Prime Venture Partners Podcast

Matt Abrahams , Lecturer Stanford Graduate School of Business and host of Think Fast Talk Smart Podcast chats with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 03:00 - Communication Game: Reflect, Practice & Iterate 13:00 - The Art of Engaging Your Audience 18:30 - Was it a Great Meeting? 21:30 - Matt’s “what, so what, now what” feedback techniq...

Khadim Batti , Co-Founder & CEO Whatfix chats with Shripati Acharya , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 03:00 - GPS for Software 09:00 - Finding PMF & The Right Customer Segment 15:30 - Pricing & Product For Enterprise 21:00 - Building Sales Cycle & Sales Force in US 29:00 - Four Pillars of Category Awareness 36:00 - Start Selling to Ent...

Keerti Singh & Kashyap Reddy , Co-Founders HitWicket chat with Shripati Acharya , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:00 - Cricket is a Game of Strategy 11:00 - Games are Where Gamers Hang Out 18:00 - India Gamers & Bharat Gamers 20:05 - Web3 Gaming: Technology,  Game Play & Tokens Click here to read the full transcript Want to learn more a...

Ashutosh Garg , Co-Founder & CEO Eightfold. AI chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 04:30 - How to Find if there is Enterprise Demand 08:30 - Find Pitch Market Fit before Product Market Fit 14:30 - “I didn't build anything before I raised the first dollar. “ 16:00 - Why Job Descriptions are Useless 23:30 - Moneyball for En...

Shashank Kumar , Co-Founder & CEO DeHaat chats with Gaurav Ranjan , VP Investments Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 05:20 - "We Started when AgriTech was Agriculture" 14:40 - Scalability and Monetisation in AgriTech 23:00 - Role of Tech(Enabler or Revenue Generator) 37:10 - Managing Scale in a Fast Growing Startup 43:30 - New Startup Opportunities in Agri...

Welcome to another episode of Prime Venture Partners. We have been running the podcast for the past 3 years and many of you have joined us recently and may have missed some of the gems. So today we are re-publishing one of our most loved episode. Bhavin Turakhia , serial entrepreneur Flock , Radix , Zeta chats with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to l...

Welcome to another episode of Prime Venture Partners. We have been running the podcast for the past 3 years and many of you have joined us recently and may have missed some of the gems. So today we are re-publishing one of our most loved episode.  Shreyas Doshi chats with Amit Somani Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about: 04:00 - Address the problem not a p...

Shireesh Joshi , Chief Business Office ONDC chats with Gaurav Ranjan , VP Investments  Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 04: 15 - ONDC: Interoperability & Unbundling 16:15 -  Why will Customers  use ONDC? 29:30  -  “ONDC is not a finished product. It is a capability” 31:00 - Business models, Unsolved Areas and New Opportunities 42:30 - Success Metrics for ONDC  Clic...

Kushal Rastogi , Founder & CEO Knight FinTech chats with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 04:30 - Solving Hard Problems for Large Financial Institutions 17:15 - Gaining Trust & Confidence of a Large Enterprise 36:00 - Challenge of Building Two Products at a Young Company 45:00 - Future Plans of Knight FinTech & Global Opportu...

Welcome to another episode of Prime Venture Partners. This is a special new series we are starting - Prime Ideas. We will be sharing some of the most powerful but simple insights shared by the guests on the podcast.  On this first episode we have Ashish Kashyap, Founder & CEO INDmoney sharing how a startup can build trust on Day1 & why you should not wait to give value to customers. If you...

The topic for today's hallway conversation with Shripati Acharya & Gaurav Ranjan is Web3 Gaming. Enjoy listening! Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:30 - What is Web3 Gaming 09:30 - NFTs, Tokens & Monetisation 15:15 - "There is No Game Without the Gameplay" 23:00 - Future of Web3 Gaming: Crypto & Micro payments Click here to read the full transcript Enjoyed learning...

Byas Nambisan , CEO Ezetap & Harshil Mathur CEO & Co-Founder Razorpay chat with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:20 - Exciting Future Together 05:20 - How to Think about an Acquisition 10:10 - Convergence & New Opportunities 13:30 - Diligence & The Ability to Co-Create 24:00 - Building a Seamless Omnichannel Experience...

