Prime Venture Partners Podcast

Harsh Jain , Co-Founder & CEO Dream Sports chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Harsh Jain is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dream Sports, India’s leading sports technology company, with over 140 million users across brands such as Dream11, FanCode, Dream Capital, DreamSetGo, DreamPay and Dream Sports Foundation in its portfolio. He founded Dream11 in 2008, along with...

Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar , Co-Founders ixigo in conversation with Amit Somani Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 03:04 - ixigo Founding Story 07:03 - Unconventional Prioritisation 14:12 - "more capital killed more companies than less capital" 21:18 - Near Death Experiences & Culture 30:05 - Future; Thinking Big; Changing the World C...

Dinesh Agarwal , Founder & CEO IndiaMART chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - Founding story of IndiaMART 09:00 - IndiaMART’s journey into the domestic B2B space 20:00 - Bundling & Unbundling; Verticalization; Superapps 25:00 - Opportunities in Indian B2B space 29:10 - Keep Learning & Don't Go Home Click he...

Nandan Nilekani , co-founder and chairman of Infosys , and Tanuj Bhojwani , fellow at iSpirit in conversation with Sanjay Swamy Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:20 - Finding the The Art of Bitfulness in a Distracted World 10:00 - How to Avoid Clutter & Find Focus 17:00 - Define Yourself & Find Time for What Matters 23:00 - FOMO, Exposure The...

Donna Griffit chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Donna Griffit is a Corporate Storyteller, has worked globally for over 16 years with Fortune 500 companies, Start-Ups, and investors in a wide variety of industries. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries. Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories that captivate audie...

Parag Naik , Co-Founder & CEO  Saankhya Labs chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - Parag's entrepreneurial journey in the semiconductor space 07:15 - Computer Science & the Goal of Hardware 13:00 - Dealing with Incumbents & Finding Opportunities 24:00 - Building the Semiconductor Ecosystem & Attracting I...

Srinivas Narayanan ex VP Engineering/Head of AI Applied Research Meta/Facebook   chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:10 - True Meaning of "Move fast and Break Things" 08:00 - When & How to Reward Failure 15:00 - Goals, Accountability & Shipping Velocity 25:30 - Dealing with Failure When You Haven't Failed...

Aniket Jindal , Co-Founder Biconomy chats with Shripati Acharya , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - Aniket's journey from Binance to Biconomy 07:40 - Finding PMF as a Web3 Startup 15:00 - Why & How of Tokenomics at a Web3 Startup 21:00 - How Biconomy Built Its Community 23:00 - Unsolved Problems in the Web3 space 25:00 - How Web3 Startu...

Ashish Munjal , Co-Founder & CEO Sunstone Eduversity chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - Why Ashish Decided to Work on Sunstone  05:30 - Lessons Learned: Right Market & Staying Focussed 08:15 - Making Education Transparent & Accountable  16:00 - Zero-Based Budgeting and How It Helped Sunstone  21:00 - Three Ski...

A special episode for you this week which has the best conversations we had on the podcast this year. Let us the know the conversation you enjoyed the most. Click here to learn more   Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this. Follow Prime Venture Partners: Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Primevp_in   LinkedIn:  https://w...

Alisa Cohn Startup & CEO Coach chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Alisa Cohn has been coaching startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. She is the author of From Start-Up to Grown-Up .  A onetime startup CFO, strategy consultant, and current angel investor and advisor, she was named the number one “Global Guru” of startups in 2021, and...

Anshumani Ruddra App PM Lead for Google Pay chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:00 - Anshumani's Product Journey from Zynga to Google 09:30 - Why You Need Both Tactical Depth & Strategic Depth 15:00 - How Indian Users are Ahead of Indian PMs and Designers 24:00 - The Golden Age of Product Management 29:30 - How to Thin...

Nischal Shetty , Founder & CEO WazirX chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 02:00 - Why Crypto is Growing  12:30 - Building WazirX: Finding Gaps and Building a Community 20:15 - Interoperability in the Crypto World 27:30 - Maximising Optionality Vs Staying Focussed 34:45 - Emergence of DeFi Protocols and Decentralised apps 31:30...

