The Builders Club Business Podcast

Bharat is a serial entrepreneur who has already built two successful businesses, PosterGully and iDecorama in the past. Both of these were digitally native brands. With this experience, He started Swmabhan Commerce Private Limited to focus on creating digitally native vertical brands in large untapped markets in the FMCG sector in India.  In their latest round of funding Swmabhan was led by R...

Jaineel is Co-Founder and CEO at Planet Superheroes, India's only omni-channel consumer brand dedicated to licensed character merchandise like Superheroes, Cartoons & Comics. In addition to its own website, Planet Superheroes has 25+ stores across 12 states in India and sells via both online and offline channels. The Story of Planet Superheroes was also mentioned in the well-celebrated book “F...

Arjun Vaidya is a sixth-generation Vaidya who has inherited the family's 100 India FDA-approved medical formulations and 50 trademarks, accumulated over 150 years.  After graduating from Brown University and working at LVMH's private equity arm, Vaidya decided to start an Ayurvedic healthcare company that would combine the family's traditions with cool branding, easy to use products, and onli...

Ashish is the Co-Founder and Chief Everything Officer of POSist( www.posist.com ), They are the leaders in India, and top 5 globally in the cloud-based restaurant technology platform market. They offer scalable, reliable, and easy to use point-of-sale technology, enabling businesses to automate operations, integrate with aggregators, delight guests, and grow their revenue. Today they serve 9,000+...

Piyush Kumar is the CEO & Co-Founder at Rooter. Rooter is the biggest Indian Game Streaming Platform. Rooter is the only Indian Company ever to be selected for prestigious IeAD Sports Accelerator Program run by Adidas Family in Berlin, Germany. IeAD Fund is also a key investor in the company aside from other funds like Paytm, Anthill Ventures, Founder Bank Capital, Venture Catalysts and famous...

Sairee Chahal is the Founder, CEO of SHEROES – a community platform for women, offering support, resources, opportunities, and interactions via Sheroes.com and the SHEROES App. Sairee is credited with building up women at work and future-of-work conversations in India, besides building a strong technology play to solve the problems of gender disparity in India. Recognized for her achievements glob...

James Mayes is the Co-Founder and CEO for Mind The Product - the world's largest and brightest community of Product Managers with over 300,000 members in 200 cities across the world. --------------------- Know more about us: https://www.thebuildersclub.me/ We hold Watercooler Chats every Saturday - This is an interactive voice chat we have as a community about a topic with an industry expert. Join...

Varun is the co-founder and CEO of Avalon Meta, It is an alternative online education platform that teaches you skills relevant to the present-day world, to help you develop the tools & mindset you need for building great careers. Experts across various disciplines help you learn, mentor you, and transform your career prospects. He is also the author of the book “Pyjama Profit”(#1 Amazon Busin...

Tanveer is the Co-Founder and CEO of SOVA.Health, India's first Precision Nutrition platform to prevent and manage lifestyle diseases. He has been an entrepreneur for over 8 years and has an academic background in Business Studies and Design Thinking (Advanced Track @HPI). His primary area of focus is to enhance the quality of human lives through proactive nutrition. He co-founded an Indo-German D...

Part 1 here: https://bit.ly/3udJQ8T Sanjay is one of the founding team members of PayPal and is credited by Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman with significant contributions that helped make the Paypal business model work. he is now an evangelist and helps people from around the world get together to make billions from millions. -------------------------- Know more about us: https://www.thebuildersclub.me...

Part 2 here: https://bit.ly/2Pn6IUn Sanjay is one of the founding team members of PayPal and is credited by Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman with significant contributions that helped make the Paypal business model work. he is now an evangelist and helps people from around the world get together to make billions from millions. -------------------------- Know more about us: https://www.thebuildersclub.me...

Tanishq is Co-Founder and CEO at Skyber and Dhanda, Skyber aims to fuel the future of businesses and if you own/run any business, irrespective of the size, industry, or stature whereas  Dhanda is Bharat ka business app, Powered on Skyber. He also mentors a few startups for the sheer love of helping people and building something sustainable. He makes it a point to talk to one person who is eit...

