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How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 2:33 Aneesh Reddy Yeah, so, uh, uh, I'll be honest, we've, we, we, um, when we started Capillary, we started in Calcutta, uh, in India.
- ▶ 2:44 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, you come from Calcutta? 4 times in the scene
Wall Street Rejected This CEO & Then He Did a $200M IPO | Kanwal Rekhi
- ▶ 1:10:52 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You were in Calcutta.
How TATA Acquired Jaguar, Tetley, Corus and Redefined Indian Ambition | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 36:00 Harish Bhat Starting with the Tata Hospital in Kolkata at Rajarhat, and then the number of cancer hospitals which have been opened under Mr.
For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- ▶ 26:43 Roopa Kudva I went and met my employer, and they said, uh, it's just two years ago that we moved you from Calcutta to, to Mumbai, and now you want to go to Bangalore.
- ▶ 1:01:13 Roopa Kudva I met it, ah, founded by this amazing woman called Radha Basu, spent her entire life in the Silicon Valley, care tech companies, came back to India, to Kolkata, and has started this organization with people from underprivileged…
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- ▶ 1:11:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And Kolkata remains at heart. 3 times in the scene
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- ▶ 0:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You started from Kolkata and now you build a company and sold it for three, fifty million dollars.
- ▶ 1:42 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You started from Kolkata, lived in a fifteen-member home with one washroom, and now you build a company and sold it for three fifty million dollars.
Sanjeev Sanyal On Why India Has No Big 4, Regulating AI & Ending Population Control
- ▶ 56:38 Sanjeev Sanyal Again, I saw that in my own lifetime and what happened in Kolkata. 3 times in the scene
Growth, Migration and FDI: The Real Kerala Story with Minister P. Rajeev
Ratan Tata’s Inspirational Stories – Former Tata Brand Custodian Shares His Experience | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 17:02 Harish Bhat The Tata Medical Center and Cancer Research Institute was created at Kolkata, at Rajarhat in Kolkata. 2 times in the scene
NDA Vs UPA, Tax System, Kolkata's Fall, GDP Growth & More ft. Former CEA: Ashok Lahiri | Neon Show
- ▶ 3:13 Ashok K. Lahiri So I grew up in a middle class background, and the studied in Kolkata,
- ▶ 20:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Kolkata, the Bengal is your homeland and it's, it's become, you know, it's almost on the verge of president's rule. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:04 Ashok K. Lahiri My father got transferred from Delhi to Kolkata.
SANJEEV SANYAL On India's East Vs West Divide, Kolkata's Decline, Goa, C-PACE And UPSC | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:25 Sanjeev Sanyal Today, a young, talented person who grows up in Kolkata doesn't stay in Kolkata. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:59 Sanjeev Sanyal There was Mumbai or Bombay then, Calcutta and Madras. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:02 Sanjeev Sanyal Kolkata should have been that growth zone. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:13 Sanjeev Sanyal Chennai is also, and historically Kolkata too, but we have somehow not embraced this maritime part of our culture.
- ▶ 1:02:53 Sanjeev Sanyal Textile industry, for example, um, Kolkata needs to rethink itself as a modern city rather than wallowing on, you know, thinking of it, it's some sort of a, uh, derelict colonial hangover. 2 times in the scene
Rajiv Sikri Former MEA Secretary On India-US Relations, Pakistan's Decline & Bangladesh
- ▶ 17:45 Rajiv Sikri And a big trigger for partition was the riots in Calcutta Direct Action Day in
- ▶ 1:13:44 Rajiv Sikri Seen the scandals which are coming out of Calcutta and West Bengal.
Why Is No One Talking About India's Unorganised Sector? Economist Arun Kumar Explains | Neon Show
- ▶ 35:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And so, uh, what you mentioned is, is having several societal impacts also, like in spite of 75 years of independence, what recently happened in Kolkata around 12 years back happened in Delhi, in Nirbhaya's case, right?
JAMSETJI TATA: How The Legend Built Tata (Taj Hotel, TATA Tea, Air India, And Tanishq) | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 28:52 Harish Bhat Uh, the, uh, Tata, uh, cancer hospital and research center came up at Rajarhath in Kolkata by 2011, 12.
What UPSC Books Won’t Teach You - Public Policy 101, Mumbai Mafia Backstory, & On-Ground Reality
- ▶ 43:23 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because earlier it was Kolkata that was the hub of commercial activity, which was replaced by Mumbai.
Sanjeev Sanyal UNFILTERED - Kolkata’s Downfall, Bihar’s UPSC Craze & The Indian Dream I Neon Show
- ▶ 0:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hundreds of thousands of people from Kolkata replied that I am from Kolkata and I can relate to it.
- ▶ 3:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So our audience loved our conversation about Kolkata last time, and they're all asking more details on it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 Sanjeev Sanyal So what I'm trying to say is, it is not surprising that Kolkata was the hub of everything, because it's very often were the same people doing all these different things. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:39 Sanjeev Sanyal If your society aspires that the highest form of life is a union leader or a, you know, uh, uh, an adda intellectual, uh, what in Kolkata is called an atel.
Bangalore Water Crisis Explained I Karnataka Govt Failure? | Vishwanath S on The Neon Show
- ▶ 3:40 Vishwanath Srikantaiah What we now call the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Banaras all the way to Hooghly, Kolkata, from Delhi, sank, and the silt from the Himalayas, thanks to the monsoon rains, was deposited here over three hundred million years.
