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49 statements across 35 episodes · 18 bullish · 10 bearish · 35 people on the record · first statement Aug 20, 2019 by Mayank Khanduja · said 381 times in 116 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2026 25 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
- Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital
- Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- Why Startups Fails Even After Finding PMF | Prukalpa Sankar, Atlan
- The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 123 mentions in 20 episodes 6 per episode
- How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
- How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- 75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
- Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million
- From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 57 mentions in 11 episodes 5 per episode
- How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj
- Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
- Wealth Creation For Employees Explained By Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor) I The Neon Show
- These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- How Chess.com Founder Built A $150 Million ARR Empire With Zero VC Funding | Erik Allebest | Neon
- Former SOFTBANK CFO: My Honest Experience Working With Masayoshi Son | Alok Sama | The Neon Show
- Indian SaaS, AI Wave, IPO & Best Country For Co. Registration | 2024 Insights With SaaS Founder
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 42 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- BHARAT’s Decade, Stock Market & IPL Sponsorship - Upstox Co-founder & CEO Ravi Kumar on Neon Show
- FUTURE of Indian Jobs, India Subscription Model & Life Lessons | Kuku FM Founder on The Neon Show
- Aspiring India, What Indians LOVE & How Chaayos Began! ft. Chaayos Founder Raghav Verma | Neon Show
- Infosys Ex-CFO: Nehru Vs PM Modi, India’s Future, Corruption I Mohandas Pai on Neon Show
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 31 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- Helping Startups Grow Through Engineered Organic Marketing Ft. Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder-GrowthSchool
- India's Favorite WhatsApp Solution Provider Ft. Karthik Jagannathan, Founder of Gallabox
- Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- Building A 180 CRORE Women Nutrition Brand! ft. Aarti Gill, Co-Founder, OZiva
- Status-driven Indian Society, Learnings, & Building For Bharat- Lal Chand Bisu, CEO, Kuku FM
- How He Built India's BIGGEST D2C Coffee Brand From First Principles Ft. Bharat Sethi CEO-Rage Coffee
- The Newest SHARK in Shark Tank India Ft. Vikas Nahar, Founder-Happilo
- How Open Became The 100th Unicorn - The Story of Asia's First Neo Bank ft. Anish Achuthan
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 39 mentions in 19 episodes 2 per episode
- Founder and CEO of @WhitehatJr Karan Bajaj on his journey | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- Inside the mind of Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-Founder, Pratilipi | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- Inside the mind of The Moms Co. Founders, Mohit & Malika Sadani
- Fampay Founder on Fintech for GenZ and Funding ft. Sambhav Jain | 100x Entrepreneur
- Investing in outliers with Madhukar Sinha, Founder, India Quotient | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- @firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- How @Wakefit became a 700 crore revenue D2C brand ft. Founder, Ankit Garg | The Neon Show
- Kshitij Jain, Founder Joveo, a 2x founder on must-have skills for entrepreneurs
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 49 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- Episode 55 | Inside the mind of Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho
- Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- Inside the mind of Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder & CEO, ixigo
- Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
- Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
- Sajith Pai, Blume Ventures on building personal brands, being open-minded, and unlearning to succeed
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 15 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- When your competitors raise heavily from VC's | Mayank Khanduja, SAIF Partners
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders
- What is Founder DNA? Exaplains MamaEarth, Boat, Licious Investor, Kanwaljit Singh, Fireside Ventures
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 10 |Anjalli Ravikumar, Social Mission Director UNILEVER
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 1 |Dr Aniruddha Malpani, Founder Malpani Ventures
- 50 Unicorns and 19 IPOs, Rajan Anandan from Peak XV on investing in CRED, Meesho, Groww & Mamaearth
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about Facebook, oldest first
Aug 20, 2019 neutral
Sep 8, 2019 negative
Many Young Women View the Internet Exclusively as WhatsApp or Facebook
“Most young girls today don't know that they can use the internet to learn, to upgrade their skills, and to access opportunities that can really get them closer to their dreams. Most young women think it's, think the internet is for WhatsApp or Facebook.”
