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Where SMALL models will Win | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest ai
- ▶ 38:07 Sudarshan Kamath And, um, if you want to build like an Instagram video or like a AI movie,
An Honest Conversation About What Being a Founder Really Feels Like | Arpita & Ananda
- ▶ 45:40 unnamed speaker And, and, and somehow this time my Instagram is private and I don't want anybody in my Instagram that is around my, my work or company life. 2 times in the scene
How One Indian Company Powers the World’s Hotels & Airlines | Bhanu Chopra, RateGain
- ▶ 18:27 Bhanu Chopra Um, and then you do your research for a couple of days, and then, uh, you're on your Insta or your Facebook, and you start seeing ads on the buy hotels from different providers.
How to Think Like a CEO & Build Like a Fighter | Shiv Shivakumar, Ex-CEO Nokia & Pepsico
- ▶ 18:17 Shiv Shivakumar Because young people are on Instagram, young people are on
- ▶ 48:15 Shiv Shivakumar Facebook, Instagram.
Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million
- ▶ 9:10 Paras Chopra Uh, 32nd Instagram shots.
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 31:19 Vasanth Namasivayam Because we live in the Instagram generation.
Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin
- ▶ 5:51 unnamed speaker So we see on Instagram, there are celebrities who, you know, do dedicated hard work and diet and you see them losing, you know, huge amount of weight in six months.
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 1:03:08 Sharad Sharma They would have done to Facebook what Facebook did with Instagram.
$2.5 Billion Tech Empire Built On Acquisitions, Efficiency, & Pure Ambition w/ Founder, Luca Ferrari
- ▶ 1:09:40 Luca Ferrari If people start talking about it, it's English, people are on X or Instagram, and they're all connected.
Employment Researcher - “India Needs 20 Million Jobs Yearly For Demographic Advantage!” Sridhar K
- ▶ 44:31 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I keep seeing the amazing work Dakshila team does, like, um, their Instagram reels, they are so informative.
Building a $136M Fintech and becoming a leader in Neo Banking in India | Vinay Bagri, Founder, Niyo
- ▶ 27:44 Vinay Bagri Cut to today in Instagram world.
VC MASTERCLASS - B2B SAAS, Quick Commerce, Peter Thiel And India’s Decade I Arjun Sethi I Neon Show
- ▶ 4:58 Arjun Sethi There, there was, um, a large set of companies that were starting, like I had seen Instagram, but I passed because I was in the same, um, like we, there was an area in San Francisco called a dog patch. 2 times in the scene
Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- ▶ 18:08 Varun Mayya Twitter maybe, but slightly less, because the audience size of Twitter is lower, ah, and Instagram to some extent, but it's still short form, so connection is low.
- ▶ 33:18 Varun Mayya I still have whatever, half a million followers on Instagram, close to half a million on YouTube.
- ▶ 1:02:38 Varun Mayya Apple said Facebook is a villain, Facebook is stealing your data, blah, blah, blah, blah, and now you have to opt into apps, including Facebook, Instagram, etc., right?
Darkest Indian SCAMS - Jamtara, Aadhaar Data, And Dark Web Secrets I Rahul Sasi I The Neon Show
- ▶ 53:08 Rahul Sasi Now, so even much of the video editing tasks today, I mean, you can create a Reels 2 times in the scene
Building YogaBar to a 500 Cr and selling it to ITC ft Founder Suhasini S
- ▶ 22:32 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Then your whole Instagram feed, Facebook feed, it fills up with messages, fills up with posts or influencers telling what to do for acne.
How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj
- ▶ 26:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Including Instagram. 3 times in the scene
The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- ▶ 35:57 Anand Lunia If you remember Instagram sort of came in into India in the 2011, 1213, 14 kind of era, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:40 Anand Lunia It will not be possible for global giants to Instagram and Facebook will not be able to, and they're also corporate companies now.
HOW To Gain 25,000 Subscribers in JUST 90 Days! | Our UNTOLD Rebranding Story on The Neon Show
- ▶ 28:39 Vidit Agarwal If I made a funky ass branding with a lot of colors and visuals and illustrations, it would look very cool in my presentation, not on your Instagram, because who would execute it then?
- ▶ 46:04 unnamed speaker Instagram.
Why Do Indians WORSHIP Bhagwan Using Puja Flowers? | Hoovu Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 34:36 unnamed speaker I think you also have an Instagram page where you, uh, post pictures whenever you spot, uh, I think a particular kind of flower.
