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other on 26 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 1,246 times in 352 episodes since 2015
the Neon Show 624 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 349 
Innovators & Investors 106 
Top Founders 104 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 7 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 6 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 6 
the a16z Podcast 6 
20VC 6 
In Depth 5 
Capital Allocators 5 
American Optimist 4 
Lenny's Podcast 3 
Another Podcast 2 
All-In 2 
Startup Acquisition Stories 1 
Startups For the Rest of Us 1 
We Live to Build 1 
My First Million 1 
No Priors 1 
Starter Story 1 
Sourcery 1 
the Green Blueprint 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
How I Built This 1 
Big Technology 1
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the Neon Show 624WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 349Innovators & Investors 106Top Founders 104the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 720VC 6the a16z Podcast 6the Official SaaStr Podcast 618 more shows
2026 135 mentions in 37 episodes 4 per episode
- S2E7: Tech, Trade & Trust: India–Netherlands and the Long Game ft. Ewout De Wit
- What Went Wrong Before iD Fresh Worked | For the First Time Co-Founders Tell Their Story
- Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep4: Digital Identity - Agents vs Humans ft. Rebecca Port, Okta
- Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
- Where SMALL models will Win | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest ai
- Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital
- How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 308 mentions in 77 episodes 4 per episode
- Karnataka's Billion Dollar Playbook ft. Sanjeev Gupta
- Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #22 | WTF are Craft Beverages? Nikhil ft. the Founders of Blue Tokai, Subko, Svami, and Mossant · Nikhil Kamath
- Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath
- From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- Growth, Migration and FDI: The Real Kerala Story with Minister P. Rajeev
- For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath
- 69 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 211 mentions in 49 episodes 4 per episode
- Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Ranbir Kapoor | People by WTF Ep #2 · Nikhil Kamath
- Bangalore Water Crisis Explained I Karnataka Govt Failure? | Vishwanath S on The Neon Show
- How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj
- WTF Ep# 16 | What character "flaws" make the best entrepreneurs? Nikhil ft.Ritesh, Ghazal and Manish · Nikhil Kamath
- Employment Researcher - “India Needs 20 Million Jobs Yearly For Demographic Advantage!” Sridhar K
- Ep. #19 | WTF is “Making it” in an Offbeat Career? Nikhil Kamath Ft. Kriti Sanon, Badshah & KL Rahul · Nikhil Kamath
- 41 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 262 mentions in 53 episodes 5 per episode
- Building a ₹3,000 Crore Business, PC Musthafa, Founder, iD Fresh
- Why Do Indians WORSHIP Bhagwan Using Puja Flowers? | Hoovu Founder on The Neon Show
- Infosys Ex-CFO: Nehru Vs PM Modi, India’s Future, Corruption I Mohandas Pai on Neon Show
- Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
- American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #6 | WTF is Health? ft. Nikhil Kamath, Suniel Shetty, Nithin Kamath and Mukesh Bansal · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 13 | WTF does it take to Build Influence Today? Nikhil w/ Nuseir, Tanmay, Prajakta & Ranveer · Nikhil Kamath
- 45 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 121 mentions in 41 episodes 3 per episode
- Is India's Real Estate Industry Doomed? | NoBroker IITian Founder on The Neon Show
- The Reality of Web3 That Only Few know ft Santosh Panda, Co-Founder, Foundership
- 5 Most Important Decisions of Our Lives | Journey of Siddhartha & Nansi, Founders, 100x Entrepreneur
- The Newest SHARK in Shark Tank India Ft. Vikas Nahar, Founder-Happilo
- How He Earns 3Cr/Year At The Age of 20? Ft. Ishan Sharma, Co-Founder of MarkitUp
- The Next Redfin? Real Estate Broker SaaS hits $2.4m Revenue, $50m Valuation
- 100+ Investments, 8 Exits in 10 Years! Journey of Abhishek Rungta, Founder, Seeders VC & Indus Net
- Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
- 33 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 58 mentions in 24 episodes 2 per episode
- Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
- Blume Ventures, Director on Investing in future of Electric Vehicles ft. Arpit Agarwal
- Dr. Geetha Manjunath on building Niramai, the most affordable product for breast cancer detection
- Disrupting real estate market with Amit Agarwal, Founder, NoBroker | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- Capitalmind founder on Financial Independence ft. Deepak Shenoy
- Zoom Teleprompter For Sales People Hits $1k MRR in 30 Days After Spending $8k on MVP
- Journey of Reliance acquiring Fynd, with Founder, Farooq Adam | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 70 mentions in 29 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- Making a crisis work for you with Sanjay Swamy & T. N. Hari
- Episode 50 | Sameer Brij Verma, Nexus Venture Partners
- Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital
- Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- 1710 Crop Optimization Software Hits $2.4m in ARR, $12m Raised
- Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- Anup Jain, Orios Venture Partners, on identifying the best founders & investing in Consumer Brands
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 35 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
- 1295 They Passed $700k in MRR Heling Developers Launch API's Faster
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 12 | Pawan Raj Kumar, Angel Investor and Founder Supa Foods
- 1454 How This Intercom, Drift Competitor Is Winning in India
- 50 Unicorns and 19 IPOs, Rajan Anandan from Peak XV on investing in CRED, Meesho, Groww & Mamaearth
- How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum
- Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- 1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR
- 959 Zoho Founder's New CRM Passes $300k MRR from 3000 Customers
- 1101 Bloomreach CEO: We've turned down acquisition offers in $400m range
- 20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 23 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- EP 636: Bangalore Startup Hits $40k MRR Helping 18 Customers Get Consumer Data Using Social Intelligence with Frrole CEO Amarpreet Kalkat
- 789: Google Bought Their Beacons to Distribute Free Wifi in India
- 16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
- 880 SaaS: Why Is This Engineer Competing in Highly Competitive Space?
- Zumba: Beto Perez & Alberto Perlman (January, 2017)
- 834: SaaS: He Hit 5x YoY Revenue Growth in Performance Marketing Space
- 814: My Hero: $3m+ In Revenue in SF, She's Resisted Funding While Helping Companies Digitally Transform
- A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- EP 508: Siftery $4M Raised, 25,000 Users to Help You Find Software Tools with CMO Gerry Golyer
- EP 501: Track Uninstalls with $325k in Funding, 15 Customers, with CEO Pritesh Vora of Uninstall.io
- EP 499: GetSignEasy Passes $200k MRR and 130k Customers To Help Sign Documents withCEO Sunil Patro
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2015 1 mention in 1 episode
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4 statements about Bengaluru, every show
KDEM launches Beyond Bangalore Blue connecting VCs with regional startups
“In fact, we start a program called as Beyond Bangalore Blue, where we take the VCs, top VCs from Bangalore and Delhi and Chennai and everywhere else to these locations, and we curate top-end startups.”
Zuora CIO: 80% of AI startups engineer in Bengaluru or Chennai
“I think most of the AI startups is eight out of 10 off from here or Chennai, right? Even though they may have a base in US, headquartered in US, I would say, 80% of the mindset is over here.”
Anucheth: Bengaluru has India's highest vehicular density at 872 per thousand
“Now, Bangalore has the highest number of vehicles per thousand. It's 872 per thousand population.”
Anucheth: Bengaluru vehicle count doubled between 2013 and 2023
“So we have 1.5 crore population with 1.23 crore vehicle population, right? So with the kind of explosive growth, so the compounded annual growth rate of vehicles is eight percent, right? We doubled in between 2013 and 22, 23. It was 56 to become 1.12 crores, r…”