Feb 17, 2020 bullish
Feb 17, 2020 neutral
Mar 9, 2020
Jun 1, 2020 neutral
Chandrasekaran: Company values must be genuine trade-offs, not platitudes
“One thing that I learned was how values have to be trade-offs, right? So, if you have a value like, oh, you gotta be honest, and you shouldn't cheat people, or something like that, everyone will agree with that, right? There is no Other side of that that is eq…”
Jun 1, 2020 positive
Jul 19, 2020 positive
Nov 30, 2020
May 5, 2021
May 10, 2021 positive
Pratilipi: Happy authors sharing on social drove reader and writer acquisition
“Two of the biggest growth channels for us essentially were just keeping our authors happy because authors were going to share these stories on their own timelines, mostly on Facebook. And this not only helped us with readers, but it also helped us with writers…”
May 16, 2021 neutral
Infamous 'Wolf Gupta' ads were just 8 of 1,200 WhiteHat Jr creatives
“We are talking about, like, 1200 creatives on Facebook. Out of which six or eight creatives out of 1200, or maybe like, you know, creatives You know, Vish our social media creatives that somebody thinks is, it's not that there's a claim that this kid has made …”
Jun 15, 2021 positive
Outlier seed bets like ShareChat cannot happen via committee consensus
“You can't invest in a company like share chat by getting into a consensus, right? So it's impossible, right? Because there was hardly anything there, right? To say that you will basically create a social media company when you have a Facebook, when you have a …”
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Sep 27, 2021
Sep 27, 2021 positive
Nov 8, 2021 bullish
Aug 3, 2022 negative
Vikas Nahar says e-commerce customer acquisition cost typically runs 500 rupees
“For example, when you want to promote your own website, acquiring a customer on an Instagram or a Facebook or even on Google, it's like, you know, typically the CAC, the acquisition of, the customer acquisition cost is typically, you know, 500 hundred rupees.”
Sep 12, 2022 positive
Nov 21, 2022 neutral
Apr 3, 2023 negative
Jul 28, 2023 negative
Jan 12, 2024
Sachdeva: Facebook post for cricket WhatsApp group drew 50,000 phone numbers
“In one of those groups, I saw there was a post which was Sachin ka photo with a WhatsApp logo. And the guy is saying, agar apko Sachin ka content chahiye if you want content around Sachin, put your phone number, and I, I'll add you to a WhatsApp group. And bel…”
Jan 12, 2024
Mar 15, 2024 positive
Sasi: Indian researchers rank in top ten on Google and Meta bounties
“In fact, if you look at Facebook or Google's bug bounty is where companies pay security folks money to find a security incident. So they, Google typically pays 10,000 dollars, which is what, seven lakh for a good security bug. Now, in the top three list of eac…”
Mar 15, 2024 positive
Sasi: Privacy regulations hamper ad giants while driving cybersecurity business growth
“And if you look at the, if you look at this space, the last 10 regulations that came is a headwind for marketing companies, Google, Facebook. Their business is hampered by this. But cybersecurity market is booming because of these same regulations. This is a h…”
Jun 20, 2024 neutral
Batchu: Google and Meta boomerang policies preserve equity within six months
“Both Google and Facebook have boomerang policies. I don't know if you know about this, but basically if you come back within four to six months, To Facebook or Google, they will just restart the clock on your equity package. So you won't lose your vested equit…”
Nov 29, 2024 positive
Entry valuations matter far less for category-creating tech platforms
“Valuations in the world of technology are not as important as you think you might, which is a fairly fundamental learning for anyone who comes out of business school and is fixated on on you know, discounted cashflow and hardcore, never lose out of the fact th…”
Jan 4, 2025
Jan 4, 2025 neutral
Reddy co-founded F-Seven seed fund with six female Facebook executives
“In that time, I actually started a seed fund with six other female Facebook executives. It was called F-Seven. And just like you have hashtag angels, this was our equivalent where we were seeing the dearth of women in investing and wanted to so we pulled toget…”
Jan 4, 2025
Jan 4, 2025 neutral
Meta's campus sign keeps the old Sun Microsystems logo on the back
“Even today, if you go to the Facebook office you will see one hack away, a big sign that has the Meta logo and behind the Meta sign is the original Sun Microsystems sign, because Mark wants to have that as a constant reminder about how it is so important to ke…”
Jan 4, 2025
Facebook India's initial vision: 100M users, 100M revenue, 100M people touched
“Our first vision for the India market was articulated as a hundred, hundred, hundred, where we wanted to have a hundred million people on the platform, a hundred million in revenue, and a hundred million people that we touched through our community efforts.”