Tarun Mehta , Co-Founder & CEO Ather Energy chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:50 - Ather Energy's Founding Story 07:45 - Customer Discovery: Loved the Tech Hated the Product 09:30 - How to think about Entrepreneurship as a Student 15:00 - Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in the EV space 18:40 - Working with the Govern...

Naomi Bagdonas & Jennifer Aaker Authors Humor, Seriously chat with Sanjay Swamy , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Dr. Jennifer Aaker is a behavioural scientist, author, and General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Coulter Family Fellow. She studies how purpose and meaning shape the choices individuals make and how technologies including Artificial In...

Mudit Dandwate & Gaurav Parchani Co-Founders Dozee chat with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Dozee provides remote health monitoring solutions and devices that track heart health, respiration, sleep quality and stress levels. Dozee aims to partner with over 1,000 hospitals across India to help them upgrade critical care infrastructure through remote patient monitoring....

Rohith Bhat , Founder & CEO 99Games chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Rohith is a  parallel entrepreneur who started three companies: Robosoft Technologies, Global Delight and 99Games. Robosoft Technologies started in 1996 and had Apple Inc. as the first customer.  Robosoft was acquired by  TechnoPro of Japan in 2021 for $100m+. Rohith is now focussing all of h...

Shirish Nadkarni , Serial Entrepreneur & Author chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Shirish is a serial entrepreneur with proven success in creating multiple consumer businesses that have scaled to tens of millions of users worldwide. Shirish was the cofounder of Livemocha, the world’s largest language learning site with more than 15 million registered members fr...

Shihab Muhammed , Founder & CEO SurveySparrow chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Shihab is someone who has been in Indian SaaS ecosystem from the first day of his career. His first job after college was at Zoho and after that he was the part of Freshworks founding team and now he is building a SaaS startup himself. Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - Th...

Vidit Aatrey , Founder & CEO Meesho chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:05 – Early Days of Meesho, the Idea and the Challenges 13:30 – Meesho’s Core Value of Always Listening to Users 16:50 – Team building, Hiring and Retaining Talent at Startups 26:50 – Current Landscape of the Indian E-commerce Sector 33:00 – Importance o...

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy , Founder & Chairman theBoardlist   chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners .  Sukhinder is a Digital leader, Board member and Investor with 25+ years experience. She has held leadership roles at Stubhub, Google, theBoardlist, Yodlee, Polyvore,  Joyus and Amazon.  Listen to the podcast to learn about 01:00 - Risk-taking as an early-stage startup...

Neha Singh , Co-Founder & CEO Tracxn chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about: 00:45 - What Does Tracxn Do and The Explosive Growth of Private Markets 05:15 - How to Leverage Tracxn as an Investor & an Entrepreneur 07:47 - What it Takes Build a Data Business. 13:30 - Building Moats in a Data Business 19:45 - Tracxn’s Go To Mark...

Nickhil Jakatdar ,  CEO GenePath Diagnostics chats with Amit Somani , Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about: 00:46 - How Nickhil started his entrepreneurial journey 08:13 - The process of Dating: finding interesting, smart, motivated people. 13:10 - When and how should a founder “let go” 17:47 - An overview of what molecular diagnostics is and what does Gen...

Viral B. Shah Co-Founder and CEO at Julia Computing chats with Shripati Acharya Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about: 03:48 – Why build another programming language? 13:30 – Who was using Julia in the beginning? 17:10 – How an AI/ML engineer can get started with Julia 19:10 - How interested is Indian software community in Julia? 22:30 – Why Viral started J...

Amit Ranjan , CoFounded SlideShare , Architect DigiLocker chats with Amit Somani Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners . Listen to the podcast to learn about: 04:04 -  Learnings from building and selling SlideShare 09:18 - Government and Open Source model 16:07 - Government learning about the Openness of the internet 19:11 - Making DigiLocker Successful 25:25 -  How founders can leverage infrast...