- ▶ 1:21:41 unnamed speaker Uh, the baby was, a baby was crying in the background, and he was making noises, and that was something that, um, I didn't like, because, uh, I feel that people should have more empathy.
FUTURE of Indian Jobs, India Subscription Model & Life Lessons | Kuku FM Founder on The Neon Show
- ▶ 28:24 Lal Chand Bisu Today, I have to become a YouTuber, Instagram celebrity, I have to become a stalker, I have to become a businessman.
Indian Beauty Standards, Marriage & Life Lessons | Vineeta Singh & Kaushik Mukherjee on Neon Show
- ▶ 2:00 Vineeta Singh I think I should be careful about it because Instagram and Kaushik put some posts and you know, people start commenting.
- ▶ 38:35 Vineeta Singh And when you talk to brands, they are like, I don't think Indian women lipstick laga ke Instagram pe real banayengi.
- ▶ 47:14 Vineeta Singh Uh, we, you know, like while we thought that digital is the cheapest way to, uh, build awareness, we always, like when we design products, we always thought, you know, Instagram, but also shelves looks nice, uh, in terms of pricing, you…
From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- ▶ 11:44 Aprameya Radhakrishna Instagram is for lifestyle. 2 times in the scene
Breaking Down India's B2B Digital Payment Ecosystem with Cashfree CEO Akash Sinha
- ▶ 34:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I have discovered a merchant on Instagram, Facebook or Google.
Acquisition By Freshworks and Building SaaS in Chennai with Srikrishnan Ganesan, Founder, Rocketlane
- ▶ 39:15 Srikrishnan Ganesan Actually, we had customers who told us they found us through Instagram as well. 2 times in the scene
Building CaratLane to a 17000 Crore company and selling it to TATA with Founder Mithun Sacheti
- ▶ 50:35 Mithun Sacheti I mean, look at the t-shirt brands that come on Instagram nowadays.
Shark Tank India Behind The Scenes With Flatheads Founder - Ganesh Balakrishnan
- ▶ 22:37 Ganesh Balakrishnan We got 25 to 30% organic traffic from LinkedIn and Twitter, not from Instagram as a brand, right?
- ▶ 35:16 Ganesh Balakrishnan Among the millions of Instagram ads that he's seen.
Status-driven Indian Society, Learnings, & Building For Bharat- Lal Chand Bisu, CEO, Kuku FM
- ▶ 41:14 Lal Chand Bisu Like, I say, kuch ko YouTuber banna hai, kuch ko Instagram celebrity banna hai, kuch ko stocks mein kamana hai, kuch ko businessman banna hai.
The PLAYBOOK To Win The D2C Market Ft. Abhishek Goenka, Head & CIO RPSG Capital Ventures
- ▶ 10:02 Abhishek Goenka The moment there is an Insta, the amount of content that you can actually share and engage with a customer has never been seen before.
- ▶ 15:16 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because for brands competing for the same eyeballs, Instagram being crowded by the thousand D to C brands.
How to Build a Second Brain? THIS Will Change Your Life! | Ft. Tiago Forte | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 11:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And once you are on your to-do list, then you evidently open many tabs and you are on a rabbit hole of Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter.
Helping Startups Grow Through Engineered Organic Marketing Ft. Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder-GrowthSchool
- ▶ 7:54 Vaibhav Sisinty You can create bigger Instagram accounts.
- ▶ 13:22 Vaibhav Sisinty I just posted a post on LinkedIn saying, would anybody be interested to pay if I created a small Instagram course on how I got to 15,000 followers? 2 times in the scene
The Newest SHARK in Shark Tank India Ft. Vikas Nahar, Founder-Happilo
- ▶ 18:13 Vikas Nahar For example, when you want to promote your own website, acquiring a customer on an Instagram or a Facebook,
Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
- ▶ 1:18 Varun Mayya It's just, you're renting it from YouTube or Instagram or whatever.
- ▶ 14:22 Varun Mayya A year after that, after I started doing YouTube and we were at like, I moved to Instagram because Instagram is giving us some more organic headwind at that point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:53 Varun Mayya It's just, you're renting it from YouTube or Instagram or whatever.
