The Ashish Sinha Show

I’ve been using Wispr Flow for the last six months and it has become one of those products that quietly slips into your daily workflow. After a shoulder injury from playing tennis, typing for long periods became uncomfortable, so dictation wasn’t just a productivity hack for me—it genuinely made working easier. Ironically, I stopped using it last week. [The show, Rumble with Sinha is co-hosted in...

Everyone is talking about Kunal Shah becoming CEO of WhatsApp. I think they’re looking at the wrong story. The bigger story is that Meta suddenly needs WhatsApp to work. For years, WhatsApp has been one of the most successful products in the world. But it has also been one of Meta’s biggest unfinished businesses. Meta paid $19 billion for WhatsApp more than a decade ago. Yet WhatsApp still contrib...

Most companies building marketplaces struggle with one simple truth: demand and supply need to grow together, but early hacks often go unnoticed or unscalable. Amit, CEO and co-founder of NoBroker, reveals the counterintuitive lessons learned from disrupting the $50 billion real estate industry—lessons that could redefine how you think about scaling any marketplace. From avoiding the trap of expan...

You have a "God-level" product. Your pricing is perfect. Your UI is beautiful. So why aren't customers buying? In this video, Ashish breaks down the brutal reality of why great SaaS products fail—and it has nothing to do with your features. Most founders make the mistake of trying to change a company's behavior. In SaaS, if your customer doesn't already have an existing workf...

Sam Altman frequently warns that most founders fail not because they don't work hard, but because they choose the "enjoyable path" over the "ambitious path." i.e. fake work. They spend 12 hours a day on Slack, tweaking UI colors, and attending networking events—tasks that feel productive but move the needle exactly zero inches. In this video, I break down a simple 2-circle...

90% of consumer AI ideas look sexy but crash hard — most end up in the “tar pit” with zero real traction or revenue uplift.  For e.g. that new ‘productivity app’, that ‘event discovery platform’ and an all-time fav, ‘friend finder’ :) In this video, I break down why so many consumer AI startups fail and share a realistic 2×2 framework that separates doomed ideas from winners. X-axis: Existing Beha...

A rerun of my conversation with Shane Parrish of Farnam street. The conversation is a reminder about what matters in one's life - did you focus on the outcome or..your ego? I made a lot of tough decisions this year (thanks to a near death experience) and the mental model of outcome vs. ego kept coming to me - hence this rerun.

How to build successful startups. Watch this 30 mins MBA (well, almost) with K Ganesh - serial entrepreneur and investors behind successful startups like BigBasket, Portea Medical, Bluestone, HomeLane, Freshmenu. In this episode (the last one in the series), Ganesh and Ashish discuss several topics ranging from the next big opportunities in India to traits of a successful Indian company.1. Why van...

Akshayakalpa is a weird business (weird in a good way) - it is one of the largest soil management companies in India - but ended up selling milk to create a sustainable business for its stakeholders (primarily farmers). And in the process, created a 400 cr+ (~$50mn) revenue business - accidentally! My next guest in #UnPluggdWithSinha podcast is Shashi Kumar, Cofounder and CEO of Akshayakalpa - Ind...

He is one of the OGs of new age retail businesses.  Raised funding - as expected great expansion plans et al.  The money didn't hit the bank account (some % did)  Almost lost his startup to investors - somehow got it back (had to take a loan)  Activated the 'sane' mode - survived, scaled up.  Meet my next guest in  #UnPluggdWithSinha  show - Manish Sharma, cofounder and CEO of Printo,...

Balkrishna Birla has started 2 of India's hottest startups - ZopNow and Asklaila. In this conversation with Ashish Sinha, he shares lessons learned building these companies - his 'Steve Jobs' moment, where he was fired from his startup to his candid take on startups - I.e startups are not sexy, there are many ways to make good money (and handling #personalfinance is the first step). Apart from bei...

