Millionaire Mondays by Backstage with Millionaires

In this episode of Backstage With Millionaires podcast, Caleb Friesen sits with Rajiv Srivatsa, Partner and Investor at Antler India, to discuss his professional journey.   00:00 - Intro 02:13 - Leaving Urbanladder 03:27 - Moving on to Antler 09:42 - How Antler India started? 15:04 - Meeting co-founder(s) 16:46 - How to start a VC firm? 21:39 - Antler's Business Model 26:38 - Founder Hat to I...

Download the OctaFX Trading App at https://bit.ly/OctaFX_Backstage100 and get 5,000 USD on your demo account! Enter promo code - BACKSTAGE100 and double your deposit! 🎁   In this podcast, Caleb Friesen and Gagandeep Reehal, co-founder and CEO of Minus Zero sit down to chat about self-driving vehicles, the journey of Minus Zero, and their future plans.    Minus Zero is India's first...

In this episode of the Backstage With Millionaire Podcast, Caleb and Pankaj sit with Riten Debnath of Fueler.io to discuss his journey of building his startup, Fueler.    Fueler is an online platform to help you showcase your work on the internet. It's like Github but for Generalist individuals.

Permissionless, a deep-tech startup founded by Roshan Vadassery, is  building open-source public infrastructure on the internet. Backed by ex-General Partner a16z Balaji Srinivasan, their viral Gen Z startup culture is attracting some of the brightest minds in India. Check out Permissionless here: https://prmsnls.xyz/ Roshan Vadassery's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roshan-vadass...

Will Poole started Capria Fund as a fund-of-funds, with a network of more than 15 managers and a collective AUM of more than $1 billion and presence in the leading tech hotspots in Africa, Latin America,  Southeast Asia, and India. Capria's second fund is structured as a  conventional venture fund, investing in individual early-growth  startups selected from the 350-company portfoli...

In this episode of Backstage With Millionaires, Caleb discusses ONDC with founders of Gogappi, Arvind Sekhar and Samhitha Kotaamasu, one of India's first ONDC buyer apps.   Gogappi is one of the first startups on ONDC.   ONDC is short for Open Network for Digital Commerce, it is an initiative by the government of India to promote an open network for exchange of goods and servic...

We tried ONDC. Here's how it went. Twitter: https://twitter.com/bwmillionaires/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/backstagewithmillionaires/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/backstagewithmillionaires/  Discord: https://discord.gg/XySGGhXKep Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bwmillionaires

Rahm Shastry is a serial entrepreneur from Bengaluru and the Silicon Valley. He is also an active angel investor who helps companies with his vision and business strategies.    He talks about his journey, DriveU's growth, his exit form TaxiForSure, and unit economics.    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

In this third episode of Backstage With Millionaires podcast, Caleb and Pankaj talk about recent controversy on Ola's toxic work culture.    Bloomberg in a recent article, talked about several instances where Bhavish Aggarwal, founder and CEO of Ola, behaved in a manner which could be termed as 'toxic'.   During one of the instances, "When Bhavish Aggarwal arrived for a recent...

In this second episode of BWM Podcast, Caleb and Pankaj discuss current situation at BYJU's and their future plan of going global.   BYJU's recently revealed their numbers for FY-21 and it's revenue from operations barely grew  4% to Rs 2280 crore in FY21 from Rs 2,189 crore in the previous fiscal year (FY20). However, the company’s losses ballooned 14.9X to Rs 4,564 crore during th...

In this first episode of our new 'Unnamed' podcast, Caleb and Pankaj discuss the impact of UPI going Global.  UPI (Unified Payments Interface) is an instant real-time payment system developed by National Payments Corporation of India. The interface facilitates inter-bank peer-to-peer and person-to-merchant transactions.  Currently, more than 15 countries have either adopted or are in pro...

In this interview, I sit with Pratham Mittal of Masters' Union School of Business.    00:00 Introduction 02:23 Early Entrepreneurial life 09:04 College Hackathon  15:00 How to deal with Failure? 18:01 First company 25:28 Moving back to India 27:07 Why education? 29:01 Why India? 31:17 How Masters' Union started? 36:15 Problems with current Education System 37:37 Starting Masters' Un...

