Create Wealth

Sirish Chandran spent 25 years reviewing cars for a living. The first one he ever bought for himself was a Porsche 911, at 45. In this episode of the Create Wealth Podcast, Sandeep Jethwani sits down with Sirish, Editor and Publisher of EVO India and former Executive Editor of Overdrive, at the Porsche Centre in Pune. His mother used to invest his salary in stocks before he could spend it. That po...

From Grey Cubicles to Global Standards: Karan Virwani on Reinventing India's Office Culture & Real Estate Investing At 24, Karan Virwani walked into a WeWork in New York and had one thought: Indian offices deserve better than 5-foot cubicles, tube lights, and grey walls. As CEO of WeWork India and part of the Embassy Group (₹40,000 crore REIT), Karan made a contrarian bet that changed Indi...

From 2000 Employee Millionaires to $1.5B Revenue: Anand Deshpande on ESOPs, IPOs & the Future of Deep Tech In this episode, we sit down with Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Persistent Systems, to explore how he built one of India's most successful IT services companies while creating over 2000 employee millionaires through strategic ESOP implementation. Anand ex...

In this episode, recorded at Product Unconference 2025, Sandeep Jethwani sits down with Vijay Shekhar Sharma to unpack how founders stay relevant across multiple technology cycles. Vijay explains how technology evolves in waves — from chips to PCs, operating systems to applications, mobile to cloud, data to AI and now agents. Every wave creates winners, and every winner eventually becomes the foun...

Yoga Bar didn’t wait for India’s healthy snacking wave, it helped create it. In this conversation, Suhasini Sampath (Co-founder, Yoga Bar) takes us inside the product decisions and supply-chain discipline that shaped one of India’s most interesting FMCG stories. This is not the usual “D2C marketing playbook.” Yoga Bar was built on product first principles- clean labels, FDA-grade formulations, who...

Inside the mind of the man who managed more money than most countries’ GDPs. And until now, he’s never spoken on a podcast. For the first time, Dinesh Khara , former Chairman of the State Bank of India , joins Sandeep Jethwani for an unfiltered conversation about what it really takes to run a ₹50 lakh crore institution that touches 54 crore Indians. From handwritten ledgers in the 1980s to one of...

"It’s a dingy feeling... like you're coming to steal your own stuff.” That’s how Vijay Arisetty describes the experience of visiting a bank locker.  Indian households own over 25,000 tons of gold, yet have nowhere truly safe or convenient to store it. Bank lockers have become difficult to get and the inconvenience of operating is high, home safes offer a false sense of security. So, what’s...

“If I wasn’t behind the counter, people wouldn’t buy. That’s when I knew I had to build a brand bigger than myself.” – Shravan Satyani That realisation gave rise to Tyaani Jewellers —the jewellery house Bollywood celebrities and India’s wealthy swear by. In an industry where marketing budgets don’t guarantee credibility, Shravan built his moat on reputation. With Karan Johar as its face, Tyaani ma...

In the chaos of Partition, the Agarwals lost everything. No wealth. No business. No safety net. What followed was a restart from nothing — a single truck in Indore. Four decades later, that truck had turned into Agarwal Coal Corporation: one of India’s largest importers, moving 15–20 million tonnes of coal every year and generating ₹15,000 crore in revenues. In this episode of the Create Wealth Po...

India's wealthiest have a secret: They rent in cities but own ₹50 crore holiday homes! In this episode, Sandeep Jethwani interviews Nibhrant Shah , the founder behind Isprava , Chapter , Lohono and Solene — brands that are transforming how India’s wealthiest live, vacation, and invest. From ₹95 crore villas in Goa to doomsday bunkers with underground air supply — Nibhrant has built homes that...

India’s startup ecosystem has many builders — but only a few catalysts. Utsav Somani is one of them. From cold-emailing Naval Ravikant to launching AngelList India, and from early bets on ‪@CoinDCX‬ and ‪@BharatPeIndia‬ to building Offline, Utsav has helped shape India’s modern angel investing movement. In this episode of the Create Wealth podcast, our co-founder Sandeep Jethwani sits down with Ut...

Private clubs are becoming modern sanctuaries for India’s wealth creators — built for those who value privacy, taste, and access. They’re where top founders, investors, and creatives meet — not to be seen, but to connect with intent. At The Quorum Club, membership means being part of a curated circle — one that’s always exchanging ideas, building relationships, and shaping what comes next. In the...

Meet the man who sold his business and then, just as the final tranche was completed, bought the company back from his investors  Deep Bajaj's journey is one of innovation, astute leadership and clarity of thought. For the latest episode of the Create Wealth podcast, I sat down with Deep Bajaj, the founder of Sirona —  India’s leading female hygiene brand. Deep’s story of building a brand, sel...

