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Varma: Nodwin CEO Akshat Rathee will be India's next pop culture disruptor
“Oh, I'll, let me butter up a friend of mine. I'll call Akshat Radhi the next pop culture disruptor. He's the CEO of Nordwind Gaming. He's the gentleman who acquired our company, but he's also acquired many other IPs and he's trying to build new IPs. So I'm sur…”
Varma: Exiting a business makes starting another harder due to risk aversion
“I learned through the school of very hard knocks to finally hone my business skills, which is why now that I've exited a business, it's so difficult to jump back into something because I'm constantly, you know be like, no, no, it doesn't make sense. It's too r…”
Comic Con India Gives Free Booth Space to Indian Creators as Guests
“When we reached a certain scale, we decided to invest in spaces in our shows, which you, you're referring to where you go and there's a line of Indian artists, creators, designers all together, and they don't pay to be there. We invite them over and we treat t…”
Varma: Comic Con India Drew 250,000 Visitors Annually Across Five Cities
“When we exited the business, this is 20, 24 we were doing five cities. This is full five shows after the pandemic... Cumulatively we would get close to about two and a half lakh visitors.”
Varma: The Souled Store Had One of Its First Exhibitions at Comic Con
“The Souled Store in fact, they probably one of their first sort of exhibition outing was at comic con.”
Comic Con India Partnered Strategically Instead of Seeking Traditional VC Funding
“Initially when we got investor, we weren't really looking for one. We were approached by someone and it was a strategic partnership because it was a joint venture of sorts because they were already in the business.”
Varma: New York Comic Con's parent invested into Comic Con India
“During the fourth year of our business, We had a strategic investor, which was one of the largest exhibition companies in the world. They were also the owners of New York Comic Con Chicago, Australia. I mean, they were doing Comic Cons all around the world at …”
Varma: Live pop-culture events in India cannot rely on domestic audience travel
“We understood from the first day that people are not going to travel in India for something like this. You'll have to take it to them.”
Varma: Comic Con India Revenue Is Split Evenly Across Three Streams
“So for us it was, it's a equally sort of split between those three revenue spaces, which is exhibition rental ticketing and sponsorship. Sponsorship ends up being the cherry on the cake.”