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Nothing VenturedRishabh Kaul: Buiding the India-Europe Tech Corridor | Episode 5300:02:25 - South Asian tech professionals' impact. 00:05:06 - Indian entrepreneurs in Europe.00:08:21 - Indians in technology leadership. 00:12:36 - Immigration and technology's future. 00:17:26 - India-Europe tech corridor opportunities. 00:21:30 - European talent for Indian companies. 00:24:10 - Talent acquisition and market dynamics. 00:29:18 - Highlighting successful Indian founders. 00:30:22 - European PR challenges in startups.00:34:14 - Healthcare recruitment innovation. 00:38:49 - Cross-border investment strategies. 00:44:34 - Cultural identity and assimilation. 00:47:20 - Unique challenges for immigrants. 00:51:04 - Competitive nature of the diaspora. 00:56:18 - Second-time founders buying companies. 00:57:25 - Venture capital and business success.
2024-11-2159 min
The Svagat ShowWorking as a Indian Product Manager in Berlin | Gokul Sridhar - Head of Product Wolt/DoorDashIn this conversation, Rishabh Kaul interviews Gokul Nath Sridhar, the Head of Product at Wolt, about his experience moving from India to Berlin and the tech ecosystem in Germany.
In Today’s Episode with Gokul Nath Sridhar We Discuss:
1. Europe's best kept immigration secret: The EU Blue Card
Who is eligible? What makes the EU Blue card so powerful? How quickly and easily can you get permanent residency? What happens when you move to another EU country?
2. A framework for immigrants to evaluate Berlin as their next move
How did Gokul decide upon Berlin, an...2024-10-0251 minThe Svagat ShowSelling to a CIO & Enterprise Sales | Sandeep Sakharkar CIO GXO, FootLocker, XPOSandeep Sakharkar is a seasoned CIO and IT Leader having worked at GXO Logistics, XPO, Footlocker, J&J. As part of his job, Sandeep has been responsible for allocating hundreds of millions in software budgets. In this discussion we discuss how startups can sell to the CIO org as they navigate the enterprise selling process. Sandeep is based in London.
In Today’s Episode with Sandeep We Discuss:
1. What's the Enterprise Sales process? When does the CIO or CIO org get involved? How to get in touch with them? What considerations should a startup keep in mind when se...2024-09-3048 minThe Svagat ShowShould Indians move to Europe? | Kartik Varma - Techstars, ProptigerKartik Varma is a 2x- exited founder who built Proptiger, India's largest online real estate marketplace working and moved to the UK over a decade back. He's a graduate of London School of Economics and Harvard Business School.
We discuss:
The changes in Europe over the years, including the growth of the Indian diaspora and the rise of Indian leaders in European companies.
The differences between India and Europe in terms of innovation and category creation and each countries strengths
The need for STEM talent in Europe and the potential for India to fill that gap.
The opportunities and...2024-09-1553 minThe Svagat ShowExpanding AI Infra beyond Nvidia | Nikhil Sonti - Felafax, MetaNikhil Sonti is the Co-founder of Felafax (YC S24), where they are building an open-source AI platform for non-NVIDIA GPUs. Prior to Felafax Nikhil was an engineer at Meta, Microsoft & Akamai working on distributed systems. He's building Felafax with his twin brother Nitin Sonti - who's done ML at Google/Youtube.
We discuss the ecosystem of non Nvidia GPUs like AWS Trainium and Google's TPUs and how they offer cost performance but need better developer tooling. We also discuss how this ecosystem can help unlock use-cases like using larger models for fine tuning smaller models, cost performance and Felafax's...2024-08-1937 min
The Svagat ShowNetwork Effects, Building Consumer Tech Startups | Sameer Singh - SpeedInvestSameer Singh and Rishabh discuss network effects, and consumer tech startups in Europe. Sameer is a Venture Partner at SpeedInvest, and an angel who's part of the Atomico Angel Program. He is a thought leader in the network effects space and writes about it at Breadcrumb.vc as well as runs a course on it on Reforge.