- ▶ 38:15 Varun Mayya I can go to my Instagram. 2 times in the scene
How He Earns 3Cr/Year At The Age of 20? Ft. Ishan Sharma, Co-Founder of MarkitUp
- ▶ 18:52 Ishan Sharma So he's into Instagram. 3 times in the scene
How Open Became The 100th Unicorn - The Story of Asia's First Neo Bank ft. Anish Achuthan
- ▶ 26:30 Anish Achuthan Homepreneurs who are very active on selling on Instagram and Facebook, who have a established set of followers, then the freelancers basically.
- ▶ 34:46 Anish Achuthan We make, we will help you to target a different segment, like the homepreneurs and the Instagram sellers who normally don't have a current accounts.
From Selling Mobile Covers To Building a 1000Crore Revenue D2C Brand ft. Amit Khatri, Founder-Noise
- ▶ 26:23 Amit Khatri Which are like Instagram, YouTube, Hotstar.
Leaving HUL to Building a D2C Food Brand ft. Shashank Mehta , Founder & CEO - The Whole Truth
- ▶ 51:23 Shashank Mehta And on brand, I mean, Instagram, we were going from, like, we went from zero to 10 K followers in three months.
Building A 180 CRORE Women Nutrition Brand! ft. Aarti Gill, Co-Founder, OZiva
- ▶ 43:27 Aarti Gill Which are the other mediums Instagram to reach out to the consumers, right?
The Joys of COMPOUNDING with Gautam Baid!
- ▶ 44:02 Gautam Baid For Facebook, it's all about improving the user experience on its various social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- ▶ 2:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia WebEngage is a full-stack marketing automation suit that drives growth for consumer businesses by enabling them to engage users via multiple channels like push in-app, SMS, on-site notifications, webpush, email, Facebook, Instagram, and…
@rajshamani on Making Money, Organic Growth and Content Creation on Social Media
- ▶ 5:27 Raj Shamani Why don't I create one thing at one time and start distributing on Instagram and other places?
- ▶ 6:29 Raj Shamani And while I was giving those speeches, I recorded those speeches and put it out on my Instagram. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Raj Shamani If you want to grow on Instagram, use reels.
- ▶ 12:59 Raj Shamani There is one manager for Instagram and there's one videographer and then one editor.
- ▶ 14:52 Raj Shamani Then sixth is, of course, this, all of this can happen through Instagram. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:28 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And is Instagram the only channel where you promote these brands or promote, uh, your, you know, the content? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:50 Raj Shamani I have 10,000 followers on Instagram.
- ▶ 22:49 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, Raj, you have also started, you know, in various things after, uh, as you said, like Instagram took off and now you are, whatever the money you are able to generate, you are putting it in startups. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:00 Raj Shamani Because if I just talk about it, we're like, ah, another guy talking on Instagram, because it's easy for him.
What does it take to make a mark - Not so usual story ft. Manish Pandey
- ▶ 21:28 Manish Pandey Uh, play with, play with the content platforms, uh, strengths, like in Instagram right now, really is the new thing.
Fampay Founder on Fintech for GenZ and Funding ft. Sambhav Jain | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 19:46 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Were you acquiring these users through Facebook, Instagram, or were there organic channels that you built? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:28 Sambhav Jain The first eight to 10 months, we were growing a hundred percent month on month, and every morning, uh, it's, it was not WhatsApp, it was not Instagram that we used to open. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:49 Sambhav Jain Get a chance after this podcast, you should definitely go and check out our Instagram and just look at the comments on our, like any, any of the posts, right?
Power of Storytelling ft. Roshan Abbas, Investor | Entrepreneur | Actor | Director | Producer
- ▶ 22:29 Roshan Abbas Uh, should you be putting ads on Instagram or Facebook or TikTok or where is it going?
Backing the best D2C companies with Debt & Equity Funding | Ashvin Chadha, Anicut Capital
- ▶ 45:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I remember the story very well, you know, just to recall that, uh, so how I met Taran was, uh, I saw Neiman's ad on Instagram, and they have been, like, really doing well on social media, and then, then I reached out to Taran, ordered a,…
A recipe for success with Chef and Entrepreneur, Sanjeev Kapoor | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 5:13 Sanjeev Kapoor And then that, uh, led to creating communities on, uh, uh, social media also, YouTube, uh, we have a Sanjeev Kapoor Khazana channel and Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, everywhere.
