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The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- ▶ 5:57 Nikhil Gupta I realized that, you know, technology, and also I moved from there to Chennai, and from Chennai in 97, I came to the U.S. 4 times in the scene
Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- ▶ 1:39 Siddhartha Ahluwalia It's such a proud thing to see that, you know, uh, the, the founders who are from, you know, you're from Chennai, you know, and achieving so much today.
Wall Street Rejected This CEO & Then He Did a $200M IPO | Kanwal Rekhi
- ▶ 51:32 Kanwal Rekhi You know, you go to Chennai, you go to Kerala, you go to Punjab, you go to Bengal.
- ▶ 1:10:56 Kanwal Rekhi We went to Chennai the day before yesterday. 2 times in the scene
What Went Wrong Before iD Fresh Worked | For the First Time Co-Founders Tell Their Story
- ▶ 40:54 Abdul Nasar (Nachika) We started in Mumbai, in Chennai. 4 times in the scene
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 12:16 Kiran Darisi At that point of time in Hyderabad, he's in Bangor, Patshu is in Chennai. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:08 unnamed speaker As the one in Bangalore or in Chandigarh or in Pune or in Chennai, all at the same time, right?
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- ▶ 0:46 Bhaskar Ghosh Whether it's in Rocket Lane or Usher or Yuga Byte, the best engineering teams is all sitting in Bangalore and Madras.
- ▶ 34:32 unnamed speaker So if I look at my portfolio, some, our best engineers of my portfolio, whether it's in Rocketlane, or Usher, or Yuga Byte, or Pankaj Pariyot's company, John Chambers company, Nile, and I can keep going on and on, the best engineering… 3 times in the scene
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 0:04 Somesh Dash Arvind Srinivas was born in Chennai.
- ▶ 11:56 Somesh Dash Um, Arvind Srinivas was born in Chennai.
- ▶ 1:08:43 unnamed speaker I think what's cool now is that a founder who was born in Chennai can come to Silicon Valley and build something to compete with the biggest of the bigs, right?
How Startup’s Should Find REAL Customer Pain w/ 4x Founder Shreesha Ramdas (Lumber)
- ▶ 54:20 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Chennai.
How to Think Like a CEO & Build Like a Fighter | Shiv Shivakumar, Ex-CEO Nokia & Pepsico
- ▶ 1:10:24 Shiv Shivakumar I had come from Chennai.
What is Tesla’s Former CIO Building Next? 4 Years Stealth → $4B Company | Jay Vijayan, Tekion
- ▶ 47:01 Jay Vijayan So I, you know, was born, brought up, um, in Chennai.
4 Startups. 2 Founders and 3 Eras Of SaaS: Installable → Cloud → AI | Sreedhar & Kiran
- ▶ 20:42 Kiran Darisi You can say that, okay, from Nelor, that is my native, where you can able to come in Chennai, me and Chan can take over. 2 times in the scene
What Startups Can Learn from a $1.7B Co. Chief Information Officer | Karthik Chakkarapani
- ▶ 1:00:32 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And now you have, you're a Chennai boy, right? 4 times in the scene
Can Neysa be India's AI Cloud alternative to AWS, Azure & Google Cloud? | Sharad Sanghi
- ▶ 17:19 Sharad Sanghi Um, but I know that we had, um, we had set up data centers in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Noida.
- ▶ 21:48 Sharad Sanghi There's a team based out of Chennai, uh, that is addressed, led by, uh, Ramesh, um, that are, that are addressing precisely these kind of issues, and we'll have products in this area, products and services in this area starting due to next…
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 6:01 Sharad Sharma So for example, let's say, you know, I have to go to Chennai, uh, and I want to go by train, uh, then I would need to identify to whichever booking application I'm using.
$600M AUM, 44 Bets, and a 30x Return Unicorn: Stellaris Venture Partners on Picking Winners Early
- ▶ 1:10:59 Alok Goyal As the one in Bangalore or in Chandigarh or in Pune or in Chennai, all at the same time, right?