2024-08-0550 min
The Svagat ShowBuilding global AI teams | Rishabh Mehrotra - Sourcegraph, Spotify, SharechatThis episode features Rishabh Mehrotra - a leading machine learning scientist who is currently the Head of AI at Sourcegraph, prior to which he was leading ML teams at Sharechat and Spotify. Rishabh has specialized in ML techniques for recommendations, personalization and experimentation. He did his PhD from UCL, has 10 patents and over 50 papers published.
In this episode we speak about building AI teams, as well as AI talent in Europe vs India vs US. More specifically we discuss:
How AI talent evolved in Europe over the years
What are the challenges when it comes to finding senior AI...2024-07-081h 01
The Svagat ShowBuilding the Rolls Royce of Electric Aviation | Anmol Manohar CEO, GreenjetsThis episode features Anmol Manohar - who is the CEO and co-founder of Greenjets - a UK-based developer of advanced aerospace and aviation electric propulsion engine. Coming from a military family, Anmol has a double masters in Aerospace engineering from IIT Kharagpur and Imperial College who has spent 8 years in aviation R&D at Rolls Royce and Blue Bear Systems (Aviation Autonomy startup acquired by SaaS).
Anmol and his team stellar team of ex-Aerospace engineers are building powerful electric propulsion engines that power industrial and military drones - and are quieter, and allow for more payload to be carried...2024-05-2755 min
The Svagat ShowFrom Chennai to Startup Iceland to Iceland Cricket Association| Bala KamallakharanThis episode features Bala Kamallakharan - who is the founder of Startup Iceland as well as the Chairman of Iceland Cricket Association. Post the GFC 2008 (and Iceland's ensuing economic crisis) - Bala create the first startup platform in Iceland called Startup Iceland and started actively investing and championing tech entrepreneurship in Iceland. He now is the founder of Iceland Venture Studio. Born in Chennai, Bala has lived in Iceland now for more than 20 years and it's the foremost voice on entrepreneurship. Bala joins us for a candid conversation where we cover a bunch of topics like:
How does an...2024-05-151h 00The Svagat ShowAll about Modern Dating from ex-Bumble employees | Karthik & Ivy | Svagat Show Ep.4For the last decade, companies like Tinder, Bumble and Hinge have completely changed how the world dates. This episode goes deep into the world of online dating and tries to understand the user behaviour, the business model, the opportunities and tensions these companies have to deal with. If you've ever been a user of these apps, or have been intrigued about their rapid growth - this episode is a must watch.
Karthik Sivaram and Ivy Mukherjee were both at Bumble during the pandemic years at the London office. Karthik is data scientist having worked for Uber, Airbnb, Bumble and...2024-04-291h 01
The Svagat ShowDesi Mangoes in UK, Is AgTech VC fundable and more | Prateek Srivastava - CropInThis episode features Prateek Srivastava - an agri tech entrepreneur and operator who founded Terraview - a vineyard management platform (backed by Flipkart founders and founding team) and now leads EMEA at CropIn, one of the world's largest agritech companies. Born into an agricultural family in India, Prateek has spent several years in agritech businesses in Europe and joins us for a candid conversation where we cover a bunch of topics like:
Is agri-tech a VC investible business sector?
How do farmers and agri value chains differ between Europe and India?
Which crops are most lucrative to build a...2024-04-171h 08The Svagat ShowHorrible Bosses, Challenges in Creative Fields | Suryansh ChandraIn this week's episode we have a discussion with Suryansh Chandra - whose journey took him from being an architect at the world famous architecture house: Zaha Hadid, to co-founding a robotics startup Automata that has raised ~$100M to starting Mind Distillery - that helps organizations better feedback processes and performance improvement. Suryansh migrated to London from India in 2007.
We discuss:
- The challenges of working in creative and insular fields like architecture and how that contrasts with working in tech
- What got Suryansh to start a company around improving feedback in organizations and improving performance?
