Siddharth Ahluwalia
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2026 35 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- Why "SaaS Apocalypse" is the Best Filter for Top 1% of Founders | Vignesh Ravikumar, Sierra Ventures
- Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
- 94% CAGR: What the Inference Boom means for your AI costs | Vamshi Ambati
- How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
- How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 182 mentions in 37 episodes 5 per episode
- Digi Yatra, AQI, UDAN Scheme, And India's Net Zero Goals | Jayant Sinha | The Neon Show Podcast
- $600M AUM, 44 Bets, and a 30x Return Unicorn: Stellaris Venture Partners on Picking Winners Early
- Ratan Tata’s Inspirational Stories – Former Tata Brand Custodian Shares His Experience | Harish Bhat
- How Startup’s Should Find REAL Customer Pain w/ 4x Founder Shreesha Ramdas (Lumber)
- Zerodha’s Move Into A ₹68 Lakh Cr Industry | CEO Vishal Jain On Expanding India’s 8% Investor Base
- How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
- How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- Why YOU Should Know About Rajeev Motwani, a Genius Indian-American Professor
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 71 mentions in 31 episodes 2 per episode
- Is Quick Commerce Future Of Retail & India's IPO Market- Investment Banker Explains on The Neon Show
- JAMSETJI TATA: How The Legend Built Tata (Taj Hotel, TATA Tea, Air India, And Tanishq) | Harish Bhat
- NDA Vs UPA, Tax System, Kolkata's Fall, GDP Growth & More ft. Former CEA: Ashok Lahiri | Neon Show
- Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
- Building a $136M Fintech and becoming a leader in Neo Banking in India | Vinay Bagri, Founder, Niyo
- These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- IAS Turned RBI Governor: Duvvuri Subbarao On CM Chandrababu Naidu, IAS Eligibility Criteria & More
- MUST WATCH for Indians Abroad - Remote Work, House Help & More | Kovai.co Founder | Neon Show
- 23 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 125 mentions in 25 episodes 5 per episode
- HOW To Gain 25,000 Subscribers in JUST 90 Days! | Our UNTOLD Rebranding Story on The Neon Show
- Top SaaS startups to watch in 2023 with Alok Goyal, Investor in Whatfix, LimeChat, GTM Buddy
- Why Do Indians WORSHIP Bhagwan Using Puja Flowers? | Hoovu Founder on The Neon Show
- Understanding the Trillion-Dollar lending market in India ft. Rangarajan Krishnan
- The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 205 mentions in 46 episodes 4 per episode
- From Selling Mobile Covers To Building a 1000Crore Revenue D2C Brand ft. Amit Khatri, Founder-Noise
- India's Favorite WhatsApp Solution Provider Ft. Karthik Jagannathan, Founder of Gallabox
- Building A Society Mantainance App For 4M+ Homes Ft Vijay Arisetty, Founder, MyGate
- Do THIS to BUILD Life Long Habits!
- Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- The Framework to Build Category Creators in India ft Bala Srinivasa,Managing Director-Arkam Ventures
- Building A 180 CRORE Women Nutrition Brand! ft. Aarti Gill, Co-Founder, OZiva
- 100+ Investments, 8 Exits in 10 Years! Journey of Abhishek Rungta, Founder, Seeders VC & Indus Net
- 38 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 152 mentions in 42 episodes 4 per episode
- Inside the mind of Pravin Agarwala, Co-Founder, BetterPlace | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- SaaS from India to the US: Myths Debunked ft Anand Jain, Co-founder, CleverTap
- Backing the best D2C companies with Debt & Equity Funding | Ashvin Chadha, Anicut Capital
- Bhaskar Majumdar, Founder of Unicorn India Ventures on his unconventional bets in Investing
- Blume Ventures, Director on Investing in future of Electric Vehicles ft. Arpit Agarwal
- Brand Building, fundraising by the founder of Bombay Shaving Company, Ex- McKinsey, IIM
- Investing in outliers with Madhukar Sinha, Founder, India Quotient | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- Mitesh Shah from being a CFO at Ola & BookMyShow to start Inflection Point Ventures
- 34 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 216 mentions in 49 episodes 4 per episode
- Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- Ishpreet Gandhi, Stride Ventures on the emerging role of Venture Debt in the startup Ecosystem
- Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- Shanti Mohan, Founder, LetsVenture on the rise of Angel Investing in India
- Episode 54 | Rahul Chandra, Managing Director, Unitary Helion Fund
- Making a crisis work for you with Sanjay Swamy & T. N. Hari
- Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia
- 41 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 58 mentions in 21 episodes 3 per episode
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
- How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum
- The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 9 | Hetal Sonpal, Angel Investor in 20+ Startups
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 8 | Sandeep Aneja, Founder and Managing Partner, Kaizen Private Equity
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 23 | Raja Ganapathy, Co-Founder Spring Marketing Capital
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 25 | Prashant Pansare, Co-Founder Eagle10 Ventures
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 10 |Anjalli Ravikumar, Social Mission Director UNILEVER
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
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14 statements about Siddharth Ahluwalia, every show
Ahluwalia took zero management fees for Neon's first fund
“In the first, first fund I didn't take a management fee. In the second fund I took the lowest possible management fee just to prove myself.”
Bajaj: Repeat founders give time to VCs only when they learn something
“My bet is that if you feel that you will learn something, you'll give your time. So that's the bar. The founder has to feel that they will learn something, right?”
Ahluwalia: ServiceNow generates $8B revenue growing 30% YoY with clunky UX
“In fact, the service now is a eight billion dollar revenue company growing 30% year on year with a clunky UX.”
Freshworks surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue by 2023
“Today, Freshworks is more than five hundred million in annual recurring revenues.”
Zoho reached $1 billion in SaaS revenue by 2023, notes Ahluwalia
“Sridhar Vembu could never have imagined that today in 23, Zoho would be a one billion dollar SaaS revenue company from India with multiple products.”
Ahluwalia: Homes should have 50 times more books than screens
“So one rule that I have is the number of books in a home should be 50 X the number of screens.”
Ahluwalia's portfolio has seen just one exit from over 30 angel investments
“Only one exit out of our 30 plus investments right now.”
Ahluwalia turned a 3 lakh rupee angel investment into 20 lakhs
“We made one exit, which we invested like three lakh rupees in e-by-go. That company gave us back 20 lakhs.”
Anand: 1DigitalStack targets $3M ARR within 18 months
“In the next 18 months Siddharth, we're looking to take this to three million. Right. And then after that, we do want to fast track it.”
Ahluwalia: Podcasting network led directly to jobs at Prime and AWS
“And for me personally, podcasting has given me a rocket ship of growth, a network of venture capitalists. You know my, I landed a job in prime because of podcasting and later in Amazon web services because of that, because of the network and the meaningful rel…”
Ahluwalia: Used Mumbai local trains to record four podcast episodes daily
“So for example, while in Mumbai, I used to record four podcasts in a day. In different locations. So I used to travel by Mumbai local because in a traffic city like Mumbai, you know, going by a cab and reaching the four destinations on time in a single day, wh…”
Ahluwalia: 100x Entrepreneur email list reached over 20,000 subscribers in two years
“Today, the emailing list is more than 20,000 people who have subscribed to hundred X entrepreneur on email, but this all took two years of time.”
Ahluwalia: Podcasters must spend 20% effort on content and 80% on distribution
“While starting podcast, I knew that, you know, if I have to put, let's say, 20% of my time in building content, then 80% of the time has to go on investing in distribution.”