Jan 4, 2025 neutral
Jan 31, 2025 bearish
Mar 15, 2025 positive
Sharma: Antitrust Action Against Internet Explorer Enabled Google And Facebook
“So about 23 years ago, had they not challenged the monopoly of Internet Explorer,
I can tell you Google would not be an important company it is today.
You know, you won't have had Facebook as an independent company that you have today.
You know, even the curre…”
Mar 15, 2025 negative
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Khare: Post-COVID Indian Startups Favor Organic Growth Over Paid Ads
“I think post COVID, post sort of the air coming out of the growth sort of investing market in India, a lot of companies not only right size their models, but the new companies starting have started with a whole different mindset. For example, a lot of the cons…”
Jun 27, 2025 positive
Namasivayam: Zuckerberg Personally Drove Meta's Entire Metaverse and VR Pivot
“When I think about the time they shifted from Facebook to Meta, the entire VR, the entire Metaverse was a lot of his driving force behind it. It's incredible how much, you know, energy this person has to kind of make those kind of company-wide chains.”
Jun 27, 2025 positive
Namasivayam: Zuckerberg's Town Hall Transparency Was Crucial to Meta's Success
“Final thing which I would also love to point out about Meta was we had this concept of town hogs, and I think the founder's willingness to be extremely transparent and answer all the hard questions you know, it was really good. In a lot of organizations, leade…”
Jul 4, 2025 negative
Chopra: Indexing startup strategy on outlier successes like Google is highly risky
“I think indexing on these outliers is, is also very risky for entrepreneurs. In our head, the stories of Google, Facebook dominates, but in reality, what would happen is you will end up making the median B to C app or the median SAS company.”
Sep 19, 2025 positive
Sep 19, 2025 bullish
Oct 22, 2025 neutral
Toshniwal: His early Facebook app business died overnight after platform policy changes
“Third idea was around Facebook apps. And my co-founder, he did a course in Facebook apps and he did his masters in Stanford. So, you know, he became an expert in Facebook apps. And that actually did well for some time until Facebook changed its policy and you …”
Mar 26, 2026 bearish
Sidana: Facebook never regained its pre-Cambridge Analytica product-market fit
“And then one day, someone published a blog post in the UK about Cambridge Analytica, and in 1:02, the product market fit of Facebook changed to the point that even today, it has never achieved that same level of product market fit.”
Sep 3, 2026 negative
Tandon: US antitrust targeting Google and Facebook ignores healthcare monopolies
“The fact that they're coming after like Facebook and Google makes no sense. Like it's so easy to switch between Google and some other search engine if you want. It's almost impossible to change the hospital that you visit because it is quite literally a region…”
Sep 8, 2026 positive
Gupta says Silicon Valley enterprise early adopters' risk tolerance drives startup success
“And then also for enterprise space, you know, if you look at Google, Facebook, Intel, all of these were startup at some day in the Valley. So the risk taking capacity of the enterprises or the customers, early adopter customers is also high. So that's where it…”
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Sankar: India lacks the Bay Area's generational legacy of enterprise learning
“I think the challenge that India has is that India doesn't have the ecosystem that the Bay Area has, right? In the Bay Area, you had Adobe that passed to Google, who passed to Facebook, who passed to, you know, like, there's just this, like, legacy of learning…”