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 22:32 Raja Manickam We already have, you know, companies in actually Chennai is a professor.
- ▶ 40:26 Raja Manickam Or Chennai, for example, right?
How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
- ▶ 4:11 Kirthiga Reddy So Nasik, Nagpur, Tharapur, Mumbai, a few years in the south, uh, with Dandeli, um, and, uh, Chennai, uh, as well.
Policybazaar Founder On IPO, India 1,2,3, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, & Insurance Market | Neon Show
- ▶ 29:32 Yashish Dahiya I was posted in Madras.
SANJEEV SANYAL On India's East Vs West Divide, Kolkata's Decline, Goa, C-PACE And UPSC | Neon Show
- ▶ 34:59 Sanjeev Sanyal There was Mumbai or Bombay then, Calcutta and Madras.
- ▶ 57:13 Sanjeev Sanyal Chennai is also, and historically Kolkata too, but we have somehow not embraced this maritime part of our culture.
Former CEA: "INDIA WILL BECOME A $55 Trillion Economy By 2047" | KV Subramanian Proves On Neon Show
- ▶ 1:27:12 Krishnamurthy Subramanian Um, and, and track not only how much time it takes for, you know, to travel 10 kilometers here in, you know, in, let's say in Bangalore, um, for instance, actually, you know, a couple of months back, I was, I was in Chennai, you know, um,… 2 times in the scene
Employment Researcher - “India Needs 20 Million Jobs Yearly For Demographic Advantage!” Sridhar K
- ▶ 2:55 Sridhar Krishna I, I grew up in Chennai. 2 times in the scene
These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 36:32 Manav Garg So to the 19 in China in SAS, we were sitting, we thought even we should do something.
- ▶ 1:17:54 Manav Garg Sitting in India, Chennai, Bangalore, you know, small towns,
Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
- ▶ 38:22 Manoj Agarwal Go to Chennai that you find a lot more B to B culture there.
MUST WATCH for Indians Abroad - Remote Work, House Help & More | Kovai.co Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 23:58 Saravana Kumar Either they need to move out to Bangalore or even Chennai is only recently it's, uh, it's improving. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia India SaaS industry got created in the last 13 years and everybody has benefited from the guardrails and ecosystem that Zoho Freshworks built in Chennai and now what you are building in Coimbatore, right?
- ▶ 57:26 Saravana Kumar It's nowhere it's a connection because I will comfortably I can reach Chennai or Bangalore or even Cochin. 3 times in the scene
Before Applying For A Venture Capital Job, Watch This Podcast! I Blume Ventures Partner I Neon Show
- ▶ 10:18 Ashish Fafaria Similar efforts sprung up in Bangalore, Delhi, later on Chennai as well, but this was sporadic activity.
How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj
- ▶ 1:03:46 Ankush Sachdeva I think top three would be Chennai, Lucknow, 2 times in the scene
ISB and Ashoka University Founder, Pramath Raj Sinha on The Neon Show
- ▶ 12:54 unnamed speaker And then there is, of course, the whole story of how one day we flew from Bombay to Hyderabad to Bangalore to Chennai to find the place.
American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- ▶ 10:19 Bhaskar Ghosh So Bangalore and Chennai, and even now I went to Bombay.
- ▶ 25:35 Bhaskar Ghosh 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 Gurgaon and Noida also.
- ▶ 48:48 Bhaskar Ghosh I mean, it's a generational company built from Chennai.
Building a ₹3,000 Crore Business, PC Musthafa, Founder, iD Fresh
- ▶ 38:03 PC Musthafa If you do same math for Chennai, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:44 PC Musthafa Interestingly, you know, we have a factory in, in Bangalore, but the products are available in, in Cochin, and, and Trivandrum, and, ah, Sechennai, yeah, Bangalore, Mysore, as fresh product.