In this episode, Sandeep speaks with Akash Saxena, the CTO of JioHotstar, whose efforts have shattered ceilings in live streaming—achieving a record-breaking 62 million concurrent viewers.  From their first-ever live-streamed India-Pakistan match crashing in 2014-15, the team recognised India's enormous streaming demand and built capabilities ambitious enough to even take on YouTube. In this e...

In the latest Create Wealth podcast, our co-founder, Sandeep Jethwani, speak to Amit Damani, co-founder of StayVista, who is helping second homeowners turn their idle properties into income-generating assets. Managing a second home can be incredibly challenging—they need regular upkeep, and nearly 90% of them remain underutilised. StayVista was formed to close this very gap—by renting second homes...

"If Elon Musk was visiting India, would he stay in this hotel?" Can you think of a better north star metric for a hospitality brand? Meet Kapil Chopra, ex-President of Oberoi Hotels who uses this guiding principle to build Postcard Hotel - a luxury hotel chain that is giving traditional players like Taj and Oberoi tough competition! No Check-In/Check-Out Time  All day breakfast Complimenta...

In this powerful episode of the Create Wealth Podcast, our co-founder Sandeep Jethwani talks with Ashish Dhawan, a legendary figure in India's investment landscape and the founder of ChrysCapital, who left it all to become one of India's most influential philanthropists. In this episode, Ashish talks about — ➡️ His long-term and value-driven personal investment thesis ➡️ His plans to donat...

In the latest episode of the Create Wealth Podcast, Sandeep Jethwani speaks with Rishabh Shroff, Co-Head at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. As a trusted advisor to billionaires, family offices, and leading corporations, Rishabh has decades of experience in high-stakes disputes, complex negotiations, and wealth and legacy planning. Key highlights: ➡️ How families like the Godrejs and Tatas manage disput...

In the latest episode of the Create Wealth podcast with Sandeep Jethwani, we have Saurabh Gadgil, the Chairman and Managing Director at PNG Jewellers. Saurabh is the 6th generation business owner and has been running this 192-year-old company for over 25 years now. A few months ago, Saurabh reached a major milestone — taking PNG Jewellers public with a successful IPO and joining the billionaire&#3...

How did an ex-Amazon engineer discover a billion-dollar opportunity in jewellery? The journey of Gaurav Kushawaha, the founder of BlueStone, one of India’s leading jewellery brands is a story of resilience, business acumen and adherence to first-principles.  Watch the latest episode of the Create Wealth podcast, where Sandeep Jethwani talks to Gaurav Kushwaha about how he grew BlueStone into an IN...

In the latest episode of the Create Wealth podcast with Sandeep Jethwani, we have Tejas and Nupur Goenka, the third-generation leaders of Tally Solutions, India’s pioneering accounting software. For decades, Tally has been THE accounting software for Indian businesses, setting standards in India long before "SaaS" was even a concept. In this episode, Tejas and Nupur share how the family-le...

In the latest episode of Create Wealth with Sandeep Jethwani, we have Aloke Bajpai and Rajnish Kumar, co-founders of ixigo, a leading travel tech company valued at USD 401 million (INR ~3,370 crore). Aloke and Rajnish’s journey from bootstrapping ixigo to building a platform used by over 480 million active users is an inspiring story of resilience, innovation, and customer-centricity. In this epis...

In this episode, our co-founder Sandeep Jethwani talks to Ankit and Rajat Kedia - the dynamic brothers behind Manjushree Technopack, who transformed their father's umbrella manufacturing business into one of India's largest packaging solutions providers. Their success metrics tell a remarkable story: A modest ₹4 crore IPO in 1994 grew to deliver 45x returns to early investors Scaled from ₹...

In this episode of Create Wealth with Sandeep Jethwani, we are joined by Viren Rasquinha, Arjuna Awardee and CEO of Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ). From captaining the Indian hockey team (and leading India at the 2004 Athens Olympics) to switching to management at the peak of his sporting career to nurturing future Olympians, Viren has donned many hats and excelled at all!  Through OGQ, Viren is a man w...

In the latest episode of Create Wealth with Sandeep Jethwani , we have with us Deepak Padaki, President of Catamaran Ventures, the family office of tech visionary, Mr. Narayana Murthy. Deepak has transitioned from being one of the earliest employees of Infosys to managing a mega INR 10,000 crore corpus of Mr Murthy’s wealth, which is invested across the board - from public markets to private inves...