Inside the mind of The Moms Co. Founders, Mohit & Malika Sadani
- ▶ 21:47 Malika Sadani But also through content and we have a very strong Instagram and Facebook community where we constantly giving out pieces of content to them on, uh, pieces that is bothering the moms the most and which could be in either segment of beauty…
- ▶ 22:33 Malika Sadani So the first set of advocates actually came from a personal post that both Mohit and I had put it on Facebook and on an Instagram account.
@mamaearthindia1509 Founders on D2C growth, ft. Ghazal & Varun Alagh
- ▶ 32:30 Varun Alagh And if you follow her on her social and her Instagram, you'll see she's fairly careful about what she eats, what she's, the kind of life she lives, a yoga wellness ambassador.
- ▶ 34:52 Varun Alagh Um, but over time then, um, blogging became less so, uh, Instagram influencer became bigger and then blogging became bigger, which was video blogs, et cetera.
Mastermind behind @beerbiceps and Monk Entertainment Viraj Sheth on Influencer Marketing
- ▶ 0:08 Viraj Sheth Um, an Amazon or a flip card or whatever, an upgrade comes to you and says, okay, why don't you do one video for us on YouTube or Instagram or Twitter?
- ▶ 16:52 Viraj Sheth If you know, say hypothetically your account gets hacked tomorrow on YouTube, Instagram.
- ▶ 24:59 Viraj Sheth Um, and Amazon or Flipkart or whatever, an upgrade comes to you and says, okay, why don't you do one video for us on YouTube or Instagram or Twitter?
- ▶ 32:03 Viraj Sheth So, um, there was already top of the mind recall because they either saw me in some, uh, Instagram posts or some YouTube videos or things like that. 4 times in the scene
If you don't monetize your hobby, it will die.- Abhishek Asthana on Creativity & Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 17:33 Abhishek Asthana So we created an Instagram filter.
- ▶ 43:04 Abhishek Asthana And, uh, then the founder messaged me on Instagram that, who are you?
Inside the mind of Ashwini Asokan, Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den
- ▶ 11:51 Ashwini Asokan Or, you know, if you can use automated stickers of like your Snapchats and your Instagrams of the world where you have all of these, you know, filters and stuff that can allow you to mess with them and play with them and all the AR stuff.
Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Ventures on surge of Direct to Consumer brands in India
- ▶ 25:54 Rahul Chowdhri Uh, people who will build their own brands, get items from their local area, sell it on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, but
- ▶ 31:15 Rahul Chowdhri So, and you, you see that in the usage of Twitter versus, uh, let's say an Instagram or Facebook.
Sajith Pai, Blume Ventures on building personal brands, being open-minded, and unlearning to succeed
- ▶ 27:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And that's why, you know, they're trying out various apps too, which can give them a similar taste of TikTok, because these are not your Instagram users or Facebook, right?
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 28:29 Somesh Dash Um, everybody said Instagram's gonna kill it, and Facebook is, um, gonna destroy it, and WhatsApp can do a lot of the same feature functionality, and I'm really proud that Evan and the team there have led Snap to be a thirty billion dollar…
Ishaan Mittal on how Sequoia India helps founders build high growth companies
- ▶ 10:37 Ishaan Mittal You are using platforms like Instagram, YouTube, um, as compared to only TV marketing.
Episode 55 | Inside the mind of Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho
- ▶ 4:31 Vidit Aatrey Misho comes from Mary's shop because we wanted to give this person a shop-like experience online and make it very easy for this person to sell at least to the existing customer on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram.
- ▶ 7:50 Vidit Aatrey So people had figured out a way to run boutique on WhatsApp and they were using our app because we were the only tool to manage sales on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram.
- ▶ 30:07 Vidit Aatrey So a lot of younger women who are in colleges now want to become famous on Instagram, want to become fashion influence on Instagram, and they leverage our product to do so. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:12 Vidit Aatrey Um, so even now a good chunk of our user base, about 10% of all our acquisition happens through influencers on YouTube and Instagram. 2 times in the scene
@unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- ▶ 20:26 Gaurav Munjal If you make creation easy, Instagram made creation of beautiful posts easy.
Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- ▶ 12:38 Anand Lunia So Facebook, the company is doing great because of Instagram and WhatsApp.
- ▶ 28:01 Anand Lunia Uh, platform like Instagram, uh, and WhatsApp and share chat to build brands.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 32:01 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So how do you think companies like Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp can be built in India, where the founders are deeply technical and can visualize scale, but not so good at storytelling?