Heartbreaking Truth: The REAL REASON Indian Farmers Struggle - Akshayakalpa Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 31:33 Shashi Kumar All the cab drivers in, say, I only know Bangalore city, to certain extent Chennai, and to certain extent Hyderabad, ok, where our market is there.
- ▶ 1:08:54 Siddhartha Ahluwalia In Chennai, Bangalorenta, Ketrapath.
Did Jio SAVE India, Bharat's BIGGEST FLAWS & Helping Indian Farmers | BigBasket Founder on Neon Show
- ▶ 2:13 V.S. Sudhakar I did one stint prior to that, but I was actually born in Chennai.
- ▶ 3:39 V.S. Sudhakar And, uh, at that point of time, my parents were in Chennai.
Watch This BEFORE Renting Out Your Property In India! | SEBI Manager Deepak Shenoy on The Neon Show
- ▶ 22:15 Siddhartha Ahluwalia We went to Chennai, interviewed him on the podcast, right?
Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- ▶ 1:42:43 Vijay Rayapati We were supposed to meet in Chennai.
Infosys Ex-CFO: Nehru Vs PM Modi, India’s Future, Corruption I Mohandas Pai on Neon Show
- ▶ 4:06 T. V. Mohandas Pai Like Bombay has, Chennai has, Calcutta has, and maybe Delhi.
ATHER FOUNDER: "Selling Over 11,000 Scooters Per Month & Creating India's Best EV Brand" | Tarun M
- ▶ 31:34 Tarun Mehta Chennai by year two. 2 times in the scene
Podcasting to Investing: Breakdown of Our Journey | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 21:35 Nansi Mishra I think it's really necessary to tell everyone what Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, as well as Chennai, what's happening in China. 2 times in the scene
Acquisition By Freshworks and Building SaaS in Chennai with Srikrishnan Ganesan, Founder, Rocketlane
- ▶ 2:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And these two companies, both from Chennai, have built Chennai as the SaaS capital of India. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you are sitting here in Chennai, right? 6 times in the scene
Understanding the Trillion-Dollar lending market in India ft. Rangarajan Krishnan
- ▶ 0:00 Rangarajan Krishnan Around that time, he did that in Chennai.
- ▶ 19:41 Rangarajan Krishnan He did that in Chennai.
Building CaratLane to a 17000 Crore company and selling it to TATA with Founder Mithun Sacheti
- ▶ 0:42 Mithun Sacheti So we literally have done customer lifecycle management and built this catalog, which goes all the way through learning from the SaaS companies, because we sit in Chennai and this is in many ways.
- ▶ 8:13 Mithun Sacheti So, I moved to, um, Chennai in 2000, just after my graduation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:49 Mithun Sacheti And so to convince everybody that I'm running a really successful jewelry business in Chennai, it was really successful back then. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:51 Mithun Sacheti Companies, because we sit in Chennai, and this is in many ways, yeah, the SAS capital of India, and we sort of built that whole business out, and that, which is the average of industries, four percent, we are now at 25% repeat rate.
- ▶ 42:29 Mithun Sacheti I mean, if you think about, I was a born and brought up Bombay kid living in Chennai. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:41 Mithun Sacheti I mean, obviously if you live in Chennai, you've got to be bullish about SaaS. 3 times in the scene
The story behind Zepto w/ Founder, Aadit Palicha
- ▶ 24:24 Aadit Palicha You know, every major city in the country, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Qatar, you know, Noida, Gurgaon, Khazibad, then we're scoping out a couple more.
Top SaaS startups to watch in 2023 with Alok Goyal, Investor in Whatfix, LimeChat, GTM Buddy
- ▶ 26:47 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Freshworks and Soho, they had the advantage of building an inbound marketing engine with extremely low cost, built out of Chennai, built out of remote parts of India, and that, that's how they scaled.
Is India's Real Estate Industry Doomed? | NoBroker IITian Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 14:10 Akhil Gupta I still remember there was a customer in Chennai.