Deepak Shenoy is founder and CEO of Capital Mind, a pioneering financial analytics and investment research firm. Deepak and I talk about his first startup, the early days of building CapitalMind, being rejected by VCs (heck ! this is just a blog!!!!) to building a solid business…and lessons learned scaling CapitalMind. building capitalmind from a blog to leading financial research company Deepak’s...

Introducing : UnPluggd with Sinha - a new show, and a refreshingly new format (none of those standard studio setups)! UnPluggd with sinha is the show where real, raw, and refreshingly candid conversations happen on the move - no made-up studios! Because the best ideas don’t need a stage – just a car, a drive, and a great guest. We are breaking away from the studio format and creating a unique expe...

In this conversation, Ashish Sinha interviews Arvind Narayanan, professor of computer science at Princeton University and co-author of the book AI Snake Oil ( https://amzn.to/402Ayiw) , discussing the impact of AI on various sectors, the differences between generative and predictive AI, the challenges of AI agents, and the future of AI technology. We explore the importance of human-AI collaboratio...

Manasij is the founder of o-founder and CEO of ZapScale, a B2B SaaS platform aimed at enhancing customer success for small businesses.  Before this he started ThreadSol, a very  boring  B2B company building fabric management solutions for the apparel industry which was acquired by Coats. Manasij has written a wonderful book : The Economy Class founder and in this conversation, we talk about the ev...

Contact centers/ support offices are changing and what was seen as a boring space is..the HOTTEST space in the Gen AI world! In this episode of the Ashish Sinha Show, I talk to Gaurav Singh, founder of Verloop on how contact centers are evolving, how the ICPs are evolving and importantly, how does BPO2.0 will look like. In this episode, we talk about: 1. Gaurav’s journey from B2C to B2B / Enterpri...

Welcome to a new season of this podcast where I speak with Masters of AI, i.e. founders / leaders building AI applications using AI. Expect a mix of SAAS, prosumer and consumer startup founders and leaders sharing their learning building a growing AI native businesses. ------- Vijay Rayapati is a tech entrepreneur  who earlier sold Minjar to Nutanix and is now building AtomicWork, an AI-powered IT...

Welcome to one more edition of 2by2 - wherein I attempt to demystify big questions using the power of 2by2. Today, the big qn is whether your AI tool is a feature or a product. There are 2 broad parameters to look at when answering this - customer benefit (i.e. value as perceived by your customers) AND integration / implementation effort. Do listen to this episode and share your feedback. What els...

Founders are often confused whether to bootstrap or raise funding? First of all, there is no right or wrong answers here. "What'ever floats your boat" is a generic advice, but there has to be a better framework for founders to make a well-informed decision. At scale (say $100mn+ revenue or Series D onwards_, startups are all about 2 things Control i.e. ability to control your decisio...

The ixigo story by Aloke : On being a cockroach to surviving and thriving! This episode brings you insights from the keynote delivered by Aloke Bajpai at UnPluggd conf, India's largest startup conference. Aloke shares the early days of ixigo and how the company survived economic downturn to VC rejections..and everything else!

Welcome to BigIdeas - a show where I bring to you, big ideas from some of the world’s best thinkers across a diverse set of topics ranging from  AI to mental health, science to philosophy. Today, my guest is Shane Parrish. Shane Parrish is widely known for creating Farnam Street, a blog, podcast and learning community. He is also the author of several books and his latest one is Clear Thinking - y...

Writing the Amazon way: With Kintan, Ex-GM of Amazon Podcasts

Koo’s Aprameya on building, scaling a global product The community conversation was recorded on the award-winning FWD app , Follow ‘The Ashish Sinha’ show on your favorite podcast app Spotify | Apple | Google | Amazon | More

Ajey Of Sequoia Capital On How Can Founders Go about Managing Teams | #Shortcasts The community conversation was recorded on the award-winning FWD app , Follow ‘The Ashish Sinha’ show on your favorite podcast app Spotify | Apple | Google | Amazon | More

Understanding Bharat: how to speed up your GTM The community conversation was recorded on the award-winning FWD app , Follow ‘The Ashish Sinha’ show on your favorite podcast app Spotify | Apple | Google | Amazon | More