- What...2024-04-0358 min
The Svagat ShowBuilding Enterprise Products in PLG | Nakul Jamadagni - Miro, Databricks, CanvaIn this podcast we delve deeper into what does it mean to build an enterprise product in a company that is heavily involved in a PLG motion already. We will cover what does the Enterprise product mean? And if there's innovation in that space? How the personas and JBTD changes from the self serve product? Changes in pricing and learnings from Databricks, Miro, Canva. We finally cover the Nakul's experience of working as an Indian immigrant in tech in Europe.
Nakul Jamadagni has spent a long time building enterprise products for PLG SaaS companies like Databricks, Miro, Navan (fka...2024-03-2053 min
Chitthiyaan with Gajraj RaoEp 7 | Father & SonMr Joshi is yet to recover from his recent injury and Amit begins his web search to find the true receipts and writers of the letters.Helping his father with his expert head massage, Amit and Mr Joshi read their first letter together. The letter moves Prasad Joshi, leading him to question his opinion on Amit’s people.CastPrasad Joshi: Gajraj RaoSudha: Sheetal RobinsonAmit: Snayhil AnejaPrashant: Rajesh Vinod MavaniRishabh: Aaryan TandonSeema: Shefali ChhabraAria: Samriddhi DuttaPowered By: SBI Life In...2023-09-0314 min
Startup BlueprintBuild Your Network on LinkedIn to Grow Your Startup - Rishabh Kaul (E28)How do I stand out from the noise when it comes to fundraising?
What makes a great piece of social media content these days?
Will all jobs eventually morph into just giving prompts to ChatGPT?
Join us and Rishabh Kaul - Head of Marketing of Appsmith, angel investor, and former Sequoia-backed founder - as we explore these pressing questions!
Connect with Rishabh here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhkaul/
Connect with James here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bannon/
Connect with Suraj here: https://www.linkedin...2023-03-021h 04
Speaking of CricketIPL 2021 Auction to be held on Feb 18 in Chennai. Who's retained? Who's released? Ep.45The following players from the eight franchises were retained in the squad:
Chennai Super Kings:
Retained Players: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shardul Thakur, Sam Curran, Josh Hazlewood, R Sai Kishore
Delhi Capitals:
Retained Players: Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, M...2021-01-2905 min
Cyrus Says CleanEp. 361: LANSO: India's World Cup squad, Mumbai's performance over the week & poor umpiringThis week on Left Arm Not So Orthodox Cyrus is joined by author, columnist, economist and cricket enthusiast Vivek Kaul. THe two of them talk about The recently announced 15 member Indian world cup squad. Was dropping Rishabh Pant in favour of Dinesh Karthik the right decision? Will the players be given cups of Koffee to train them for the tournament? Find out. They also ponder over the performance of the Mumbai team and their performance against Hyderabad and Bangalore, as well as the poor umpiring decisions in the ongoing T20 tournament.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...2019-04-1715 min
Cyrus Says LANSOMEp. 05: LANSO: India's World Cup squad, Mumbai's performance over the week & poor umpiringThis week on Left Arm Not So Orthodox Cyrus is joined by author, columnist, economist and cricket enthusiast Vivek Kaul. THe two of them talk about The recently announced 15 member Indian world cup squad. Was dropping Rishabh Pant in favour of Dinesh Karthik the right decision? Will the players be given cups of Koffee to train them for the tournament? Find out. They also ponder over the performance of the Mumbai team and their performance against Hyderabad and Bangalore, as well as the poor umpiring decisions in the ongoing T20 tournament.2019-04-1615 min
🏏Armchair Cricket Podcast 🎧Armchair Cricket Podcast - Episode 02Welcome to the Armchair cricket podcast!
Please let us know what you think in the comments section or via mail to armchair.cricket@gmail.com or via twitter @ArmchairCricPod
Today's topics:
Pak vs SA
- Final test at Jo'burg - SA currently have a 309 lead at lunch, tough for Pak to win
- Faf suspension and its impact (Elgar to be the interim captain) - SA ragged in the field on 2nd morning
- Mickey Arthur's comments about the first two test pitches; Ottis Gibson's retort about home team favouring pitches
- Amir peeved at Sarfraz's comments on bowlers in th...2019-01-131h 19