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47 statements across 34 episodes · 15 bullish · 10 bearish · 33 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2019 by Kanwaljit Singh · said 538 times in 179 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2026 72 mentions in 22 episodes 3 per episode
- How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
- Money Rules The Top 1% Follow and Others Ignore | Rohit Sarin, Client Associates
- Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- 94% CAGR: What the Inference Boom means for your AI costs | Vamshi Ambati
- The $600B Grocery Market Is Obsessed With Speed — FirstClub Is Betting on Quality | Ayyappan
- Where SMALL models will Win | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest ai
- AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 85 mentions in 29 episodes 3 per episode
- #1 Reason Why Most Startups Fail - "They Don't Have A Business Model"
- 75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
- 15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show
- Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- 3 Steps on How Large Companies Decide to Buy From a Startup or Not | CIO Karthik Chakkarapani
- 6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 58 mentions in 22 episodes 3 per episode
- BigBasket Co-founder on 10 Min Delivery, TATA Acquisition, Wealth Creation & More | Neon Show
- Is Quick Commerce Future Of Retail & India's IPO Market- Investment Banker Explains on The Neon Show
- VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
- Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
- MUST WATCH for Indians Abroad - Remote Work, House Help & More | Kovai.co Founder | Neon Show
- Why Top Global VCs Are Eyeing India | Boris Wertz | Version One Ventures | The Neon Show
- Entrepreneur First’s Founder On Indian Talent, AI Startups, Selling SaaS Globally And Silicon Valley
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 63 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- Podcasting to Investing: Breakdown of Our Journey | 100x Entrepreneur
- Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- BHARAT’s Decade, Stock Market & IPL Sponsorship - Upstox Co-founder & CEO Ravi Kumar on Neon Show
- UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
- WeWork In India - The Untold Story with CEO Karan Virwani | 100x Entrepreneur
- Watch This BEFORE Renting Out Your Property In India! | SEBI Manager Deepak Shenoy on The Neon Show
- Breaking Down India's B2B Digital Payment Ecosystem with Cashfree CEO Akash Sinha
- Shark Tank India Behind The Scenes With Flatheads Founder - Ganesh Balakrishnan
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 106 mentions in 29 episodes 4 per episode
- Yadhu Gopalan On His Journey, Meeting His Co-Founder & Learnings From Amazon & Microsoft!
- 5 Most Important Decisions of Our Lives | Journey of Siddhartha & Nansi, Founders, 100x Entrepreneur
- Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix
- How He Built A ₹7,000+ CRORE Logistics Tech Company! ft. Co-Founder of Shiprocket, Saahil Goel
- How He Sold His BOOTSTRAPPED BUSINESS For $20 MILLION! ft. Founder of 1DigitalStack, Rohit Anand
- Is India's Real Estate Industry Doomed? | NoBroker IITian Founder on The Neon Show
- The PLAYBOOK To Win The D2C Market Ft. Abhishek Goenka, Head & CIO RPSG Capital Ventures
- The Newest SHARK in Shark Tank India Ft. Vikas Nahar, Founder-Happilo
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 89 mentions in 27 episodes 3 per episode
- How @Wakefit became a 700 crore revenue D2C brand ft. Founder, Ankit Garg | The Neon Show
- The rise of crypto with 1.5 cr+ Indian investors ft. Ashish Singhal, Founder, Coinswitch
- Brand Building, fundraising by the founder of Bombay Shaving Company, Ex- McKinsey, IIM
- Inside the mind of The Moms Co. Founders, Mohit & Malika Sadani
- Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep
- Inside the mind of Nishith Rastogi, Co-Founder & CEO, Locus
- Mastermind behind @beerbiceps and Monk Entertainment Viraj Sheth on Influencer Marketing
- Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 52 mentions in 23 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- Sajith Pai, Blume Ventures on building personal brands, being open-minded, and unlearning to succeed
- What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- Episode 55 | Inside the mind of Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho
- Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
- Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