Kazi Hassan is the founder and CEO of  Happihub, which is the first bill receipt scan-based digital cashback/reward platform in Bangladesh.  Happihub is helping middle/lower-middle-class consumers in Bangladesh by offering the easiest purchase savings option through cashback and digitizing the small & medium retailers with a data-driven re-marketing tool. He also worked for Daraz.com...

Sumith is the Founder and CEO of KickstartX, redefines the professional lifestyle by driving the young passion towards the right vision with a direction. He is Chief Dad at Backbenchers. He was also Ex-president Confederation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CIMSME). He was also one of the “20 under 20 Entrepreneur” by Entrepreneur India in 2019. -------------------------------------...

The Builders Club had its first townhall with Ankur Warikoo. Ankur Warikoo is an entrepreneur, angel investor, mentor and public speaker, and now a content creator as well. He founded nearbuy.com in 2015 and was the CEO until 2019. Prior to that, he started the Groupon India business in 2011 and was the APAC GM, until 2015. He is an active angel investor and invests in early stage tech startups an...

Rajit is the Founder and CEO of Data Sutram , an AI-enabled Location Intelligence Enterprise ( www.datasutram.com )."Data Scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st Century" - Following a global interest in data, Rajit began to dabble into its potential and by the time he was 19, was already involved in creating unique data-driven solutions for social and commercial sectors. His first clients includ...

Pratham is the Founder of ENTREESPHERE , An Incubator re-conceptualizing entrepreneurship through experiential learning for those with creative and innovative ideas to transform their passion into reality ( http://www.entreesphere.com/ ). Entreesphere partnered with T-HUB , One of the world’s largest tech startup hub. Previously, He started and headed two startups, Wissenarie and Tech Amaush -----...

Ankur is the Founder of Hostel Fund, A Startup Fund for Students by Students powered by investors and industry experts (www.hostel.fund). He is also a VC at SenseAI Ventures, India’s leading VC fund backing AI startups.  A member of the National Startup Council of India (CII). Apart from all of these, He is an advisor at multiple startups and a mentor @ Founders Institute. In this podcast, we...

For This Saturday's Watercooler conversation, we had Sanjay Chakraborty ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-chakraborty-55403b13 ) as our guest.    Sanjay is the Founder and Chief Marketing Communication Advisor at ESSKSEE Consultancy. He has more than 25 years of extensive experience in Sales, Marketing, Communication, and Advertising . Creativity – in any field – motivates him. He is...

For This Saturday's Watercooler conversation , we had Kaustubh Dhargalkar as our guest.    Kaustubh is the Author of ‘It’s Logical: Innovating Profitable Business Models’ https://bit.ly/ItsLogical .    A serial entrepreneur since 1990. Founded four companies and now on two more ventures. In 2006, sold commercial interests in his first 3 companies and plunged into academics and...

Hey Guys, this week we had Sankar Thiagasamudram, CEO, Audeze as our guest.  ( https://www.audeze.com/ ) .    Sankar is a passionate entrepreneur and business leader with a solid track record delivering great products. He is the CEO of Audeze, the award winning headphone company based in California. Sankar wore multiple hats (Engineer, CFO, etc) as he grew Audeze from a bootstrapped...

Hey Guys,  This week, we had Abhishek Asthana, commonly known as @gabbbarsingh on Twitterverse, for our watercooler chat. Apart from being a twitter influencer with over 1.3mn followers, Abhishek is also the founder of GingerMonkey, a marketing consulting firm he has been bootstrapping for the past 6 months, and has seen exponential growth in terms of business from his clients. ------ The Bui...

Hey Guys,  This week, we discussed about lean Startups and How early stage startups can apply it in their growth process with Brant Cooper.  Brant Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and CEO of Moves the Needle. With over two decades of expertise helping companies bring innovative products to market, he blends agile, design thinking, and lean methodol...

Hey Guys,  This week, we discussed about the EdTech industry with Ayush Agrawal, CEO - Codefoxie ( https://www.codefoxie.com). CodeFoxie is a Pune based EdTech startup which teaches kids how to code. ------ The Builder's Club is a community of startup founders & Enthusiasts who help each other build great products and businesses. You can join the community here: https://discord.gg/UXgeVk3...

We go through the why, what, with whom and hows of starting out in your own. Very basic and foundational elements put together. Follow me @intelsohail for any feedback and queries.