In this video, Caleb catches up with Caya from Slidebean to discuss startups. They talk about how India’s startup ecosystem is different from the United States. Visiting India’s Silicon Valley – Bengaluru: Bengaluru is the place to be to truly understand the depth of India’s startup ecosystem. You can regions inside of Bengaluru which is dedicated to startups – walk down miles and you can find hun...

Alice Besomi is the VP of Investments and known as the queen of SaaS at Jungle Ventures. They have invested in a lot of startups in India working in SaaS, consumer technology, fintech and SME tech, including Moglix (one of India’s latest unicorns), along with Livspace, LeapFinance, CityMall, Turtlemint, among many others. In this video, Alice and Prithvi discuss all things SaaS – talking about int...

Ram Divedi is an investor, a professor of Economic Warfare and co-founder of Pravaig Dynamics, which is an Indian EV startup building one of the country’s first premium electric car – Extinction Mark I. In this podcast, Ram and Prithvi discuss the importance of building a professional network and how it can be used for securing your dream job, raising funds for your startup or even finding your co...

Shreyaan Daga was just 15 years old when he started an edtech startup called Online Live Learning (OLL) – which is a marketplace for teachers to offer live courses to students on everything from graphic designing to yoga to guitar to astrology to astronomy.  In this video, Shreyaan talks about discovering his passion, starting up as a young entrepreneur and building a profitable edtech startu...

Pradeep Poonia is a software developer, who was sued by WhiteHat Jr for Rs 20 crore ($2.7 million) for defamation and copyright infringement. He is the guy who created the YouTube channel called ‘WhiteHat Sr’ and started questioning WhiteHat Jr’s marketing tactics and business model when no one was listening. After speaking out against WhiteHat Jr, his 16 videos, two YouTube channels, two Reddit a...

Suumit Shah is the CEO and co-founder of Dukaan, an app that helps small  businesses by taking their stores online. Prior to starting his own  journey as an entrepreneur, Suumit was the Social Media Manager for  Housing and TinyOwl. Entrepreneurship: I don’t know what it means but it sounds cool – Back  in college, Suumit was designing websites and learned that he could make &n...

In this podcast interview, Caleb sits down with Narayan Subramaniam and Niraj Rajmohan (Founders of Ultraviolette Automotive) to talk about their journey of becoming entrepreneurs, building Ultraviolette Automotive from scratch, struggles they encountered along the way and what the future holds for Ultraviolette. Ultraviolette Automotive was founded by Narayan Subramaniam and Niraj Rajmohan in 201...

Growing up as an Indian in France: Ram’s family moved to France when he  was young and he ended up studying economic warfare. He is currently a  professor of economic warfare in France but at the same time, he is a  jack of all trades at Pravaig as well. How Ram met Siddhartha and got involved with Pravaig: Ram met Siddhartha  back in 2014 at a corporate meeting and discovered...

Did you envision Extinction Mk1 and Extinction Mk2 from the start?: When  Dhawal and Siddhartha started, they wanted to build cars which would be  good for offroading, it was just a hobby at the time. They tried to  experiment by modifying Maruti Gypsy and Jeep but these cars were quite  slow and uncomfortable for their taste. Abiogenisis – Pravaig’s first prototype and their h...

Why was Pravaig Dynamics started: Pravaig started their journey of  making electric cars back in 2011. At first they just wanted to make a  good enough electric car as there weren’t any good electric cars in  India and the world at large. Setting China aside, there weren’t any  good electric cars in the market apart from Tesla’s Roadster or Nissan’s  Leaf. Key challenges P...

Subhash’s journey starts in a small village in Bihar: Subhash Choudhary comes from a poor family in Bihar, his father passed away when he was  just 3 years old and his mother worked as a tailor to support his  education until he cleared his 12th. At the age of 17, he moved to  Mumbai, learnt the basics of computer hardware and secured a job at  Zenith Infotech. He learns Digita...