Beyond the Black

Most co-founder disputes don't explode — they surface slowly. And they often arrive not when a startup is failing, but when it finally succeeds. In Part Two of When Founders Fight , Maitrabh continues the conversation with Vasundhara Shankar — a corporate lawyer who has sat on the difficult side of these calls — on what the law actually does when founder alignment breaks down. The acquisition...

Most co-founder breakups don’t start with betrayal – they start with a conversation two people remember differently and no paper to back it up. In this episode of Beyond the Black, Maitrabh and lawyer‑founder Vasundhara unpack real co-founder fallouts, dead equity, IP traps, and the one hard conversation every founder needs to have before things blow up.

How do India's top lawyers actually build their careers? In the first episode of Beyond the Black, Maitrabh Chauhan speaks with Vasundhara Shankar — Managing Partner, Forbes India Top 100 Lawyer, and startup law specialist — about career choices, founding a firm, and what the legal profession in India really looks like from the inside.