- 15 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 13 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- What is Founder DNA? Exaplains MamaEarth, Boat, Licious Investor, Kanwaljit Singh, Fireside Ventures
- 50 Unicorns and 19 IPOs, Rajan Anandan from Peak XV on investing in CRED, Meesho, Groww & Mamaearth
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 23 | Raja Ganapathy, Co-Founder Spring Marketing Capital
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
- The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- When your competitors raise heavily from VC's | Mayank Khanduja, SAIF Partners
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about Amazon, oldest first
Sep 19, 2019 bullish
boAt built its audio business by disrupting distribution via e-commerce marketplaces
“We have a company called Boat, which has now built a very large Mobile accessory business primarily audio headsets and earphones and wireless speakers, which has disrupted the whole approach of how this business can be built, working with partners like Amazon,…”
Feb 17, 2020 bearish
Feb 17, 2020 bullish
Lunia: Future Indian D2C brands may not need marketplaces or offline retail
“I am saying a startup, it starts next year, which will probably prove a product market fit, fit in less than two years from now, three years from now. At that point, maybe you don't need to go offline. Maybe you don't need to go and knock the doors of Supersto…”
Feb 17, 2020 positive
Mar 9, 2020 neutral
Flipkart and Amazon primed Meesho's initial 1,000 suppliers to sell online
“In the beginning getting suppliers, manufacturers or traders on the platform now in 20 twenties, even in 2016 was not that hard because Flipkart and Amazon had done so much work in terms of getting these small or large businesses to learn how to put products o…”
Jul 19, 2020 negative
Pai: Amazon and Microsoft move slowly and are process-oriented like analog companies
“You worked in a large company, and when I say large company, I'm also saying large tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft. These are as process-oriented as some of the other analog companies. So they move slowly in a very process-oriented fashion, and maybe Goo…”
Nov 17, 2020 neutral
Vijayan: AI in auto retail will create more jobs than it eliminates
“I don't see that we can, it can reduce you know, the number of people needed because the end of the day, it will create more jobs in different areas because You know, today we are just adding friction. If you think about Amazon, people can say, you know, it ha…”
Apr 19, 2021
May 5, 2021 neutral
Offline Sales Reached 10% of The Moms Co. Revenue by March 2021
“Offline went from zero to about 10% in March. And within online our website and Amazon and Ika are pretty much similar numbers depending on months and depending on activations that we do, they flip positions, one, two, and three, but those are our three bigges…”
May 5, 2021 positive
Early D2C Brands Should Leverage Marketplace Trust Before Driving Website Traffic
“Even when we start, we will not be website only because I don't want them to build trust on my website experience. They already trust Amazon. Let me be on Amazon and let me only fight the battle of helping them trust the brand. So even at launch, we were on ou…”
May 10, 2021
Singh: Connected IVM Podcasts to Amazon and other suitors before Pratilipi acquisition
“So I was essentially trying to help him raise money from someone else or that somebody else should acquire them, including Amazon, by the way. So I made connections between Amit and a bunch of other people like different VCs, different angel investors, differe…”
Jul 26, 2021 positive
Jul 26, 2021
Sep 20, 2021 negative
Jain: Recruitment industry has completely failed to adopt modern ad tech
“That technology is so advanced, and it's, in a simplistic way, it's ad tech. It's what Google does. It's what Amazon does at the core of it. That technology has not been implemented or used in any shape or form in our industry.”
Sep 27, 2021
Sep 27, 2021 positive
Amazon and Flipkart act as the true VCs for Indian D2C brands
“I think Amazon Flipkart are the true VCs. I would say they have created hundreds of entrepreneurs, like both, look at both, look at Wakefit, look at Mama, look at so many brands out there. Amazon has created those so many D to C brands, right?”
Sep 27, 2021 neutral
Sep 27, 2021
Sep 27, 2021
Sep 27, 2021 neutral
Amazon's algorithm guarantees initial test orders for any new seller
“Amazon algorithms are built in a way that, you know, any new seller comes, we'll definitely get at least some orders in the beginning to kind of test. I mean, they'll build the algo that everybody gets at least a chance to sell something.”
