmark Supreme Court case in Mississippi has brought the contentious topic of abortion raging back to the surface of the national conversation. Unlike other cases, this one has the potential to possibly reverse the controversial Roe Vs. Wade decision of 1973. What is at stake here for the pro-life cause? But most importantly what is at stake for the protection of millions of unborn lives? In this episode of a two-part series, Prashanth unpacks the legal and constitutional landscape of this modern Holocaust.
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2021-12-0242 minRatio VeroTwenty Years Later, Worldview Still MattersIts hard to believe that its been 20 years since the 9/11 attacks. As America and the West continue to grapple with the complexities of Middle Eastern policies, what lessons can we learn from 9/11? Are Western and Islamic cultures fundamentally the same, or are they diametrically opposite to each other? In this episode, Prashanth breaks down the intrinsic worldview differences between Western and Islamic culture, while showing us that it is not policies that dictate worldview, but rather worldview that dictates policies.
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2021-09-1825 min
SeedToScale | Curated by AccelINSIGHTS #70: Future of Beauty and Personal Care: Tracking the evolution of the category in IndiaFrom lipsticks to hair care to bath and body -- there’s little to nothing that the average shopper cannot find that covers all beauty and personal care needs. And what’s more, the shopper can browse through multiple brands within the same unified platform.It is to talk about this vision that I am joined today by Prashanth Prakash, senior partner at Accel and the man behind the glam himself -- Darpan Sanghvi, CEO and co-founder of MyGlamm, India’s fastest growing direct-to-consumer beauty brand. MyGlamm is one of our more recent investments in the bea...
2021-08-0657 minRatio VeroObstacles to Evangelism - Part 6: Conversational EvangelismChristians generally know that they are called to evangelize in obedience to Jesus' mandate in Mathew 28. But the average Christian often struggles to identify which conversations have evangelistic potential, and if they do, how to transition from small talk to deeper and more spiritual issues. In this episode, Prashanth offers some useful tips on precisely that and offers some tactical strategies on how to evangelize graciously but effectively as winsome ambassadors of Christ.
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2021-07-1145 minRatio VeroObstacles to Evangelism - Part 5: Taking the Gospel for GrantedAs Christians we should know the Gospel and certainly believe in it. But is it possible to become so familiar with the Gospel that we actually take it for granted? In this episode Prashanth unpacks how and why we take the Gospel for granted and what we can do about it.
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2021-06-3026 minRatio VeroObstacles to Evangelism - Part 4: Ill-Equipped for EvangelizingIf Christians know the truth of the Gospel and believe it to be saving truth, what prevents them from sharing the Gospel with others? In this episode Prashanth breaks down some reasons why Christians might feel unequipped to share their convictions with those who dont believe or might have questions about the faith.
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2021-06-1824 minRatio VeroObstacles to Evangelism - Part 3: Underestimating God's AgencyWhen it comes to evangelizing, people sometimes make the mistake of assuming that it is a task best left to 'experts' like pastors, theologians, evangelists or apologists. But the Bible never takes this approach. As believers we are all expected, in some manner or the other, to play an active role in the Great Commission. In this episode, Prashanth breaks down how understanding God's preferred agency of execution might motivate us to become proactive in our evangelism.
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2021-06-0827 minRatio VeroObstacles to Evangelism - Part 2: The Privatization of FaithIn the second part to this series, Prashanth examines how Western culture's tendency to privatize it's faith to make it 'individual' and 'personal', resulted in the inadvertent consequence of removing it's potency from the public sphere of influence. There could be something that we might call a faith that is 'our own' but if our Christian convictions fail to influence the way we practically live our lives in the different segments of culture, then society itself is deprived of witnessing the transforming power of Christianity through the lives of it's followers.
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2021-05-3021 minRatio VeroObstacles to Evangelism - Part 1: Affluence Blinds Us From EternityThe Great Commission, referenced in Mathew 28, is one of the single greatest mandates given to Christians by Christ himself. And yet statistically speaking, the data shows that most self-proclaimed Christians don't know much about the Great Commission, let alone practice it. Which begs the question - is the Christian church apathetic to the Great Commission? In this series, Prashanth walks us through six reasons why Christians might be unwilling or unable to respond to the biblical mandate of evangelism.
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2021-05-2428 minRatio VeroA Roadmap for Christian AccountabilityIn light of the recent scandals that have plagued the evangelical world, what measures can Christians take to incorporate better accountability structures or disciplines into their lives? In this episode, Carlos Pamplona joins Prashanth to answer precisely that question and offers some much needed advice on how to navigate this fallen world as Christians.