Tarun Khanna , Professor at the Harvard Business School chats with Shripati Acharya , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For over two decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets.  In 2007, he was nominated Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World...

Prashant Pitti , Co-Founder EaseMyTrip chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - My Margin is My Opportunity 13:30 - Network Effects &  Late Mover Advantage 23:00 - From Risk-Aversion to Bias Towards Action 33:00 - "It’s always better to be curious than cautious" Prashant also hosts a popular podcast Decoding Unico...

Amrit Acharya , Co-Founder & CEO Zetwerk chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:00 - Falling in Love with Manufacturing 12:00 - Finding Founder Market Fit 18:00 - How to Choose the Right Idea 31:30 - Making India Attractive to International Manufacturers 40:00 - Don’t Be In a Hurry to be a Large Company Click here to read the...

T.N Hari , Ex-Head HR Bigbasket & Co-Founder Artha School of Entrepreneurship chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:30 - Culture is the Identity of a Startup 07:00 - When to 'document' Culture 16:00 - Building for Scale is Different From Managing Scale 21:30 - Dealing With a Downturn & Taking Big Chances 27:00 -...

Nithin Kamath , Founder & CEO Zerodha chats with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - Zerodha's Founding Story 06:30 - From 2Million to 10Million Customers 15:00 - User Behaviour, IPO Markets & Young Money 26:00 - "You can’t just spend money to gain credibility" 37:00 - Doing What’s Right For The Customer Click...

Ananth Narayanan , Founder Mensa Brands chats with Shripati Acharya , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 03:45 - Productising All Elements of Brand Building 09:00 - Why is Brand Building Expensive 12:30 - Why Founders Choose Mensa Brands 18:00 - From Unbranded to Branded 25:30 - Finding PMF in the D2C World Click here to read the full transcript Found th...

Farid Ahsan , Co-founder & COO ShareChat chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - Founding ShareChat: Rejections & Insights 12:45 - How First-Time Internet Users Use Internet 20:00 - Content, Commerce, Livestreams & Monetisation 36:00 - Dealing with Down Moments as a Founder Click here to read the full transcript Fo...

Tanmay Bhat , Comedian, YouTuber, Investor chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:00 - Advertising -> TV -> Stand up & Originality 12:00 - What makes something interesting? 18:00 - The Power of Short Feedback Loops 24:00 - How to Find the Next Super Creators 32:00 - Asking the Right Questions as a Creator 36:00 - Platfor...

Ashish Kashyap , Founder & CEO INDmoney chats with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Ashish is the founder of INDmoney. He is also the Founder & ex-CEO of ibibo Group (goibibo, redBus & PayU). Prior to founding ibibo Group, Ashish was the Country Head of Google India, wherein he set up the India facing operations from ground up.  Listen to the podcast to learn ab...

On this special episode we have our three partners Sanjay Swamy , Shripati Acharya and Amit Somani discuss 10 yrs of Prime , the India Opportunity, the Evolution of Indian Entrepreneur and much more. Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - The Meaning of VC as a Startup 13:00 - Indian Startup Ecosystem: 2010-2022 |  Ambition, Talents, Unicorns, IPOs, Exits 37:00 - 10 Yrs at Prime: Lessons Lea...

Anand Subbaraj , CEO Zuper chats with Shripati Acharya , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Anand is a seasoned entrepreneur and a product leader and with the team at Zuper he is enabling service organizations globally to transform customer experience with an intelligent field service and customer engagement platform.  Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:30 - Why Anand and team started...

Kirthiga Reddy , Growth-stage Investor & Technology Executive Ex Facebook & Softbank chats with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Kirthiga is President, Athena Technology II, the third in a series of all women-led SPACs bringing leading talent, access to capital and transaction experience to enable a market leader to access the equity capital markets. She is Founding...

Dilip Asbe , MD & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India ( NPCI ) chats with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Mr. Dilip Asbe is the MD & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Prior to this he was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of NPCI. He has played a pivotal role in designing, building, operationalisation and management of large scale inno...