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the Neon Show 42 
Top Founders 28 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 14 
Innovators & Investors 4 
American Optimist 2 
How I Built This 2 
Acquired 1
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2026 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- S2E8: Indian Mythology x Gaming: The Age of Bhaarat ft. Amish Tripathi & Mukul Deora
- Where SMALL models will Win | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest ai
- Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
- How Anjali Sardana Built a $200M Company in 1 Year
- The World Bank President On Why Jobs Fix Everything | Ajay Banga x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
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2025 23 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Ratan Tata’s Inspirational Stories – Former Tata Brand Custodian Shares His Experience | Harish Bhat
- Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath
- How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
- Ep #22 | WTF are Craft Beverages? Nikhil ft. the Founders of Blue Tokai, Subko, Svami, and Mossant · Nikhil Kamath
- Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- How Startup’s Should Find REAL Customer Pain w/ 4x Founder Shreesha Ramdas (Lumber)
- EP1: The GCC Revolution of India ft. Lalit Ahuja
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2024 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
- SANJEEV SANYAL On India's East Vs West Divide, Kolkata's Decline, Goa, C-PACE And UPSC | Neon Show
- Nikhil Kamath x Nandan Nilekani | People by WTF | Ep #3 · Nikhil Kamath
- JAMSETJI TATA: How The Legend Built Tata (Taj Hotel, TATA Tea, Air India, And Tanishq) | Harish Bhat
- Understanding Indian consumers & breaking down jewellery brands w/ GIVA Founder Ishendra Agarwal
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2023 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Manduka: Peter Sterios
- Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
- American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- Why Do Indians WORSHIP Bhagwan Using Puja Flowers? | Hoovu Founder on The Neon Show
- Ep #5 | EdTech What’s Broken, What’s Next? With Nikhil, Ronnie Screwvala , Gaurav Munjal & Jay Kotak · Nikhil Kamath
- The story behind Zepto w/ Founder, Aadit Palicha
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2022 18 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Zero to $15k/mo in 12 Months, Data Automation Tool Now Raising $1.2m on $10m
- The Newest SHARK in Shark Tank India Ft. Vikas Nahar, Founder-Happilo
- The Next Redfin? Real Estate Broker SaaS hits $2.4m Revenue, $50m Valuation
- Voice AI Company Raises $17m at $80m Valuation, 50x Revenue Multiple, Scaling Fast with NDR of 120%
- He got 17 customers to pay $80k/yr up from $40k/yr 1 year ago for Employee Onboarding SaaS
- How to Scale from $1M to $1B & Protecting Enterprises Cloud Data Ft. Jaspreet Singh, Founder: Druva
- How He Earns 3Cr/Year At The Age of 20? Ft. Ishan Sharma, Co-Founder of MarkitUp
- $10m revenue founder uses debt to get leverage in $22m Series B for help desk software
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2021 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Brand Building, fundraising by the founder of Bombay Shaving Company, Ex- McKinsey, IIM
- Understanding mental model of Wealth Creation with Paras Chopra, Founder, Wingify |100x Entrepreneur
- Electric Companies Pay Them $250k To Track Forest Fires, $1.2m raised at $7m Valuation
- What does it take to make a mark - Not so usual story ft. Manish Pandey
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2020 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Mohit Gulati, ITI Fund on why Hyper-investment is not a sure shot success for startups?
- Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped
- 1701 How He Turned 50k Free Users into $12k in MRR
- 1681 Why This $5m Legal Compliance Software is Looking for a $5m Bridge Round
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2019 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 1492 Industrial IoT Platform Hits $150k MRR, 3x YoY growth
- 1529 Will This Company Ever Scale Past $6k/mo?
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
- How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum
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2018 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
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4 statements about Pune, every show
Ahuja: Six metropolitan hubs account for over 95 percent of Indian GCCs
“There are obviously the established locations, the six locations that we all know, Bangalore, Pune, NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad. And these are the locations that account for majority, you know, more than 95% of the GCCs.”
Deshpande: Tier-2 city elites often have higher disposable income than metro elites
“So tier two India, if you in fact look at the top five percent households in a Ludhiana or a Nasik or a Coimbatore, will probably have much higher disposable income than the top five percent in a, let's say, Pune or an Ahmedabad. Because the cost of living is …”
Bhat: Tata bought and relocated a disused Nissan Australia plant
“They found a disused Nissan plant in Australia, which was being run for only 15 minutes a day to keep it going. They were able to negotiate and buy that plant at one-fifth to one-sixth the cost of a new plant. Brick by brick, they disassembled that plant in Au…”
Ghosh: 8VC Portfolio Companies Are Moving Engineering Teams to India
“The other part is our portfolio companies are majorly moving their engineering teams to India, as I mentioned. Large number in Bangalore, increasingly large number in Hyderabad, Chennai, and we see Pune as a hub that's growing very rapidly, and maybe someday G…”