India's Favorite WhatsApp Solution Provider Ft. Karthik Jagannathan, Founder of Gallabox
- ▶ 59:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Chennai. 5 times in the scene
The Story Behind Building 100x Entrepreneur Ft. Siddhartha Ahluwalia & Nansi Mishra
- ▶ 28:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia At 30 years of age, he had done a master's from, from a, from a college in Chennai. 3 times in the scene
Exotel’s Shivku on Failed Funding Round to Building $60 Mn ARR Saas Startup
- ▶ 4:00 Shivakumar Ganesan I was born in Chennai, um, uh, private company, manager, father, housemaker, mother, um, studied in some of the best schools in Madras. 2 times in the scene
Marico Limited founder on Sustainability, Growth and Hiring ft. Harsh Mariwala
- ▶ 23:43 Harsh Mariwala It was just Bombay, then went to Chennai.
Starting angel investing, understanding spaces & sourcing deals with Arun Venkatachalam
- ▶ 2:25 Arun Venkatachalam So basically, uh, I'm born and brought up in Chennai. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:18 Arun Venkatachalam Uh, mine and my father's and mother's, uh, capital, uh, as I said, you know, we're quite frugal people from Chennai.
- ▶ 53:13 Arun Venkatachalam Uh, as I said, you know, like, like many people from Chennai were very quiet and under the radar.
Dr. Geetha Manjunath on building Niramai, the most affordable product for breast cancer detection
- ▶ 29:07 Dr. Geetha Manjunath So now we have it in 15 cities, uh, in India, uh, established in multiple, like, uh, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Mysore, Bhuvaneswar, Dehradun, all of these places, Savopal, all of these places we do have, uh, the test available.
Inside the mind of Ashwini Asokan, Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den
- ▶ 0:50 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Ashwani Ashokan, founder and chief executive officer of MadStreetDen, an AI and computer vision startup based out of Chennai.
- ▶ 21:02 Ashwini Asokan Chennai, I love to say, is a university town, which is funny because it is obviously, it has more than ten million people.
Inside the mind of Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner, Spero Ventures
- ▶ 1:26 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Would, would love to know, you know, from growing up in Madras, uh, back in, uh, nine, early nineties, how did you come to us and your journey thereafter and what led you into venture investing?
- ▶ 10:07 Shripriya Mahesh Um, and when I was growing up, I, um, I actually, the first school I went to was a Krishnamurti foundation school in Chennai called the school.
What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- ▶ 55:29 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, and Jay, uh, uh, one thing which I wanted to ask, like you could have always settled for good, like, you know, uh, you, you, you come from Chennai, and you pushed yourself, like really pushed yourself, and I think you, you went to… 2 times in the scene
Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital
- ▶ 1:43 Priya Mohan I think I, my favorite way of introducing myself is to start by saying I'm from Madras. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:44 Priya Mohan Like having, you know, spending a lot of time in Madras.
Nikhil Kapur, STRIVE Ventures on different SaaS models in Asia
- ▶ 2:14 Nikhil Kapur Asian market, but sort of starting from, um, you know, a city in Asia could be Chennai, could be Bangalore, could be Singapore, right?
Understanding Exits and Investing in High Growth Startups with Dhruv Kapoor, Sistema Asia Capital
- ▶ 38:58 Dhruv Kapoor It's started out of Chennai. 3 times in the scene
Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 46 | Tej Kapoor, Fosun RZ Capital
- ▶ 33:49 Tej Kapoor Um, you know, Chennai and Chennai users, and this, this app allows me to really build content for that.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 10 |Anjalli Ravikumar, Social Mission Director UNILEVER
- ▶ 0:28 Anjali Ravi Kumar I was placed in Whirlpool, where I was actually trying to sell washing machines in parts of Chennai that didn't have water.
50 Unicorns and 19 IPOs, Rajan Anandan from Peak XV on investing in CRED, Meesho, Groww & Mamaearth
- ▶ 12:48 Rajan Anandan Now they're in Chennai.