Sep 27, 2021 positive
Nov 8, 2021
Jeff Bezos handpicked a 20-person Amazon team led by Ashish Singhal
“Jeff Bezos himself picked like 20 people out of Amazon, put them in a room and give them an impossible task to do. And I was leading that team for prime one hour delivery launch, which most of us are so used to now of that delivery aspect, but that was very ne…”
Dec 20, 2021 positive
Dec 20, 2021 negative
Bhatia: I doubted Flipkart and Amazon's Indian growth over last-mile trust
“I would not have predicted the growth of Flipkart and Amazon in India because like every other naysayer you know, I also felt that the last mile delivery problem was a very difficult one in India where, you know, you could not trust people with packages and, y…”
Mar 14, 2022 neutral
Goel: Early Indian merchants preferred marketplace commissions over building custom storefronts
“Over the years we understood that, you know merchants were actually not struggling with building their websites at mass because they didn't want to. Most of the merchants were long tailish in nature. And Amazon and Flipkart had created a certain amount of mark…”
Mar 21, 2022 neutral
Mar 28, 2022 positive
Mar 28, 2022 neutral
Yadhu Gopalan: Amazon Go engineers spent six months solely on infrastructure
“When I was in Amazon, Amazon goes an example is we had to build out this new systems and new devices for these amazing stores. And you know what? We spent, I think the first six months or more just building infrastructure and before we could actually do the va…”
Jul 4, 2022
Pandey: Microservices Fragment Engineers; Single-Threaded Ownership Requires Generalists
“We have really created a, this movement around microservices and this and that, but eventually it's very bottom up way of thinking about things. And you've, you know, fragmented a lot of engineers to just think about their little thing, which is a tribe called…”
Aug 3, 2022 bullish
Nahar: Happilo is expanding internationally via Amazon in US, Australia, and Middle East
“We are actually now going to international markets as well. We are starting our exports. We are setting up, you know systems where we can sell on, say, amazon.com in U.S. And, you know, Amazon Australia and Amazon Middle East.”
Sep 12, 2022 bearish
Scaled Organic Growth Is Impossible Without True Product-Market Fit
“No matter how build an organic lever you build, right? Unless you have true PMF. Like when I say true PMF, I don't mean your great retention numbers and all. For me, true retention is if I shut my product down today, will 25 people line out outside of my offic…”
Sep 1, 2023 positive
Sep 22, 2023
Nov 10, 2023 negative
Feb 16, 2024 neutral
Amazon US had 46 silver jewelry bestsellers compared to India's one
“Amazon has this top hundred best seller in every category. I looked at India top hundred best seller and there was one silver
Product and rest all were artificial.
And I looked at that similar data for U.S. And for Germany.
U.S. Had 46 silver products out of h…”
Mar 15, 2024
Sasi: Dark web markets sell stolen credit cards for five dollars
“In fact, you go to the dark web, you can buy the credit card of someone for five dollars. You can buy, there will be listings like Amazon listing, where you can actually buy the data of any company and their employees and including their salary, payslips and a…”
Jan 31, 2025 negative
Jan 31, 2025 bullish
Apr 17, 2025 bullish
Krishnan: Amazon's multi-category subscription bundle makes it impossible to displace
“Today, if you have to compete against Amazon subscription, if I'm a competitor wanting to do, I need to compete on all fronts. I need to have music of my own. I need to have video shows of my own. I need to be able to provide books on my own. I need to do ever…”
Apr 28, 2025
May 16, 2025 bullish
Bhagia: Meesho successfully took on e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart
“Vidit had once told, like before they went up competing against Flipkart and Amazon yet told me I'm going to do it. I was just like, this guy is crazy, man. Like was at that time, Amazon Flipkart were like these giants, right? Like you couldn't imagine that th…”
Oct 24, 2025 neutral
Bajaria: Early 6sense Stalled Because Enterprise Clients Resisted Cloud Deployments
“And we got our initial customers. We got all those things, but then it became a challenge to scale it up because it was becoming more like consulting projects because we had to, they didn't want to put it in the cloud. We had to go to their systems, their own …”
Nov 4, 2025 negative
Poddar: Passing on Meesho was a "stupid mistake"
“I think Misho was a big miss. And I think the reason was the same. I assumed that this would be a feature on Flipkart or Snapdeal or Amazon. Because you have, they have logistics, they have payments, they have supply base, they have user base, they have consum…”
Feb 13, 2026 bearish
Padval: $500M ARR in AI coding requires billions in compute costs
“What I heard is the five hundred million of ARR needs about six hundred million of investment from the LLM company they have to pay, which also requires hosting costs from Amazon and the hyperscalers of seven hundred million, and that needs chips worth eight h…”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Rajagopal: Myntra beat Amazon in fashion despite smaller selection and higher prices
“Myntra did not have a very large selection compared to Amazon Flipkart, the number of products. Same with pricing. Myntra did not sell it for a cheap price. Myntra did not give a faster delivery. In spite of that, Myntra is a much larger brand when it comes to…”
Mar 26, 2026 neutral