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2021-01-2352 min
Ratio VeroReflections on the Ravi Zacharias ScandalIn light of recent allegations against the late Ravi Zacharias, how can Christians navigate such issues with clarity and conviction? In this episode, Prashanth offers some guiding principles for how to think through the dangers of elevating a Christian personality and the importance of valuing truth even when it feels uncomfortable to our own camp.
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2021-01-0125 min
SeedToScale | Curated by AccelINSIGHTS #64 - Future of Agritech: The evolution of Agritech in IndiaTaking cues from a top-down structural approach, the Agritech industry has many layers to it.
On top of them however, like every other major industry, Financial services is also a critical part of Agritech. However, it is largely unorganised and has plenty of room for disruption. Most farmers in the country do not have access to credit-based lending facilities and startups like Samunnati are attempting to fill that gap.
Mark Kahn, the Founding Partner of Agritech-focused impact venture fund Omnivore, chats with Prashanth Prakash and Anand Daniel of Accel, discussing the trends in Agritech in India. They talk about the...
2020-12-1146 minRatio VeroCuties & the Hyper-sexualization of CultureNetflix's new movie, 'Cuties' is causing a stir around the world with its provocative depiction of young girls. Some call this a bold portrayal for women's empowerment while others call it the demeaning of young girls' innocence, while the director calls it educational. How must Christians think about an issue like this? In this episode Prashanth unpacks the problem at the heart of this issue and helps us think through this in a nuanced manner.
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2020-09-3034 minRatio VeroWhy Did Christ Have to Die For the Remission of Sins?Atonement is not unique to the Christian faith. But Christianity is the only faith that has the audacity to teach that there is nothing you or I can do to atone for our own sins. It was Christ, the only begotten Son of God, that came into this world to die on a Cross for our sins. But how exactly did that work? Was there no other way? In this episode, I explain why Christ, being truly God and truly man, is the only one who can save us from our sins.
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2020-06-2725 minRatio VeroThe Problem with the 'Cosmic Child Abuse' AnalogyDid God 'abuse' His son by intentionally sending him into harm's way? Was Christ dragged to the Cross, kicking and screaming, against his will? In this episode we examine the problem with this emotionally charged analogy.
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2020-06-0815 minRatio VeroReflections on the life of Ravi ZachariasA tribute to Christian apologist, Ravi Zacharias.
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2020-05-2825 min
Friends Talk !!Retro Rewinds-Harry Potter film serieslisten to my reviews and experiences about some of my nostalgic movies in this series "Retro Rewinds".
Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the eponymous novels by author J. K. Rowling. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films, beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). A spin-off prequel series will consist of five films started with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), marking the beginning of the Wizarding World shared media franchise.
The series was mainly produced by David He...
2020-05-2722 minRatio VeroPilot Episode - How it all beganIn this episode I share my story of what brought me into the field of Christian Apologetics. It begins in a small Middle Eastern island nation, moving to India and then to the United States. Believe it or not, my calling didnt begin with a radical or miraculous 'Damascus road' experience. It began in a little coffee shop, in the small South Indian city of Chennai! Listen to find out more!
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2020-05-2200 min
SeedToScale | Curated by AccelINSIGHTS #49 - The state of the VC ecosystem amidst COVID-19 crisis: Prashanth Prakash & Subrata MitraListen hereSpotify Apple SoundcloudSubrata and Prashanth share an on the ground view of the state of the VC ecosystem in India amidst the COVID situation and what to expect for the road ahead. They share advice for founders as they plan for the tough times ahead along with learnings and observations from previous economic downturns including some of the positive outcomes.The podcast clears the air around what founders can expect the fundraising situation to look like in the next near future.01:27 – Comparing COVID-19 times with dot-com bubble burst and 2008 recession06:23 – Efforts going on in...
2020-04-1738 min
SeedToScale | Curated by AccelINSIGHTS #5 Markets Opportunities — Evaluate Wise & Execute NiceEvery entrepreneur understands the importance of market evaluation, but not every market is the same and the ever changing dynamics adds to the entrepreneur’s dilemma. Prashanth Prakash, Founding Partner at Accel tell you how to ace the market evaluation, in this podcast with Anand Daniel.
Ideas don’t build a company but converting them to something tangible does. The first step towards this is understanding the market potential of your idea. Every startup knows the importance of market research towards making the product/service successful. But the way you evaluate the market is crucial. If an entr...
2018-05-1135 min