The Corridor

In this episode of The Corridor, I sit down with Ashvin Nagarajan (Ash), co-founder of TableIQ and my partner in leading the AI Club at HBS, to kick off a new series: The Future of Roles . Ash shares his journey from building early Microsoft Copilot features to scaling autonomous vehicle infrastructure at Applied Intuition and now building AI agents for physical commerce with TableIQ. We also expl...

India built a global reputation through process excellence - from IT services to pharmaceuticals. But can it become an innovation-first economy in the age of AI? In this episode of The Corridor, I sit down with Manav Garg, Founder of Eka Software and Co-Founder of Together Fund, to discuss why he believes India’s next chapter will be defined by product builders, not labor arbitrage.

India’s AI ecosystem is entering a defining decade. In this episode of The Corridor , I sit down with Pratik Agarwal, Partner at Accel , to discuss why he believes India’s biggest technology and VC opportunity is still ahead of us. Pratik reflects on his journey from IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School to Airbnb’s early growth years and over a decade investing in startups across India. We explor...

In this episode of The Corridor , I sit down with Adit Jain, Co-Founder and CEO of Leena AI, to unpack one of the biggest questions facing India’s economy: will AI disrupt the IT services industry that helped power the country’s rise? Adit traces his journey from IIT Delhi to YC and building Leena AI into a fast-growing agentic IT enterprise. We talk about why India’s traditional IT arbitrage mode...

In this episode of The Corridor, I sit down with Deedy Das, Partner at Menlo Ventures, to unpack what it really takes to build global AI companies across India and the US. We cover his journey from Google and Glean to venture, and his candid views on where founders should build, what India gets right (and wrong), and why talent, ambition, and culture matter more than capital. We also get into his...

In the second episode of The Corridor , I sit down with Adhitya Raghavan, founder of Takt (AI for Manufacturing startup) and HBS 2025, to explore what it really takes to build across the India-US corridor. We discuss the cultural, capital, and policy challenges of building in India, why many founders choose to start in the US, and what it will take to return and build at scale. We also dive into A...

In the first episode of The Corridor , I sit down with Anant Vidur Puri, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, to explore the parallels between India’s consumer internet boom and the emerging AI wave. We discuss what drove the last technology cycle, what may be structurally different this time, and how AI could reshape consumer platforms, enterprise software, and digital public infrastructure in I...