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IN THE HAUSD2C Explained Best : Saksham Mendiratta in Talks with Arman Sood (Sleepy Owl) | In The HausCoffee is not for the faint hearted and neither is this episode. We’re exploring the entrepreneurial spirit of Arman Sood (Founder- Sleepy Owl) a man who founded his hyper-growth product with ZERO corporate experience.
In this, taste how Arman hot brewed his education in law, to finally cold brewing his own venture with patience and discipline. We dig deep on how he plans and ideates for a demographic larger than he expected and continues questioning every step of the process.
Arman goes beyond to correlate his innate love for sports and how he integrates sp...
2022-10-301h 11
IN THE HAUSThe Brand We Didn’t Know We Needed | Taran Chhabra (Neeman's) | Saksham Mendiratta (Lights Out)This shoe brand takes comfort so seriously that the founder sleep-checks it! Passion runs down from the founder’s office to the man delivering the shoes.
The ache to come up with a brand which makes people look good, feel good and do good for the environment birthed Neeman’s. Taran Chhabra- the founder of Neeman’s is an ex-business analyst who spent years in the US making sense of why he was pushed to switch his footwear before stepping into work after a 2 hour run to the train station.
In this we discuss how the up...
2022-10-1658 min
IN THE HAUSThe mindset behind India’s leading healthcare platform | Gaurav Agarwal ( Tata 1mg) | Saksham Mendiratta (Lights Out)Tata MG is India’s largest healthcare with a footfall of over 260 million.
In conversation with the CTO and Co-Founder of Tata 1MG - making healthcare affordable, accessible and available in over 1800 Indian cities.
We take a dig at how being an entrepreneur in this day and age is a lot like running - putting one step ahead of another and positively expecting defeats once in a while.
Watch us discuss some core values and metrix which builds an efficient team and how empathy and answerability goes hand in hand with it. Gaurav is...
2022-10-0954 min
IN THE HAUSMindset Behind Creating India’s Largest Neo Bank | Sumit Gwalani (Fi) | Saksham Mendiratta (Lights Out)Over 1 million Indians are on FI!
Talking about how decades of tech & banking wisdom distilled to build India’s most successful Neo Bank.
In conversation with Sumit Gwalani - the man who built GPay in India. He belongs to a team of eccentric individuals, who are genuinely revolutionising money management in India. In this, we discuss India’s entrepreneurial muscle and how education system has evolved through the years.
We also tap on the importance of having a good idea in this time when investor risks are bullish and supportive.
Sumit and h...
2022-10-021h 05
IN THE HAUSWhat goes inside the mind of a consumer-focussed venture capital fund | Kanwaljit Singh (Fireside Ventures) | Saksham Mendiratta (Lights Out)Saksham Mendiratta (Founder, Lights Out) is In The Haus with Kanwaljit Singh (General Partner, Fireside Ventures). As India stands at the cusp of explosion in consumer-tech, there’s a clear evolution & maturity that this sector is currently witnessing. Moving away from traditional businesses of the late 90's, the new age consumer economy is diverse & galloping. Amidst these, Kanwaljit has managed to keep his sanity and make some brilliant bets. But what’s the mindset one needs to be part of the unicorn race as a consumer-tech startup?
This episode is an eye-opener for every investor & entrepreneur that has...
2022-09-2555 min
IN THE HAUSMindset of a founding product designer at a fintech-lifestyle product | Harish Sivaramakrishnan (CRED) with Saksham Mendiratta (Lights Out)Saksham Mendiratta is In The Haus with Harish Sivaramakrishnan, Head of Design at CRED.
Harish is the founding designer at CRED. His radical approaches to designing products has created an almost cult-like following for him in the design community in India.
Saksham & Harish dive into the mindset it takes to be the Founding Designer of a venture like CRED, his journey with Kunal and his mindset on what design is to a product.
It’s a power-packed conversation that would push you to re-think everything you knew about product design so far.
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2022-09-181h 29
IN THE HAUSMindset while scaling a billion dollar house of brands | Ananth Narayanan | Mensa BrandsSaksham Mendiratta is In The Haus with Ananth Narayanan, Founder of Mensa Brands.
Mensa Brands started off in the pandemic and claimed a unicorn status within it’s first year, thereby becoming the fastest unicorn in India.
Ananth’s journey with McKinsey, Myntra and Medlife has had some experiential ups & downs. He talks about learnings from each of his stints and what pushes him every single day to build a better entrepreneurial venture.
Saksham & Ananth dive into the mindset it takes to be the Founder & CEO of a venture like Mensa, every single day...
2022-09-1151 min
IN THE HAUSLeadership lessons from a 19 year old, while scaling a billion dollar grocery business | Aadit Palicha (Zepto) with Saksham Mendiratta (Lights Out)Saksham Mendiratta is In The Haus with Aadit Palicha, co-founder of Zepto.Zepto started as an experiment during the pandemic; (born out of personal need to get instant grocery delivery in Mumbai). Over a quick span of time, it became so relevant and formidable that it pushed Aadit to drop out of Stanford to build this into a full time venture.Raising their latest round in May 2022, for USD 200 million, it bumped Zepto’s valuation to USD 900 million. But the challenges of building a hyper-scaling venture at 19 years is an interesting one to watch from the outside.Saksham & Aadit di...
2022-09-041h 23
IN THE HAUSEP 0 - In The HausIn The Haus is an attempt to refresh how conversations on podcasts are viewed. In here, we focus on the mindset of the founder and not really their milestones. We go deeper into the why’s and how’s of who they are rather than the business they run.
Hosted by serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Saksham Mendiratta, this one’s a breezy conversation with some of the most iconic founders in India.
2022-08-3100 min