- ▶ 1:12:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And what, ah, her previous house help came from Calcutta, West Bengal, and she said she was the, she was the only member, her three, her two sons and her husband stayed back in West Bengal.
Understanding Indian consumers & breaking down jewellery brands w/ GIVA Founder Ishendra Agarwal
- ▶ 47:23 Ishendra Agarwal So there are many brands which came from southern region versus north, I think, Tanish, which came from north and west, I mean, north of Kolkata.
PM Modi’s Economic Advisor On Kolkata’s Decline, Amrit Kaal & $10 Trillion Economy I Sanjeev Sanyal
- ▶ 0:44 Sanjeev Sanyal When I was born, ah, in the early seventies, Kolkata was the most important economic hub in India. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:47 Sanjeev Sanyal So, well, I grew up in, uh, 19 eighties Kolkata. 6 times in the scene
ISB and Ashoka University Founder, Pramath Raj Sinha on The Neon Show
- ▶ 23:16 unnamed speaker Ki nahi bhai ya, pehle Ahmedabad, phir Bangalore, phir Calcutta, phir Indor, phir Klaknao.
American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- ▶ 6:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Calcutta was the, or Bengal was the hub of scientists. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:30 Bhaskar Ghosh Joka is the name of the little town outside of Calcutta that industrial management is, right?
HOW To Gain 25,000 Subscribers in JUST 90 Days! | Our UNTOLD Rebranding Story on The Neon Show
- ▶ 53:47 unnamed speaker He missed celebrating his birthday in Caleta and it didn't feel like his birthday because it was just one day before the event.
BHARAT’s Decade, Stock Market & IPL Sponsorship - Upstox Co-founder & CEO Ravi Kumar on Neon Show
- ▶ 0:31 Ravi Kumar And here I was like opening up an account, like, 30 pages of documents, you know, people from like, you know, Kolkata couriering us forms to Bombay to open up an account.
- ▶ 35:12 Ravi Kumar And here I was like opening up an account, like, 30 pages of documents, you know, people from like, you know, Kolkata couriering us forms to Bombay to open up an account.
Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- ▶ 24:05 Vijay Rayapati So he used to do trading, uh, from Andhra to Kolkata, Burma, you know, like the entire, uh, 3 times in the scene
Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- ▶ 51:23 Pallav Nadhani I was in Calcutta. 4 times in the scene
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. 2 times in the scene
Sanjeev Bikhchandani on Finding Zomato & Taking the First Tech Company in India to IPO
- ▶ 59:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You had the option of going to Calcutta on the year zero after graduating, but you choose the three year, uh, window, right?
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.
The PLAYBOOK To Win The D2C Market Ft. Abhishek Goenka, Head & CIO RPSG Capital Ventures
- ▶ 0:19 Abhishek Goenka So let's say for example, if I am based in Gurgaon, right, which is typically like a dry climate, as opposed to let's say someone who would be based in Calcutta or Bombay, which is
- ▶ 19:37 Abhishek Goenka So let's say for example, if I am based in Gurgaon, right, which is typically like a dry climate, as opposed to let's say someone who would be based in Calcutta or Bombay, which is largely humid.
Helping Startups Grow Through Engineered Organic Marketing Ft. Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder-GrowthSchool
- ▶ 44:26 Vaibhav Sisinty There was this one more lady again, who came to me where I was making 20,000 rupees for five years straight in Kolkata. 2 times in the scene
From a Flower Shop to a 1000Cr Business Ft. Vikaas Gutgutia, Founder & MD of Ferns N Petals
- ▶ 2:02 Vikaas Gutgutia So I moved to Kolkata for my college. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:23 Vikaas Gutgutia And there are a lot of things I should see in flower business, in Kolkata, in Delhi, everywhere.
- ▶ 10:26 Vikaas Gutgutia Delhi again is a city which is a bit different from Kolkata.
The Joys of COMPOUNDING with Gautam Baid!
- ▶ 4:03 Gautam Baid So I come from a family of four and I was born and brought up in Kolkata, India.
100+ Investments, 8 Exits in 10 Years! Journey of Abhishek Rungta, Founder, Seeders VC & Indus Net
- ▶ 1:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, was it always into business or, uh, uh, you know, uh, and you come from Kolkata, which is a very different from, you know, the usual startup cities of India. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:29 Abhishek Rungta And this is a great time for me to kind of look at a global market, because, uh, if, uh, there are not, people are not interested in using technology in India, in Kolkata at that time, I'm sure that the world is not the same.
- ▶ 8:24 Abhishek Rungta Uh, he came to, uh, Calcutta. 2 times in the scene
Disrupting real estate market with Amit Agarwal, Founder, NoBroker | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 0:05 Amit Agarwal In fact, when I, whenever I used to have long assignments, for example, in Calcutta, I had a long assignment.
- ▶ 10:30 Amit Agarwal In fact, when I, whenever I used to have long assignments, for example, in Calcutta, I had a long assignment, so my wife also basically shifted there for that period of time, and we took our house.
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 14:00 Somesh Dash My parents are both from Arissa originally, so we would go there, but also spend time in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, uh, traveling around India, but I went as a tourist.
Episode 44 | Kitty Agarwal, Partner, Info Edge Ventures
- ▶ 0:49 Kitty Agarwal So, I was born, brought up in Calcutta.
How did TaxiForSure get acquired for $200 million? | T. N. Hari, Advisor, Fundamentum
- ▶ 19:32 unnamed speaker The day a woman joins the HR head in the region in Nasik, wherever we are in, in Kochi, it could be in Kolkata, it could be in Pune, it could be in Lucknow.